Christopher Scapelliti
Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.
Latest articles by Christopher Scapelliti

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Many guitar makers offer budget versions of their more expensive models.

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Guitar Nerds are back with another top-five countdown.

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If you love motorcycles and guitars, here’s an instrument that combines both passions.

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Nickelback have released the lead and title track from their new album, Feed the Machine.

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As many guitarists know, the tremolo arm found on some guitars isn’t really a tremolo system at all.

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Guitars are just a collection of various parts and components assembled together by a guitar maker.

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"Yes, it’s a really cool song... Solo’s kind of worked out, though, isn’t it?,’ ” Vai told Satriani.

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One of the great things about the NAMM show is seeing famous musicians reconnect with one another.

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A spontaneous meeting of guitar greats took place at the Ernie Ball booth during NAMM 2017.

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Dave Grohl recently heard the demo of the first track he ever wrote and recorded, and as you can see in the clip below, his reaction to it is priceless.

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Black Sabbath founding drummer Bill Ward was not included in the band’s final album, 13, or in its swansong world tour, and guitarist Tony Iommi says he doesn’t really know why.

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Butch Trucks, the founding drummer of the Allman Brothers Band, shot himself with a pistol in front of his wife, according to police.

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Steve Vai has his legions of followers. But who does the guitar legend follow?

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Tyler Larson, whose informative and frequently humorous videos we often run here, sat down with PRS Guitars founder Paul Reed Smith at this year’s Winter NAMM show.

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The Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster may be iconic electric guitars designed in the early Fifties, but that’s where the similarities end.

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Audioslave reunited for the first time in more than a decade on January 20 for an Anti-Inaugural Ball performance at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles.

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Richie Sambora and Orianthi debuted new material and performed covers of Bon Jovi hits before a few thousand NAMM Show attendees.

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“Joe Bonamassa came in when he was 12 years old,” Norm says. “Jaden is 12 years old, and he is playing the hell out of the guitar.”

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Lita Ford has teamed up with tribute band Lez Zeppelin for this cover of the classic Led Zeppelin track “The Lemon Song.”

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Uncut recently posted an archived interview with Jimmy Page. The story consists of Page answering questions posted by the magazine’s readers.

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On Wednesday, January 11, former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters turned to Instagram to give the world a brief sampling of his latest musical effort.

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Kirk Hammett says the hundreds of riff ideas he lost when he forgot his cellphone in a cab probably weren’t that good after all.

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Eleven-year-old shredder Li-sa-X got the new year off to a start with her fret-burning cover of Kiko Loureiro’s “Gray Stone Gateway.”
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