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Meet Camilla Sperati – the Steve Vai-approved, Strandberg-endorsed fusion phenom
Is Sperati the next big name in fusion? Here she discusses moving to America (maybe), why she loves digital amps, and life as an educator
Kelly Garni founded Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads – but it ended with shots fired
They went to school together, started Quiet Riot together and then had a drunken fight involving a gun that ended Garni’s musical career. 25 years later, he came back to the bass
What does a Dumble-whispering tone nut keep on his pedalboard? Ask Kenny Wayne Shepherd...
The blues guitarist and renowned tone hound talks through his pedalboard – and tells us that one pedal rules them all
Thurston Moore on the making of Sonic Youth’s Sister, and the transition from junk guitars to Fender
The NYC noise-rock pioneer looks back to 1987, a time when Sonic Youth were growing up in public and expanding their vocabulary of alternate tunings
Frank Swart of Funkwrench Blues has recruited Vernon Reid, Oz Noy and Mike Stern to his cosmic cause
This San Francisco bass player and producer has a knack for getting top-shelf guitarists to play on his stream of Spotify masterpieces
Uli Jon Roth’s struggle to contain his brainchild, the Sky guitar – and why he never played Jimi Hendrix’s black Strat
The former Scorpions guitarist on how he blazed a trail in guitar modding, and why he’d like to see the Hendrix guitar on display – but not being used
Joe Satriani’s best basslines (Yes, he plays bass, too)
The phenomenal guitar playing of Joe Satriani needs no introduction, but he also handled bass duties on his first two albums
All That Remains’ Jason Richardson on surviving the ultimate virtuoso jam at G3 – and why theory is not 'law'
AntiFragile finds All That Remains dialing up the action with dual solos and some of the most ferocious metalcore you will hear this year. Here Richardson talks technique, tones and explains why dynamics are essential
“He’d already set everything up... The guitar was radically out of tune and the strings were virtually hanging off it”: Leo Abrahams on his Strat-wrestling initiation with Brian Eno, why he didn’t want to be famous, and what he learned from Paul Simon
The guitarist/producer has worked with Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and Imogen Heap among others, but here he explains why his younger self might be slightly disappointed in his playing
