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“It comes across as a song about peaceful love and hippie stuff, but it was a protest song”: The story of Hold My Hand, the single that launched Hootie & The Blowfish, the most unlikely mega-selling band of the 1990s

Their debut album sold 22 million

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“Felder and Walsh were in the control room, one to the right, one to the left, like gunfighters! Felder was the ultimate technician. Walsh was the ultimate ‘feel’ guy. Together they were phenomenal”: The making of the Eagles’ masterpiece

“It was obviously our creative peak. Every band, every artist, has one”

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“Sets an entirely new benchmark for portable, affordable audio interfaces”: SSL just released its cheapest audio interface yet

The SSL 1 is a 2-in/2-out device that comes at a very tempting price

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“I bought one in 1984 – I'm looking at it now, still the same one. I plugged it in the other day, bracing myself, and the bloody thing was in tune! I couldn't believe it. Amazing!”: Vince Clarke reveals his favourite synth of all time

Plus, why he disagrees with former Depeche Mode bandmate Martin Gore about Eurorack

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Stompbox stalwarts Morley and DOD team up for a "WTF" 3-in-1 pedal with stackable fuzz wah and octave effects – and it glows in the dark

The Wah-ocTo-Fuzz combines the '80s analogue octave sounds of the DOD FX35 with '70s- Morley Power Wah and Power Fuzz circuits

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“I could make it into something really good”: Paul McCartney wants to get his hands on Prince’s unearthed cover of a classic Beatles song, but there could be a problem with that

Back in 1998, Prince said that reviving an artist's voice after their death is "the most demonic thing imaginable"

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Thom Yorke joins Flea for 10-minute Marvin Gaye jam at Chili Pepper’s only solo UK date

They played Got To Give It Up

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Gibson brings back the legendary pickup used by Angus Young, BB King, Pete Townshend and more – and it just might suit your guitar down to a T

The signs were there that the T-Top was making a return when Michael Schenker's Murphy Lab Flying V shipped with a pair. Now it's officially available from the Gibson Pickup Shop

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“I don't think there's any other 16-year-old producer for Drake right now. So it’s an odd experience, but it's crazy”: Meet AP Melodies, the teenage producer who’s ended up with production credits on two new Drake songs

“Everyone’s all like, ‘How did you do this?’ The whole school is just hyped"

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“This is almost clickbaity – but it’s like a lot of people lost the plot with the vintage guitar thing”: Jared James Nichols on what he’s looking for from a golden era Gibson and why he doesn’t feel comfortable playing other people’s vintage guitars

Obsessing over value, or how rare something is, are we forgetting what makes these instruments special in the first place?

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Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland unveils his first Jackson signature guitar – and it’s a single-pickup King V with a headstock so reversed it’s “upside down”

Featuring one Seymour Duncan Invader, one Floyd 1500 Series vibrato, and one headstock that requires a double take

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“Looking out for one another and supporting those who rely on donated blood every day is a simple act that can make a powerful difference": Metallica to encourage blood donation in run-up to Cardiff gig in June

If you got blood, they want it...

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“Who’s gonna tell Rivers it’s not private?”: Weezer frontman uploads a whole heap of acoustic covers onto YouTube

But did he mean to do it?

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“It’s gonna be so tasteful what we’re doing. This isn’t just like hooking up an image of my dad to ChatGPT”: Jack Osbourne claims that their plans for an AI Ozzy won’t be “lame”

But it is what he would have wanted?

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“For those who find Strandberg’s space-age designs a little too alien, Ibanez’s Q series is the perfect middle ground”: Ibanez QX527B review

All the joy and versatility of a metal-minded seven-string Ibanez, smartly converted into a travel-friendly format

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“David's completely focused on the space ahead of him... the hairs on Brandon’s arm were standing straight up. Then the hairs on the back of my neck went up”: We get new insight into the making of an eerily prophetic David Bowie song

Our recent interview with Bowie guitarist David Torn gave us a fascinating window into Bowie’s process when making his latter-era classic Heathen

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Arturia Memory V “resurrects the analogue majesty of the Memorymoog with breathtaking authenticity”

Moog’s ‘80s poly gets emulated with modern enhancements including a multi-track arpeggiator and new modulators

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“The most exclusive party of the year”: Watch Diplo DJ at his 6 year old son’s kindergarten graduation

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“I was speechless to see that kind of God-given ability. You never forget something like that”: Kiss frontman Paul Stanley on the 1969 gig that made him realise what it meant to be a rock star

“It really opened my eyes to the enormity of what I wanted to do – and it was humbling”

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“The Lego prototype went through many, many phases of moving buttons around... It was playful and not permanent”: Ableton’s Jesse Terry reveals the Lego brick origins of the company's Push hardware instrument as he revisits a rare early prototype

"I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted,” he says

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Donner just reinvented the travel guitar with a headless electric featuring an onboard amp, effects, Bluetooth and – wait for it – a detachable speaker

The HUSH-X Live and Live Pro feature a neck-through build, stainless steel frets, Bluetooth... everything you need from a take-anywhere guitar

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“I lost six months of scheduled work... It happened because I was a woman and I’d written pop songs”: Linda Perry calls Billie Joe Armstrong a “pussy” for backtracking on her producing Green Day

They got backlash from fans for working with Perry

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“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything”: Sonny Rollins has died, aged 95

Saxophonist was one of jazz’s greatest improvisers

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“Every time I sing ‘If everything could feel this real forever’ – and everyone else is singing it in time – that’s pretty powerful”: How Dave Grohl created the cathartic rock anthem that became the Foo Fighters’ signature song

“When I’ve written a song, I know what the drums should sound like in my head”

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“I wanted to have the most Steve Vai song possible on the record – but I didn’t want it to be the classic guitar battle”: Matteo Mancuso on his blockbuster Steve Vai collaboration – and the advice the guitar icon gave him

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on

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