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Brad Gillis says Billy Gibbons had some bad news after a bizarre backstage accident with a scorpion: “Those are the most poisonous”

Gillis recalls the bizarre episode from Night Ranger’s early days touring with ZZ Top — and the macabre souvenir Gibbons made from the scorpion that stung Jack Blades.

Vivian Campbell says his cancer has returned after treatment, but he’s not giving up: “There’s only been one time that I felt it was going to kill me”

The Def Leppard guitarist says his donor transplant failed, but he’s continuing treatment and has no intention of slowing down

Buddy Guy just turned 90 but he still remembers the guitar lesson that changed everything: “He told me, ‘I can’t teach you that!’”

The future blues legend wanted to learn how Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker played. His high school music teacher had other ideas.

Ritchie Blackmore on why Deep Purple couldn’t survive with him and Ian Gillan onboard: “We just couldn’t be in the same room”

The two Deep Purple legends once stopped speaking to each other. Here’s the story behind the reunion no one thought would ever happen

Ritchie Blackmore on the anxiety he couldn’t outrun: “Why can’t I just play the guitar? It’s all I want to do”

The guitarist blamed his ruthlessness on insecurity —and said he owed a debt to Eric Clapton

The Beatles song George Harrison didn’t think was any good: “It might not be a song at all”

The track saw John Lennon experiment with an early fuzz pedal before George Martin rejected the sound as too distorted

Phoebe Bridgers forced to cancel Lost Weekend tour dates after requiring urgent surgery: “I got appendicitis for my birthday!”

She spent her 32nd birthday in a hospital bed but aims to be back on the road in September after calling off a run of low-key U.K. shows

Simon McBride defends Ritchie Blackmore after Deep Purple jam: “I just said to Ritchie, ‘I’ll be your rhythm guitar player today. Just do your thing.’”

McBride shared his pride over being icon’s rhythm guitarist on his historic “Smoke on the Water” jam with Blackmore

When George Harrison, Bob Dylan and a host of stars recorded in Dave Stewart’s kitchen: “He walked around the corner to see George trying to teach Dylan how to play ‘Taxman’”

It was the perfect environment for the most casual of supergroups to find their sound

Jeff Beck’s guitar was stolen before the Wired sessions — Jan Hammer remembers what happened next. “When he opened the guitar case, it was empty.”

The keyboard legend also looks back on his collaborations with Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Tommy Bolin, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Neal Schon and Miles Davis