“It’s absurd to think technique has anything to do with music…” Joe Satriani on how to keep your head above water in a sea of virtuosos
“I went to Guitar Center and said, ‘I want an ES-335 so bad. But I only have $600’”: How Emily Wolfe ended up with the Epiphone that’s defined her career – after missing out on her dream Gibson
“They went ape!” A teenage Yngwie Malmsteen sent a cassette to Guitar Player and Kiss wouldn’t stop calling him…
“He ended up with a fully-fledged, pro studio – it just happened to have an engine and some wheels underneath”: David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, Depeche Mode and more in nine of the weirdest recording studios ever built
“He’s no musician. I heard them playing acoustic instruments, and they couldn’t. It was appalling”: Roger Waters slams James Hetfield following controversial comments at The Sphere in Las Vegas
Pavlov’s Dog frontman David Surkamp dies at 73: “There are no words sufficient for a loss of this magnitude”
“Now home after a 10 hour open heart surgery operation. Gratitude beyond”: The singer nicknamed ‘The Voice Of Rock’ reveals his latest health battle
“It feels good to surprise people. I played the record for Patti, and she said, ‘I’ve never heard you sound like this’”: Patti Smith calls him her “knight,” and he’s a legend of NYC guitar, so why is Lenny Kaye just making his solo debut now?
“There’s videos of me playing five strings. I broke a string in the first bend”: Joe Bonamassa’s nightmare string snap at Buddy Guy’s 90th birthday bash
“I went to the premiere of the movie and it opens with the shoes dancing and the song comes on. I turned to my wife and said, ‘This is a home run!’ It was so good”: The inside story of a classic ’80s hit – Footloose by Kenny Loggins
“Frank Ocean didn’t just make an album – he opened a door that a generation of artists walked through”: How Frank Ocean broke the hip-hop rulebook with his 2016 magnum opus
“Tarantino wanted to get a genuine reaction out of her”: Martin’s in-house historian claims director deliberately let the rare, antique Hateful Eight Martin be smashed by Kurt Russell
“I got the impression that Gary didn’t want to move from a safe place – he wanted to do stuff the way he’d always done it”: Art rock guitarist and producer Bill Nelson reflects on trying to push Gary Numan out of his comfort zone
“Endings create new beginnings, and even though it was a hard decision to make, I believe there is a bright musical journey ahead of me”: Floor Jansen has exited Nightwish
“You get the full blast of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and myself. This would always be the track that I would refer to as being The One”: Carl Palmer reveals his all-time greatest ELP song – and it’s not Fanfare!
“I never have had a shortage of riffs because I don’t place all the weight on them. I place it on the storytelling”: We enter the studio of soundtrack overlord Tyler Bates
