Arteconciencias: “Joe Perry had hit a block, so I was called in to play on Train Kept a Rollin’. They said, ‘Don't tell anyone – no one can know’”: From Alice Cooper to Peter Gabriel and Aerosmith, Steve Hunter has led one of session guitar’s most remarkable careers

“I never thought I could actually play a solo on this thing”: This YouTuber created a ‘neckless’ guitar – and even managed to record a song with it | The surprising secret behind Kurt Cobain’s guitar tone on Nirvana’s In Utero has been discovered, 30 years on from its release | “All the tone of the classic P-90 pickup without the hum”: Is Seymour Duncan’s new Silencer range the perfect modern P-90 platform?

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August 16, 2023

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“I never thought I could actually play a solo on this thing”: This YouTuber created a ‘neckless’ guitar – and even managed to record a song with it

(Bernth/YouTube)

Djenty-crunch, "extreme vibrato," whammy-like bends... Bernth Brodträger got a surprising amount of range from his crazy Ibanez in this original composition

The surprising secret behind Kurt Cobain's guitar tone on Nirvana's In Utero has been discovered, 30 years on from its release

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Hint: it's not a magic pedal, magic amp, or a magic guitar...

"All the tone of the classic P-90 pickup without the hum": Is Seymour Duncan's new Silencer range the perfect modern P-90 platform?

(Seymour Duncan)

The new hum-resistant P-90 launch is headlined by a signature single-coil for Jared James Nichols, which the blues-rock maestro calls his "dream pickup"

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"Joe Perry had hit a block, so I was called in to play on Train Kept a Rollin'. They said, 'Don't tell anyone – no one can know'": From Alice Cooper to Peter Gabriel and Aerosmith, Steve Hunter has led one of session guitar's most remarkable careers

(Kevin Nixon/Classic Rock Magazine/Future)

The session veteran tells his greatest war stories: how he wrote the epic intro to the live version of Lou Reed’s Sweet Jane, what he taught Jason Becker for his stint with David Lee Roth, and why he believes losing his sight made him a better guitar player

"It was the classic sob story in school – I was a bit of an outcast and didn't make friends. The guitar was my release and my escape": Sophie Lloyd went from filming YouTube covers to touring arenas with Machine Gun Kelly – here, she recounts her meteoric rise

(Jen Rosenstein/Future)

Starting out as a YouTube guitar sensation, Lloyd became a Kiesel signature artist, Machine Gun Kelly's virtuoso-in-chief, and a solo star collaborating with some of rock and metal's biggest names