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LEFT: Orlando,Florida,USA:VAN HALEN-EDDIE VAN HALEN opening for The Rolling Stones-Tangerine Bowl-Oct. 25, 1981. RIGHT: Les Claypool of Primus performs on stage at the Soundwave Music Festival on March 3rd 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.
How Eddie Van Halen and Metallica's Kirk Hammett pushed Primus bassist Les Claypool to his musical destiny

By Phil Weller Published

The Primus bandleader would later audition for Metallica after the death of Cliff Burton

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Dave Mustaine (L) and James Hetfield of Metallica perform at Day Four of the bands' 30th Anniversary shows at The Fillmore on December 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
Dave Mustaine levels stunning new claim that Metallica pilfered his riffs from a tape recording after he was replaced by Kirk Hammett

By Phil Weller Published

He says James Hetfield and co. scalped ideas from the tape, which he left behind after being fired from the band in 1983

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LEFT: Kirk Hammett (left) and James Hetfield pose for a studio portrait during the Damage, Inc. Tour on April 5, 1986 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. RIGHT: Ian Anderson, left, and Martin Barre of Jethro Tull perform at the Poplar Creek Music Theater In Hoffman Estates, Illinois, September 12, 1982.
Martin Barre on Jethro Tull’s famous Grammy triumph over Metallica 36 years on

By Phil Weller Published

Even the band’s label thought Metallica would win, so they refused to fly them out for the ceremony

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Kirk Hammett of Metallica performs onstage as Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert (Paramount+) at Microsoft Theater on December 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
Kirk Hammett says he’s sitting on hundreds of riffs for Metallica’s next album and planning another solo record

By Elizabeth Swann Published

The Metallica guitarist says his new songs span the genres, from classical to “heavy stuff” and funk 

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Peter Green and Kirk Hammett pose with Hammett's "Greeny" Les Paul, formerly owned by Green and guitarist Gary Moore
Kirk Hammett takes us deep inside 'The Collection,' his new tome from Gibson Publishing

By Gary Graff Published

The guitarist tells us about the guitars he's won and those he's lost as he admits "in the process of trading up, sometimes you have some remorse"

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James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett performing live onstage, playing Gibson Flying V guitars, February 11, 1984
"We were like, ‘Who?’” Metallica's first national tour left audiences scratching their heads.

By Phil Weller Published

The British metal act Raven sheds light on the thrash giant’s tour for their debut album, 'Kill ‘Em All'

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Chris Poland/Marty Friedman
Marty Friedman and Chris Poland admit Megadeth learned a lot from Metallica

By Phil Weller Published

The former Megadeth guitarists believe any bitterness between Mustaine and his old band was blown out of proportion

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Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd onstage at the Sports Arena in April 1975 in Los Angeles, California.
David Gilmour talks soloing in Guitar Player's guide to the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time

By Guitar Player Staff Published

Behold the genius of Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and many more — as voted by the readers of Guitar Player

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Guitarist Eric Johanson with an electric guitar
“I had a gold Klon but I lost it in Hurricane Katrina...” Blues supremo Eric Johanson on being both a Metallica and Jack White fanboy and why he’s into tone as much as music

By Jim Beaugez Published

With the help of "a really gritty velcro fuzz", blues guitarist Eric Johanson gets into the raw experience of the moment on his latest album, The Deep and the Dirty

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1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard 'Sunny'
Gibson Offers “Mint” 1960 Les Paul Standard Dubbed ‘Sunny’ By Kirk Hammett

By Rod Brakes Published

“It’s like the sun cutting through clouds on an overcast day,” says the Metallica guitarist

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