“I let it go to voicemail. It said, ‘Hello, this is Eric Clapton. This may sound like a hoax, but it’s not’”: Slowhand tried to invite Derek Trucks onto his album with JJ Cale – but he thought it was a prank call
“I dropped my drumsticks and was like, ‘What the hell is happening? This is not the Little Red Corvette that I know’”: Questlove on the moment he discovered what ended up becoming his favourite Prince song, and the profound impact it had on him
“A Strat gives me all the sounds I want. When I hear that tone, I’m like, ‘That’s what a guitar is supposed to sound like’”: He’s jammed with Grace Bowers and collab’d with Cory Wong – now Devon Gilfillian wants to introduce “Nashville Soul” to the world
“We’re happy we can play a part in helping preserve the physical album experience”: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon officially returns on cassette – Nick Mason has some thoughts on what’s next for the prog classic
“What happens when one of the key architects of contemporary pop rethinks the supersaw?”: AG Cook and Native Instruments team up for signature synth plugin Super*Saw
“Frank took an extended 10-minute solo. I walked off stage. David Bowie and Iggy Pop were standing there”: Adrian Belew on how he went from playing with Frank Zappa to joining David Bowie’s band
The pedal that changed me – I asked the Guitar World staff to name the stompboxes that actually made a difference to their playing
Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data
“It was the first time David committed a self-composed song to wax. At the end of the session, Jimmy said ‘Well, it’s definitely not going to be a hit.’ And he was right”: When Jimmy Page and David Bowie collided, pre-fame
“When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted anything to do with it. Dave said I was a guitar hero and I shouldn’t be playing keyboards”: The story of Van Halen’s 1984, and the end of the David Lee Roth era
“The bridge is Deftones. They still sound really good to us now. From there we found shoegaze”: Meet Ulrika Spacek, the nu-metalheads who transformed into hypnotic ’90s alt-rockers
“I remember the three of us thinking that it was an absolute stroke of genius that we’d just come up with the most idiotic idea ever”: Mike D talks about the Beastie Boys’ fallout with Russell Simmons and that hydraulic prop
“I didn’t even want to put it on the album because I thought it was too mushy. Linda Ronstadt goes, ‘Are you out of your mind? That’s a hit record!’”: Billy Joel on the classic ballad that Paul McCartney wishes he’d written
Behringer’s AKS Mini is a £99 mini-synth inspired by the EMS Synthi AKS, a classic synth used by Pink Floyd and Brian Eno
“If anything, it was tamed down… he wasn’t at 100% – that was maybe 60%”: We speak to Future Islands about THAT Letterman performance, the internet’s OTT reaction – and their new collection of rarities and B-sides
“Peter and I were in a car and he started humming this melody. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh, that’s a song I wrote.’ I mean, Peter never wrote a song in his life! But he sings, ‘Beck, I hear you calling…’” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the Kiss classic Destroyer
“This is is 1000% going on every single mix”: Baby Audio’s SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for “massive low-end”
“If I didn’t have AutoTune, I probably wouldn’t have a career, to be honest. I certainly would have less hits”: Pop producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the importance of AutoTune, and how it enabled him to use a Dua Lipa demo vocal on a finished track
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