Arteconciencias: I’ve been fitting locking tuners to all my electric guitars for 20 years – and I just found out I’ve been using them wrong the whole time

“My guitar playing was a one-of-a-kind thing I developed as a kid in Winnipeg. You can’t replace that”: Randy Bachman is suing the band performing under The Guess Who name for $20 million | Meet session legend Vernon Ice Black’s mythical ‘Sunnie’ Strat, the guitar that appears on some of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston’s biggest hits… and features a “whoop-de-do button” | “Yes, that’s a real spider”: Sophie Lloyd’s Enter Sandman (Shred Version) adds extra fretboard flair to Metallica’s thrash classic – alongside some snakes and a tarantula named Rosie

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November 1, 2023

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“My guitar playing was a one-of-a-kind thing I developed as a kid in Winnipeg. You can’t replace that”: Randy Bachman is suing the band performing under The Guess Who name for $20 million

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Bachman and Guess Who co-writer Burton Cummings say the current group – featuring drummer Garry Peterson – has tainted their legacy

Meet session legend Vernon Ice Black's mythical 'Sunnie' Strat, the guitar that appears on some of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston's biggest hits… and features a "whoop-de-do button"

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Every great session player needs a hit-maker, and Black's is Sunnie, which features no fewer than seven push-buttons for maximum tonal versatility

"Yes, that's a real spider": Sophie Lloyd's Enter Sandman (Shred Version) adds extra fretboard flair to Metallica's thrash classic – alongside some snakes and a tarantula named Rosie

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The British YouTuber and virtuoso guitarist has upped the shred quota on the iconic Metallica tune

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I've been fitting locking tuners to all my electric guitars for 20 years – and I just found out I've been using them wrong the whole time

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It turns out there's a right way to restring locking tuners – and it will make your guitar stay in tune better

"We fit the definition of a one-hit wonder, but I look at it as being lucky enough to have written a song that'll be remembered forever": Brian Vander Ark on how The Freshmen changed lives, including his own

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Determined as he moves out of the shadow of his past, the guitarist recounts the origins of the Verve Pipe and the recording of the '90s classic, The Freshmen

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From Guitar Player

Jerry Garcia: "There's a thing about playing stoned without having pressure to play competently... People pay a lot of money to see us, so it becomes a matter of professionalism. You don't want to deliver somebody a clunker just because you're too high"

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In this 1978 chat with GP, the late Grateful Dead legend discusses why he chose to not include anything shorter than a half-note in a solo for a year, and reveals how the five-string banjo informed his unique six-string approach

He played on over 2000 country records, was friends with Leo Fender, and played a small role in the development of the Tele – but here's why you should really listen to the Noel Boggs Quintet's Magic Steel Guitar