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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Joe Matera

    “I cut a hole in it and used a ruler as a neck and rubber bands as strings. I’d imitate Jimi Hendrix”: Micki Free on the time he made a guitar out of a detergent box and the advice Billy Gibbons gave him (opens the original)

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    This month's Inquirer finds Guitar World in the company of Micki Free, and having administered the truth serum, he's going to tell us all about his firsts – first gigs, first songs and first guitar he ever got – and share his most embarrassing moments. Just don't ask him to save only one guitar from burning building... I made it out of a Cheer detergent box! I cut a hole in it and used a ruler as a neck and rubber bands as strings. I’d imitate Jimi Hendrix. Then one day, my Uncle Frank says to m

  2. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Joe Matera

    “I just wacked it off from the very beginning to the very end, but it turned out that the tape operator hadn’t pressed the ‘record’ button”: Elliott Randall on his blistering Steely Dan solo – and what Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were really like (opens the original)

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    “I’d never say they were difficult to work with, because we had a really good understanding of each other,” Elliott Randall told me during a recently rediscovered – and previously unpublished – 2003 interview. He was talking about working with Steely Dan’s co-founders, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. “Everybody’s got their own brand of craziness,” Randall said. “With Donald, Walter and me, we just realized we were a bunch of nutty guys, and – as long as we could get together on a level that we f

  3. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Joe Matera

    “We were part of the Manchester punk explosion – The Sex Pistols and the Clash were exciting and glamorous, we were quite avant garde”: Steve Diggle on the Buzzcocks’ surprising legacy and why he still relies on a 50-year-old solid-state amp (opens the original)

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    “While we’ve still got our Buzzcocks identity there, I’ve tried to take the music to a couple of different areas along the way,” says Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle about Attitude Adjustment, the U.K. punk heroes’ new studio album. The band – which formed in 1976, punk’s “year zero” – continues to buck the trend of what constitutes the sound of punk rock. “We were part of that whole Manchester punk explosion,” Diggle says. “But while there was this exciting, glamorous thing to the Sex Pistols

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