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“I'd lost a close friend and a hero of mine took the time to console me”: Pete Thorn recalls Steve Vai's kindness
By Daniel Griffiths published
And there’s a happy ending. Thorn and Vai are now band members in SatchVai Band, alongside Joe Satriani

“One of the biggest mistakes we ever made!”: Journey's Neal Schon names the song he wishes they'd never recorded
By Paul Elliott published
And he remembers the chemistry he had with singer Steve Perry

"It wasn’t the sound we wanted to make": Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe talks Britpop and inspiration
By Danny Scott published
“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"

“I didn’t even want to record the song!”: How a famous guitarist scored a surprise solo hit
By Andrew Daly published
“I stepped out of my comfort zone with the funky guitar!”

NAMM 2025: “I’ve honestly never felt a smoother neck in my life”: Cory Wong feels the humbucker heat as the funk guitar virtuoso and Ernie Ball Music Man team up for StingRay II and StingRay II Deluxe
By Jonathan Horsley published
Wong is still a paid-up member of the Stratocaster club but says he has been on the hunt for humbucker-equipped guitar for years and this is the one

NAMM 2025: DigiTech and MonoNeon team up for Whammy Pedal with “Hypersonic” 3-octave pitch shifting
By Jonathan Horsley published
DigiTech is calling this its “boldest” Whammy design yet and the specs back this up. Is the world ready for a pinch harmonic and a three-octave pitch rise? It’d better be…

Dunlop salutes David Bowie’s maestro of the cocked wah, Mick Ronson, with signature Cry Baby
By Jonathan Horsley published
This super-cool Cry Baby is based on Ronson's original vintage Italian-made model

NAMM 2025: Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings teams up with Martin for a pair of signature acoustics
By Jonathan Horsley published
One is classically high-end Martin, the other retails at $899 – both are built for pickin' quick

NAMM 2025: Sterling By Music Man unveils Tosin Abasi, Rabea Massaad’s Sabre and Fluff Bruce models
By Jonathan Horsley published
Three creatively spec'd classics from the Ernie Ball Music Man signature series remixed for a more affordable price point – and you can get the Kaizen with six or seven strings
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