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“It reacts to your playing every bit as well as premium pedals over three times the price”: Boss BD-2 Blues Driver review

With over 30 years of continuous production, it’s time to investigate why the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver is so revered

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“I was nervous. I said, ‘Hi, Keith. Ron Wood might have mentioned me…’” Nils Lofgren on the time he put his name forward to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones

Lofgren almost flew out to audition after Taylor’s eventual successor put him in touch with the Stones

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Billy Gibbons vows ZZ Top will continue performing, following drummer Frank Beard's death

Gibbons confirmed that, as per Beard's wishes, the band is going to “keep on keeping on”, with a Texas show scheduled for this weekend

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Baritone Telecasters are back on the menu as Fender unveils new 75th Anniversary models

The Nocaster is also making a return in the American Vintage II lineup while the Player II Telecaster gets four limited-edition colorways

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The Canadian musician who co-wrote a Rolling Stones song without realizing it: “I got a call from my lawyer – she told me to sit down. She’d just gotten off the phone with the Stones’ manager…”

k.d. lang collaborator and lifelong Stones fan Ben Mink says the unexpected co-credit fulfilled a childhood dream – sort of

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No-one nails Eddie Van Halen’s playing quite like Jacob Deraps – now he’s the face of the new EVH Wolfgang: “This guy gets as close as I’ve ever heard anyone”

The Van Halen-obsessed shredder has called working on the guitar's new promo video a “dream come true”

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“There’s a subtle slickness to what we do. We love session guys and have respect for Toto and the Wrecking Crew”: Meet Robert Jon and the Wreck, the rock fanatics who sound like they rolled out of Georgia in ’82

Eddie Van Halen, the Allmans, Tom Petty… The list of influences is long and it all goes into the Orange County rocker's ’70s-flavored stew

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Chris Buck and Mirador guitarist Chris Turpin team up to showcase some of the world’s most historic guitars at exclusive London event

Famous ’Bursts and T-Bone Walker’s 1949 ES-5N – the guitar that gave birth to electric blues – are among the legendary instruments set to feature

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The night Stevie Ray Vaughan walked out of his own show to go watch his blues hero: “I got on the mic and said, ‘I’m gonna go see Albert King. If you got any brains, you will, too.’ And I picked up and went”

SRV was playing a ‘pass-the-hat’ gig at one of Austin’s most notorious dive bars – until he found out Albert King was playing across town

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Alex Lifeson reveals his struggles leading up to the Rush reunion tour: “I was sitting on the edge of my bed, at 2 o'clock in the morning, thinking if I made the right decision. Can I play? Am I good enough?”

After years of health issues, Lifeson wasn’t sure he could keep up with his own or the fans’ expectations of his playing

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“Unlock new sounds while opening up your fretboard vision and knowledge”: Who’s afraid of the Mixolydian mode? Here’s how you can use it for triads

Corey Congilio wasn't that fussed about the Mixolydian mode at first but now he's a believer – and this lesson shows you just how practical it can be

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“The closest to my feel in that solo anyone ever got”: Brian May hails 17-year-old for his uncanny Queen guitar covers

The guitarist fell in love with Queen through the Bohemian Rhapsody film, and now has a fan in the man himself

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Carlos Alomar’s hazy first encounter with Paul McCartney: “Paul turned his back to me to get something. What emerged was a perfectly rolled ganja joint”

The session veteran provided some finishing tracks on Press to Play after a rather indulgent first encounter bonding with the Beatle

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King Gizzard’s Tiny Amp Destroyer is a $399 pedal that makes your rig sound like a $29 practice amp on the verge of blowing up: “It makes your massive amp sound tiny. It’s way better”

The oddball Aussies take rig shrinking to a whole new level with new Stu Mackenzie x JAM Pedals collab

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Deep Purple guitarist Simon McBride on sharing the stage with Ritchie Blackmore: “If I can play that well when I’m that age, I’ll be happy. People should look at it for what it was – a magical night”

Deep Purple’s current guitar player was caught off-guard when the band got the call from Blackmore. But as he tells Guitar World, he was very happy to be his rhythm guitarist that night

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“I’m probably the only director who always has a guitar on his set”: Robert Rodriguez, the filmmaker behind From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City and Spy Kids, lifts the lid on his guitar collection – including two guitars previously owned by Stevie Ray Vaughan

The filmmaker takes us through his extensive guitar collection, including gifts from the likes of Billy Gibbons and Kirk Hammett, and reveals why he needs 24 frets to perform with his cinematic Latin-rock band

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“At around $69, it’s hard to think of another pedal that’s so cheap, so reliable, and that so many famous players continue to use on their ’boards”: Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive review

We find out if the iconic yellow box of tone still has a place in the modern world

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Eastwood debuts the Micawber, a Keith Richards-inspired Tele-type factory-fitted with five strings

The Rolling Stones guitarist famously deems the sixth string unnecessary when churning out open G riffs. Eastwood has built the Micawber with that in mind

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“The studio manager came out with a guitar case and said, ‘We have something here that Jimi might have wanted you to have’”: Peter Frampton on how he ended up with one of Jimi Hendrix’s most experimental instruments

Frampton used the surprise gift when he was playing alongside David Bowie

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“We made a lot of decisions that really pissed off our customers”: Guitar Center CEO explains how customer feedback is helping to turn the chain around

Mistakes were made, but now a community of players is guiding its direction , says Gabe Dalporto

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“Playing with her taught me how it feels to situate oneself within great songs”: Phoebe Bridgers’ new album features one of the most eclectic guitar lineups we’ve seen in years – including an industrial-metal icon and the son of a rock legend

Guitarists from across the musical map joined forces on Lost Weekend

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How a Fender Strat anniversary event led to Queen’s first world tour since Freddie Mercury’s death: “Brian May got on the phone to me and said, ‘You have to look at what we just did’”

May shared the Strat Pack stage with a singer whose performance convinced him to get the Queen machine up and running again

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“I wasn’t there to play correct notes. I was there to see old friends”: Ritchie Blackmore opens up on his Deep Purple reunion performance

Blackmore has hit back at critics of his playing in Smoke on the Water

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"A superbly built, affordable reverb pedal that rivals pricier competitors": Klowra Limbo reverb review

This fully loaded reverb proves that affordable pedals can more than hold their own against the big guns

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“I think they actually thought I was going to die, but they never took steps to kick me out of the band, which I can’t believe”: How Mike McCready overcame his addictions to form a grunge supergroup

Emerging from rehab in 1994 gave McCready a sense of purpose and clarity, and a newfound creativity as he put together Mad Season with Layne Staley on vocals

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