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3 Songs From 1972 That Changed Guitar Playing Forever

These three rock songs, all released in 1972, featured such strong guitar moments that they shifted the genre's tides.
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Marty Friedman Gets Romantic With a Hello Kitty Guitar

Guitar legend Marty Friedman is the latest musician to take our Hello Kitty challenge. On what’s essentially the worst axe ever constructed, Friedman took his signature finesse to play a romantic ...
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“This guitar embodies everything I love about playing and teaching”: Epiphone specs up an ES-335 for the internet's favourite guitar teacher, Marty Schwartz

He has taught us how to play, and now he's got something for us to play on... the Marty Schwartz ES-335 is positively radiant in that Sixties Cherry finish and AAA figured maple veneer When you ...
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Keith Richards reflects on his first memories of guitar and his playing now: "It's a work in progress – every time you pick the thing up there's a potential of finding ...

Keith Richards recently sat down for his debut appearance on The Howard Stern Show and he was in fine form, looking back with the host on his first memories of the guitar, and how it still holds so ...
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Isaiah Sharkey on what he learned about guitar soloing – after playing with the likes of John Mayer, D'Angelo and Paul Simon

If there's one thing that Isaiah Sharkey knows how to do on guitar, it's play tastefully. And throughout his years as connoisseur of the instrument, whether as a solo artist, as part of D'Angelo's ...
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How David Crosby's casual recommendation changed George Harrison’s guitar playing forever

When George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Les Paul was kidnapped in 1973, he called on his former sitar mentor Ravi Shankar to issue an appeal for its safe return, such was their ...