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Guitar Center's Guitar-A-Thon is back, and it includes a colossal $500 off a Gibson Les Paul, $900 off a Taylor acoustic, and a slew of new exclusive models
By Daryl Robertson published
Grab yourself some huge savings on all your favorite guitar brands with Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, and loads more

Alice Cooper on living with Pink Floyd, mind-reading with Syd Barrett — and the pot-laced brownies that scored them a coveted gig
By Phil Weller published
The two young groups were hungry for success, and their peculiar living arrangement produced some equally peculiar stories

George Harrison said a loan from his mom helped him buy his first guitar, setting him on the path to the Beatles
By Phil Weller published
Although the purchase wasn’t as pricey as John Lennon’s first guitar, he had to plead with his mom to do the deal

Nile Rodgers says David Bowie wrote his 1983 funk hit featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan on a 12-string acoustic strung with only six strings
By Phil Weller published
Bowie had presented him with the crux of the song on a 12-string guitar with only six strings

Watch Iron Maiden and Tool members jam Jeff Beck at a wedding
By Phil Weller published
The three musicians took to the stage for a very special occasion: the wedding of Smith’s daughter

Neil Young tells how Randy Bachman helped him track down his long-lost Gretsch. Now he’s playing it in concert
By Elizabeth Swann published
Young used the guitar during his early 1960s tenure with the Squires but sold it after he developed ambitions to become a folk singer

Steve Vai on the theft that got him Frank Zappa’s number — and the job that changed his life
By Elizabeth Swann published
Vai was just 16 and called Zappa repeatedly over the next year until he got through to him, putting his guitar career on the launch pad

The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia on the classic Bob Dylan song that made him a convert
By Christopher Scapelliti published
It wasn’t until Dylan went electric that Garcia was won over by the folk icon
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