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“I’ve written most Erra records with a Line 6 Spider. I’m not precious about any gear – the first priority is writing good songs”: Dirty fret choices and weird bends are more important to Jesse Cash than geeking out on gear

New album Cure sees the progressive metalcore outfit working with a producer for the first time to hone their Earth-shattering riffs – it also showcases Cash’s love of Jerry Cantrell’s bending technique, and why he believes string skipping can bypass the need for theory

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“We found the damn thing!” Jerry Cantrell’s original G&L Rampage wasn’t stolen after all – it had just been misplaced

The 'Blue Dress' G&L, which has been used by the Alice in Chains icon on almost everything he's ever recorded, is one of the most important guitars in grunge

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“I was worried to death that this thing was gone”: Jerry Cantrell’s ‘Blue Dress’ G&L Rampage has been found safe and well

False alarm! The iconic S-style was lost in transit. And there is more good news – the Alice In Chains guitarist is working on new music

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"Carlos Santana told me I was like a shaman on stage and he wanted to do a band with me": Gavin Rossdale's stories of Keanu Reeves, David Bowie, Bono and more

He's been bitten by Shirley Manson, sung on stage with Alice In Chains, spent 15 hours a day for months with Tom Jones, and is pals with Robert Downey Jr. He’s Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, and these are his stories

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“We’re offering a reward to anyone who can help us locate the guitar”: Jerry Cantrell’s original G&L Rampage – one of grunge’s most important guitars – has been stolen

The 1984 'Blue Dress' Rampage has been used on almost everything the Alice in Chains guitarist has ever recorded

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“We’re offering a reward to anyone who can help us locate the guitar”: Jerry Cantrell’s G&L ‘Blue Dress’ Rampage has been stolen

The 1985 Rampage has been on every one of Cantrell’s recordings, and was taken from the Alice In Chains’ guitarist’s car over the weekend

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“This happened to us and Layne’s family. If we can be OK with it, why can’t you?”: how Alice In Chains silenced the doubters and rose from tragedy with epic comeback album Black Gives Way To Blue

The story of Alice In Chains’ comeback album Black Gives Way To Blue

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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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“My best advice to all guitarists is to sit down and write the things you practice”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale talks tone tips, meat and potatoes rock, and reveals how a fan gave her an original Klon Centaur

The Gibson Ambassador and Kramer signature artist checks in to share six-string wisdom, the secret of keeping it simple, and why she made a guitar that looks like it came from the '80s

Guitar World

“That was when I knew we had really accomplished something”: Alice In Chains on the transformative success of their Jar Of Flies EP as it turns 30

The grunge trailblazer's had their first Number One with the 1994 EP

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"I'd seen Led Zeppelin, loved it, but you can't touch them: they fly away on a jet plane that says 'Led Zeppelin' on it. The Clash pulled up in a station wagon": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the gig that changed his life forever

In October 1979, 15-year-old Michael 'Duff' McKagan attended a punk rock show in Seattle which turned his world upside down

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“One slide was closed down – somebody broke their nose on it”: MTV once took Alice In Chains to the deadliest waterpark in America

In 1993, Headbangers Ball host Riki Rachtman treated Alice In Chains to a day in New Jersey’s Action Park. He had no idea the waterpark claimed six lives in 10 years.

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News of the (guitar) world: the biggest, baddest, weirdest and saddest guitar news of 2023

We track the year’s biggest six-string stories – from landmark gear developments to devastating departures and 2023’s most headline-grabbing players

Guitar World

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands

Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike

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This cover of Alice In Chains' It Ain't Like That performed by Jerry Cantrell and Nickelback in 2002 packs more meat than a butcher's shop

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell joined Nickelback on the road in 2002, and joined the Canadian rockers onstage for their mega-beefy Facelift-era cover

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"He called Chad Smith 'drummer'. Like, 'Drummer, can you hit that on the up beat?' And this is Chad Smith!" Duff McKagan on what it’s like being in a band with punk rock don, Iggy Pop

The Guns N' Roses bassist has played on two Iggy Pop records, and now the former Stooges man has returned the favour

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“His designs are some of the most identifiable in history, the tones some of the most iconic”: Leo Fender called G&L Guitars the best instruments he ever made – this is the story of the company that became his swan song

After he sold his namesake firm and exited his collaboration with Music Man, Leo Fender founded a bold new company that would play host to his final electric guitar innovations

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“Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate

Duff McKagan reacted to Bob Dylan’s praise by suggesting they write a song together, plus he reveals he wants to make an album with Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell

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"They were the only band that kicked our ass." Better Loves are the Every Time I Die/Dillinger Escape Plan supergroup you didn't know you needed, but will be so happy to have in your life

Greg Puciato teaming up with former members of Every Time I Die and Will Putney: Better Lovers are the band hardcore has been waiting for

Guitar World

Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell does his best Hendrix impression with a grungy, wah-driven Star-Spangled Banner at a Seattle Seahawks game

Signature single-pickup G&L Rampage model in hand, one Seattle guitar god tips his cap to another

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“Cameron Crowe said, ‘This is killer, it’s awesome!’”: Jerry Cantrell on how he wrote Alice In Chains’ classic hit Would?

The Alice In Chains songwriter was still grieving the death of Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood when he wrote the song for Crowe’s 1992 grunge film Singles

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"People were spitting at us": How one of Alice In Chains' worst gigs ever earned them the respect of hardcore Slayer fans

For Alice In Chains, playing on the 1991 Clash of the Titans tour was an eye-opening, and sometimes terrifying, experience

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Ken’s guitar of choice in the Barbie Movie is… a Gibson Jerry Cantrell acoustic?

Ryan Gosling is giving up the customized guitar – which has links to Metallica and Alice in Chains – to apologize for a fashion faux-pas

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Duff McKagan launches solo album featuring Slash, Jerry Cantrell and Iggy Pop

Duff McKagan's third solo album Lighthouse will be released in October - listen to title track now

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Seal reveals his love for Alice In Chains: "It's dark, it's beautiful, it's melancholic, but it's really sexy"

On a visit to Amoeba Records in Los Angeles, Seal pays tribute to his favourite grunge band, Alice In Chains

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