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The best Rolling Stones performances
Without a doubt, 2022 was the year of the Rolling Stones. Mick, Keith and Ronnie toured Europe (playing for the first time without legendary drummer Charlie Watts), with their SIXTY tour, celebrating 60 years since the band's inception back in 1962. Guitars Exchange would like to take this opportunity to remember some of the most legendary...
Steve Lukather 10 Top Collaborations
It is worth restating that American Steve Lukather, best known as the guitarist and only remaining founding member of Toto, has recorded guitar parts on over 1,500 albums.Specifically, the Ernie Ball Music Man aficionado has been a sideman or guest with well over 100 artists, many of whom are household names. Excluding his ‘Toto only’...
The best Fleetwood Mac songs with Lindsay Buckingham
Taking advantage of Lindsey Buckingham’s 73rd birthday, from Guitars Exchange we want to talk about our ten favorite songs of his band, Fleetwood Mac. But as that band has had multiple line-ups we have decided to focus on the best known period of it, when Buckingham and Stevie Nicks entered the lineup, as we had already dedicated a special to the...
The 10 best Detroit rock songs
Detroit is one of the most musical cities in the world. From its mean streets came the Motown of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and the Supremes, Bill Haley and his Rock around the clock, Sixto 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez and the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, as well as techno in the 80s. It was also these streets, at a time when the city...
The Verve 10 Best Songs
The Verve exploded onto the British rock scene in 1997 with the release of their mega-selling album Urban Hymns. Formed in Wigan in 1990 by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, bassist Simon Jones, guitarist Nick McCabe and drummer Peter Salisbury, the band went through several line-up changes that included guitarist and...
Roger Waters - Ten Best Songs
Roger Waters, has had an incredible musical trajectory from being a founding member of Pink Floyd, to taking over principal song writing duties from Syd Barrett and developing his own distinct style that evolved across psychedelia; profound relationship, philosophical, historical, and existential reflections; and more recently, increasingly...
Back to school isn't so bad...
OK, it doesn't apply to all classes, but there are certainly some that are worth it: music classes! Music is one of the few global languages. It is undoubtedly a form of expression worth learning. Are you ready to pick up the instrument that suits you? So that you don't get 'lost' in the sea of offers, Thomann has...
Summer Music Madness Deals
Thomann has just launched the Summer Music Madness Deals campaign: the best deals for your music summer where you can find accessories, musical instruments and more with discounts of up to 23%! Click on the banner below, find the perfect instrument for you and make this summer 2022 all about...
Paul McCartney Best Solo Songs
Point number one: Paul McCartney is one of the three best songwriters in the history of rock music (for those who don't know, the other two are his bandmate and friend John Lennon, and Bob Dylan). Point number two: Under the bar set in the first category it could be said that his solo career was somewhat disappointing;...
Eric Clapton - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2022)
I dreamt that I was The Lady in the Balcony. I was lying on the sofa in the living room of a friend's house. The vinyl of Eric Clapton's latest album, The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions, was playing. I closed my eyes, and just as I was about to reach for the sky, I woke up on a "balcony" of the Royal Albert Hall. It was...
Pete Townshend - Best Guitar Solos
The first image that comes to mind when you think of Pete Townshend is his unstoppable windmill, the second, smashing one of the thousands of guitars that have bitten the dust at his concerts. For someone who always seeks, and gets, the spotlight on stage, it is not as a soloist that we remember him most, but as the most important rhythm...
Queens Of The Stone Age Top 10 Songs
Josh Homme is so great that he can afford the luxury of having a band in which his rhythm section is made up of Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl - and that band is not even the band with which he has become one of the truly essential figures of 21st Century rock, something he has done fronting the fundamental...
Joe Bonamassa - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2022)
Riddle: collector, super prolific and it's his birthday, who is it? On May 5, 2022 Joe Bonamassa played London's Royal Albert Hall as part of his Europe Spring Tour, with concerts scheduled almost every day from April 20. With a break in June and July, he will return to the attack in August for his US Summer...
Larkin Poe - Live In Madrid (2022)
Dressed in their trademark jeans, t-shirts and kick-ass Dr Martens’ boots, sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, otherwise known as Larkin Poe, march out onto the stage at Sala But (AKA ‘La Paqui’) in Madrid, ready to raise hell and party like only they know how. It is 12 May 2022, which happens to be Megan’s birthday and - after a horrible...
The Animals' Top 10 Songs
The English rhythm-and-blues band The Animals had at least two major incarnations, with the formative version – featuring Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine and John Steel - first hitting the bright lights in 1964, and forming part of the ‘British Invasion’ along with the Beatles, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones....
The best instrumental surf rock songs
From Guitars Exchange we want to take advantage of what would have been the 85th birthday of one of our favourite guitarists, Dick Dale, to review our favourite songs from one of the genres that did the most for our favourite instrument - the electric guitar - surf rock. The genre was born in California in the late 1950s, being mainly instrumental,...
Muddy Waters Top 10 Songs
"The blues had a baby and they called it rock & roll".It is clear that rock & roll is ‘bastard music’, the fruit of many sources, but, if we could look into its DNA, the largest percentage would correspond to the blues and, specifically, to the Chicago electric blues that Muddy Waters led for several decades. In a month that celebrates...
#DIYKitChallenge22 by Thomann
Second round, another opportunity: Thomann is organizing the DIY Kit Challenge again this year. At the #DIYKitChallenge22, musicians and music enthusiasts have the chance to win great prizes with an instrument they have created themselves from a Thomann DIY kit. First place wins a Thomann voucher worth €500 (second place €350 and third place...
John Fogerty 10 best riffs
John Fogerty, either solo or with Creedence Clearwater Revival, is one of the great songwriters in rock. As a guitarist, many of these songs began from a riff that emerged while he was simply strumming. His style is basic and simple, but full of strength and feeling. His references are the great guitarists of the first generation of rock, people...