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Michael Schenker reveals that Axl Rose sang three songs during sessions for his upcoming album My Years In UFO

According to Michael Schenker, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is "a perfectionist"

Metal Hammer

“I had seen Slash on TV, but I didn’t know his name. Then I got Guitar Hero III. That’s how I was able to know who he was. Then I started to actually hear him play”: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram talks touring with Slash – and his hunger to learn guitar

Kingfish discovered Slash via Guitar Hero and now will be sharing the stage with him at S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival. He talks about what it means to play an all-star blues fest and take the art form further

Guitar World

"I took a bit of steel railroad track and strung a string along it, then hooked it up to the radio": The story of Les Paul, the man who invented modern music

Visionary, guitar wizard and inspiration, Les Paul invented the electric guitar and drew the blueprint for contemporary music as we know it

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“Even when Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf went electric, people were saying, ‘This isn’t blues.’ It’s the artist’s job to push boundaries”: Samantha Fish on the past, present and future of blues

Signed up for Slash's all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival, Fish is one of the players who has found her voice in taking blues out of its comfort zone. Here she salutes her blues heroes – especially the rule breakers

Guitar World

“My favorite British guitar players are amazing, but they all pale in comparison to the original blues guys. That was their own personal technique, from its origin”: Slash on his journey to discover the original guitar heroes

Orgy of the Damned finds the Guns N' Roses guitarist and A-list guests tackling blues standards that shaped his sound. Here he talks blues gear, the ethos, and how blues can be a force for good

Guitar World

Stars from across the world of rock pay tribute to Aerosmith after the iconic band announced their retirement from touring

Brian May, Slash, Sammy Hagar and more hail Aerosmith's legacy as Steven Tyler's vocal cord injury leads to retirement

Metal Hammer

“I had fights on the street. Guys couldn’t handle it. It was a challenge to them, especially as we would get girls”: how Poison took glam metal to the extreme with Look What The Cat Dragged In

Poison’s 1986 debut album Look What The Cat Dragged In is a killer glam metal album. But not everybody loved it

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Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson

Can't Be Found comes from the MC5's Heavy Lifting, their first album in more than half a century

Louder

"I did a Mountain Dew commercial": Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner on making a living as a musician away from the limelight

"You have to be resourceful"

MusicRadar

$Guitar legend Slash shares heartbreaking tribute to stepdaughter Lucy-Bleu: ‘My heart is fractured’$

Guitar legend Slash shares heartbreaking tribute to stepdaughter Lucy-Bleu: ‘My heart is fractured’

Rock musician called his stepdaughter ‘the brightest light in the lives of so many’

The Independent UK

“I’d like to dedicate this to Lucy-Bleu”: Slash pays tribute to his late stepdaughter with emotional instrumental performance

Slash performed Metal Chestnut from his latest album, Orgy of the Damned, alongside Tash Neal on rhythm guitar

Guitar World

Where the NBA TV Rights Deal Stands After WBD Matches Amazon’s Offer

No, ‘NBA on TNT’ and ‘Inside the NBA’ haven’t been saved (yet?).

Sports Illustrated

Slash's Stepdaughter Lucy-Bleu Knight's Mysterious Death Raises Questions

Speculation surrounds the passing of Lucy-Bleu Knight following a cryptic post on Instagram. Family and friends mourn her loss as investigations continue.

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25-Year-Old Step-Daughter Of Slash Loses Her Life, Shares Post-Mortem Cryptic Instagram Post

"May my soul learn to evolve from my poor job at being Lucy-Bleu." The post 25-Year-Old Step-Daughter Of Slash Loses Her Life, Shares Post-Mortem Cryptic Instagram Post first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Independent UK

Slash shares news of stepdaughter’s death, aged 25

Guns N’ Roses guitarist paid tribute to ‘incredibly talented artist’ and ‘lovable, sweet soul’, Lucy-Bleu

Guitar World

Slash cancels four S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour dates due to “unforeseen circumstances”

Shows in Cincinnati, Interlochen, Huber Heights and Windsor have been cancelled, with the tour set to resume in Toronto on July 28

Metal Hammer

Slash cancels four shows on S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour due to unforseen circumstances

Slash's all-star blues tour kicked off earlier this month

Guitar World

“I was recording a solo and didn’t have much direction for it, so I was just swinging in the dark. Luther Dickinson gave me this piece of advice…” How a former Black Crowe changed Samantha Fish’s soloing style forever

Fish gives her take on what makes solos memorable – and why flashy playing doesn’t speak to the soul

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"You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile and mysterious to ever hit Europe. This is the full story

MusicRadar

“Players can go between jangly rhythm sections to soaring leads with a flick of a switch”: Harley Benton unveils refreshed DC-Custom II Series, including a doubleneck EDS-1275-alike for just over 500 bucks

Here is a budget-friendly guitar release for those on a highway to hell or taking their first steps on a stairway to heaven

Guitar World

“You can hear the influence of those riffs on Guns N’ Roses, but I’m sure it’s not a conscious thing. It’s in our subconscious, ingrained in our DNA”: Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

MusicRadar

“He doesn’t make it sound like he's trying”: Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix on the S.E.R.P.E.N.T tour

Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix at S.E.R.P.E.N.T festival

Guitar World

“You all might know this tune, I think”: Eric Gales calls upon Slash and unleashes his inner Hendrix for Purple Haze jam

Slash's S.E.R.P.E.N.T blues travelling festival is well underway, and he's already served up perhaps the tastiest team-up of the tour with the help of blues virtuoso Gales

The Independent UK

Portraits of Keith Richards and Joni Mitchell by legendary photographer feature in Sotheby’s exhibition

The exhibition runs until July 17

Guitar World

“That was the coolest thing about Eddie for me. That’s why nobody could ever touch him”: Slash explains why Eddie Van Halen was really a blues player at heart

Van Halen's boundary-pushing rock guitar style was defined by unprecedented fretboard acrobatics – but underneath all that was a humble bluesman, according to the GNR guitarist

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