Favorite Solos: Chris Gill (Contributing Writer)
1) The Yardbirds “Jeff’s Boogie” 2) Blue Oyster Cult “The Red and the Black” (live) 3) Megadeth “Symphony of Destruction” 4) Scorpions “Sails of Charon” 5) Focus “Hocus Pocus”
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Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.

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