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Luis Kalil recalls the time he met – and played for – Jason Becker, at the shred icon’s house
The Red Devil Vortex guitarist started uploading Cacophony covers to YouTube in 2014, and soon caught his idol’s attention
Gary Holt once gave himself clinical-grade whiplash because he headbanged to his riffs too hard
The guitarist says he “dodged a bullet” by avoiding surgery
The moment Ritchie Blackmore knew he’d leave Deep Purple
Blackmore looks back on his Deep Purple departure
Mike McCready followed Duff McKagan to LA to make it big – but he nearly missed his shot in Seattle
Before Pearl Jam, the lead guitarist sought to make a success of his teenage hard-rock outfit, Shadow
Keith Richards shares his response to the Sunset Strip shredders of the 1980s
Richards never had any interest in becoming a lead player – and the early innovators of the shred movement did not change his mind
Greg Chaisson on his gruelling Ozzy Osbourne audition
Chaisson didn’t get the gig, but he did strike up a friendship with Jake E. Lee – which would be rekindled a few years later with Badlands
Misha Mansoor has a ton of amps. But one new design has blown him away
The Periphery tonesmith uses digital and analog gear in the studio, and one tube head in particular has knocked his socks off
The John Mayer song that features a cameo from Prince’s guitar
A chance encounter with one of Prince's guitars resulted in Mayer putting it to use on Sob Rock
