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Classic rock supergroup parts ways with their new guitarist – after just one gig
Both parties realized that it wasn’t the match they thought it looked to be on paper
Remembering Rick Derringer: the maverick who brought the fire to Johnny Winter’s band
The Ohio guitarist was one of rock’s most adaptable talents and had the production skills to go with his playing
Rob Scallon on the eight-string that changed his life – and how it helped him become one of YouTube’s OG guitar stars
Scallon on his guitar journey so far, from the surprise success of making an album in a day, to his combat-laden guitaRPG video game that serves as a love letter to instrument
Ska and reggae pioneer Ernest Ranglin played with everyone from Bob Marley to Jimmy Cliff. At 93, he plans to secure his legacy
The guitarist guided the music of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Toots, Prince Buster among others – but thinks the magic might never have have happened if he’d had access to better gear
The true confessions of Ty Segall – his blasphemous SG mod, exploding a vintage Gibson and why a “dying dinosaur” fuzz is one of his holy grail pedals
The always-surprising SoCal garage rocker talks fuzz, SG-based blasphemy and the peculiar benefits of not writing songs on guitar
How Peter Hook invented an unheard-of approach to punk-rock bass playing
With Joy Division, Peter Hook’s upper-register basslines were plucked straight from a rhythm guitarist’s handbook
Zakk Wylde on how his iconic “Grail” Les Paul Custom got its bullseye finish – and gave him his signature style
Wylde says it was love at first sight with the Grail, but worried that people might see him as a Randy Rhoads clone, it needed a new look
Isaiah Sharkey on what he learned about guitar soloing – after playing with the likes of John Mayer, D'Angelo and Paul Simon
The singer-songwriter and sideman to the stars insists it all starts with “taking the ego out of it”
