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“I was a kid with very little experience and a huge amount to prove. Critics had written us off before it came out – no-one took me seriously”: The making of Suede’s 1996 Britpop classic Coming Up

Guitarist Richard Oakes arrived in the band as Bernard Butler's replacement – a relative rookie. Suede were supposedly cooked. And yet in songs like Trash and Beautiful Ones, they had something special indeed

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“I didn’t like playing music because my band were successful, or I’d get noticed as a guitar player. I just played because I missed my dad”: How Sean Lennon's legendary father inspired him to pick up the guitar

For Sean Lennon, the guitar was a means of connecting to the father who was taken from him when he was barely five years old. Though, he added in a new interview with GW, their playing styles are noticeably different

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“David Coverdale wanted my solos to be a certain way. He had to kind of approve my solos”: Reb Beach on why crafting guitar solos with Whitesnake was more challenging than Winger

Beach looks back on his career and how he employed his guitar chops differently in his two major bands

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“They’ve revived B.B. King’s first-ever guitar and made it $349. I know what my next acoustic is going to be”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including Chase Bliss’ “most foolish” pedal yet

The rebirth of B.B. King's first acoustic, a leading Dumble clone in plugin form, another spin-off of the famed Big Muff – all that and more in this week's round-up

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“I get a call from Guitar Center in New Jersey. They go, ‘Your Explorer was in here. We just sold it to some guy’”: Richie Sambora hired a private detective to recover his stolen Gibson

Sambora was recently reunited with his prized 1976 Gibson Explorer, 41 years after it was stolen out of a warehouse

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“My idea, John, if you’re reading this, would be to write an odd-time signature song”: Plini is manifesting a collaboration with John Mayer – and has issued an open call to make it happen

The prog metal virtuoso has a wild vision for what their joint single could potentially look like

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“He says to me, ‘You’re a legend.’ I said, ‘Are you kidding? You’re a legend. You’re the new Leo Fender. You’re the new Les Paul. You’re the new Orville Gibson’”: Randy Bachman on the guitar builder who’s up there with the greats of the industry

And Bachman says this builder is working on an electric guitar that will weigh less than 4lbs.

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“It’s extremely bizarre. It’s made by this very strange guy, who disappeared. No one knows where he is”: The mystery pedal that became a Sean Lennon favorite

The pedal – made by an elusive pink-haired stranger from Facebook – has become the star of a new Claypool Lennon Delerium track

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“Jimi got it into his head that he wanted to do All Along the Watchtower. He said to me, ‘That’s the coolest song! …You want to come and do it with me?’” When Dave Mason met Jimi Hendrix and played on the greatest cover of all time

Hendrix had arrived in London, his greatness was about to come, and the late Traffic guitarist Dave Mason was there to witness it

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“I was working on this song which he liked, and then he died, and it turned into more of a tribute to him”: How Chrissie Hynde channeled grief into The Pretenders’ classic comeback hit

And why George Harrison claimed to have inspired the song

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“I had a two-neck guitar, then Steve Vai came out with his three-neck guitar. My label wanted me to challenge Steve to a duel”: Michael Angelo Batio on the origin of his four-neck guitar

The Quad was designed to go toe-to-toe with Steve Vai's three-neck creation

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“I was very fortunate to have played with so many great artists, even just for a moment”: Dave Mason, Traffic co-founder who played with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, dies aged 79

The English guitar great also worked with Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson across his storied career

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“When Ozzy approached me, there was an inner warning light that said, ‘Don’t do that’”: Why Michael Schenker turned down Ozzy Osbourne

Schenker was approached by the Prince of Darkness following the tragic death of Randy Rhoads

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“A lot of people say he sounds like Hendrix, but to me, he doesn’t really”: Prince’s long-time bassist on teaching guitar to the Purple Rain hitmaker – and why the Jimi Hendrix comparisons are inaccurate

In 1994, Prince changed his stage name to 'O(+>' due to contractual disputes with his label, and, amid the turbulence, he granted Guitar World access to his onstage inner sanctum

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“I was so poor. I was pushing 50 years old. I thought, ‘I might have to get a job again’”: Guitar wizard Nels Cline was about to get a day job before Jeff Tweedy changed his life and asked him to join Wilco

Cline was about to look at alternative income streams before Tweedy came out of the blue and asked him to join Wilco

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“Every Gretsch from the mid-’90s onwards is a copy of one I had in my collection”: How Randy Bachman saved Gretsch after its factory burned down

Bachman became obsessed with collecting Gretsch guitars after his prized 6120 model was stolen in 1976

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“I didn’t see it for 18 or 19 years. It disappeared, and it broke my heart”: Jerry Cantrell looks back on the guitar gift from Eddie Van Halen that went missing

Cantrell opens up on the nearly-two decade search to find his Van Halen Music Man

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“Sometimes you’ve gotta use popsicle sticks and put it on some low-budget scaffolding to get it to work”: Joe Bonamassa on how best to set up P-90s – and what sets them apart from humbuckers

Bonamassa has explained the difference between humbuckers and P-90s, as more big names are drawn towards the “best of both worlds” option

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“It was like, ‘Here’s what we need.’ They said, ‘But you have to use Fender parts.’ I said, ‘Alright, I’ll see you guys later’”: Steve Morse on why his ill-fated Fender signature guitar never got off the ground

Before partnering with Ernie Ball Music Man for his now-iconic signature, Morse was courted by Fender – but the project didn’t get far

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“I said, ‘We gotta re-record this. This is terrible. I cannot allow this to happen’”: How Linda Perry saved 4 Non Blondes’ ’90s classic What's Up? from certain doom

Released in 1992 as the second single from their sole studio album, What's Up? became 4 Non Blondes' biggest and most enduring hit

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“All of a sudden, I heard, ‘Morgan!’ I went outside, and I was like, ‘Oh my god! It’s Kim Deal!’” Morgan Nagler on the time Kim Deal showed up on her driveway – and they wound up writing songs together

The Haim and Phoebe Bridgers collaborator started out as an actress, moved on to the Californian indie project Whispertown, and is now stepping out on her own

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“It can be at least as fast as straight flatpicking, if not faster, and also easier to do”: Used by everyone from Brad Paisley to Buckethead, hybrid picking makes impossible-sounding licks a reality – here's how to introduce it into your lead playing

In his inaugural Guitar World column, the great Corey Congilio demonstrates how all players can benefit from a technique borrowed from country players

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"I'd come back from the unemployment office when the phone rang. Jimi said 'Hey, what you doing? We'd like for you to come up and join us.'" The story of the Jimi Hendrix guitarist who was written out of history

When Jimi Hendrix played Woodstock, old friend Larry Lee played guitar beside him - but his contributions were scrubbed from the movie

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“This guitar has been on albums that sold probably eight or nine million copies, and I bought it for about $200!” Steve Rothery on the guitars that changed his life – and why you don't have to spend big to find the guitar of your dreams

The longtime Marillion guitarist on why his Squier Strat might be the bargain of all-time, and the unique custom builds behind his prog sound

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