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Alice Cooper’s guitar trio on how a wunderkind from England temporarily replaced Nita Strauss
Not just anyone could temporarily fill Strauss’ shoes in Alice Cooper’s band. In this GW exclusive, Coop’s longtime sidemen reveal how Anna Cara scored shock-rock’s biggest gig
How Angine de Poitrine’s eccentric guitar teacher shaped their oddball sound
The “highly strung” Frank Zappa nut was an imposing figure, but a guitar hero in his students’ eyes
How a vintage guitar store in Malta landed Lewis Capaldi a rare Gibson acoustic
The guitar boutique’s co-founder, Andrew Francica, recounts the time that the Scottish superstar randomly walked into his store before a festival appearance
Why Jeff Beck said no to replacing Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers
From the Archive Beck was asked to follow Slowhand’s footsteps out of the Yardbirds and into the Bluesbreakers before he decided to go solo
Brad Gillis on the story behind his 1985 custom Hamer S-style: “I was just stroking Hamer, to be honest!”
We revisit February 1989, when Brad Gillis and Jeff Watson of Night Ranger appeared on the hot-pink cover of GW
Ritchie Blackmore reunites with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years – watch him play Smoke on the Water
The rock guitar legend announced he’d hatched surprise plans to join the band on stage earlier this year
Albert Lee reveals the guitar technique Eddie Van Halen was reluctant to try
Lee looks back on his days in one of guitar’s all-time greatest secret supergroups
Chris Shiflett plays Randy Rhoads’ Gibson ‘Quiet Riot’ Les Paul with Foo Fighters
He also got to play a host of other iconic guitars before the show
“My hands just wouldn’t work... There was no way I could play”: The triumphant return of Brian Setzer
With his autoimmune condition in remission, the Stray Cats frontman tells us he’s at 98%, but he sounds just as good as ever. He talks touring with Stevie Ray Vaughan and why he’s fallen for the Flying V
