Arteconciencias: “I’ll still be playing guitar – I’ll do that until I can’t – but I’m at the age where my heroes passed away. I’ve gotta keep that in mind”: Buddy Guy opens up on his retirement from the road and his 70-year career as a true blues original

“I would have gotten bored, and that would have been dangerous”: Marc Ford explains why he turned down Guns N’ Roses in favor of the Black Crowes | “I’m just going to keep going till I can’t”: Saxon's co-founder and former guitarist, Graham Oliver, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease | Remarkable returns from the Rolling Stones and Måneskin, plus a Tool bassist’s sonic experiments: here are this week’s essential guitar tracks

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September 8, 2023

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“I would have gotten bored, and that would have been dangerous”: Marc Ford explains why he turned down Guns N’ Roses in favor of the Black Crowes

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Ford says even Slash agreed that it would not have suited him to simply play back-up in GNR when he was asked to replace Izzy Stradlin

"I'm just going to keep going till I can't": Saxon's co-founder and former guitarist, Graham Oliver, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

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The NWOBHM pioneer's guitar career has survived a severed finger and a mini-stroke, and he's not prepared to call time on it now

Remarkable returns from the Rolling Stones and Måneskin, plus a Tool bassist's sonic experiments: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

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Besides stadium and arena mainstays, we've got fresh cuts from The Gaslight Anthem, Dead Poet Society, Shylmagoghnar, and an eclectic Justin Chancellor side-project

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"I'll still be playing guitar – I'll do that until I can't – but I'm at the age where my heroes passed away. I've gotta keep that in mind": Buddy Guy opens up on his retirement from the road and his 70-year career as a true blues original

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On the eve of his farewell tour, a living legend of the blues looks back on why he thought the Stratocaster was a joke, the moment he realized his influence on Hendrix and Clapton, and the advice B.B. King gave him about guitar solos

"I play a lot of blues festivals – but I want to make people mosh, grind, and flail": Erin Coburn released her first blues album at 14. But her love of Sleep Token, Polyphia, and 7-strings set her on a heavier path

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Now aged 22, the blues breaker turned rocker explains how she's embraced her darker side with the help of headless guitars and solos that avoid "play a thousand notes" pitfalls

From Guitar Player

"I kept trying to use other guitars, but Nigel Godrich would say, 'You know what we should try, don't you?' 'Casino?' 'Yep!'": Paul McCartney reveals how he fell back in love with his Epiphone Casino, and transformed his sound, in this 2005 GP interview

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For the critically acclaimed Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, McCartney was encouraged to abandon his Les Paul, but also found time to beef up his acoustic fingerpicking, and plug into his old Vox AC30

Played by Keith Richards and Peter Buck, Fender's humbucker-loaded Telecaster Custom is a CBS classic