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Jennifer Batten on stage. She is looking directly at her fretboard as she is playing and has vibrant pink in her hair.

“Every musical era finds a way to screw the artists – and they’ve succeeded yet again”: Jennifer Batten on the challenges musicians face today

Jimi Hendrix (left) and Joe Bonamassa (right). Hendrix is captured playing a Strat, Bonamassa has a Les Paul in hand. Both are photographed on stage.

Watch Joe Bonamassa put budget gear to the test as he plays Hendrix’s Band Of Gypsys Rig “for real and for less”

[L-R] Johnny Marr and We Will Rock You the musical

“We’re supposed to go along with the idea that they’re good”: Johnny Marr takes aim at We Will Rock You and other jukebox musicals

[L-R] Phil Manzanera, Kanye West and Jay-Z

Phil Manzanera’s feature on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s No Church In The Wild earned him more than “the entire 50 years” he was in Roxy Music

Kirk Hammett Greeny Les Paul

“It freaks me out”: Kirk Hammett owns another iconic rockstar guitar as well as Greeny

JHS TacoBolt Pedal

Josh Scott says he’ll kill those who flip his limited-edition TacoBolt pedal. Don’t worry, he’s joking – we think

Adrian Bellow (left) and Steve Van (right). Both have electric guitars in hand and are on stage.

Adrian Belew forms supergroup with Steve Vai, Tony Levin, and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson music with Robert Fripp’s blessing

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix

“It felt like breaking out of jail”: Why Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Jimi Hendrix cover allowed him to follow his heart

Nuno Bettencourt on stage

“It’s like you play the show – before you play the show. It doesn’t work”: Why Nuno Bettencourt doesn’t warm up before shows anymore

Gibson Theodore Standard

Gibson launches the Theodore Standard amid ongoing trademark dispute

Kirk Hammett

“People say a lot of things have changed about me since I got that guitar”: Kirk Hammett on how acquiring Greeny has transformed him as a player

Adrian Smith

“I was really in pain, but I pulled it off”: Adrian Smith recalls the iconic Iron Maiden solo he recorded “extremely hungover”

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