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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
Joe Bonamassa reveals how many Gibson and Epiphone signature models he’s sold – and it’s a lot
The reigning king of signatures has come a long way – the initial run of his first model was limited to 300
Vivian Campbell on joining Dio just before recording their classic debut album
From The Archive Campbell was thrown in at the deep end when he wound up working with Ronnie James Dio on Holy Diver
David Bowie’s guitarists on what it was like to play with the Thin White Duke
10 years after Bowie's death, Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton, Carlos Alomar and other guitar-slinging comrades-in-arms recall high times alongside the master
When Nils Lofgren tried to join the Rolling Stones
From The Archive Lofgren almost flew out to audition after Mick Taylor’s eventual successor put him in touch with the Stones
The Canadian musician who co-wrote a Rolling Stones song without realizing it
k.d. lang collaborator and lifelong Stones fan Ben Mink says the unexpected co-credit fulfilled a childhood dream – sort of
No-one nails Eddie Van Halen’s playing quite like Jacob Deraps – now he’s the face of the new EVH Wolfgang
The Van Halen-obsessed shredder has called working on the guitar's new promo video a “dream come true”
![Stevie Ray Vaughan [left] slings his guitar over his shoulder and gives us a thumbs up; [right] an action shot of Albert King playing on Midnight Special](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2o58fDyAtadeYeUPxHv54J-840-80.jpg.webp)
The night Stevie Ray Vaughan walked out of his own show to go watch his blues hero
From the Archive SRV was playing a ‘pass-the-hat’ gig at one of Austin’s most notorious dive bars – until he found out Albert King was playing across town
