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“Duane Allman was sitting up on the top of the toilet, feet on the seat, and his little amp is right there.” Boz Scaggs on how Duane Allman and a spare hour of studio time led to one of the guitarist’s greatest recordings Guitar Player

"An unmarked van shows up at my house, and Bob gets out with an acoustic guitar in his hand.” The time Bob Dylan picked a fight with Kiss and ended up writing a song with Gene Simmons Guitar Player

“Due to serious illness, I am unable to perform. I'm gutted.” Health issues force Brian Setzer to “regrettably” make last-minute cancellation of Stray Cats show this past Saturday on the opening night of their tour Guitar Player

“They came into the room with a screwdriver and pointed to my Les Paul.” Inside Paul McCartney’s drug bust and the former Beatles’ decision to stop touring Guitar Player

“He was a very moody sort of guy. We’d be traveling in a van, going to the shows, and he would sit in the corner and not talk to anybody.” Jim McCarty recalls Eric Clapton’s “quite unhappy” time with the Yardbirds Guitar Player

“He said, ‘How do you record an 11-minute song in one take? It's perfect!’” As Rush prepare for their 2026 tour, Alex Lifeson recalls the group’s most complicated song — and the bizarre dreams that inspired their music Guitar Player

“I used to hate it when it came on the radio." Bob Dylan on the Neil Young song that got under his skin — for the most personal reason of all Guitar Player

“I didn’t realize how short he was!” The late Ace Frehley always spoke his mind. And when it came to his Kiss replacements Bruce Kulick, Vinnie Vincent and Tommy Thayer, the Space Ace had plenty to say Guitar Player

“It’s the most misunderstood song I ever wrote. But some people said, ‘God! The audacity!’” Tom Petty on the song that defined him as a new kind of guitar-slinging American rocker Guitar Player

“We were mixing ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ and they just kept on coming in and borrowing all sorts of different stuff!” Peter Frampton says Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley used his guitars on Kiss’s smash 1975 live album Guitar Player

“I’ve never felt any need to try to fit into anyone else's shoes. I just do what I do.” Lindsey Buckingham on joining Fleetwood Mac with Stevie Nicks and cutting their breakthrough hit album 50 years ago Guitar Player

“I cried for two years. I blamed myself.” Don McLean on the “unspeakable” death that haunted the writing of his iconic acoustic hit “American Pie” Guitar Player

“I would hear Randy pick up the classical guitar. I’d say, ‘You can play that!?’ He said, ‘Yeah, that’s my first instrument.’” Rudy Sarzo on Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai and other guitar greats he’s played with Guitar Player

“I had never heard the guitar quite sound like this.” Robert Fripp on the Brian Eno creation that made him feel truly “liberated” as a guitarist Guitar Player

“I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on his 1960s contemporaries — and the one guitarist he thought was fun Guitar Player

“He says to me, ‘Keep vamping, just jam,’ while he’s having a heart attack. Then he started grabbing his chest.” The show that ended David Bowie’s touring career — and the song that became his last hit Guitar Player

How Keith Richards reinvented the Stones with a cassette recorder Guitar Player

Best bass guitars 2025: Low-end tones for any budget Guitar Player

“There was silence. Jack said, ‘How much do you know?’” Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker wanted to keep Cream a secret. A record project nearly blew their cover Guitar Player

“He said, ‘Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this.’” Rita Coolidge says Eric Clapton owes her a writing credit for one of the most celebrated songs in rock Guitar Player

“I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to throw my guitar away.” Alex Lifeson on the gig that made Rush feel like they’d made it — and how one audience member brought them crashing down to Earth Guitar Player

“My own son didn’t know who I was until he could turn 21 and get into the blues clubs. He said, ‘Dad, I didn’t know you could play like that!’” Now 89, guitar legend Buddy Guy explains why he “ain’t done with the blues” yet Guitar Player

Mick Ralphs, founding guitarist with Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, has died at age 81. Ian Hunter tells how Ralphs' stolen guitar inspired one of Mott's biggest all-time hits — "All the Way From Memphis" Guitar Player

“I bloomed on this record. There are guitar solos!” Alex Lifeson says digital technology made him a believer on his new album with Envy of None: “They don't sound like plug-ins; they sound like real amps” Guitar Player

"This went on for 45 minutes. Not even the bartender was watching us.” Joe Bonamassa says he's played over 3,500 shows. This was his worst Guitar Player

"John sounded like Django Reinhardt. It was one of them where you just close your eyes and happen to hit all the right notes.” George Harrison on the John Lennon guitar solo he called his best on the Beatles’ recordings Guitar Player

“There were all these things I couldn’t have done in Greta Van Fleet. It wouldn’t have made much sense.” Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin explain why Mirador is the twin-guitar fusion that's now rocking their world Guitar Player

“The coolest acoustic-electric guitar gadget of the past decade is now better than ever.” We review the new ToneWoodAmp2 Portable Effects Processor for Acoustic-Electric Guitars Guitar Player

“I hate heavy metal, and I don't want to be in a heavy metal band!” Brent Hinds’ 2015 viral outburst revealed his love for Mastodon and the no-BS attitude that made him a true guitar hero Guitar Player

“People are always telling me, ‘That song helped me through the worst time of my life.’” Tom Petty on how he almost didn’t record his first solo hit — and how George Harrison helped save the day Guitar Player

“Bernie Leadon told me, ‘If you want to write songs with Don Henley and Glenn Frey, write musical beds." Don Felder's latest album features new songs inspired by rediscovered recordings dating back to the Eagles Guitar Player

“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet.” Michael J. Fox never spoke truer words. Here’s what ‘Back to the Future’ got wrong about Marty McFly’s Chuck Berry–inspired guitar show Guitar Player

“We’d heard Jimi Hendrix, we'd heard the Who, but now we finally got to see these guys. And watching Jimi Hendrix burn his guitar….” Grace Slick on Hendrix at Monterey, Jefferson Airplane and the Spanish origins of “White Rabbit” Guitar Player

“He found me, this 230-pound guy, playing guitar. Alice never goes for the safe bet.” How a guitar-playing bodybuilder with no musical experience helped Alice Cooper resurrect his career in the shred-metal '80s Guitar Player

“I wrote a lot of their music that made them. It showed a grotesque lack of character.” Dave Mustaine levels stunning new claim that Metallica pilfered his riffs from a tape recording after he was replaced by Kirk Hammett Guitar Player

“When I was making effects for Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix, I was one of their best-kept secrets.” Roger Mayer on the private world of making custom effects for the 1960s’ biggest guitar players Guitar Player

"They launched a revolution that continues to this day." Meet 30 players who tapped, twanged, sweep-picked and shredded the 1980s to its greatest glory Guitar Player

“That's the easiest part, the solos. There's no great thing in being a soloist.” Why Angus Young thinks rhythm guitar is harder to play than lead Guitar Player

“Oh my god, they’re closing the casket with that guitar in it!’” Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355. His son reveals his family's brain-twisting task to honor the Father of Rock and Roll Guitar Player

“When I first heard Van Halen’s version of ‘You Really Got Me,’ I laughed. It really misses the point of the whole meaning of the song.” Dave Davies on Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page and the Kinks’ power revolution Guitar Player

“Bob said, ‘What’s that?’ I told him, ‘That’s one of your songs, man.’” Roger McGuinn says Bob Dylan didn't recognize his own song when the Byrds performed it for him Guitar Player

"I got a guitar, amp and $500 for eight bars of work.” Wrecking Crew guitar aces Billy Strange and Tommy Tedesco recalled the mad guitar genius of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Guitar Player

Ozzy Osbourne RIP: The heavy-metal legend dies weeks after Black Sabbath performs its final show Guitar Player

“How the hell did I actually do that?” David Gilmour revealed his favorite solo and the guitar behind Pink Floyd’s biggest songs (it’s not the Black Strat) Guitar Player

“Occasionally one comes my way, and I’m like, 'Yeah, that needs to happen.’ This was one of those cases.” Samantha Fish on the guitar that became the heart and soul of her new album, ‘Paper Doll’ Guitar Player

“I realized I was gonna look like I was trying to be Randy Rhoads, with the cream Les Paul, so I sent it to be refinished.” Zakk Wylde says his famous bull’s-eye guitar — used on Ozzy Osbourne's records — was the result of a design mistake Guitar Player

“I’m just standing there strumming a chord. And the audience looks at me and goes, ‘How does he produce that noise?’” Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player Guitar Player

"Try. Listen. Be patient. Don't worry about playing fast…" Back in 1974, Les Paul offered seven timeless bits of advice for guitarists Guitar Player

“You were the person that made me think, Wow, that slide can make some real good rockin’ music!” Rick Derringer told us how he inspired the Allman Brothers' Duane Allman to become the greatest slide guitarist in rock Guitar Player

“It’s a special kind of moment when you hit that first note of a solo and you literally get nothing.” He’s played with David Bowie and the Cure, but Reeves Gabrels says things don’t always go right, even for the pros Guitar Player

"It was very strange for Eric Clapton and me. We went and watched Jimi at about 10 London shows together.” Pete Townshend recalled how Jimi Hendrix led him to write ‘Tommy,’ the Who's 1969 breakthrough Guitar Player

“Since we don’t have a time machine, this is our best chance to solve a decades-long mystery.” Gibson launches hunt for the 'Back to the Future' guitar that inspired John Mayer and Coldplay's Chris Martin Guitar Player

“Ozzy told him, ‘Nobody can do that!’ Well, Randy could.” Randy Rhoads proved Ozzy Osbourne wrong with an approach to recording guitar solos that even Eddie Van Halen avoided Guitar Player

“That rhythm guitar is Freddie. I don't think I played any of that.” Brian May said Freddie Mercury edged him out of this chart-topping Queen hit Guitar Player

“I said, “No, ‘Bad Company’ is the name of a song I'm working on.” Paul Rodgers reveals guitarist Mick Ralphs' role in the origins of Bad Company’s name and talks about recording his vocals in a field under a full moon Guitar Player

“I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t fill my soul in the way that you see some performers.” Pete Townshend says he doesn’t like being onstage, and would rather work alone Guitar Player

“I had this reverence for Duane Allman’s playing — but I wanted to make it my own as well.” Warren Haynes on the advice Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman gave him when he joined the Allman Brothers Band Guitar Player

“We were told that’s how audiences in Ireland express their love.” Bruce Kulick toured the world as lead guitarist for Kiss — but nothing prepared him for his worst gig of all time Guitar Player

"It was just appraised for… let's just say a whole lot of money. I don't want to take this thing around!” Steve Lukather reveals the best electric guitar he owns and the one he’ll never play Guitar Player

“Son, I play a six-string.” This rock and roll legend led Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on a trainwreck performance before a nationally televised audience Guitar Player

Steven Wilson on 'The Overview' Guitar Player

“I had been walking around with the melody in my head for a couple of years.” Ozzy Osbourne’s biggest solo hit was years in the making. It took a touch of southern rock to make it the anthem of his lifetime Guitar Player

“I just want it known I'm allowed to put four songs on the album, whatever happens.” John Lennon had a plan to keep the Beatles going into the 1970s. Paul McCartney rejected it. The rest is history Guitar Player

“As we speak, we're doing a King Crimson studio album.” Jakko Jakszyk confirms he's working on a new King Crimson album with Robert Fripp Guitar Player

“I’ve got no control over the music I make.” David Gilmour tells how he turned his biggest weakness into his greatest asset — with a little help from the Shadows' Hank Marvin Guitar Player

“You’re very similar to Jimi in that way. I’m just a part-time employee.” Jeff Beck told Stevie Ray Vaughan he reminded him of Jimi Hendrix. Here’s why Guitar Player

“Guns N’ Roses is what broke us all away from Mötley Crüe and Ratt... stuff we didn't want to be lumped with in.” Tracii Guns on L.A. Guns' long run — and why Slash was the right choice for GN’R Guitar Player

“Suddenly, this harmonic happened. I thought, Nobody sounds like this! This is us.” Mike Campbell reveals how he and Tom Petty developed the guitar tandem that defines the Heartbreakers' classic sound Guitar Player

“Ozzy took a look around and said, ‘You’re joking aren’t you?’ I said, ‘It’s a lot nicer on the inside.’ ” Zakk Wylde cracks us up with tales of Ozzy as he reveals the stories behind his greatest tracks Guitar Player

"They were going for shock value, like, ‘There’s this whole new world of guitar...’” Steve Stevens on introducing the guitar synthesizer to America and shaping sounds on Billy Idol’s new hit album, ‘Dream Into It’ Guitar Player

"Play one note per chord and watch what happens." Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal says his top guitar tips will help you break out of ruts and engage with the music Guitar Player

"George Lynch, Van Halen and a couple of different people saw me doing it." Harvey Mandel says he wants credit for introducing Eddie Van Halen to two-handed tapping Guitar Player

"Literally, a star is born. I have never, ever seen anything like that in my life." 11-year-old shredder Olly Pearson blows away the competition with his medley of AC/DC, Van Halen and Queen songs Guitar Player

“George started freaking out. He said, ‘I feel like I’m dying.’ And then, Peter Fonda said, ‘Oh, I know what it’s like to be dead.’” Byrds founder Roger McGuinn on the origins of John Lennon’s trippiest track Guitar Player

“I feel like a fraud. Because people don't know — but they're gonna find out one day.” Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner opens up about struggling to play guitar since his emergency heart surgery Guitar Player

“I wrote two songs that should have gone into the dustbin. They turned out to be my biggest hits.” The guitarist behind a pair of classic-rock gems says he’s just a strummer who thinks of himself as a jingle writer Guitar Player

“I was sleeping on the floor in somebody’s apartment.” Mark Knopfler on the moment he discovered the virtues of fingerpicking — and the pedal that’s essential to his guitar rig Guitar Player

“The right method is to bleed. Your hand and pick have to connect with the effing string” The Who's Pete Townshend on the correct way to do a windmill guitar strum — and what Keith Richards says about inventing the move with the Rolling Stones Guitar Player

"Jimmy Page was a tour de force. Those first four records are just out of control." Joe Satriani talks Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck and the 10 records that changed his life Guitar Player

The Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz Guitar Player

"I cannot play guitar." Rockabilly legend Brian Setzer reveals he has an auto-immune disease that prevents him from playing guitar Guitar Player

"I'm just pushing and fighting till I get somewhere.” Goose guitarist Rick Mitarotonda reveals his Sonny Rollins, "never say die" approach to marathon guitar solos Guitar Player

“I got a single-edged Gillette razor blade and cut round the cone like this.” Kinks founder Dave Davies on the speaker-slashing skills that transformed rock and thrilled Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck Guitar Player

“We had to tell her that the console had quit. They didn't like that at all.” Never mind Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones. Here's how Grady Martin, Nancy Sinatra and Ann-Margret helped the fuzz pedal become every guitarist's favorite effect Guitar Player

“There’ve been so many times we thought, 'Oh God, that's it. How can we go on?’” Steve Howe reflects on the future of Yes — and reveals that he once refused to let his techs tune his guitars Guitar Player

“I said, ‘You have no idea how many things I’ve stolen from you.’ And he said, ‘Yes, I have.’” Randy Bachman on his jaw-dropping introduction to Stephen Stills at Neil Young’s 70th birthday party Guitar Player

"I thought it was about the lamest song I ever wrote in my life.” Eddie Van Halen on guitar solos, the music teacher who slapped his face, and his all-time worst song Guitar Player

"Slide? I flipped the bird a lot when I was a kid, so I just naturally put that to use…" Bonnie Raitt started out driving Son House and Skip James to festivals – then she became the biggest female slide player around Guitar Player

“He decided he didn't want to be the lead guitar player anymore.” Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey’s career-changing move that made the Who guitarist an axe-wielding icon Guitar Player

“It was the reason I did everything. It’s the reason I played the guitar.” Pete Townshend on the awful gift that made the Who one of the world's greatest rock bands Guitar Player

“I'm a dangerous f***er.” Pete Townshend says he gets a charge out of working. His latest comments offer a cryptic clue about the Who's future Guitar Player

“I actually believe he did bury the tape in the garden." Andy Summers on the Police song Sting refused to perform on — and how he had the last laugh Guitar Player

Best guitar straps 2025: Keep your guitar safe and play in comfort Guitar Player

“I figured that if it didn't work, I could get a job if I had to.” Alex Lifeson on Rush's big gamble — '2112,' the album that became their global breakthrough Guitar Player

“One day this kid came in, and it's Tom Petty. He wants to learn to play guitar.” Don Felder on his early years with Petty, Stephen Stills, Duane Allman and Florida's burgeoning rock scene Guitar Player

"I left my guitar and amps in the back seat. When I went back 30 minutes later, it was already gone.” Andy Timmons on the guitars that got away — and the best gear deal he ever made Guitar Player

“I missed out on being in one of the biggest rock bands in the world!” He played all the guitars on Jon Bon Jovi’s first hit but got passed over for Richie Sambora Guitar Player

“You might call it the blues. But to me it’s cultural misappropriation.” Ian Anderson tells why he clashed with Mick Abrahams and reveals what it takes to become Jethro Tull’s guitar player Guitar Player

"He literally is an Iron Man! His fingers are not human." Tom Morello says Tony Iommi's lesson to guitarists is "Don’t be afraid to be simple and awesome” Guitar Player

"I was hurt. I was damaged. I gave it away to end that chapter of my life.” John Fogerty didn’t want his Creedence Clearwater Revival guitar back. He got it anyway and revived his love for his classic tracks Guitar Player