Scott Rowley

Is tone in the fingers or in the gear? What’s the best piece of guitar advice you’ve received? What would you like to be better at? Pete Thorn takes our guitar nerd questionnaire…

"I don't want to play for bass players – I want to play for truckdrivers! I want people to dance!" The rise of a reluctant virtuoso

Stone Roses and Primal Scream legend Gary “Mani” Mounfield on gear, groove and the problems of playing with a drum machine

Every episode of "the Desert-Island-Discs but for pedals", starring Vai, Trout, Smith, Krasno, Fletcher, Grossi and McKeon, in one binge-able place

The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel looks back on his playing style and sound, his habit of punching basses, fighting Paul Simonon and where he ranks in the bass players of punk

Walter Trout explains and demonstrates why he doesn't use pedals: it's all in his volume control and pickup selection

Released on 8 October 1980, Talking Heads’ Remain in Light is a paranoid funky masterpiece, thanks in no small part to Tina Weymouth’s sinuous basslines

Blues wizard Kirk Fletcher on the three effects pedals he'd rescue in the event of an unlikely effects pedal-related apocalypse

Steve Vai does Pedalpocalypse, and gives us a quick glimpse into his huge pedal collection. But which pedals couldn't he live without?

In this previously unpublished interview, the guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Cramps looks back over decades of hoodlum music