Latest articles by Bill Milkowski
From The Archive Atkins was one of the greatest of all time and yet he was never satisfied. We guitar players can be too hard on ourselves
![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)
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
The visionary producer also had his say on Lemmy, Paul Simon, and his failed studio session with Jaco Pastorius
Having first met the Lone Star State guitar king during the sessions for David Bowie's 1983 blockbuster Let's Dance, Rodgers later produced Family Style, Stevie Ray's posthumously released collaboration with his brother, Jimmie
Extracting inimitable, stinging tone from his Tele with just his fingers, Albert Collins carved a hugely influential sonic path for himself, though he's still often left out of discussions of the greatest blues guitarists of all time
From his ’80s heyday with Weather Report through to his mid-’90s stint with Madonna, Victor Bailey earned his stripes as one of the world’s greatest bass players
In this 1988 GW interview, Santana opines on the power of the blues, his collaborations with John Lee Hooker, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and the high-wire magic of jamming
The Pink Floyd legend also reveals his admiration for Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, and why he likes to keep things spontaneous in the studio
"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"
