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May 2025

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May 22
- “I actually died on the operating table. I was, like, 'Really, man? What the hell!'” Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham gives a health update following his chilling flatliner experience
- The biggest name in guitar is a number. Here's the secret sauce behind IV, the guitarist from Sleep Token, whose new album is the modern era's best-selling hard rock record
- “I always thought it has a strange, unique magic to it.” Brian May picks a deep Queen cut as his favorite — but it's never played live out of respect for Freddie Mercury
- “It’s an eclectic collection, but really it’s about spirituality.” Jim Irsay, who owned the guitars of David GIlmour, Eric Clapton, Prince, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and others, has died
May 21
- “Some things you are never supposed to touch." Josh Homme was stunned into silence playing the Telecaster George Harrison called "the worst guitar I have ever owned"
- "It was the ultimate 'FU' to the record company.” Andy Summers on his improbable success with Robert Fripp after the Police's record label tried to stop the duo in their tracks
May 20
- “Playing four notes to the bar with your thumb changed everything for me.” Mark Knopfler grew up wanting to be like Jimi Hendrix. He's revealed the guitarist who changed his mind
May 19
- Win tickets to see Anders Osborne and Bella Rayne perform at GP Presents in California's North Bay Area
- Musician’s Friend is leading the charge for guitarists with up to 50% off for Memorial Day – get $450 off a Gibson Les Paul and over $1,000 off a Taylor acoustic
May 16
- “Delivers the genuine sound and response of the pedal it’s based on.” Boss turns eight of its legendary pedals into a one-stop plug-in, with more to come
- An acoustic guitar owned by George Harrison and Eric Clapton — with a Beatles and Cream connection — is being sold for $1 million
May 15
- “His unique style of playing was something that no one could match.” Paul McCartney played with George Harrison and John Lennon in the Beatles, but he says there is one guitarist who was like no other
- “I’ve got no control over the music I make.” David Gilmour tells how he turned his biggest weakness into his greatest asset — with a little help from the Shadows' Hank Marvin
- “I said, “No, ‘Bad Company’ is the name of a song I'm working on.” Paul Rodgers reveals guitarist Mick Ralphs' role in the origins of Bad Company’s name and talks about recording his vocals in a field under a full moon
May 14
- “He’s such an incredible human being and we get to play with him tonight. It is our honor.” Eddie Vedder praises Peter Frampton as the guitarist joins Pearl Jam in Nashville
May 13
- “I’m listening to the guitar riffs and what they’re talking about. It’s just blues music sung by white people.” How Alice In Chains' blues influences and three 1932 Dobro Cyclops guitars made 'Sinners' one of the year's biggest films
- "I had to unravel the mystery of what George intended.” Robin Nolan talks collaborating with George Harrison, playing his 12-string Rickenbacker and completing a song the former Beatle started but never finished
May 12
- “I’m pretty sure that statement was not meant to be a compliment." Gary Clark Jr. thinks Eric Clapton dissed his guitar tone
- "My husband is skirting around the subject matter here: He had a heart attack two weeks ago." Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox reveal he suffered a heart attack last month
May 9
- “It’s a really dumb little thing with a lot of words that rhyme with c***.’’ Jill Sobule’s last song was a profane rant against J.D. Vance
May 8
- “The Trump tariffs will kill the guitar industry.” Representatives and influencers are leading the fight to protect guitar and musical instrument makers from devastation
- “Eddie said, 'If he's playing, I'm not.'" Yngwie Malmsteen says Eddie Van Halen listened to his music all the time but ran from him every chance he got
May 7
- "When 'Dazed and Confused' fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page..." The guitarist is sued again over “Dazed and Confused” as the Led Zeppelin documentary sparks a fresh lawsuit from the song's composer
- “There was no spare, and Edward didn't have another amp. He said, 'You gotta cover me!'" Eddie Van Halen's former guitar tech recalls the virtuoso's disastrous guitar battle before a packed NAMM show crowd
May 6
- “It always comes through me. I'm the spark plug and the engine.” Eddie Van Halen talks tapping, “Eruption” — and why the weight of the band rested on his shoulders
- "Makes me feel closer to Pop that such an important part of his history can live with mine every time I record.” Wolfgang Van Halen posts a clip of himself with Eddie Van Halen's iconic Frankenstein guitar
May 5
- “I never saw Ace or Peter. It wasn't the 'magical record.'" When Kiss’s 1998 reunion album was in jeopardy, Bruce Kulick returned to the fold to save the day
May 2
- “I sometimes feel a bit apologetic about it." Brian May says Freddie Mercury fought his now-classic guitar solo on one of Queen's biggest hits
- Guitarist for pioneering death metal group killed in police shootout at his home in San Francisco
May 1
- “Suddenly, this harmonic happened. I thought, Nobody sounds like this! This is us.” Mike Campbell reveals how he and Tom Petty developed the guitar tandem that defines the Heartbreakers' classic sound
- “I thought I would I just play a Fender Mustang and have that sound. It drove me crazy.” The key to Kurt Cobain's 'In Utero' guitar tone has been discovered after one tone hunter's years-long search
- "He had used that guitar neck up. He did everything and anything that neck could do.” Sammy Hagar claims he made Eddie Van Halen a better musician and says the guitarist "dried up" in the 2000s