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“That whole thing of doing the trades with other players is a really nice thing”: Vernon Reid says he hopes he and Jack White have started a trend for pro guitarists swapping signature models

It all started with a chance meeting at the airport but now the Living Colour guitarist says he's already lined up more high-profile trades

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“Metal has always been a very tribal thing - some felt we were provocative merely for existing": The story of the Living Colour song that namechecked Stalin and Mussolini and inspired Tom Morello to form a band

Living Colour’s biggest hit was boosted by Mick Jagger, adopted by wrestling's CM Punk, and used to make a point by Jimmy Kimmel

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"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what it's like to be in a stadium filled with people singing War Pigs

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“He was completely ignored by the guitar press of that time period”: Vernon Reid on the guitarist he believes is massively underrated – even though he kept “the Hendrix voice” alive

In a chat with Guitar World last year, Reid even insisted that this guitarist's “continued non-acknowledgment as a near direct tonal descendant of Jimi Hendrix continues to this day”

Guitar World

One of rock music’s most underrated bands played Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and they’re still cooler than a fridge after 40-plus years

Jimmy Kimmel is currently hosting his show from a theatre in Brooklyn, so he brought in one of New York’s best rock bands for a special performance

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“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

Box office bomb, killer soundtrack

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“The first time I saw Todd Rundgren with The Fool SG, I fell in love with the idea of the guitar being an art canvas”: Vernon Reid breaks down his melting-pot writing approach and the poignant symbolism of his Reverend guitars

Eclectic, protean, alive, Hoodoo Telemetry could only sprout from the wonderful mind of Vernon Reid, and is a record that he says has grounded him as an artist, ready to look on to whatever comes next

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Living Colour opens 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame to honor new inductee George Clinton

The funk rock group Living Colour opened an energetic 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night to honor new inductee George Clinton

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WWE wrestler Penta has a new entrance theme featuring Tool’s Adam Jones on guitar

The juggernaut pro-wrestling company has also collaborated with metal legends Machine Head, Slayer’s Kerry King and Living Colour in recent weeks

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RANKED: The 10 Best Entrances of WrestleMania 41

No one knows how to make an entrance like a WWE superstar.

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“Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock

Living Colour are the black rock band who blazed a trail through the 80s and 90s music scene

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Watch Living Colour's Corey Glover deliver a killer performance of the band's signature anthem Cult Of Personality on The Kelly Clarkson Show

A Living Colour classic on daytime TV in America? More of this please

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“What do you say when you meet Vernon Reid by chance at the Memphis airport and he suggests you swap signature guitars? You say, ‘Yes sir, coming right up’”: Jack White and Vernon Reid exchange signature guitars after serendipitous airport encounter

Reid received one of White's TripleCaster Telecasters, while White got his hands on a customized Reverend Vernon Reid Signature Totem Series guitar

Guitar World

“The Who, Van Halen – the whole thing where there’s a separate singer from the lead guitar player. That started with Hubert Sumlin and Howlin’ Wolf”: Vernon Reid on the 7 riffs that inspired him, from Hendrix to Chic, Cream, and more

The Living Colour guitarist reveals the seven riffs that stopped him in his tracks – and hints at how Jimi Hendrix might have inspired Cult of Personality

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“It's not the same, but one thing eventually led to the other…” Vernon Reid on the Jimi Hendrix riff that inspired Living Colour's Cult of Personality

The Living Colour guitarist has also paid homage to Hendrix's influence on fusion music

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Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson

Can't Be Found comes from the MC5's Heavy Lifting, their first album in more than half a century

Guitar World

“I’m able to pick these instruments up for the first time and play them like I’ve already had them for years”: Spector unveils two new Doug Wimbish USA Custom Series basses, including a replica of the Living Colour bassist's iconic 1987 5-string

With signature EMG pickups and an era-specific headstock design, Spector's new basses promise to deliver “the sound and feel that inspired Doug Wimbish's signature style”

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“I already know it's gonna be a stunner”: Vernon Reid is working with Reverend on a new signature guitar – and it’s set to be the firm’s first Floyd Rose-equipped build

Believed to be called Talisman, the guitar might be arriving sooner than you think

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“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble

Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US

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"You expect white supremacy, but not from your own people": Living Colour claim they've been shunned by black entertainment outlets for playing "white people" music

Living Colour issue statement backing up Lenny Kravitz's comments about black rock musicians being ignored at awards shows held by the black entertainment industry in America

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WWE Fans May Have Given Up On CM Punk Appearing At Survivor Series, But Another Possible Clue Has Popped Up

WWE fans are still debating whether or not CM Punk will appear at Survivor Series, and a new clue popped up that feels too timely to be a coincidence.

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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

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"If you swing too much, it interrupts the head-banging, and that’s the last thing I wanted to do – the head-banging reigns supreme!" In praise of Living Colour's Vivid

Jagger produced them but that sound was all theirs. Inside Living Colour's late 80s classic debut

Guitar World

The great White Lines robbery: How a bassline by art-rockers Liquid Liquid became one of the biggest hip hop anthems of all time

In 1983 Doug Wimbish was asked to recreate a bassline that was tearing up NYC clubs. Transformed into White Lines (Don’t Do It) it became an enormous worldwide hit – but the original creators never received a dime…

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“I still have the strings I used on that session in a Ziploc bag”: Listen to Muzz Skillings' isolated bassline on Cult of Personality

Muzz Skillings kept things fresh on this heavy, riff-based smash from Living Colour's debut album

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