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The glam-rock guitarist who accidentally turned down Kiss
Punky Meadows, best known as the guitarist for glam-rock outfit Angel, sets the record straight on auditioning for Kiss, being chosen on the spot, but never actually making the band…
Meet Mary in the Junkyard, the classically rooted alt-rockers making mind-bending indie with Elliott Smith’s tunings
London songwriter Clari Freeman-Taylor explains the eureka moment of moving to electric from classical guitar, her blood-sealed bond with a new Epiphone, and why she keeps leaving pedalboards on Lime bikes
Joe Bonamassa on the ‘unorthodox’ Marshall hack he nicked from Zakk Wylde
The bluesman turned to the former Ozzy guitarist to get the most out of his Marshalls
Bernard Allison grew up surrounded by blues legends – and hid the fact he was learning guitar for years
Luther Allison’s son played with Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 16th birthday, toured in a band where pedals were forbidden, and achieved his ambition of being in his father’s band, and even leading it
Steel guitarist Pete Finney – who performed with Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and the Monkees – dies aged 70
The Nashville legend played with a variety of high-profile artists, including the Chicks, the Judds, and Patty Loveless – and was known as a connoisseur of American music history
Mark Speer was so afraid the audience wouldn’t applaud at early Khruangbin shows, he figured out how to do it on guitar
The Khruangbin guitarist also admits that this guitar trick was inspired by a legendary boxing video game
Nancy Wilson’s first guitar was unplayable – so she kept stealing her sister’s
Wilson needed to play a six-string that was better than the $30 rental guitar she had herself
How classical-schooled Derek Gripper rehabilitated himself with 21-string West African technique
The South African musician spent a decade translating the centuries-old repertoire of the West African kora. He emerged with his a unique sound that isn’t restricted to the grid of the staff or the notes on a page
![Michael Angelo Batio plays his double-neck electric guitar [left]; Billy Corgan performs with the Smashing Pumpkins, with an expression that suggests he is impressed by whatever he is seeing.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8KR8cnf59tzEbfqKYkG2jA-840-80.jpg.webp)
