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“A cache of beautiful gear used in the studio and on tour”: Gilby Clarke is selling his Guns N’ Roses, Slash’s Snakepit and Heart gear on Reverb

Clarke is clearing out his inventory, with everything from a guitar that featured in Slash’s Snakepit videos to amps and pedals all up for grabs

Guitar World

"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

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Slash And Chris Stapleton Collaborate On New Single Release

Slash covers Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well' with Chris Stapleton for his upcoming album 'Orgy of the Damned.'

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“The sonic aggro and infectious licks are there in spades”: For better and worse, Slash strips rock to its basest elements at Wembley Arena

Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators bring two hours of rock ’n’ roll sleaze to London, but little in the way of arena-sized spectacle

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"We all did shots with him!" The Hollywood icon that left Guns N' Roses "very wobbly" while shooting one of their most famous videos

When one of rock's most chaotic bands hung out with a true Hollywood icon in the early 90s, things were never going to go quietly

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“Richard Fortus messaged me and said, ‘I’ve shown Slash your guitar and he likes it, too…’ After that, the phones didn’t stop”: How a small UK boutique builder became a Guns N’ Roses favorite and the next big name in retro-inspired electric guitars

Ivison Guitars has only been in business for six years, but its Dakota model has already headlined Glastonbury with Guns N’ Roses star Richard Fortus. Founder Neil Ivison shares its story

Guitar World

"You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins

Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

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Slash interview: Growing up with the blues, assembling Orgy Of The Damned, meeting Peter Green, and the crazy journey behind that Oscars thing with Ryan Gosling

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators start their European tour next week

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"We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together

The Guns N' Roses and Alice In Chains men have contributed to each other's solo releases in the past and are now considering taking the relationship further

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“I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead

Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree

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“If you’ve ever seen Slash give that look to whoever when they hit a bad note… You get that look once, man. You don’t want it twice”: Gilby Clarke survived a baptism by fire in Guns N’ Roses – but one day the pay checks stopped coming

The guitarist played with GN'R during their chaotic Use Your Illusion era. Now he discusses his heart-stopping audition, the early-’90s Guns album that never was and why he was never actually fired from the band

Guitar World

“This one thing has replaced 95% of my rig”: ex-Guns N’ Roses guitar virtuoso Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal picks his 3 essential pieces of gear

Bumblefoot talks tone and changes as he returns with new band Whom Gods Destroy: "Over the pandemic, I feel like my vibrato changed"

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“Marc felt this imposition of having to come up with another hit album. And fame fuelled that fire”: how Marc Bolan and T. Rex made a glam rock masterpiece with The Slider

The story behind T. Rex’s The Slider and underrated follow-up Tanx – two albums that sealed Marc Bolan as the king of glam rock

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"I was deeply in love with the lady that became Duff McKagan's wife": The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor explains how Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash ended up on his band's new album, Rockmaker

The story behind one of the year's most unexpected collaborations is now revealed

Guitar World

“Slash says, ‘You got the gig. Learn the whole catalog.’ I was like, ‘Don’t you have a set of songs?’ Slash goes, ‘There’s no setlist. Axl just calls ’em out’”: How Gilby Clarke got the Guns N’ Roses gig – and learned the band’s back catalog in a week

Clarke was formally announced as Izzy Stradlin's replacement in the early ’90s – but not before undergoing an audition process that saw him learn his test tracks in the car last minute

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The rarest and most expensive records by 10 major rock bands

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"If you were to listen to anything I do you will see how big the blues influence is": Slash readies blues solo album featuring multiple vocalists – including Demi Lovato

What we know so far about his second solo album

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Blackberry Smoke Drummer Brit Turner Dies After Battling Cancer

Brit Turner, drummer of Blackberry Smoke, passes away at 57 after battling glioblastoma. Band pays tribute to his character and musical contributions.

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Zakk Wylde turned down the chance to join Guns N' Roses because he needed to buy pizza and soda pop for his girlfriend

Zakk Wylde accepted an invitation Axl Rose to jam with Guns N' Roses, but backed away when reality came calling

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"When we played Donington and you hear 90,000 people go 'woohooo!' it's a great feeling": How The Quireboys turned a song with no chorus into a classic singalong

The story of The Quireboys' infectious, rabble-rousing crowd favourite 7 O'Clock

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‘Utterly devastating’: Guardian writers on their favourite breakup songs

For Valentine’s Day, writers have picked the song that best summarises the pain or pleasure of finally saying goodbye to a lover

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"The near-mythical aura that surrounds him was stripped away in that 40 minutes": What happened when Axl Rose gave his first TV interview in more than a decade

Presenter Eddie Trunk tells the story the time Guns N' Roses leader Axl Rose gave a rare interview on VH1's That Metal Show

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"I was stunned and hurt. I can't begin to describe the feeling of betrayal": What happened when Don Henley joined Guns N' Roses

It's early 1989, and Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler has just entered rehab: the only problem is, the band are booked to play the American Music Awards

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