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“I went, ‘I’m sorry we all couldn’t do it.’ Tom Morello goes, ‘Well, Dan and Maynard are playing with these people.’ I went, ‘I didn’t know that…’” Adam Jones on why Tool weren’t originally going to take part in Ozzy Osbourne’s last-ever show
In case Tool fans were wondering why the band wasn’t part of the original lineup...
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“More than just a metal machine and I would have no qualms in taking one out for gigs, fresh out of the box”: Spira T-450 TDB review
A T-style with a twist, and there’s plenty of bang for your budget metal buck here
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“Phenomenal tone at any volume”: Fender’s American Vintage ’62 Super revives a “hidden treasure” tube amp that bridged the gap between two legendary combo designs
Landing in the sweet spot between ’50s tweed tones and ’60s black-panel sparkle, the ’62 Super is a throwback combo from a transitional period of Fender history
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“I’d never heard it like that, apart from on record, because in the days of Zeppelin, I’d do as much as I could with the one guitar”: 25 years ago, Jimmy Page’s live vision for one Zeppelin classic was fully realized – thanks to the Black Crowes
A new mini-documentary charting the history of Page and the Crowes’ live album, Live at the Greek, has been released
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“Bringing together the analog elements that have defined Supro with state-of-the-art cabinet emulation”: Supro’s new Airwaves combo is a 6V6-driven 1x12 with onboard Two Notes tech for vintage-modern versatility
The New York firm’s latest build can push air with vintage, Celestion-powered tones and record DI with customizable IRs for the best of both tonal disciplines
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Guitar World deals of the week: save $190 on a Player II Strat, bag a bargain JHS pedal plus some perfect last-minute gift ideas for Father's Day
Your weekly digest of the best deals from all across the web
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“It’s time”: Matt Bellamy channels his inner Meshuggah with a wild new 8-string Manson model – which has already been put to work on a monstrous new Muse song
New single Unravelling – which will drop imminently – finds the band travelling into a darker, djent-ier world
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“I had three days to learn the entire set… One rehearsal. I met Pink at soundcheck right before the first show then I’m playing in front of thousands and thousands of people”: Eva Gardner on trial by fire with pop megastars and returning to the Mars Volta
Eva Gardner has played with Cher, Moby, Pink, Veruca Salt... the list goes on. Here she reveals how it all started with a bass from Andy Johns, how it's going with the Mars Volta – and what comes next
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“Reimagining the acoustic experience for daring and adventurous players”: Fender debuts the California Standard Series – bringing its popular budget acoustics to even lower price points
The new range arrives in time to compete with a growing budget acoustic market – and doubles down on Fender’s Standard initiative
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"I don’t care what anyone says, what Paul Reed Smith builds today is what Doug and I made back then”: From the Tiger to the Wolf, meet the guitar maker who bought Jerry Garcia’s wildest designs to life
This is the story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for ananswer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead
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“Revelator is chock full of riffs. The chorus is just like, ‘What if a war metal band had Portishead chords?’”: Deafheaven’s Shiv Mehra and Kerry McCoy on atonality vs the ethereal, pedalboard thrill-seeking and their return to super-heavy guitars
Lonely People with Power takes Deafheaven back to the frontiers of black metal and shoegaze, and once more torching the rulebook of genre orthodoxy in search of sonic enlightenment
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Fender promised a tweed version of our top-rated Tone Master FRFR speaker last year – now, it’s finally been announced
The Tone Master FR-12 released in 2023 to rave reviews – and at long last, it’s getting a tweed makeover
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“Add the hi-hat, and it’s, ‘Tss, tss, kahh, boom, boom-boom, kah, tss, boom, kahh’ etc. We can emulate these different elements on the guitar”: Cory Wong on why approaching rhythm guitar like a drummer makes you a better guitar player
One of the great rhythm guitar virtuosos teaches us how not only to play to the beat but to be the beat itself. This video and tab lesson explains all...
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“I have the first guitar I ever owned – my parents bought it for me in 1967 for $57. It’s a cheap Japanese guitar that I had refinished”: Alex Lifeson on Envy of None’s evolution, moving on post-Rush, and jams and coffee with Geddy Lee
Stygian Wavz, the new album from Envy of None, finds Lifeson showcasing his prodigious chops again. Here he talks about the gear behind it, where he is as a player, and that huge Rush box set
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“I had no idea of the impact that these Instagram videos were having until I went to South Korea. There were 500 people there just to see this ‘Mateus Asato guy’”: How Mateus Asato changed gears from sideman and Instagram guitarist to fully-fledged artist
The versatile player's resume includes everyone from Bruno Mars to Joe Satriani
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Mark Speer has captivated audiences with his genre-blending playing style – but the Khruangbin guitarist claims it's mainly due to playing only one single guitar for over two decades
Speer's recently-announced signature model with Fender is a near-replica of the Strat he plays on the daily
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“With my wrist, the arthritis and everything, that would be very challenging”: Everyone is expecting Jake E. Lee to play Bark at the Moon at Ozzy Osbourne’s last show – but he has his doubts
The song may be too much for the guitar icon – but he has a backup plan in mind
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Hardtail Strats, Bigsby-clad Teles, and a pink Jazzmaster: Squier rolls out its 2025 Classic Vibe collection – and heads into unexpected territory
Some surprising hardware setups and unorthodox configurations head up the drop – which sees Fender commit to its beloved Classic Vibe family
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“When the Ozzy thing came around I was so excited, but also doubting myself. Duff McKagan and Chad Smith were like, ‘You can do it. It's everything you love’”: From Pearl Jam to the Stones, the stars have aligned for Andrew Watt – but he owes it to Ozzy
The producer and guitarist explains how ’Sabbath and Ozzy were there for the beginning of his journey – and why he’ll to be there for the end of theirs
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PMT, one of the UK’s largest instrument retailers, has been placed into administration – closing all stores and making 96 members of staff redundant
The company’s stock and assets have been sold to online retail giant Gear4music for roughly $3.26 million
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