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Guitarist Kim Thayil of Soundgarden performs on stage during the NFL Kickoff concert presented by Xbox before the Seattle Seahawks play the Green Bay Packers at CenturyLink Field on September 4, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.

“I played about eight different guitar tunings – I threw the idea of patterns and scales out the window”: Kim Thayil hits back at being called a “sloppy” guitarist

By Phil Weller published

The grunge icon details how the pros and cons of alternate tunings defined Soundgarden’s career, and how his “spontaneous wildness” saw Chris Cornell reposition his amp

Kurt Cobain

The electric guitar shredded itself to death in the ‘80s. It had to start over, but the ‘90s grunge revolution didn‘t just change the face of guitar playing – it changed the world

By Brad Tolinski published

Guitar World presents a grunge guitar guide to the ‘90s, the decade when Seattle became the epicenter of the musical universe, and resurrected the electric guitar with a raw, dirty sound that gave birth to a whole new generation of guitar players

Grunge guitarists

20+ grunge guitar heroes who took the instrument in a raw, heavy new direction

By Andrew Daly published

After the guitar universe was dominated by the hairspray-drenched shredders of the '80s, these players shook things up and provided the alt-rock antidote

Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl of Nirvana

Kurt Cobain’s stage-played DOD Grunge pedal sells at auction for $16,000

By Michael Astley-Brown published

The stompbox was used and abused at a Nirvana show in 1993