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Hard Rock Heroes
Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, and the Hard-Rock Heroes Who Kept the Guitar Flame Burning in the 1990s and 2000s As guitar players adjusted to a new post-shred normal, the next generation of players were finding new sounds and styles.
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How Grand Funk Railroad Made Stadiums Their Own as They Shook a Generation with a Fierce Rock Sound Mark Farner looks back on the gear, songs, and stories behind the biggest American hard-rock band of the early 1970s.
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They Came From Planet Shred: How '80s Guitar Heroes Changed Hard Rock Forever Slash, John Sykes, Mick Mars, George Lynch, and more invaded hard rock in the '80s, moving it further from its blues-rock origins.

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How George Kooymans, and Michael and Rudolf Schenker, Put a European Spin on Hard-Rock Guitar

By Mark McStea published 2 March 21

Look back at three guitarists who drove hard rock's European evolution with the Scorpions, Golden Earring, and UFO.

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