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Runnin' with the devil: The stories behind the songs on Slash's Orgy of the Damned

From Robert Johnson to Lightning Hopkins, The Temptations to Stevie Wonder: The original versions of Slash's Orgy Of The Damned songs

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“I’m funny with amps. I love Marshalls, but I also love old Fender Deluxes. Dumble built one for me just before he passed away. I think it was the last one he ever built”: With Strats, Magnatones, and plenty of all-star guests, Slash embraces the blues

Turning to spontaneity, and changing habits both gear and playing-wise, Slash's new record is a laid-back, charming tribute to an ever-lasting strain of guitar playing

Guitar World

Auditor failed to meet ethical standards obligation: watchdog

ASIC also accepted the undertaking from his accounting firm.

The Canberra Times

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Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

Salon

10 legendary blues guitars, from Lucille to Lucy and the ‘Loch Ness Monster of Les Pauls’ – a priceless Gibson that has been missing for more than 50 years

Named and famed! Behind every great blues player is a great guitar, and they don’t come more iconic than this...

Guitar World

“It’s Chuck Rainey’s concept of ‘what you don’t play is as important as what you do play’”: After decades of studio sessions with artists ranging from Eric Clapton to Usher, Nathan East reflects on the business of bass

Nathan East looks back at some of his biggest tracks, and why he’d love to have a career like Pat Metheny or Marcus Miller

Guitar World

“So well-versed in the art of blues that B.B. King said ‘he was like another one of my sons’”: 12 blues guitar albums that chart the genre – and the instrument’s – evolution

From Son House to Eric Gales, John Lee Hooker to Albert Collins, these classics highlight how blues guitar has changed over the years – its stories, tones and techniques all passed down and reinvented

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Learn the greatest licks from over 100 years of trailblazing blues guitarists, from Robert Johnson to B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Gales and more

These 15 must-learn licks take you from blues guitar's acoustic beginnings to its electric present day

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'The first thing you often hear on any blues record is a taster of what's to come': Here are 40 turnarounds to fire up your blues guitar playing

Never be short of ideas again with this guide

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'The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who was technically and stylistically ahead of many of his peers': 5 ways to play like Robert Johnson without going down to the crossroads to make a deal with the devil

Unpicking the fingerstyle of the most influential blues guitarist

MusicRadar

"He showed me some things that Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson had taught him – he knew those people": Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf and their legendary blues legacy

Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitar sideman on his hard blues road

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“People tell me I’m one of the godfathers of shredding… I don’t know. I play loud, aggressively, and with some flair. I’m just out there doing me”: Did Michael Hampton really land his P-Funk gig by playing Eddie Hazel’s Maggot Brain solo note for note?

Parliamant/Funkadelic’s ‘Kidd Funkadelic’ explains how his disinterest in sports and love of jazz guitar prepared him for the gig – and the difference between playing with Hazel and Blackbyrd McKnight

Guitar World

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

Metal Hammer

How John Muir Convinced America To Save Yosemite

Without John Muir, national treasures like Yosemite wouldn't look the same.

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Reddit Is A Great Company, But Is It A Great Investment?

Reddit, which will soon launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO), is a great company but may not be a sound investment.

Louder

Slash announces blues album featuring Billy Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Iggy Pop and more, launches video for cover of Killing Floor with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler

Slash's all-star blues album Orgy Of The Damned will contain songs by Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Steppenwolf, Albert King, Peter Green, The Temptations and more

Guitar World

“A rare opportunity to explore a unique side of his playing”: Slash hangs up his Les Paul for a 335 in the first taste of his solo blues album – a covers record featuring Brian Johnson, Billy Gibbons, Iggy Pop, Gary Clark Jr. and Demi Lovato

Orgy of the Damned is one of the most eagerly awaited guitar albums of the year, and its lead single – a cover of a Howlin' Wolf classic recorded with AC/DC's Brian Johnson – has been released

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Eric Clapton on Robert Johnson: "When I was younger, Hellhound used to frighten me when I listened to it. The idea that he was really singing about being pursued by demons was too much for me – for a while I really couldn’t deal with it"

Classic interview: When Slowhand revisited Robert Johnson's legacy in 2004 we caught the bluesman in candid mode – "Robert Johnson wasn’t entertainment. When I first heard him I had a very hard time listening to him, because it demanded something of me"

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What Charlie Munger Taught Warren Buffett About Investing

Ever wonder how Charlie Munger remained friends with Warren Buffett — and the two famed investors never fought in more than 60 years?

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tottenham’s shiny alien spaceship is turning this corner of N17 on its head

Comment: Just as Spurs the football club wants to throw off its image as under-achievers, could the new stadium transform the fortunes of one of London’s most maligned districts?

Guitar World

Your acoustic blues playing will come on leaps and bounds with new fingerpicking patterns – here are 10 you need to know

Ditch the pick and dive into these fingerpicking style guitar lessons on some of blues guitar's finest fingerstylists, including Eric Bibb, Rory Gallagher and Leo Kottke

Guitar World

“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

Guitar World

“Rich Robinson was doing a Facebook Q&A and I commented with a video of me playing one of his songs… long story short, it led to me playing with the Black Crowes”: How Argentina native Nico Bereciartua became the US rock institution's new guitar wingman

From chatting with Robinson on social media to opening for Aerosmith in arenas, Bereciartua's star has had a rapid ascent. He discusses his favorite guitars for slide, his six-string chemistry with Rich Robinson, and why playing with the Black Crowes is the greatest honor of his life

Fortune

Influencers want to hack your high mortgage rates for a new car or an extra vacation. 'This can be a great strategy,' housing market expert says—but only if you can really budget for it

Want to save $83,000 over the 30-year life of a mortgage on a $300,000 home? Think carefully about what you’re really pursuing.

The Independent UK

Paramount decides it won't sell majority stake in BET Media Group, source tells AP

BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network

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