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Eddie Van Halen revisits Van Halen's landmark '1984' album

By Chris Gill

EVH tells GW how Van Halen's Diamond-certified blockbuster came to be

Stevie Ray Vaughan opens up in his first Guitar World interview from 1984

By Bill Milkowski

"He doesn't go in for the leather-and-studs macho posturing of popular heavy metal bands and he's not particularly adept at crowd manipulation as many of the top rock bands are"

Paul McCartney's 6 best guitar solos with The Beatles

By Damian Fanelli

Though he was technically their bassist, Paul McCartney was responsible for many fine six-string moments in The Beatles catalog

Les Paul's 9 greatest guitar moments

By Jackson Maxwell

Les Paul's influence on the development of the guitar is incalculable. Explore nine moments that demonstrate his genius

7 of the greatest 7-string guitar songs

By Peter Hodgson

Believe it or not, the 7-string has been around since long before djent rose to popularity... Here are some of the best songs that utilize this genre-pushing instrument

Watch Ace Frehley play classic Kiss songs in the Guitar World studio

By Jackson Maxwell

The Spaceman himself shows off some classic Kiss riffs - in all their attitude-filled, swaggering glory

Watch Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple perform in New York in 1973

By Damian Fanelli

See the band's classic Mark II lineup at the peak of their powers

5 times a live version of a song was better than the studio recording

By Tom Gilbert

A studio recording merely captures a moment in time. Who says you can't play the song more convincingly 17 days later in front of a live audience in Peoria?

AC/DC's Angus Young handles a heckler during Bad Boy Boogie

By Damian Fanelli

You can take the schoolboy out of Glasgow, but you can't take the streets of Glasgow out of the schoolboy

Billy Sheehan names 5 of his favorite bass albums

By Bass Player Staff

Sheehan is one of the world’s most accomplished bassists - so we can all learn from the five albums that influenced him

Watch Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour and Les Paul Play Blue Suede Shoes with Stray Cats

By Damian Fanelli

Quite simply one of the greatest all-star guitar jams of all time

The 10 best movies for guitarists

By Tony Grassi

From Wayne's World to School of Rock, these films will provide some satisfying six-string viewing...

Kurt Cobain's final Guitar World interview: “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that”

By Jeff Gilbert

The Nirvana icon talks his love for the Fender Mustang and why he wouldn't endorse Gibson in his last conversation with GW

Tony Iommi's 10 best Black Sabbath riffs

By Guitar World Staff, Intro by Jackson Maxwell

Guitar World pays tribute to one of rock's greatest axemen by revisiting 10 of his greatest riffs

*repeat repeat's Jared Corder: "College only offered jazz or classical guitar, and the guys in classical were all metalheads, so I chose that"

By Mark McStea

The guitar playing half of the US-based duo talks Glazed, *repeat repeat’s guitar-packed (and catchy-as-hell) new album

Dylan LeBlanc: "Certain guitar moments can sound like poetry if you get ’em right"

By Joe Bosso

The American guitarist and singer-songwriter on the influence of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on his writing style

Turkish metal guitarist Demir Demirkan on how writing in English shaped his latest album, Elysium in Ashes

By Jeff Kitts

The hard-rocking shredder by way of Istanbul looking to make a name for himself on American Shores

Submit your questions for Robert Cray

By Damian Fanelli

Round up your best and brightest questions and send them our way, people

Stephane Wrembel: "When you cut out string noise, you’re left without the physical aspect of what a musician does"

By Joe Bosso

Stephane Wrembel’s annual The Django Experiment albums are mind-blowing odes to the music, legacy and influence of the late, great Django Reinhardt

Nirvana's Krist Novoselic: "I'm never in any bass magazines"

By Bass Player Staff

Back in 2012, we met the bassist turned political activist, commentator and now recipient of his own signature instrument