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Junior Marvin on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Survival – and the influence Hendrix’s guitar pedal guru had on its sound
By Andrew Daly published
After the success of Exodus and Kaya, Bob Marley took the Wailers into a more politically charged direction to deliver a slept-on classic in the Wailers’ discography

My day interviewing Hank Marvin over beans on toast and chickening out of a Paul McCartney 'audition'
By Neville Marten published
Neville Marten's first assignment for Guitarist was one for the ages, at a venue that is now sadly lost but for a time was the place for the biggest bands to rehearse

Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones
By Gregory Adams published
The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

Steve Stevens on his Dave Friedman pedalboard, his fave klone and why he can't quit guitar synths
By Andrew Daly published
The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard

Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads
By Andrew Daly published
Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn't stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at Sabbath's final show. And Tom Morello needed him bad

Scott Gorham on how his guitar partnership with Gary Moore came to a dramatic end
By Henry Yates published
The Belfast-born virtuoso brought blues-rock fireworks to Thin Lizzy's sound and a muscular foil for Gorham who was always trying something different

Richard Dawson on writing melodies with the feel of a “newborn foal staggering around a barn”
By Glenn Kimpton published
Richard Dawson on balancing the mundane and profane, and the "unsteady" melodies of his staggering new album

The complete history of Black Sabbath – lineup by lineup, album by album
By Joel McIver published
As Black Sabbath took a triumphant bow at Back to the Beginning, we reexamine their recorded works, from the riff that started metal through the Dio years, to the return of Ozzy Osbourne and 13
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