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    Author: guitarworld

    “He once made a chicken walk on varnish, to transfer the prints of its feet onto the guitar's body”: The bizarre vintage guitar used in Italy's Eurovision entry has caught eyes all over the world

    Anyone who caught the annual flamboyant spectacle that is Eurovision would have noticed the very off-kilter guitar played by Italy’s representative, the almost-straight-out-of-the-’70s singer-songwriter and…

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    guitarworld May 19, 2025
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    “No reason was given. I’m not angry, just a bit shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters have parted ways with Josh Freese – and will explore “a different direction” with their next drummer

    Josh Freese has taken to Instagram to confirm his departure from the Foo Fighters, just two years after he was selected as the permanent successor…

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    guitarworld May 19, 2025
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    “Mayer on guitar, Grohl on drums. A lot of fun making this”: Ed Sheeran forms an unlikely hard rock power trio with John Mayer and Dave Grohl – and they've written a song for a Brad Pitt movie

    John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, and Dave Grohl have formed an unlikely power trio for a song that will be featured in Brad Pitt’s forthcoming racing…

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    guitarworld May 19, 2025
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    “My first love was always acoustic guitar. That was the element that I brought, the idea of embracing electric and acoustic sounds”: Nancy Wilson says she felt pressured to ditch the acoustics as Heart went for the mainstream in 1985

    After seven albums, Nancy Wilson and Heart knew they needed a significant reset. Their first album for Capitol Records, 1985’s self-titled effort which went on…

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    guitarworld May 18, 2025
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    “Geffen thought we were too young to write our own songs. Bob Dylan wrote a song, Bruce Springsteen had a song”: Ryan Hedgecock on Lone Justice's brief but fierce ’80s run – and how Tom Petty and Mike Campbell ended up penning a song on their debut

    Lone Justice had all the makings of an iconic group: kicking off as part of L.A.’s ’80s-era cowpunk scene, with big-voiced Maria McKee out front,…

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    guitarworld May 18, 2025
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    “Some things you are supposed to touch, and some things you are never supposed to touch”: Remembering when Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme played George Harrison’s Rosewood Telecaster – and got so star-struck by the guitar he couldn’t speak

    Josh Homme is so cool he has to live in the desert. It’s, like, medical or something, regulates the body heat. But seriously, when we…

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    guitarworld May 18, 2025
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    “Connect with your heart and with just a few notes, you can do magic”: The Last of Us composer Gustavo Santaolalla shows off his “Guitarocko” Strat – a 1-of-1 Fender designed to mimic the ronroco

    Argentinean composer Gustavo Santaolalla is the latest guitarist to feature on the Fender Presents video series, and has used the occasion to show off the…

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    guitarworld May 17, 2025
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    “Keep your mind on the music. I never thought of myself as a ‘woman’ musician at all, but a guitarist and then a bass player”: Studio bass icon Carol Kaye on why it is not about who you are, but how and what you play that defines you as a musician

    When is a bass player not a bass player? When she’s a ‘female bass player’, a term which makes great bassists like Tina Weymouth, Melissa…

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    guitarworld May 17, 2025
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    “Our guitars were so bad, we couldn’t make them work for us. Glenn came over to my apartment with six guitars, three under each arm, and threw them onto the futon”: Sonic Youth are now alternate tunings icons – but the band opted for them out of necessity

    Sonic Youth have been dabbling voraciously with alternate tunings for decades, and now, Thurston Moore has recalled the exact moment the band began that journey,…

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    guitarworld May 17, 2025
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    Buddy Guy said he would take the blues “into the future,” and he was a guitar brother-in-arms of Mike Bloomfield. An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz

    Bluesman Joe Louis Walker has never been one content to play within the perceived limitations of his chosen musical genre. From his first album, 1986’s…

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    guitarworld May 17, 2025
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