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Watch guitarist Joe Trohman show you how to play the Fall Out Boy hit "I Don't Care."

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Posted 03/23/2009 at 2:24pm | by Chris Gill

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He shaped the course of metal with his fiendish riffs and wicked guitar tones. Forty years after Black Sabbath's birth, Tony Iommi reflects on his riff-tastic career and his legacy as the grand wizard who defined metal for the ages.

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