
Guitar Gods Unleashed
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Where the legends never age. Daily clips of the riffs, solos, and moments that still give you chills.
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Eddie Van Halen played his "Beat It" solo live with Michael Jackson exactly once, a fluke in July 1984. Both were in Dallas for their own shows at the same time, so Eddie stopped by the Jacksons' Victory Tour, played it unrehearsed, and never did it again. Here's the solo.
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In 1992, Ronnie James Dio quit Black Sabbath rather than open for Ozzy. “I’m not supporting a clown,” he told Iommi. So Rob Halford stepped in on almost no notice. Here he is singing “N.I.B.” with Sabbath at Costa Mesa. One of the rarest lineups in metal.
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Mark Knopfler wrote "Sultans of Swing" after watching a bad jazz band play to an empty pub in Deptford. At the end of the night the singer announced, without irony: “Goodnight, we are the Sultans of Swing.” He plays the whole thing fingerstyle. No pick.
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The guy playing this thrash solo is also a trained jazz guitarist who studied at a NYC conservatory. Alex Skolnick of Testament, one of the most musically versatile players thrash ever produced, running the "Practice What You Preach" solo at NAMM.
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John Mayer's distortion trick. He kicks the pedal on for a quick lead fill, then off again into clean rhythm, without ever breaking the groove. The hard part is the footwork, stomping the switch right between notes, with just a subtle touch of grit. Handy for any player.
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This is the first time Guns N' Roses ever played "Patience" live, a cramped room at CBGB, October 1987, about 100 people watching. Appetite was stalled at #65. Axl's reading the lyrics off a sheet because they'd just written it. Weeks later, everything changed.
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That guitar tone was an accident. Chasing a ZZ Top sound, Dire Straits left a wah pedal parked half-open and a studio mic that had drooped overnight, pointing at the floor. They never could recreate it. The riff that defined MTV, built by mistake.
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One of rock's most bitter feuds just ended on stage. Ritchie Blackmore hadn't played with Deep Purple since walking out in 1993, and he asked to come back for one song. Last night at Jones Beach, at 81, he played "Smoke on the Water." "I haven't played rock music in 25 years."
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Danny Carey of Tool grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, a lifelong Jayhawks fan. In 2021, he came home, joined the KU pep band at a basketball game, and played the drum kit like it was the happiest day of his life. One of the greatest drummers alive, thrilled to be the halftime act.
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"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.
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This is an acoustic guitar. It sounds like a medieval hurdy-gurdy. Japanese inventor Keizo Ishibashi made a crank attachment that spins two rosined rings to bow four strings at once. No electronics. Nothing modifying the guitar. Genius or too strange to catch on?
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Buckethead is one of the most technically gifted guitarists alive, and almost nobody knows what he looks like. He plays in a mask and rarely speaks. Here he is warming up with a nod to Randy Rhoads' "Diary of a Madman" before diving into his own "Big Sur Moon."
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