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- November 30
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- One simple tweak makes this PRS SE NF3 nearly perfect. Get it on sale for $679 and save $120 for the mod
- Fender goes dark for Black Friday with limited edition new Eclipse Strat and Precision Bass
- I wish I could have started on this guitar. Luckily, you can. Save $150 — nearly 45% — on the Sterling by Music Man Cutlass CT30HSS during Sweetwater’s Black Friday Sale
- November 29
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- Modern offsets at yesterday's prices. Take up to $170 off Fender Meteora electric guitars and basses at Sweetwater's Black Friday deals
- As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, this 70% off Max Black Friday streaming deal is epic
- Save up to half off on Electro-Harmonix guitar pedals at Musician's Friend on Black Friday
- There are over 14,000 offers in Sweetwater’s Black Friday sale - I’ve found the most useful one for guitarists and it’s only $19.95
- "I saw all these musicians waiting in line and thought, 'Forget it.' But one of the crew told me to go sit in a cafe across the road." Tony Iommi on his last-minute gig as Jethro Tull's new guitar player
- Go wireless for less: Positive Grid Spark Link is just $99 this Black Friday
- Watch The Beatles hit America in new doc Beatles '64 – with a Disney+ Black Fab Friday streaming deal at $2.99 per month
- "Whatever the internet tells me to do, I tend to do the exact opposite." Joe Bonamassa reveals "the world's most expensive three-channel amp"
- November 28
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- "It was just appraised for… let's just say a whole lot of money. I don't want to take this thing around!” Steve Lukather reveals the best electric guitar he owns and the one he’ll never play
- “It's just a shame that I never really had a chance to talk with him or hear him. It would’ve been a thrill to see how he worked.” Jimmy Page on the player he admired most and the word he hates when it comes to describing rock guitarists
- “Steve Vai gave me some good advice: ‘Concentrate on music and not too much on guitar.’ You can open up a lot of new ideas with that mindset.” Matteo Mancuso highlights the one thing many guitarists get wrong
- November 27
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- “I really feel that I can bring out the best in you and bring back the balls in rock ‘n’ roll.” John Lennon invited Eric Clapton to help him start a rock band in 1971. His letter is a reminder of the many times they'd already played together
- "He said, 'You can't play a song on that guitar and leave 'Free Bird' out of it!'" Heard on Lynyrd Skynyrd greatest hits, Gary Rossington's 1961 Gibson SG returns to the stage for the first time in years
- “I wasn’t gifted with enormous speed on the guitar; I just want to play a nice tune!” David Gilmour says he can't shred so he chose to be tuneful. It made all the difference in creating his signature style
- November 26
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- “The largest seizure of fake musical instruments in history.” U.S. Customs seize $18 million worth of fake guitars with the help of Gibson
- Win tickets to GP Presents' 20th Anniversary Bash
- Fender just unleashed its first-ever Player II deals, including $240 off my favorite Forest Green Strat and Tele
- November 25
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- The world's best desktop guitar amp just got its first-ever discount in the Positive Grid Black Friday sale
- "Tony Levin came in two notes early or late, and the whole thing fell to bits." Robert Fripp invented a tuning he couldn't play and polyrhythms that confused his band. The result was King Crimson's most difficult songs
- November 23
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- “I showed Paul McCartney my hollowbody guitar that I’d bought when I was in the army. He got a hollowbody after to get that tone." Why did the Beatles play Epiphone Casinos? It all comes back to one man
- “I hadn’t been thinking about how I was going to perform ‘Stairway to Heaven’ live. That’s where the Double-Neck came in.” A more affordable Jimmy Page Double-Neck returns with uncanny accuracy, thanks to 3-D scanning
- "They said, 'Come over and play a couple of tracks.' That's what I did. And when I went to go, they said, 'Where are you going?!'" Jeff Beck tells Alice Cooper how he almost joined Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones
- November 22
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- "There was a guy walking down the street, singing it at the top of his lungs. I thought, 'Wow — that song can be interpreted a whole different way.' " Warren Haynes explains the lucky break that led to his transformational take on U2's "One"
- “It took me months of searching through tens of thousands of photos. And there we had it: George Harrison at home with his collection of guitars.” An unusual guitar is at the center of a mystery about the Beatles' White Album
- November 21
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- “My lad will say, ‘You can’t play guitar like that,’ and I’m like, ‘Thank the Lord!’ ” Noel Gallagher’s son called him out because he can’t shred. His response was priceless
- “They can get on their rocket ship and don’t f***ing come back. Nobody wants to be me anyway.” Elvis Costello identifies what AI is really all about. And it isn't music
- “There's coughs, squeaks and rattles. If somebody got it wrong, you'd have to start all over again.” K.K. Downing on making Judas Priest’s 'Rocka Rolla' debut and the chance to finally fix its blemishes
- "He woke up with this insane screaming in his ears. I wanted to pack it up that day and send my amps home." Slash recalls how a jam with Jeff Beck nearly ended his idol's career
- JHS Pedals are already 25% off at Sweetwater and yes, it includes the brand new Flight Delay pedal
- With a massive 50% discount, these Walrus Audio savings are the best Black Friday pedal deals we’ve seen so far
- "The country a guitar is made in doesn't matter.” Guitar maker Paul Reed Smith tells guitarists the last thing they want to hear
- "Acclaimed Katana tones in a fun and inspiring amp for daily practice and jamming." Boss announces the new portable battery-powered Katana-Mini X guitar amplifier
- "I told the guys, ‘I’ll go out there and blow for about 60 seconds.’ I hit the first chord and my Marshall blew up.” Richie Sambora recalls the disastrous show that turned him into a pro
- November 20
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- Spend less and get more in Reverb's early Black Friday sales event - save up to 80% on second-hand gear
- “I got backstage and gave the watch back to him. He had a light — an aura or energy — about him." Guitarist Jim Suhler recalls meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan and the career-shaping advice he gave him
- “There are these strange coincidences. It’s kind of amazing.” David Gilmour weighs in on the longtime conspiracy theory that links Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' to 'The Wizard of Oz'
- November 19
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- “He let everyone know he was the new dangerous kid on the block. It started me on a relentless mission to find out just who this man was”: Eric Clapton reveals the guitarist that inspired him to quit the Bluesbreakers and form Cream
- "I placed the DeArmond pickup near the bridge. I put a crushed cigarette packet underneath it. That helped to get that round sound.” Vic Flick, guitarist behind the iconic James Bond theme, has died. Read our historic interview with him
- November 18
- November 14
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- "The luthier said, 'I've never seen one that had this penciling inside. It's a ground-zero Jazzmaster.’ ” Thurston Moore was gifted a vintage axe when Sonic Youth's gear was stolen. He had no idea how rare it was
- With up to 50% off stage-ready staples, Guitar Center proves its massive Black Friday sale is the place to shop for gigging musicians
- “An overdrive pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous. Turns out, making it small also makes it pretty awesome.” Roughly the size of a nine-volt battery, the Cicada may be the world’s smallest effect pedal
- November 12
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- November 8
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- “I might have done better in the Bluesbreakers than in the Yardbirds. But I didn't want to be mimicking Chicago blues musicians forever." Jeff Beck said he turned down a spot in John Mayall’s group, only for Jimi Hendrix to nearly derail his career
- "I played this riff, and Phil said, ‘Do you mind if I write some lyrics to that?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding me? Hell, yes!’ " Scott Gorham tells how an offhand moment led to his favorite Thin Lizzy song, released 50 years ago
- November 7
- November 6
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- Sweetwater just kicked off Black Friday early with the first ever reductions on the Boss' Katana Gen 3 amps
- “He was an angel playing with the Prince of Darkness and I was just a kid. I was possessed — and obsessed.” Jim DeCola explains how he modded Randy Rhoads’ polka-dot V backstage just minutes before showtime
- November 5
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- “Paul said, 'Ernie, if it were not for the Isley Brothers, the Beatles would still be in Liverpool.'” Ernie Isley tells how a chance meeting with Paul McCartney led them to perform the 1960s hit that helped launch the two groups to fame
- “I had to do something I've never really done before. I don't play like Lindsey.” Mike Campbell talks about replacing Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac
- November 4
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- "Even though it took a couple calls to convince you it was actually me on the phone, you killed it." Quincy Jones, who died Sunday, never forgot his infamous phone call with Eddie Van Halen or the hit track they created
- “We left that in because it captures what people want to hear from us. It felt so good to be playing together.” Warren Haynes talks recording with Derek Trucks for the first time in over 20 years on Gregg Allman's lost gem
- November 3
- November 1
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- "I wouldn’t normally be caught dead with one because I think they’re ugly. But that’s the only guitar I used." Mikael Åkerfeldt talks about his surprising choice of guitar for Opeth's latest album
- "My manager said did I fancy trying to write a song with David Gilmour? I was delighted to have a track on a Pink Floyd album." Exclusive: Hear Phil Manzanera's demo that became a Pink Floyd cut
- “We recorded fresh guitar parts to allow us to create new Thin Lizzy acoustic versions of some of our favorite songs.” Guitarist Eric Bell announces a new Thin Lizzy album with original unheard vocals from Phil Lynott
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