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“Aja by Steely Dan isthe blueprint… If there was a formula for every kind of success you could have in music, that recordembodied it”: Young Gun Silver Fox are keeping yacht-rock afloat with lawsuit guitars and 10-year-old strings
Top-tier ’70s-style AOR is back on deck with Young Gun Silver Fox, whose guitarist and co-founder Shawn Lee shares how rare, oddball and collectible guitars are the wind in their sails
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“Even though everybody saw it coming with Ozzy, it just took our breath away when it happened”: Johnny Depp joins Alice Cooper onstage to cover Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in honor of Ozzy Osbourne
Depp and his Gibson Flying V lined up alongside Cooper and Nita Strauss for the performance
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“Initially, his strongest influence was the blues. Then his Mexican heritage surfaced and combined with the influences of Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Tito Puente and Gábor Szabó”: Decoding the magic of Carlos Santana’s supernatural soloing style
Stay cosmic with this lesson in how Carlos Santana took the blues as practiced by B.B. King and Peter Green, plus the new radical rock styles of the '60s, and put his signature spin on them
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“I’m sure I’m not the only one they scammed. They’re hunting people like this”: Fake Guitar Center websites set up to scam players are on the rise – here’s what you need to look out for
A player was recently scammed out of $1,000 after falling prey to a scam website – and the retailer’s CEO has shared the red flags you need to be mindful of
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“I said to myself, ‘Well, Buddy, you better hang on a little longer. My health ain’t doing too bad, so… I just try to play the best I can”: Buddy Guy says he’s not retiring until the blues gets a higher profile
The 88-year-old blues star says the lack of mainstream platforms for blues concerns him – but his Sinners cameo gives him cause for hope
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“We need time and space to grieve”: Pantera cancel tour dates to mourn Ozzy Osbourne
The Black Sabbath singer passed away earlier this month, weeks after completing his Back to the Beginning farewell show
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“When we lost Jeff, his wife wrote to me and said, ‘I’m going to sell the guitars. They keep reminding me of him’”: John McLaughlin remembers gifting Jeff Beck the white Strat that featured on his seminal Wired record – and helped shape his guitar legacy
The iconic Strat was reportedly stolen at a later date
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“The last text I got from Oz said, ‘Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn’t see you. Thanks for everything’”: Zakk Wylde looks back on his closer-than-close relationship with Ozzy Osbourne, and their final moments together onstage
Wylde was the Black Sabbath icon's guitarist and friend for decades. He reflects on his instant connection with the Prince of Darkness, how their relationship evolved both on and offstage, and that emotional final show at Back to the Beginning
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“I paid $2,800 for it at a vintage dealer. Now, I think the guitar would be worth six figures”: What was Elliot Easton’s greatest gear find? The Cars legend reveals all – and argues that today’s players have never had it better
The former Cars six-stringer talks early guitar exploits, the golden age of vintage-guitar buying, and why he’s not as jazzed about amps as he is about guitars themselves
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“It’s the wide range of voices that impresses. Old or new, these are far from one-trick ponies”: PJD Carey Classic review
The York, UK-based guitar maker delivers the latest version of its Les Paul Junior/Tele mashup – with remarkable results
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“I’d saved up $2,000 just from busking and playing gigs and asking my grandparents for money at Christmas”: Molly Tuttle reminisces on her first Martin – and how it ended up in Arizona's Musical Instrument Museum
The bluegrass and Americana phenom looks back on her long-term love affair with Martin
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“Introduces several highly requested features”: Neural DSP answers players’ prayers with new Nano Cortex update
The modeler has been made fully gig-proof with a new update that introduces perhaps its most highly requested feature yet
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“We had our ups and downs over the years – I hadn’t spoken to Ozzy since 2017. But I always knew if I reached out, he’d be there for me”: Geezer Butler remembers the genius and humor of his friend and Black Sabbath bandmate Ozzy Osbourne
The Black Sabbath bassist and lyricist shares his fondest memories of the iconic frontman, their unlikely first encounter, and his one regret about Back to the Beginning
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“A new benchmark for authentic sound”: Line 6 has finally shared what the Helix Stadium’s potentially game-changing tones actually sound like
Weeks after the Helix Stadium was unveiled, we finally have a brief taste of what the new Agoura modeling tech is capable of
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“I can’t play like I used to, but I still enjoy playing”: Victor Wooten opens up on his battle with the health condition that he says is turning him into a beginner bass player again
The revered bassist is battling focal dystonia – a neurological movement disorder that causes his fretting fingers to curl up
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“We were on stools next to each other, going back and forth on the parts in front of the board. That was the first time we’d met”: How Grace Bowers ended up on Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton’s latest solo record
Bowers recently guested at the 67th Grammy Awards with Coldplay’s Chris Martin and collaborated with Peter Frampton and Trey Anastasio
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“We make those in the same quantities no matter what is in fashion”: Guitar trends come and go – but these are the Fender finishes that will never disappear
Changing fashions keep the Fender Custom Shop Master Builders busy, but a few staple models and colorways will always be on the menu
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“This, ladies and gentlemen, is Dimebag’s number one guitar”: Dimebag Darrell’s Dean From Hell guitar makes a surprise comeback with Pantera
The iconic Dean ML was presented to Phil Anselmo by surprise during a recent concert
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“I became obsessed with the idea and decided to reach out. I framed it like: ‘Would you be open to this if I worked on a prototype?’” How two of the pedal world’s most groundbreaking firms joined forces to make the ultimate overdrive
Combining two of the finest circuits in the game on one feature-packed gain pedal, the Brothers AM is the one overdrive to rule them all. Analog Man’s Mike Piera and Chase Bliss’ Joel Korte explain how it came to be
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“One guitar that got used a lot was an ex-Keith Richards 1956 TV Yellow Junior… we were drowning in amazing gear”: Wrecking old tube amps, thrashing vintage Fenders, Chris Buck is taking no prisoners as Cardinal Black return
With their 2022 debut, Cardinal Black introduced the world to a budding guitar hero. Chris Buck explains how its followup has taken his playing and songwriting to the next level
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