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“I had a slight fender bender. It happens. Especially to those of us who are horrible drivers”: Gene Simmons rushed to hospital after reportedly losing consciousness and crashing his SUV into a parked vehicle

The God of Thunder is doing okay now

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“My hands were bleeding on my strings”: George Benson session player Corrado Rustici on what it took to record Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Rustici discusses working with producer to the stars, Narada Michael Walden, and how he was roped into Houston’s sessions

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“When we sat down and started playing some of the Rush stuff, and I realized how hard it was to play these songs”: Alex Lifeson reveals his biggest challenge when preparing for the Rush reunion tour

Just three days ago, Lifeson and Lee announced that they will be touring again as Rush – with the addition of a new drummer

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“I don’t want people to know where I come from or what my real name is”: Anonymous guitar star DarWin is keeping the mystery alive, but like Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake before him, he has found a sparring partner in Greg Howe

New album Distorted Mirror introduces DarWin as one of the guitar world’s new heroes but he’s more happy to let the music – and his supergroup – do the talkin’

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“I got it on Craigslist from this avid Strat collector who needed new teeth. He was so sad to see it go. I think of him every time I pick it up”: Indie-rock’s secret weapon Jay Som on a guitar with history, boygenius –and the time Paramore had her back

Back with new album Belong, producer-guitarist Melina Duterte discusses working with teen heroes Jimmy Eat World, how Hayley Williams defended herand the pedal that is her shoegaze shortcut

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“At the push of a button, the legendary roar thunders through the amp”: Fender wrangles Godzilla for a monster guitar collaboration – featuring two company firsts

As well as an otherworldly $36,000 Custom Shop Stratocaster with a Godzilla roar button, two Made in Japan models are also packing some flashy new tech

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“If any of you have a good name in mind I would welcome hearing from you immediately”: How the Fender Telecaster got its name, with a little help from Gretsch

In this exclusive extract from Fender Telecaster: 75 Years, Dave Hunter takes us inside the corporate wrangle that gave us the Telecaster moniker – and created some true Fender rarities in the process

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Klon creator Bill Finnegan’s lawsuit against Behringer over its Centaur clone has been dismissed

The lawsuit had been filed following the release of Behringer’s Klon Centaur copy, which was originally called the Centaur Overdrive

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“It just involves moments where we both shut up for a second”: Two legends of fretless bass, one whip-smart genius shredder – here’s how the mind-blowing Testament x Pestilence fusion project Quadvium came together

When Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling found Boston shredder Eve, they had found their ace in the hole. And she was a fretless bass player. Three on fretless!? DiGiorgio and Thesseling explain all

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“This is your chance to own the sound that defined heavy metal”: Reverb and Ashdown are selling bass amps used by Geezer Butler during rehearsals for Black Sabbath’s final show

15 Head Of Doom amp heads will be sold exclusively via Ashdown’s Reverb Shop

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“It’s great to add this to the lineup as an option”: PRS strips down its acclaimed David Grissom signature for the SE DGT Standard – and it’s the most affordable version to date

The all-mahogany PRS SE DGT Standard costs less than $700 and promises to deliver its own unique tonal twist

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“The pedal tap-dance is as important as learning the song on the fretboard. I have to figure out a way around it. If we got drunk before a show we’d be on the floor!”: Nova Twins on keeping sonic secrets, putting vocals through a Plexi and blowing up amps

Amy Love and Georgia South reveal everything they’re prepared to tell about the atypical tones on latest album Parasites & Butterflies. And if you think they’re miming on stage, they’d like you to think again

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“I took the guitar to someone and when I got it back, I almost cried. I decided, ‘Nobody is touching my stuff again’”: The botched luthier job that convinced John Suhr to get into guitar building

The celebrated luthier may have had a different career if it weren’t for someone else’s careless craftsmanship

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“My one came from a little old lady in Pennsylvania. The family didn't realize it was a very special”: Joe Bonamassa’s ultra-rare 1959 ‘Black Beauty’ Les Paul Custom is one of 20 in existence – now it’s been recreated as an Epiphone signature guitar

Unique for its twin humbuckers and Bigsby vibrato, Bonamassa’s unicorn Les Paul has been recreated for under $1K

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“He just blows everybody away”: Samantha Fish on who she thinks are the best modern blues guitar players right now

In the past couple of years, the Kansas City blues rocker has opened for the Rolling Stones, joined Slash's multi-artist blues tour, and clinched the number one spot on Billboard’s Blues chart

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“Proves that a world-class instrument doesn’t have to break the bank”: PRS finally rolls out an SE version of its boundary-pushing Herman Li Chleo signature guitar

The SE Chleo shares many similarities with the core model – including custom Fishman pickups, a radically modified neck profile, and Li-coded “Eclipse Dragon” inlays – at a lower price point

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“I cannot thank you enough for your incredible Parker Fly design. Your genius changed my life”: Adrian Belew leads tributes to Ken Parker, pioneering guitar maker who has died aged 73

Parker's builds were played by everyone from Belew and Joni Mitchell to Eddie Van Halen and Matt Bellamy

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How to master the art of tremolo picking – the indispensable picking technique heard in everything from death metal to surf rock that can power up your playing

Sharpen your chops and ramp up your speed with our technique-focused workout inspired by power pickers Dick Dale, Jonny Greenwood and Kerry King

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"Adding a few tweaks to the winning formula… The perfect pedal platforms": Victory V40 The Duchess MK II Deluxe Combo and Lunch Box head review

Learning some tricks from the development of the super high-end MK Clean, Victory upgrades the Duchess range

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“The next morning, I got an email that had a receipt for a 1957 Gibson Custom goldtop”: Jam band and Southern rock prodigy Bella Rayne was bereft when her Les Paul was stolen – then came an answer to her prayers

Rayne explains how she turned to guitar during the pandemic but found her mojo onstage – and why her fate seams intertwined with the Grateful Dead

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“Our lawyer said, ‘You need a letter from an industry expert.’ So I texted Slash”: Chris Buck explains how the Guns N’ Roses guitar hero came to the aid of Cardinal Black on their first US headline tour

Cardinal Black hit a hurdle when they needed to acquire visas for their maiden North American tour. Luckily, Buck knew who to call on

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“I was affected as much as anybody hearing that first Van Halen record. I think the other guitar players in LA went, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve got to compete with that’”: Steve Stevens on why he never felt the need to compete with Eddie Van Halen

Both Van Halen and Stevens worked with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, but the Billy Idol guitar slinger never felt the need to compete with Van Halen

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“Dolores said, ‘This is an angry song; I think it needs to be reflected in the music.’ That was the turning point. I bought my first distortion pedal”: How The Cranberries became ’90s alternative icons on borrowed amps and banjo-like guitars

Noel Hogan tells us about the three-guitar secret of Zombie, why they fit surprisingly well with Seattle’s grunge superstars and the tragedy that ended the band

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“Sweet Child O’ Mine is a terrible song. I don’t like Slash’s playing, but it stands the test of time. That was my inspiration – to write something timeless”: Lorna Shore return with new music, brash Ibanez customs, and a fresh kind of death metal energy

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me confirms their crossover to the mainstream, even if they don’t understand it, as Andrew O’Connor and Adam De Micco take influence from guitarists they don’t even like

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