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Photo credit: Brittany.durdin via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International / Emily Wolfe Facebook – Emily Wolfe says an airline initially refused to pay for a guitar broken during a flight. But the story took a happy turn.

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Airline backtracks after outrage for refusing to pay for working musician’s broken guitar

Ryan Reed

8/15/2025
Photo credit: Raph_PH via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, cropped (left) / Bruce Baker via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, cropped (right) – A fan volunteered to play Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," but the cameo had a couple curveballs.

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Green Day asked a fan to join them playing guitar on stage. He played ‘Wonderwall’ instead.

Ryan Reed

7/3/2025
Photo credit: Avda via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (left) / Afirebenside via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (right) – John Frusciante once wrote a letter to Jimmy Page, with a bold musical request.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter, with a bold request

Ryan Reed

6/16/2025
Photo credit: Compadre Edua’h via Wikimedia Commons (Brian May) / Goldberg via Wikimedia Commons (Thom Yorke), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 – Inspired by Queen's Brian May as a kid, Thom Yorke tried to build his own guitar.

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was so inspired by Queen as a kid, he tried to build his own guitar

Ryan Reed

5/18/2025
Photo credit: screenshot from David Gilmour YouTube video – David Gilmour avoided a guitar-strap disaster with masterful calm.

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David Gilmour’s guitar strap broke during ‘Comfortably Numb.’ He handled it masterfully.

Ryan Reed

5/4/2025
Photo credit: ‘The Tonight Show’ YouTube screenshot – Jack Black brought hilarious chaos on 'The Tonight Show' with a Guns N' Roses guitar solo fake-out.

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Jack Black achieves next-level talk-show entrance with guitar solo fake-out

Ryan Reed

4/4/2025
Articles, Legacy

These Guitars Are Made From Detroit’s Old Buildings

Jed Oelbaum

4/3/2015
Articles, Design, Legacy

Watch This Master Craftsman Turn A Piece Of Wood Into A Gorgeous Flamenco Guitar

Rafi Schwartz

2/13/2015
Articles, Legacy

Intermission: The Art of Making a Flamenco Guitar

Phoebe Unterman

6/20/2012

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