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May 2026

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May 19
- “Kirk sat there with Greeny and I had Duane Allman’s goldtop. I was lost.” Charlie Starr on jamming with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett
May 15
- “Django had only two fingers, Pete. Get on with it!” Peter Frampton on adapting his playing as IBM progresses
May 11
- “She’d obviously done him to death.” Pete Townshend on the woman who preoccupied him and Jimmy Page at the Who’s “I Can’t Explain” session
May 8
- “I said, ‘Do you remember that guitar that went missing?’” Ronnie Wood says he took a bass guitar from a store to play with Jeff Beck
- “We’re not Lady Gaga. We’re not Elton John. We’re two random dudes.” The story behind Angine de Poitrine, the viral masked microtonal duo
May 4
- “It sounds like a terrible B-flick horror soundtrack.” Eddie Van Halen on the night he got drunk and wrecked Marvin Hamlisch’s piano
May 3
- “12 of my guitars are stolen and I have to fly to Philadelphia and do a show.” Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small says he lost rare instruments gifted by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai
May 2
- “Even Clapton came out and gave me the thumbs up.” The day Ministry’s Al Jourgensen shut down a studio — while Eric Clapton was recording next door
May 1
- “It was like getting into a swimming pool with lead weights tied to your boot.” Mark Knopfler on his grueling 10-hour Steely Dan session that resulted in just seconds of music
- “That was an uncomfortable spiral downward.” David Coverdale on Tommy Bolin replacing Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple