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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Slash playing guitars onstage
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram talks touring with Slash – and his hunger to learn guitar

By Richard Bienstock Published

Kingfish discovered Slash via Guitar Hero and now will be sharing the stage with him at S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival. He talks about what it means to play an all-star blues fest and take the art form further

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A portrait of Samantha Fish holding her white Gibson SG
Samantha Fish on blues guitar heroes, Slash, and the need to “push boundaries” to keep the art alive

By Richard Bienstock Published

Signed up for Slash's all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival, Fish is one of the players who has found her voice in taking blues out of its comfort zone. Here, she salutes her blues heroes – especially the rule-breakers

Guitarists
Slash wears a top hat and holds a GIbson J-45 acoustic guitar
Slash explains why his new blues album has really been the journey of a lifetime

By Richard Bienstock Published

Orgy of the Damned finds the Guns N' Roses guitarist and A-list guests tackling blues standards that shaped his sound. Here he talks blues gear, the ethos, and how blues can be a force for good

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“I’d like to dedicate this to Lucy-Bleu”: Slash pays tribute to his late stepdaughter with emotional instrumental performance

By Janelle Borg Published

Slash performed Metal Chestnut from his latest album, Orgy of the Damned, alongside Tash Neal on rhythm guitar

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Slash performs at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas on April 2, 2023
Slash cancels four S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour dates due to “unforeseen circumstances”

By Phil Weller Published

Shows in Cincinnati, Interlochen, Huber Heights and Windsor have been cancelled, with the tour set to resume in Toronto on July 28

Concert, Gigs & Tours
Richard Fortus and Joe Perry
Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

By Richard Fortus Published

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

Guitarists
Slash
Slash was so impressed by this UK blues guitarist he personally paid to bring him to the US

By Janelle Borg Published

Slash discusses the future of blues and how young guitarists are helping the genre thrive

Artists
Eric Gales and Slash performing together at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival on 8 July
“You all might know this tune, I think”: Eric Gales calls upon Slash and unleashes his inner Hendrix for Purple Haze jam

By Matt Owen Published

Slash's S.E.R.P.E.N.T blues travelling festival is well underway, and he's already served up perhaps the tastiest team-up of the tour with the help of blues virtuoso Gales

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Slash and Eddie Van Halen playing guitar live on stage
Slash explains why Eddie Van Halen was really a blues player at heart

By Matt Owen Published

Van Halen's boundary-pushing rock guitar style was defined by unprecedented fretboard acrobatics – but underneath all that was a humble bluesman, according to the GNR guitarist

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september 2024
It's a blues extravaganza starring Slash, Kingfish, Samantha Fish, Gary Clark Jr. and Billy Gibbons – only in the new Guitar World

By Damian Fanelli Published

Also starring Lamb of God & Mastodon, plus Marty Friedman, Bruce Kulick, Towa Bird, Eric Gales' pedalboard, Goo Goo Dolls, our EVH SA-126 review and more

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