“I’ve got a song that’s waiting to be written called Fat People With Guns, which is about America”: Phil Collins says he doesn’t write songs any more, but does have a potential title for one
Why is metal guitarist Devin Townsend out on the road again just a year and a half after taking an “indefinite” break from touring?: “Financial armageddon”
“The world has lost a formidable talent”: Sass Jordan, Canadian rock singer and bassist who gave Taylor Hawkins his big break and toured with Van Halen, dies aged 63
“The most beautiful piece of music ever written”: Why Dave Grohl adores a soft rock classic from the ’70s that also inspired an Eagles hit and was rumoured to have featured Freddie Mercury on backing vocals
“90% of these guys… you hear them play and go, ‘Dude, you can’t even play the guitar’”: Jared James Nichols has no time for blues dentists collecting vintage guitars
Could the claim that Olivia Dean copied Bill Withers’ Just The Two Of Us come down to four bars of music?
The record Led Zep wanted destroyed: Antiques Roadshow goes to Caerphilly and finds an unlikely survivor
“I’ve seen a lot of Marshalls and Les Pauls in my life, and a lot of Strats. What I do not see, that’s what I’m interested in”: Josh Homme on his “dumb system” for picking guitar gear
“At one time they were as valuable as ’Bursts and cost around $100,000”: Decoding the mysteries of a 1953 Stromberg Master 400C – one of the rarest jazz guitars in the world
“He told him to do the solo on one string – only on one string. That was the limitation he gave him”: Mark Plati on David Bowie’s return to the avant-garde during the 1990s
“We’re in the entertainment business. If someone uses Suno to write a lyric, it’s not a high crime or misdemeanour”: Joe Bonamassa has sympathy for up-and-coming artists using AI to get an edge
I’d never heard of Eart until I reviewed their headless guitar and gave it 4.5 stars. Now it’s only $351 in this epic early Amazon Big Deal Days sale
“The longest and narrowest digital pedal ever created”: DSM/Humboldt’s concept multi-effects might be a joke – but we kinda love it
“A lawyer for the Beatles saw me playing and said, ‘Here’s $25,000 – I want you to make an album’”: How a chance meeting with a Beatles lawyer set Stanley Clarke on the path to recording one of the greatest bass albums ever made
“We met in 1983. Steve was actually one of my main influences – I discovered Genesis early”: Prog icons Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery on how they set sale on The Roaring Waves – with the aid of Brian May’s Red Special
Chibson pokes fun at Fender’s Stratocaster copyright campaign with Cease & Desist control knobs – and they go to 11
“We always have regrets – especially when you see a band you were in playing Madison Square Garden. I left the band, and I shouldn’t have”: Franché Coma was the frantic guitarist on the Misfits’ first album – but the world wouldn’t hear it for 20 years
“They thought it was going to be the biggest flop ever – but there were two guys thinking, ‘This might just change the face of music’”: How Paul Hardcastle created his sample-driven masterpiece 19
“I was going around saying, ‘Look at this, the world’s first headless guitar!’ and Les Paul said, ‘No, that’s wrong’”: Ned Steinberger’s headless revolution looked like a world first – until Les Paul dropped a bombshell: he’d already built one
