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Dave mustaine grimaces as he plays a riff live during a Megadeth show.

Dave Mustaine breaks down Megadeth’s final album, track by track – and why he paid tribute to Metallica

By Andrew Daly published

The thrash pioneer reveals the stories behind the thrash icons’ final songs

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A black-and-white image of Robert Fripp playing his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom

“I asked for a discount. The assistant said, ‘I could phone up Clapton and he’d buy it’”: Robert Fripp’s life in three guitars

By Andrew Daly published

The King Crimson founder has enjoyed the company of all kinds of guitars in his time – from the good, bad to the ugly – but these are the three that have meant the most to him

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Long exposure of a musician adjusting dials on a pair of Musitronics Mu-Tron III effects pedals and Moogerfooger analog effects modules, taken on October 30, 2013

Loved by Frank Zappa, Bootsy Collins, Steve Vai and more, how the Mu-Tron III became a vintage pedalboard icon

By Chris Gill published

Mike Beigel's groundbreaking envelope filter made the world a funkier place

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Justin "GuitarSlayer" Lyons performs live with Machine Gun Kelly, on a stage lit in deep red.

How Justin Lyons is channeling the King of the Blues in mgk's punk-rock band – and he even has his own Lucille

By Jonathan Horsley published

The mgk touring guitarist has been a superfan of the King of the Blues since he was five years old

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Joe Perry, Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, all of whom are picked circa 1986, a period when the Beastie Boys came to the rescue on Aerosmith and Run-DMC's crossover hit, Walk This Way.

How the Beastie Boys saved the day on Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.’s Walk This Way

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Def Jam community spirit was alive and well in NYC's Chung King Studios

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Billy Gibbons and BB King

How B.B. King changed Billy Gibbons’ approach to guitar strings

By Phil Weller published

When the King speaks, his subjects listen

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Eric Gales smiles (or grimaces?) as he hits a note and holds it onstage with his S-style signature guitar.

Eric Gales says he doesn’t understand all the fuss about Dumble amps

By Jonathan Horsley published

Yes, they sound great, says Gales, but they're not the only amp in the world to give you great tone

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BB King, Jimmie Vaughan, T-Bone Walker

When a 13-year-old Jimmie Vaughan was stopped from watching B.B. King play, another blues great came to his aid

By Phil Weller published

Vaughan wanted to watch his guitar hero play live for the first time – and another hero saved the day

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A young Steve Morse wears a red T-shirt and matching pants, and a light-blue jacket as he plays his FrankTele live in 1983.

Steve Morse says the music school jazz snobs were not impressed by his choice of guitar

By Jonathan Horsley published

After flunking the audition simply because of his guitar choice, Morse could have turned deep purple with rage – but it was the making of him

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Joyer’s Nick Sullivan [left] and his brother Shane performing live.

Joyer combine sweet pop hooks with tension, weirdness and gritty guitar solos – and their mom can't get enough of it

By Joe Bosso published

Oh, brothers, where art thou? Making loud shoegaze in the basement, probably... Their parents raised ’em right!

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