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“I unfortunately had to back out”: Wolfgang Van Halen pulls out of Black Sabbath’s last show – here’s why

The Mammoth frontman has dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with his tour with Creed

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“Gibson had lost the recipe, not only for guitar building but for pickup making based on their original designs. What I was after was making a rock ’n’ roll pickup”: How Larry DiMarzio changed the sound of rock guitar – and redesigned the Strat bridge

The master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset took him from repair shop to working with the biggest names in the biz and changing the face of rock guitar

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Guitar pick modeling is now a thing: Rainger FX’s Razor Fuzz is a dirt pedal like no other with digital tones of plectrums made from sandpaper and metal

The innovative feature adds harsh and unique overtones, but it isn’t for the faint-hearted

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“There was a drive, a presence – I helped guide him early on. He wanted me to help him not only learn guitar but arrange”: Godfather of ska, Ernest Ranglin, recalls working with a young Bob Marley

Ranglin’s rhythmic style and blend of mento, jazz and reggae in his guitar parts not only influenced the inception of the ska movement, but also some of Jamaica’s biggest talents

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“My father was a big Pat Metheny fan – hearing him started to make me obsessed with the idea of playing music”: Berklee-educated and endorsed by Strandberg, meet Camilla Sperati – the fusion phenom hand-picked to open for Steve Vai

Is Sperati the next big name in fusion? Here she discusses moving to America (maybe), why she loves digital amps, and life as an educator

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“Captures the spirit of 1960s flower power”: Fender Japan taps into the Summer of Love and revives an unconventional classic with new Blue Flower Series

Three Fender models are dressed in the floral design, which emerged in the 1960s alongside the revered Paisley finish

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“I get fingers pointed at me. I get told, ‘You’re the guy who tried to kill Randy Rhoads.’ I laugh it off. He needed to be with better people. How could our split ever be friendly?” Kelly Garni founded Quiet Riot – but it ended with shots fired

They went to school together, started Quiet Riot together and then had a drunken fight involving a gun that ended Garni’s musical career. 25 years later, he came back to the bass

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“By the end of it, I struggled a bit. I wasn’t able to be 100% myself playing, because I had to honor the gig, which I did”: Fusion virtuoso Alex Hutchings recalls the pressures of following in Guthrie Govan’s footsteps as Steven Wilson’s guitarist

Hutchings, who joined Wilson on his ‘To The Bone’ tour, was previously described by the prog maestro as “a fantastic guitar player”

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“You can do anything with a Stratocaster”: Joe Bonamassa explains how to make any Fender Strat the “Swiss army knife of guitars” – and unlock Gibson-like Angus Young tones in the process

The guitarist has detailed how to mimic infamous Les Paul and SG tones from the instrument, believing its versatility is unmatched

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Behringer makes changes to its $69 Klon copy in the wake of pedal creator Bill Finnegan’s lawsuit

The Klon Centaur’s creator called the pedal a “blatant counterfeit” and the German brand has moved to avoid any further repercussions

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“Edgar Winter invited me to jam. From the stage, you could see the door, and in walks Buddy. And I said, ‘He showed up!’” Earl Slick on the time he jammed in front of Buddy Guy at the blues great’s club – and won his heart

Guy would later invite Slick to jam with him, and it was a night that blew the Bowie guitarist’s mind

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“A new evolution for PRS”: Herman Li tears up the PRS template with the Chleo – a signature model 4 years in the making that’s unlike anything the firm has ever done before

A new body shape with radical contours, custom Fishman pickups, 13 tonal voices, and a floating trem stabilizer headline the Chleo, which ushers in a new era for PRS guitars

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“We had a room full of Nashville session players, and they said, ‘Paul, if we don't use your guitars on the tracks, we get fired’”: Why Paul Reed Smith isn't interested in chasing Fender or Gibson – but is focused on cementing PRS in history

Smith reflects on his decades-long involvement in the guitar making space

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“This pedal will take you straight to the heart of the action and give an almost limitless palette of sound”: Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer review

This signature collaboration with Yvette Young incorporates chorus, delay, grain effects and reverbs for atmospheric soundscapes

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“It’s very weird and the only song we ever did that on”: Warren Haynes picks his favorite Gov’t Mule guitar riffs and shows you how to play them – properly

The blues rock giant sits down with Guitar World to go through his back catalog of riffs, picking out a few favorites along the way

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“For the most part, new products in the pedal world are just different colored housings of the same circuits we’ve all been using for decades”: What does a Dumble-whispering tone nut keep on his pedalboard? Ask Kenny Wayne Shepherd...

The blues guitarist and renowned tone hound talks through his pedalboard – and tells us that one pedal rules them all

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“A timely reminder of a true great. Will you sound like him when you plug it in? We wish”: Epiphone Jeff Beck 1954 Les Paul Oxblood review

Another fabled Les Paul joins ‘Greeny’ in Epiphone’s top-end lineup

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Jeff Beck’s iconic Oxblood Les Paul made history as the most expensive LP to sell at auction – now it’s been revived as an Epiphone signature model

The legendary 1954 LP starred alongside Beck for much of his career and sold for more than $1 million at auction. Now, Epiphone has launched a $1,200 replica

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“I never felt comfortable in standard. In some ways I felt more pressure because the world was so full of great players in standard – I had no interest in competing with them”: Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth’s Sister, and moving from junk guitars to Fender

The NYC noise-rock pioneer looks back to 1987, a time when Sonic Youth were growing up in public and expanding their vocabulary of alternate tunings

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A 15-year-old guitarist was brought onstage by Yungblud to riff in front of 30,000 people – and it was only the second time he’d played live

The aspiring rocker seized his moment and absolutely nailed his time in the spotlight

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The Last Editor: The musical life of Chris Bird, the final Editor of Total Guitar

The musical life of Chris Bird, the final Editor of Total Guitar

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“I watched her write a song from start to finish on her old beat-up acoustic. I taught myself that song by ear from memory and the rest is history”: Justus West, one of John Mayer’s favorite guitarists, reveals what first got him hooked on the instrument

The in-demand session player lent his guitar chops to one of last year’s most anticipated releases

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“Tom Morello said, ‘I can’t see this going on without Jake E. Lee in there somewhere’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s last show will feature an army of heavy metal greats – but it all hinged on Jake E. Lee’s involvement

The show will mark the first time Lee and Ozzy have performed together since the 1980s

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“I could listen to Vernon’s solo on that song a million times. It’s scary and strange, but in a good way”: Frank Swart of Funkwrench Blues has recruited Vernon Reid, Oz Noy and Mike Stern to his cosmic cause – but there’s one solo that haunts him

This San Francisco bass player and producer has a knack for getting top-shelf guitarists to play on his stream of Spotify masterpieces

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“Whatever your opinion is about some music museums, I believe it’s an honor to be recognized”: Wrecking Crew director responds to Carol Kaye’s criticisms of the film – and of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The esteemed session player recently rejected an invitation to her induction ceremony

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