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Gilby Clarke plays his metal-topped Zemaitis live onstage, while an inset shot of the GW NOV 92 cover is overlaid on the right-hand side of the image.
Gilby Clarke on the story behind his modded ’69 Fender Telecaster, immortalized on the cover of Guitar World

By Andrew Daly Published

It was the Nov 1992 issue. Guns N' Roses were officially and unofficially the biggest – and still most dangerous – band in the world, and its guitarists, Slash and Gilby Clarke was on the cover. Slash had done this before. Clarke? It was all new...

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John Mayer plays a Strat, Gibbons one of his custom gold Billy-Bo-style electrics, and Slash is on his Les Paul in this comped image of the three guitar superstars
Remembering the night tres hombres by the name of John Mayer, Slash and Billy Gibbons gave ZZ Top’s La Grange a triple-guitar glow-up

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Iconic headgear, iconic players, a gnarly Texan blues-rock groove and a legendary all-star guitar jam came to Hollywood’s House of Blues in 2009

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"Back then, I was pretty much a nobody, so Gibson sold it to me at cost!" Slash's 5 most iconic guitars, in his own words

By Daryl Robertson Published

Slash talks through his most significant guitars in his own words – plus we tell you how to nail his iconic tone at home at various price points

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Michael Schenker and Slash
Slash joins Michael Schenker on stage to cover a UFO classic

By Phil Weller Published

The pair joined forces last year for a re-recording of the track, and now they’ve taken it to the stage – and Slash kills his solo

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Slash's B.C. Rich Warlock
Slash’s famed B.C. Rich Warlock – which once went missing for 30 years – is going up for auction (again)

By Phil Weller Published

The guitar, which was one of Slash’s most-used axes in the band’s early days, is expected to fetch $200K

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(from left) Nigel Tufnel, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, and Slash perform onstage
Spinal Tap once surprised Nigel Tufnel with an all-star guitar solo tribute – but he wasn't thrilled about it

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Explaining (well, bickering about, really) the star-studded Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins maintained that the collaboration was merely intended as a friendly gesture from admirers, and that Tufnel misunderstood it

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Slash with his Magnatone combos
Why Slash worked with Magnatone on a signature amp after 30 years of playing Marshall stacks

By Matt Owen Published

The Guns N' Roses guitar hero made headlines back in 2023 when he announced he'd be partnering with Magnatone on a signature guitar amp

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Portrait of Welsh musician Chris Buck, photographed in Bath, England on March 29, 2019. Buck is best known as a guitarist with blues rock duo Buck & Evans
How Chris Buck and his band, Cardinal Black, took their first U.S. show by storm

By Janelle Borg Published

The blues rock ace remembers how a venue booker in Nashville was astounded when a lot more people than he initially expected turned up for their show

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Marty Schwartz and Slash
Slash had been watching Marty Schwartz videos to brush up his blues chops

By Phil Weller Published

It seems the GNR man looks to Schwartz for guidance like millions of other aspiring players

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Slash Tom Morello Ozzy
The time Ozzy Osbourne almost blew up Tom Morello and Slash

By Phil Weller Published

The two guitar heroes had signed up to play some classics with the Prince of Darkness – but nearly got more than they bargained for

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