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“Without Chuck Berry there wouldn't have been The Beatles or the Stones. But none of those guys attended his funeral, which I thought was very strange”: Gene Simmons ...

When Kiss star Gene Simmons went to the funeral of Chuck Berry, he hadn’t planned on making a speech – but that’s how it turned out. And as he now tells MusicRadar, he was disappointed that other ...
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MusicRadar deals of the week: Here are the best Labor Day sales for musicians from across the internet

We've uncovered the very best offers on a range of music-making gear from the likes of Fender, Roland, Yamaha, Epiphone, and ...
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"You may as well just remove the front head so that you can get a mic right in on the beater point": 10 tips for recording perfect drums

Wherever there are two heads, there are three possibilities. If you tune the bottom (resonator) head of a tom to the same ...
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“With practice, players can perform swells, shifts, or rhythmic changes in their delay sound as they play”: Jack White’s Third Man Hardware teams up with Black Mountai…

There are three knobs: Time, Blend and Feedback, all quite straightforward, and yet, you come to this roller wheel, which ...
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“I had no way to play Hotel California live. I played so many guitar tracks on that song”: Don Felder on why he had to mod his white Gibson doubleneck to play the E…

Most bands would give their eye teeth to write a song like the Eagles' Hotel California. Many have tried. Many have failed.
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“Dumb idea to give a guitar away that has meant so much to you. I had given it to a 12 year-old kid, shortly after Creedence broke up”: John Fogerty explains why he le…

Fogerty admits the return of his Acme Rickenbacker used on many of Creedence Clearwater Revival's greatest tracks gave his ...
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“C’mon bro... It could generate $2M for teen cancer”: Zak Starkey pleads with Axl Rose to give the go-ahead for charity cover of Bolan classic

The recording in question is a cover of the T Rex classic Children Of The Revolution that was cooked up in studios in Rio, ...
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“It's the first heavy metal riff ever written – and I wrote it!”: How Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page combined to create a groundbreaking song – and then argued over the ...

The rhythms in Beck’s Bolero were inspired by 1928 orchestral piece Boléro by French composer Maurice Ravel, though Beck ...
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"I look forward to hearing everyone’s interpretation - don’t hold back”: Remix Madonna's Ray of Light and win $12,000 of music gear

Beatport's Global Remix Challenge invites producers to put a spin on the title track of Madonna's Grammy-winning 1998 album ...
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“Each effect in the PX-1 delivers the genuine sound and response of the pedal it’s based on”: A compact series stompbox you can turn into any one of 16 classic Boss ...

The PX-1 Plugout FX is a pedalboard chameleon with 8 preset slots for loading models of Boss’ most-loved effects, with 16 in total to choose from ...
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“One night Zeppelin were all going down the boozer and I said, 'You guys bugger off but Bonzo, you stay behind because I've got an idea’”: The genius behind John Bon…

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way ...
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“I just had to sit there, drink a bit, have a cigarette, wink at the band”: Why David Bowie ditched promoting Low and instead became Iggy Pop’s keyboard player

Bowie put helping his Berlin flatmate Iggy Pop first, with promo for one of his greatest ever albums falling by the wayside ...