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Ken’s guitar of choice in the Barbie Movie is… a Gibson Jerry Cantrell acoustic?
Ryan Gosling is giving up the customized guitar – which has links to Metallica and Alice in Chains – to apologize for a fashion faux-pas
Boss is back in the synth business – and its new GM-800 could be the best way to get keyboard sounds from your guitar yet
A new Series GK digital interface and an advanced operating engine lifted from Roland's collection of keyboards head up the powerful stompbox
Fake Klon Centaur pedals are being sold “for big money”, warns designer Bill Finnegan
The legendary overdrive pedal is worth up to $5,000 on the used market – and now copycats are taking advantage
“A true inspirational person to be around”: Animals As Leaders pay tribute to guitar tech Dave Cohen, who has passed away
Cohen had recently joined Animals As Leaders on Dream Theater's Dreamsonic tour, and was founder and head luthier of custom guitar builder, Equilibrium Guitars
Gene Simmons says Geddy Lee "didn't understand what a blues scale was" when they first jammed together
At that point, the Kiss bassist says, "Geddy played purely by ear." Of course, he continued, "later on, he learned what the notes were and stuff like that“
Nuno Bettencourt on playing with Rihanna: "I’m sorry, most of the guitar players who I admire could not in their lifetime play that gig"
"Slash is one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time but I guarantee – and he’d be the first to tell you – that if he jumps up and he’s got to play a clean intro to Rude Boy by Rihanna, it ain’t happening,” the Extreme virtuoso says
Creed to reunite for first live performances in over a decade
The occasion is the Summer of '99 cruise – a true bonanza of late-'90s/early-noughties rock featuring a who's who of platinum-selling bands of the era
John Petrucci officially launches his own software brand, Tonemission – and its first drop replicates his exact signal chain
Tones from the Dream Theater virtuoso's three most recent albums have been profiled in Tonemission's first collection of IRs, with even more set to arrive in the future
