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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter performs onstage during Living History Live at The GRAMMY Museum on December 08, 2022 in Los Angeles, California
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player

By Matt Owen Published

Baxter would go on to become a bona fide guitar great, but his life might have turned out differently had he got his wish...

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Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins performs onstage during a concert at Gunnersbury Park on August 10, 2025 in London, England
Billy Corgan trained himself to play in pitch black

By Janelle Borg Published

Corgan reveals the unconventional approach he took to learn the instrument

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Left–Billy Corgan is shown performing on stage during a "live" concert appearance with The Smashing Pumpkins on January 25, 1997; Right–Courtney Love of Hole on 7/15/95 in Chicago, Il
Billy Corgan on the first time he met Courtney Love and witnessed Hole live

By Janelle Borg Published

After meeting at a Chicago venue in 1991, the two artists and their respective bands were interlinked for decades to come

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Melissa Auf der Maur playing bass on stage
Melissa Auf der Maur on joining Hole amidst tragedy and her “Master’s in Music” with the Smashing Pumpkins

By Janelle Borg Published

In her love letter to the ’90s – the last analog decade – the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist shares how she fell in love with the low-end and became an integral part of the noise-making generation

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Billy Corgan, lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins, plays at Univeral Ampitheatre on 5/23/00. In background is bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur
Billy Corgan on the first time he met future Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur

By Janelle Borg Published

The pair reflect on how a heckler at an early Pumpkins gig led to a decades-long friendship

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Musician Melissa Auf Der Maur performs at Highline Ballroom on March 3, 2011 in New York City
Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the biggest lesson she learned from Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins

By Janelle Borg Published

Auf der Maur joined the Pumpkins in October 1999 following a five-year stint with Hole

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Billy Corgan performs live with Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan on what drives guitar heroes to change their tone – and how it led him to package his sound in a pedal

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Smashing Pumpkins guitar icon reflects on a tonal journey four decades in the making, what pushes him to make signature gear like the new Laney Supergrace affordable, and why he’s the most excited he’s been to make a guitar album in 25 years

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Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne rock out at Madison Square Garden in 1978.
A heated moment during soundcheck at Black Sabbath’s farewell show revealed everything about Tony Iommi and Ozzy’s relationship

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Jack Osbourne says everyone needs a friend like Iommi was to Ozzy

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Laney Black Country Customs Supergrace Loudpedal
"There’s clarity where you want it, and a glorious wall of noise when you need it": Laney Black Country Customs Billy Corgan Supergrace Loudpedal review

By Daryl Robertson Published

Laney distills Billy Corgan's legendary rig into a pedalboard-friendly amp that goes way beyond Smashing Pumpkins tones

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Nancy and Ann Wilson of Heart performing in 2024
Nancy Wilson’s first guitar was unplayable – so she kept stealing her sister’s

By Phil Weller Published

Wilson needed to play a six-string that was better than the $30 rental guitar she had herself

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