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Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on the guitar he values most, and what links Jimmy Page and Prince
Goes to 11 The alt-rock mainstay would rather not play than have to use a Strat or Les Paul. If he’s only given a Marshall amp he’ll stick to singing. And he still writes songs like he did when he was 15
“I said, ‘Jimi who?’” How Buddy Guy first encountered Jimi Hendrix
In 1967, Guy was not nearly as famous as the A-list blues-rock guitarists who took cues from his stinging phrases, piercing volume, and embrace of feedback
How Sawyer Hill went from playing in Arkansas garage bands to touring arenas with Yungblud
He started on a $100 Epiphone and auditioned for his first band with Stairway to Heaven. Now Gibson are sending him guitars and he’s touring with rock’s next great hope. How did Sawyer Hill get here?
Why Jimmy Page turned down multiple offers to join the Yardbirds – and why he relented
From the Archive Jimmy Page could have been a Yardbird before Jeff Beck, had he accepted the somewhat clandestine offers of the band’s management
How the Pretenders emerged from tragedy with new guitarist Robbie McIntosh
Shattered by drugs and reeling from the loss of James Honeyman-Scott, the Pretenders came back swinging with 1984’s Learning to Crawl
How a battle-scarred vintage Gibson survived three broken necks to power a Mercury Prize-nominated jazz collective
Bassist Stan Woodward talks eBay finds, music theory, and the rapid rise of the Geordie Greep-backed jazz outfit
What Ritchie Blackmore thinks of Yngwie Malmsteen
From the Archive As Malmsteen’s guitar hero, Blackmore’s fingerprints are all over the Swedish shredder’s gear choices and repertoire
Lita Ford on how Eddie Van Halen encouraged her to kickstart her solo career after The Runaways
From the Archive The guitarist had taken a break from the rockstar life and started working at a department store when Van Halen came knocking
