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“This is almost clickbaity – but it’s like a lot of people lost the plot with the vintage guitar thing”: Jared James Nichols on what he’s looking for from a golden era Gibson and why he doesn’t feel comfortable playing other people’s vintage guitars

Obsessing over value, or how rare something is, are we forgetting what makes these instruments special in the first place?

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Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland unveils his first Jackson signature guitar – and it’s a single-pickup King V with a headstock so reversed it’s “upside down”

Featuring one Seymour Duncan Invader, one Floyd 1500 Series vibrato, and one headstock that requires a double take

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“Looking out for one another and supporting those who rely on donated blood every day is a simple act that can make a powerful difference": Metallica to encourage blood donation in run-up to Cardiff gig in June

If you got blood, they want it...

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“Who’s gonna tell Rivers it’s not private?”: Weezer frontman uploads a whole heap of acoustic covers onto YouTube

But did he mean to do it?

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“It’s gonna be so tasteful what we’re doing. This isn’t just like hooking up an image of my dad to ChatGPT”: Jack Osbourne claims that their plans for an AI Ozzy won’t be “lame”

But it is what he would have wanted?

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“For those who find Strandberg’s space-age designs a little too alien, Ibanez’s Q series is the perfect middle ground”: Ibanez QX527B review

All the joy and versatility of a metal-minded seven-string Ibanez, smartly converted into a travel-friendly format

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“David's completely focused on the space ahead of him... the hairs on Brandon’s arm were standing straight up. Then the hairs on the back of my neck went up”: We get new insight into the making of an eerily prophetic David Bowie song

Our recent interview with Bowie guitarist David Torn gave us a fascinating window into Bowie’s process when making his latter-era classic Heathen

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Arturia Memory V “resurrects the analogue majesty of the Memorymoog with breathtaking authenticity”

Moog’s ‘80s poly gets emulated with modern enhancements including a multi-track arpeggiator and new modulators

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“The most exclusive party of the year”: Watch Diplo DJ at his 6 year old son’s kindergarten graduation

And he played his new single...

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“I was speechless to see that kind of God-given ability. You never forget something like that”: Kiss frontman Paul Stanley on the 1969 gig that made him realise what it meant to be a rock star

“It really opened my eyes to the enormity of what I wanted to do – and it was humbling”

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“The Lego prototype went through many, many phases of moving buttons around... It was playful and not permanent”: Ableton’s Jesse Terry reveals the Lego brick origins of the company's Push hardware instrument as he revisits a rare early prototype

"I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted,” he says

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Donner just reinvented the travel guitar with a headless electric featuring an onboard amp, effects, Bluetooth and – wait for it – a detachable speaker

The HUSH-X Live and Live Pro feature a neck-through build, stainless steel frets, Bluetooth... everything you need from a take-anywhere guitar

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“I lost six months of scheduled work... It happened because I was a woman and I’d written pop songs”: Linda Perry calls Billie Joe Armstrong a “pussy” for backtracking on her producing Green Day

They got backlash from fans for working with Perry

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“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything”: Sonny Rollins has died, aged 95

Saxophonist was one of jazz’s greatest improvisers

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“Every time I sing ‘If everything could feel this real forever’ – and everyone else is singing it in time – that’s pretty powerful”: How Dave Grohl created the cathartic rock anthem that became the Foo Fighters’ signature song

“When I’ve written a song, I know what the drums should sound like in my head”

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“I wanted to have the most Steve Vai song possible on the record – but I didn’t want it to be the classic guitar battle”: Matteo Mancuso on his blockbuster Steve Vai collaboration – and the advice the guitar icon gave him

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on

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“When we went to record it, the record company said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How the young Lynyrd Skynyrd turned a simple love song into a southern rock epic

"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"

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“I began writing a song in my head about the drudgery of being an astronaut. An entire verse fell out of my mind and onto the page”: The classic song that transformed Elton John into a global superstar

“Unfortunately, people identify it with David Bowie’s Space Oddity”

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“By using Sellotape I could make it play two preset rhythms at the same time, creating cool beats”: 50 years ago this summer, Jean-Michel Jarre began making the album that took electronic music global

'Dum da da da dem. Dum da da da dum.' You know the one…

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“It was very emotional. There was a feeling that this was the end”: The mystery of Abba’s melancholy parting shot

It was their final recording for 35 years

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“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

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“There was a native American reservation where single men would find comfort in a bottle of very cheap wine called Cracklin’ Rose. That wine became their woman. I had to write a song about that”: Neil Diamond on his classic hits and the art of songwriting

“There’s no great difference between me and Metallica”

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I’m so obsessed with Olivia Rodrigo’s Drop Dead trance bass sound that I remade it in my DAW

We create our own transient-heavy synth bass with leanings towards the trance-heavy sounds of the 90s. ‘Drop Dead’ you exclaim? No way! We were Born Slippy!

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“People were like, ‘Lou Reed told me to get this!’ And I was like, ‘That’s nuts!’ I should definitely have that on the box”: Oliver Ackermann on the break-stuff philosophy that makes Death By Audio the world's most radical stompbox brand

Frontman/guitarist of NYC's A Place To Bury Strangers, pedal designer, noise enthusiast, renaissance man... Ackermann explains why all bets are off in his search for new sounds and tones

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The song Bob Dylan called the greatest ever written: “I just held two notes down… it’s shivery, icy, almost like outer space kind of sound. Glen went crazy and said ‘We have to get that, we gotta put that on the fade’” - The story of Wichita Lineman

“When I heard it I cried”

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