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Tom Morello, pictured on the Hollywood picket line with striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members
Tom Morello breaks out the Takamine and joins the Hollywood picket line as he plays Woody Guthrie for striking union members

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist dropped by earlier this week to play a short set to support striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members

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Nuno Bettencourt, Zakk Wylde and Steve Vai
“He’s the funkiest dude in the shredder family tree”: The world’s greatest guitarists explain why Nuno Bettencourt isn’t your typical guitar hero

By Richard Bienstock Published

Brian May, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and Tom Morello join an all-star cast to explain what makes the Extreme virtuoso one of the guitar world’s most valuable players

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Tom Morello says his favorite Nuno Bettencourt solo has never been recorded
Tom Morello says his favorite Nuno Bettencourt solo is one you haven’t heard – and it’s “his version of Eruption”

By Matt Parker Published

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist says he followed Extreme religiously on the Boston circuit before they were signed: “I was blown away by this 16-, 17-year-old guitar phenomenon”

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Slash and Tom Morello perform live at Graspop Metal Meeting 2023
Slash and Tom Morello recreate their epic Guitar Hero duels in live shred-off

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The pair unleashed solo fireworks aplenty as they gave their 2020 collaboration Interstate 80 its live debut

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Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt perform live
Nuno Bettencourt explains what’s underrated about Tom Morello’s guitar playing – and why it “pisses me off a little bit”

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Extreme virtuoso voiced his thoughts on his Rage Against the Machine guitar buddy in a recent joint press conference

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Buddy Guy (left) and Tom Morello perform onstage, Tom Morello plays Buddy Guy's spotted Strat onstage at the Best of Blues and Rock Festival 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil
Watch Tom Morello trade blues licks with Buddy Guy on the Strat legend's spotted Fender

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Joining Guy onstage at the Best of Blues and Rock festival in São Paulo, Morello laid down some licks far bluesier than those that populate his catalog with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave

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Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt perform live
Watch Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt trade solos as they cover Audioslave’s Cochise with Gary Cherone

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The two Extreme members joined Morello for a version of the Chris Cornell-fronted classic – complete with an extended guitar solo section

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Neural DSP Archetype: Tom Morello
Tom Morello’s guitar rig is now a Neural DSP plugin – watch the Rage Against the Machine firebrand demo his signature software… with a wrench

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

Archetype: Tom Morello crams the iconic pedalboard and long-serving Marshall JCM amp into your computer – but does it nail those trademark Whammy tones?

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Nuno Bettencourt
Nuno Bettencourt says one of the new Extreme songs made Steve Vai and Tom Morello cry

By Matt Owen Published

Spoiler alert: it wasn't Rise – a track that Bettencourt says has become so popular because he didn't play it sitting down

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Guthrie Govan performing live at the International Music Show, Excel, London, UK on June 14 2008.
That time Guthrie Govan covered Rage Against the Machine’s Bulls on Parade and took Tom Morello’s solo to mind-boggling new heights

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

Some groundbreaking lead work – including two-hand tapping with a glass slide – highlighted the virtuoso’s awe-inspiring performance

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