“How can you possibly be satisfied being a singer when you play like that?”: Dave Mustaine recalls the first time he heard James Hetfield play guitar

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Neil Young did it. Van Halen did it. Are you going to tell Eddie Van Halen he wasn't playing guitar properly?" Soundgarden's Kim Thayil recalls his battles with drop-D trolls (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) Thayil brought drop-D tuning to the mainstream with the grunge guitar revolution – but he had to contend with "purists and nitwits who would write into guitar magazines saying, 'Drop D is cheating; you're not really playing if you do that!'" '90s alt-rock giants unite and blink-182 make a surprisingly heavy return: here are this week's essential guitar tracks (Yasmin Williams/YouTube) Tasty new guitar tracks that need to be on your radar from the Breeders ft. J Mascis, Johnny Marr, Yasmin Williams, Art of Anarchy, The Vaccines, Bleachers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Chelsea Wolfe, and more Learn to Play Guitar Fast Start learning guitar with an expanding library of over 7,000 songs! 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I like that I have to pick a fight with them when I'm playing": How Leilani Kilgore went from aspiring punk player to college dropout playing searing blues-rock for a living (PolkImaging/Penske Media/Getty Images) Leilani Kilgore's dream was to ring out power chords on the Warped Tour. Then she studied the blues greats and started to "take the guitar seriously… as a means of conversation rather than just shouting" Learn to Play Guitar Fast Start learning guitar with an expanding library of over 7,000 songs! Rocksmith+ features personalized real-time feedback and practice tools you control to help you on your music journey. 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