Arteconciencias: “Kim invited me to join and asked, ‘What do you want to play?’ I said lead guitar – frankly, I was surprised she said yes”: Kelley Deal couldn’t play guitar when she joined the Breeders. A year later, she recorded a ’90s alt-rock masterpiece

“Are You Experienced? wouldn’t come out for two weeks. Nobody knew what to anticipate...”: Hear a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix perform to an unsuspecting audience of Mamas and Papas fans | “Gene Simmons is breaking ground again”: Gibson has unveiled the Kiss icon's second signature bass guitar – and it’s the brand’s first 30.5” scale custom shop model | “Hybrid sounds no-one has ever played through before”: Keeley's Noble Screamer combines two iconic drive circuits – and throws in some “brand-new amp-like distortion tones” for good measure

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September 20, 2023

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“Are You Experienced? wouldn’t come out for two weeks. Nobody knew what to anticipate...”: Hear a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix perform to an unsuspecting audience of Mamas and Papas fans

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“Thanks anyway,” quips Hendrix on this previously unreleased recording of Killing Floor – the first taster from the new Hollywood Bowl 1967 live album

"Gene Simmons is breaking ground again": Gibson has unveiled the Kiss icon's second signature bass guitar – and it's the brand's first 30.5" scale custom shop model

(Gibson)

Following Simmons' G² Thunderbird model from last year, the limited-edition EB-0 is based on the bassist's heavily modded '59 example, which he used throughout the 1970s

"Hybrid sounds no-one has ever played through before": Keeley's Noble Screamer combines two iconic drive circuits – and throws in some "brand-new amp-like distortion tones" for good measure

(Keeley Electronics)

The deceptively streamlined stompbox is tasked with supplying a huge suite of sounds – and seemingly updates the standard twofer clone pedal platform in the process

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"Kim invited me to join and asked, 'What do you want to play?' I said lead guitar – frankly, I was surprised she said yes": Kelley Deal couldn't play guitar when she joined the Breeders. A year later, she recorded a '90s alt-rock masterpiece

(Courtesy of Kelley Deal)

30 years ago, the Breeders’ Last Splash would become a monster hit for former Pixies bassist Kim Deal and her sister Kelley. But at the outset of its recording, Kelley was still honing her guitar skills. Here, she explains how Led Zeppelin set her on the six-string path, and why she's no fan of the Fender Twin

"I wanted to play like Johnny Marr, but I lacked the ability – or was too lazy. So we ended up with these big, beautiful drones": Slowdive are one of shoegaze's most important bands – here's how they shaped a genre (and the pedal market)

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Their tones are so revered, entire pedals are dedicated to replicating their 1994 opus, Souvlaki. In this interview, Slowdive's soundscaping guitarist, Christian Savill, reveals how unwanted stompboxes from local metal bands developed the band's groundbreaking sound, and how they avoided “being too much like My Bloody Valentine”

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From Guitar Player

"We got one play on MTV at 1:55 a.m., then everything just lit up": Reb Beach reveals how Seventeen rescued Winger from obscurity

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The band's 1989 hit saved them... and became a mark of hair-metal infamy

With a surprising history dating back to the 1940s, Carvin later achieved kudos with endorsements by Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, and Joe Walsh

(Guitars courtesy of T.R. Crandall Guitars, Phots by Drew Gansz)

Launched as a post-WWII startup, the firm grew into a guitar gear giant, one catalog sale at a time

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