Alex Skolnick’s Code-Free Creativity
marcohageman2025-12-08T18:06:28+01:00“The title definitely makes a statement,” says Alex Skolnick, referring to Prove You’re Not a Robot, the latest release by his jazz-rock ensemble, the [lees meer]
“It’s an out-of-body experience to be up there with legends like Nuno Bettencourt and Jake E. Lee”: Lzzy Hale on Black Sabbath’s final show
marcohageman2025-12-08T18:06:24+01:00Five months have passed since the final Black Sabbath gig, and it’s still being talked about by those who took part – including Halestorm’s [lees meer]
“There is no greater story of triumph than that of B.B. King. I’m humbled to help bring it to life”: A B.B. King biopic is on the way – and it will chronicle the blues legend’s life, legacy and Lucille
marcohageman2025-12-08T17:29:15+01:00The film will chart B.B. King’s rise from extreme poverty to global stardom – and his life-long partnership with his iconic ES-355 will be [lees meer]
“Moments like this don’t happen in real life”: Jared James Nichols spotted a pedal builder in the audience at one of his gigs – then handed him his guitar mid-solo
marcohageman2025-12-08T17:29:13+01:00The impromptu guest spot was full of high notes
“I discovered African blackwood probably around 20 years ago. The first guitar was paired with a cedar top and the volume blew me away”: How a $10K acoustic build put the loud into Lowden – with exotic tonewoods and faultless construction
marcohageman2025-12-08T17:29:11+01:00Meet the high-end cutaway acoustic of your dreams that looks a million dollars and costs more than $10,000 – another occasion when Irish luthier [lees meer]
“It’s like getting a pre-washed pair of jeans: they’re broken in so they’re comfortable right out of the store”: The making of the American Professional Classic series – the brand-new “lived-in” (but not relic’d) US Fender line
marcohageman2025-12-08T17:29:10+01:00More aged nitro finishes and a new US-made line-up that pares back the modernisms. Are our tastes changing? Max Gutnik, chief product officer at [lees meer]
“He broke my heart, but at the same time, I was like, ‘Okay, well, I would love to have a Fender Jazz Bass’”: Bootsy Collins’ first Fender Jazz Bass has just been sold at auction – and shot past its estimate
marcohageman2025-12-08T16:26:26+01:00James Brown bought the bass sometime in 1970 for his young protégé, William Earl Collins, better known as Bootsy Collins, and it would go [lees meer]
“I step back and I’m like, ‘Don’t think about it. Maybe you nailed it, maybe you didn’t’”: John Mayer names his favorite solo with Dead & Company – and plays it live on air
marcohageman2025-12-08T16:26:24+01:00Mayer was asked the question during his Life with John Mayer SiriusXM show, and he just so happened to have a Silver Sky in [lees meer]
“Everybody got slapped in the face real hard”: Steve Lukather recalls the impact Eddie Van Halen had on the guitar scene, and why people dismissed him as a “parlour trick”
marcohageman2025-12-08T16:04:48+01:00As a session musician extraordinaire Steve Lukather knows a lot of stars across the world of guitar, and he’s recently been looking back at [lees meer]
“I got bored with Miles Davis. He was like, ‘Robben, play that just like the record.’ And I didn’t join Miles Davis to do that”: Robben Ford explains his dalliance with Davis, Joni Mitchell’s fuzz tips – and how Jeff Beck got him back on the Strat
marcohageman2025-12-08T14:28:37+01:00Ford on two moments when Joni Mitchell was right and he was wrong, why his late 80s stint with Davis didn't work out and [lees meer]