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The moment Tommy Thayer knew he would be officially joining Kiss
The band’s longest-serving Spaceman opens up on his history with the glam rock legends – and the moment he became their official guitarist
How a 3am jam with Hendrix led Andy Fairweather Low to guest on a Jimi classic
Low says he played poorly during the impromptu jam, but he evidently impressed Hendrix enough to get a studio invite
Scottish guitarist relearns how to play guitar with one arm after severe stroke
Tony Romaine spent months relearning how to walk after suffering a stroke that left him unable to move – but was determined to relearn guitar and start gigging again
Billy Corgan reckons this Metallica track sounds suspiciously similar to a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut
Corgan says Hetfield has “written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs” of all time, but one cut from 1997 sounds awfully familiar...
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Jake E. Lee on comparisons with Randy Rhoads – and what his fellow Ozzy shredder was better at
The virtuoso has weighed in on the decades-long debate that has pitted him against his Prince of Darkness predecessor
Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson explains why he's decided to sit out the band’s comeback tour
Delson – whose replacement in the Linkin Park live lineup has been confirmed – will focus on his contributions to the band behind the scenes
Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra on the time Ace Frehley complimented his guitar playing… even though he wasn’t actually playing anything
Hoekstra says he only “really understood” the KISS veteran after partaking in an intimate and exclusive jam, during which Frehley insisted on cranking his amp to ear-splitting volumes
Tom Morello announces first-ever full-length solo rock album with single co-written with Roman Morello, who can “shred circles” around him
The Rage Against The Machine guitarist's first rock solo album releases later this year, and it will showcase the next generation of Morello shred
“This is like an intro to something Metallica wrote in the 1980s”: 11-year-old guitar hero breaks the internet with his original metal riffs – performed in front of his fellow fifth-graders
Cole Parsons has shot to online stardom with his original, Randy Rhoads-channeling song, which even won the approval of Mötley Crüe
“On a quick trip to interview Paul Reed Smith I was told we were going to the White House so I’d better pack a suit”: Celebrating 500 issues of Guitarist, one of the world’s greatest guitar magazines
From playing Eric Clapton’s Strats to narrowly avoiding knocking out Slash, Guitarist editors past and present share their favourite – and sometimes most embarrassing – memories of working for the esteemed UK publication
