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“I got a call from my brother. He said, ‘Ozzy wants to talk to you.’ Ozzy tells me that Randy died, and asks if I’m available’”: The guitarist who was hired to fill in for Randy Rhoads – only to be fired immediately afterward

Robert Sarzo – Rudy Sarzo's brother – found himself in the unenviable position of lending his guitar chops to Ozzy Osbourne right after Rhoads' tragic death

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“I think people got scared to play it”: Guitar Center CEO on why Stairway to Heaven was banned in guitar stores

All roads – or stairways – lead to a scene from a certain 1990s comedy classic

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“I played that lick and went home. An hour later, the phone rang. Tom said, ‘You’ve got to come back. We want to put that lick you played at the front of the song’”: How Mike Campbell's throwaway lick shaped a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers classic

Campbell's guitar noodling and Petty's ear for a good hook resulted in their first Top 40 hit

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“This makes it feel exciting all over again”: Jim Root’s signature Fender reinvented the Telecaster and was praised by John Mayer – now it’s back with a key twist

The Slipknot guitarist's go-to Telecaster returns with a fresh look

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“I walked into Guitar Center, saw this Tele and thought, ‘This is incredible.’ It’s the guitar that got me endorsed with Fender”: The guitar that changed John 5’s life

The Mötley Crüe shredder owns over 100 Teles, but this one is the cream of the crop

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“It could give my Quad Cortex mini a run for its money”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

Vote for your favorite new release in Guitar World's weekly guitar gear poll

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“I miss my brother… But I’d always had it in the back of my mind that if the Heartbreakers ever retired, I would make this my purpose”: Mike Campbell on finding a new life in The Dirty Knobs, and why we should listen to what our guitars are telling us

With a title track inspired by Brian Wilson, Mission of Mercy is the sound of Campbell piecing his heart – and ours – back together again

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“Alex said, ‘I don’t want to play my double-neck – it’s too heavy.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He lent me his white Gibson EDS-1275 for Stairway”: How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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“My manager told Eric, ‘You should meet this young artist I'm working with. He's a funny guy – I think you’d like him’”: How a ’70s soft rock icon ended up recruiting Eric Clapton on his debut album

After a friend gave his demo tapes to Art Garfunkel, singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop somehow ended up in the same room as his guitar hero from Cream

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“I have to play through the pain”: Mahogany Rush legend Frank Marino announces return to the stage despite debilitating hand injury and retirement

The Canadian guitar icon had previously announced his retirement from touring in 2021 before sustaining a hand injury while building pedals in 2024

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“The label says, ‘We need five more Wait and Bleeds.’ I was like, ‘We're really not that band. You sell our records and we'll make them, okay?’”: Mick Thomson reflects on Slipknot's Wait and Bleed, label pressures – and sticking to their own guns

In a 2014 GW interview, Thomson revealed his disdain for melodic choruses, and how he fought hard for the band to maintain their artistic integrity post-Wait and Bleed

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“He would show up in a station wagon full of Les Pauls, Teles and Strats. I bought probably 20 pieces from him over the years”: The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars

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My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

My personal highlights from a week that brought us a single-pickup PRS for Jon Jourdan, Eventide's next-gen H9, and more. Have a highlight of your own? Let us know in the comments

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“I was driving home, and I thought of this chord sequence. I was about 20 minutes away from the studio. I turned around and went back”: Robert Smith on the flash of inspiration that shaped the Cure's biggest hit

Proving beyond doubt that the band's range extended far beyond dense, brooding epics, it remains the Cure song to reference for those who know only of the band's name and maybe their frontman's inimitable hairdo

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Bob Dylan has just recruited one of the world's greatest jazz guitarists – and no one quite knows what's going on

Virtuoso Julian Lage – who's very likely your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist – has been welcomed into Dylan’s band without prior announcement or fanfare

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“I’ve never been very confident as a player. I’ve always felt like I had to work hard, and maybe I didn’t appreciate that I have a natural talent for playing guitar”: Alex Lifeson’s 20 greatest guitar moments in Rush

From fever-dream epics to blistering solos, weird harmonizer effects and 12-string chime, here are Lerxst’s finest hours with the iconic Canadian prog trio

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“What an amazing gift. Only years later did I realize he'd dropped my SG and put a crack in the neck”: Why Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard played an obscure Fender model early in his career – and the reason he's picked it up again after two decades

The alt-rock statesman's relationship with the Bullet, a beginner-friendly model, began with a gift that he thought at the time was an act of pure, unprompted generosity. He didn't quite know the whole story...

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“It’s called Bruno…. They blowtorched it and scraped it up”: Steve Vai is bringing his original For the Love of God Ibanez with him on tour – but he isn’t playing it

The seven-string has officially been added to Vai’s touring arsenal – here’s why you didn’t see it on stage

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“I didn’t like it, but Tom said, ‘No, it’s great. Now you’ve got to double it’”: Mike Campbell on the riff he wanted to ditch – but Tom Petty made him double down

Campbell was forced to get creative to make a Heartbreakers classic

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“The downpicking approach was inspired by competition between Dave and I. Like, ‘Here’s a riff… Wait, you can’t play that. Hahaha!’” How James Hetfield wrangled Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax for metal’s biggest reunion

James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett explain the origins of the Big 4 shows – which united Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax on one historic bill

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“I opened for Brad Paisley and his tech jokingly said, ‘Don’t do the B-Bender thing. That’s Brad’s thing’”: John Osborne on the time he got warned off the B-Bender – even though he didn’t have one

Osborne couldn't afford a B-Bender at first, so instead he got good, really good, at emulating the pedal steel sound without one

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“It’s something I’ve always done all my life, and I can’t get away from it. I have to remind myself it’s okay to play the tops of chords”: Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices on finally going solo again –and the playing quirk he can’t shake

Parallel Stride is a essential listening for Guided By Voices who have been jonesing forever in the wait for Gillard to release a follow-up to 2014's Parade On

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“I showed up, plugged in, and it was over. Then I saw a video and thought, ‘I’m glad I didn’t dream it’”: When two of the world’s finest guitar players joined forces – Julian Lage on his jam with Derek Trucks

They traded licks for 15 minutes, but it was all over too soon

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“Weird, small, brilliant, respectful of pedalboard space. What more could you need?” This week’s hottest new guitar gear – including Alex Lifeson’s ES-355, Charvel’s US return and Ed Sheeran’s new Orange squeeze

We’ve got weird reverbs from EHX, super-cheap AI-enabled multi-effects units, high-end shredders, climate-controlled gig bags and more

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“I fell in with some Texas boys and started jamming. They had these G&Ls. The first time I picked one up, I fell in love”: Jerry Cantrell on the magic and mods of his iconic “Blue Dress” G&L Rampage – and his gift from Eddie Van Halen

Back in January 1996, Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell was on the cover of Guitar World with his “Blue Dress” Rampage. 30 years on it's still going strong

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