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- April 11
- April 10
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- "He goes to England and all of a sudden he's on the floor humping his guitar!” Gene Simmons tells how he, Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley followed Jimi Hendrix's lead and gave Kiss some British swagger
- “I was home with the family and I got a phone call saying, 'You've won a Grammy.' We were like, 'You've got to be kidding?'” Martin Barre recalls Jethro Tull’s famous Grammy triumph over Metallica 36 years on
- “F****d me up completely. I couldn’t make head or tail of it.” Eric Clapton on the one guitarist who blew him away onstage
- Guitar Center's Guitar-A-Thon is back, and it includes a colossal $600 off a Gibson Les Paul, $180 off a Fender Strat, and a slew of new exclusive models
- April 9
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- “We were underdogs that still had to prove ourselves.” Aerosmith feared their label would drop them if 'Toys in the Attic' wasn’t a success. Fifty years on, Joe Perry discusses the riffs that saved them from oblivion
- “My worst case of buyer’s remorse was probably an impulse-buy banjo." Yvette Young shares her worst purchase stories and delivers her top tips for regret-free guitar shopping
- “I’d always worshipped Steve, and whenever he made a move, I would be right on it.” How a 20-year-old hot-shot guitarist convinced Eric Clapton to switch from Les Pauls to Fender Strats
- “I avoided it like the plague, but you have to understand it and feel it to be a complete player.” Martin Barre neglected one important aspect of guitar playing for years until another famous guitarist helped him see the light
- April 8
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- “That was the first song I ever attempted to play, but I heard congas and drums that exploded like fire.” How the Kinks inspired Al Di Meola to write a fusion classic
- "We tried every guitar for weeks, and nothing would fit. And then, one day, we pulled this out." Mike Campbell on his "Red Dog" Telecaster, the guitar behind Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "Refugee" and the focus of two new Fender tribute models
- A gigantic $360 off Positive Grid's celebrated BIAS amp sim software may have just put the nail in the coffin of my beloved valve combo
- April 7
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- “I feel like a fraud. Because people don't know — but they're gonna find out one day.” Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner opens up about struggling to play guitar since his emergency heart surgery
- "It's one of the coolest guitars that I own. And look — it’s fretless!" Dweezil Zappa revels in the quirks and sonic benefits of his one-of-a-kind Gibson "Roxy" SG
- April 4
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- Orianthi performs at Guitar Player Presents in Oakland, California — Win Tickets
- "Ritchie has actually been told by his cardiologist not to get in a plane." Ritchie Blackmore suffered a heart attack a year and a half year ago and has been warned not to travel by air
- “Yes, I can do it all.” Shaquille O’Neal stuns fans by playing a Three Days Grace song on an acoustic guitar. Or is it a ukulele?
- April 2
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- “I thought, Robert Fripp’s a good guitarist. Maybe we could do something.” Andy Summers isn’t a fan of King Crimson, but his collaboration with Fripp came along at just the right time
- "I don’t like collector's items. I said, ‘Give me the blue one.’" Chrissie Hynde reveals the origins of the 1965 Fender Telecaster she's played since the dawn of the 1980s
- "I wrote it in five minutes the night before.” How a candid moment caught on camera became the final Beatles song the band recorded together
- April 1
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- “A good example of how, as artists, you have to blindly move forward with crazy ideas”: The story of Joe Satriani’s showstopping Crystal Planet Ibanez JS prototype – which has just sold for $10,000
- “I felt myself starting to cry.” Eric Clapton’s 'MTV Unplugged' Martin acoustic returns in two guises. But Slowhand’s affinity for the guitar brand began long before that seminal live performance
- "Jaco thought he was gonna die that day in the control room of CBS! Tony was furious." John McLaughlin on Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, and the short and tumultuous reign of the Trio of Doom
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