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“I told him the serial number.His mind was blown – he said it was Prince’s No. 1 amp on the Purple Rain tour”: How an ’80s session guitar icon accidentally ended up with the ultimate Prince amp

Eddie Martinez was looking for a backup, and a certain Mesa/Boogie caught his eye. Little did he know, it would turn out to be a legendary gear treasure

Guitar World

“The only gear I brought was a red Hamer prototype. That guitar is magical. I used it on Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, David Lee Roth’s California Girls and with Mick Jagger”: Eddie Martinez explains how he helped Run-D.M.C. bring rock to hip hop

Armed with his legendary red Hamer, Martinez stepped into one of the most iconoclastic collaborations of the '80s as Run-D.M.C. became the first hip-hop act to bring the crunch of electric guitar into the rap game

Guitar World

“The groove was so thick, and what am I playing? A simple, Boom-Bop-Tish-Bop-Boom-Bop? It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love

We go deep behind the scenes with the team behind the hard-hitting global smash that turned around Palmer’s career

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“Rod Stewart wooed me to come out on tour and I agreed – then I decided not to do it. He said, ‘Oh, I bet you’re going out on tour with Robert’”: Eddie Martinez on playing with Blondie, Run-D.M.C. and that solo in Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love

Martinez is a bona-fide session guitar legend with more hits than Ty Cobb. Here he looks back at some of his biggest tracks, working with “solid cat” David Lee Roth, and saying no to Rod Stewart

Guitar World

Green Day, Ace Frehley and George Harrison's last Beatles guitar – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Code Orange, Johnny Marr, Chelsea Wolfe, Eddie Martinez, Marty Friedman, Adam Jones and the sad tale of Ted Nugent's original Gibson Byrdland

Guitar World

A Mum Blogger Has Been Sentenced To Jail For Falsely Accusing A Couple Of Attempted Kidnapping

The influencer was accused of racially targeting the Latino family.

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Momfluencer Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail Over False Kidnapping Report

"Nobody is abducting 1- and 4-year-old kids into sex trafficking," says the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center.

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Session guitar ace Eddie Martinez breaks down his parts on Robert Palmer, Run-DMC and Steve Winwood hit songs

The player behind Addicted To Love, Higher Love, King Of Rock and Simply Irresistible

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Momfluencer Convicted of Falsely Reporting an Attempted Abduction of Her Kids

Her viral video received 4 million views—and the police's attention.

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How Kareem 'Big K.O.' Denis and Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels are bringing hard rock guitar back to hip-hop

The Firebird-loving guitarist/producer and Run-DMC legend on their mission to prove hip-hop can be just as heavy as metal, getting gear tips from Billy Gibbons, and why Gibson humbuckers are the foundation of funk and soul guitar

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