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“The Super Overdrive never tasted so good”: John 5’s entire pedalboard has been recreated in cake form for his birthday – and it gives a new meaning to ‘tasty tone’

marcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:37+02:00

The only thing better than a Boss DD-8 is a Boss DD-8 you can eat

“The Super Overdrive never tasted so good”: John 5’s entire pedalboard has been recreated in cake form for his birthday – and it gives a new meaning to ‘tasty tone’marcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:37+02:00

“I use my pick-hand index finger in a Jimi Hendrix-like way”: Jared James Nichols explains how to use open strings and Drop D tuning to bulk-up your blues fingerstyle

marcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:35+02:00

Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor of blues [lees meer]

“I use my pick-hand index finger in a Jimi Hendrix-like way”: Jared James Nichols explains how to use open strings and Drop D tuning to bulk-up your blues fingerstylemarcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:35+02:00

“Everybody thinks playing technical and fast is harder. It takes a lot more courage to tone it down and play what’s right for the song”: Nuno Bettencourt on what Ace Frehley taught him about guitar playing

marcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:34+02:00

The Extreme guitarist has looked back on how the Spaceman shaped his childhood and his unique brand of soloing

“Everybody thinks playing technical and fast is harder. It takes a lot more courage to tone it down and play what’s right for the song”: Nuno Bettencourt on what Ace Frehley taught him about guitar playingmarcohageman2025-10-20T19:26:34+02:00

Supercool Pedals releases “The Cutback”

marcohageman2025-10-20T18:51:15+02:00

Supercool Pedals has announced the eleventh pedal in their growing lineup: The Cutback – a versatile preamp-style overdrive pedal inspired by the legendary DOD [lees meer]

Supercool Pedals releases “The Cutback”marcohageman2025-10-20T18:51:15+02:00

“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India’s biggest metal band

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Determined to retain folk roots in his heavy output, he talks manifesting their Babymetal collab, inexperienced luthiers, a knock-off Strat with a strangely quiet [lees meer]

“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India’s biggest metal bandmarcohageman2025-10-20T17:28:18+02:00

“I was pissed off at Steve Thompson – he was sitting on the chair there, razzing me. So I said, ‘Let me just practice it once.’ He rolled it, and I was just in his face”: How Frank Hannon accidentally wrote one of Tesla’s most iconic guitar solos

marcohageman2025-10-20T16:48:35+02:00

Wielding a Gibson EDS-1275, Hannon helped define this quintessentially ’80s power ballad with a very last-minute solo

“I was pissed off at Steve Thompson – he was sitting on the chair there, razzing me. So I said, ‘Let me just practice it once.’ He rolled it, and I was just in his face”: How Frank Hannon accidentally wrote one of Tesla’s most iconic guitar solosmarcohageman2025-10-20T16:48:35+02:00

“We hit it off right away. He saw me playing my ’63 P-Bass and said, ‘That’s a Bootsy bass, right?’” How a chance meeting between Pino Palladino and D’Angelo helped create the sound of the late neo-soul legend’s Voodoo album

marcohageman2025-10-20T16:48:33+02:00

The A-list bassist sheds some light on the late R&B legend's beguiling behind-the-beat hip-hop grooves

“We hit it off right away. He saw me playing my ’63 P-Bass and said, ‘That’s a Bootsy bass, right?’” How a chance meeting between Pino Palladino and D’Angelo helped create the sound of the late neo-soul legend’s Voodoo albummarcohageman2025-10-20T16:48:33+02:00

“I went up to Sam after the show and said, ‘You’re unbelievable. I’ve got this idea for a band.’ He looked at me and said, ‘I’m in. Let’s do it’”: Fred Durst pays tribute to Sam Rivers – and explains why Limp Bizkit couldn’t have happened without him

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Durst looks back on his first meeting with the late bass icon – who helped make Limp Bizkit a reality

“I went up to Sam after the show and said, ‘You’re unbelievable. I’ve got this idea for a band.’ He looked at me and said, ‘I’m in. Let’s do it’”: Fred Durst pays tribute to Sam Rivers – and explains why Limp Bizkit couldn’t have happened without himmarcohageman2025-10-20T16:48:31+02:00

“Whether that was just a knee-jerk anger statement or it was true, I don’t know”: David Ellefson hasn’t spoke to Dave Mustaine in four years – but admits he would “take his call”

marcohageman2025-10-20T16:29:31+02:00

David Ellefson’s views on his soured relationship with Megadeth and Dave Mustaine have shifted, as he now says he would “take his call” if [lees meer]

“Whether that was just a knee-jerk anger statement or it was true, I don’t know”: David Ellefson hasn’t spoke to Dave Mustaine in four years – but admits he would “take his call”marcohageman2025-10-20T16:29:31+02:00

The unexpected guitarist blues guitar hero Christone “Kingfish” Ingram calls a “prophet”

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With his pioneering of Chicago-based soul music in the 1960s and ‘70s, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram would go as far as to call Curtis Mayfield [lees meer]

The unexpected guitarist blues guitar hero Christone “Kingfish” Ingram calls a “prophet”marcohageman2025-10-20T16:29:28+02:00

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