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A prized guitar stolen from The Rolling Stones has resurfaced at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being missing for 54 years, Page Six reports. The 1959 sunburst Gibson Les ...
The guitar was stolen during the Exile on Main St. sessions and was recently discovered in a collection acquired by The Met.
Cliff Burton’s playing style may have been an offbeat fit for the cutting-edge thrash of Metallica, but it worked perfectly ...
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Following Jason Newsted's departure, Rock kept the iconic metal group's album plans alive by playing all the bass guitar parts on its 2003 Elektra release, St. Anger.
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John Lennon was the last of the three Beatles guitarists to pick up the bass version of the instrument. But how many Beatles songs feature Lennon on bass?
Robert Trujillo may be the most recent member to join Metallica, but that’s all relative because it’s been two decades now that he’s been providing the bass for the metal legends. Being the fourth ...
The low end of the five-string bass guitars make them excellent choices for metal bassists looking for that deep, thundering growl, and for jazz bassists looking to expand their solo jam capabilities.
Normally, bass guitars are made of wood— and Abel immediately recognized how rare a metal bass guitar would be. Abel estimates that there are only 100 to 400 metal bass guitars in existence.