Carlos Santana, Stephen Stills, Pete Townshend and more recall the trials and tribulations behind their era-defining performances

"I don’t know how to play a goddamned scale. I don’t know what a 13th is, or an augmented ninth. I could give a shit. All I do is make the guitar scream with pain or pleasure.”

“I think my greatest pleasure is writing a song — words and lyrics — that will last longer than a couple of years.”

He made alternative rock history with Pavement and the Jicks, but what do Guitar World readers really want to know about Stephen Malkmus?

Ballbreaker, AC/DC’s Angus and Malcolm Young demonstrate yet again that they are randy as a pair of billygoats, out of their minds with lurid desires and obscenely concupiscent.

Reclusive, elusive and sardonically self-effacing, Walter Becker was not your typical guitar hero.

One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started, and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth.

The classic Fleetwood Mac lineup always was an odd bunch.

We will never know what went on in the mind of Chris Cornell after he left the Detroit Fox Theater on the night of May 17.

“CRX is probably an odd choice for a band name, but to me it sums up what our music sounds like.” Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi is explaining the origins of the name for his new side band.

Albert King was a giant among bluesmen, and not only for his immense talents on the guitar.