Move over, rover, and leteddietake over!

AN ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUE all electric guitarists should strive to master is the art of string bending, which can be used to create personally expressive, vocal-like sounds in unique ways. String bending

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Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

Fondly remembered this month...

Ace Frehley, AKA Kiss’s Space Ace guitar hero, left us on October 16.

A manifeste of musical and spiritual freedom, Axis: Bold As Love was JIMI HENDRIX ar his most exploratory, utopian. But as a new box set explores, notes of unease and psycho-autobiography cut through the Aquarian haze and freaky, proto-stereo FX, as the Summer of Love entered its more conflicted autumn. "It was all vivid colour," peers and Fhu tell MARK PAYTRESS, "with Jimi at the height of his powers."