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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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Tom Morello onstage in 2023
Tom Morello says he has been relegated to rhythm guitar at home as his 11-year-old son “can shred circles around me”

By Matt Parker Published

There’s fresh material on the way from the father/son duo, but the Rage Against the Machine guitarist remains tight-lipped about the band’s future

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Tom Morello
Tom Morello says he wrote a “phat jam” with Post Malone that could be the rap superstar’s Beat It

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist says it could be like Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson using rock guitar for something unexpected, and calls on Malone to finish the track and release it

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Måneskin and Tom Morello perform live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch Måneskin’s Thomas Raggi trade licks with Tom Morello in fiery Gossip performance on The Tonight Show

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Italian rocker shone on his Strat while the Rage Against the Machine guitarist deployed his trademark Whammy tricks

Guitarists
Måneskin and Tom Morello
From Periphery's jazz turn to Måneskin's team-up with Tom Morello: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell Published

Killer six-string tracks to get the year started by Black Stone Cherry, Enter Shikari, Sleep Token, Etta Marcus, Daughter, The Hold Steady, H.C. McEntire and more

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Måneskin's Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi (left) and Tom Morello perform onstage
Måneskin's next single will feature Tom Morello

By Jackson Maxwell Published

The latest preview from Rush!, the band's highly-anticipated third full-length, will arrive early next year

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