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Grace Bowers names her favorite guitar player of all time
By Janelle Borg published
Bowers praises this icon's smooth phrasing and tone, which have captured the imagination of many of his successors

Leslie West on giving his Gibson Les Paul Junior to Pete Townshend after tracking three songs with The Who
By Janelle Borg published
West met Townshend when The Who recruited him to play lead guitar on several tracks for their 1971 album Who’s Next

Unseen footage of Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West's onstage jams and backstage hangs has been unearthed
By Janelle Borg published
In 2002, Eddie Van Halen joined Mountain on and offstage – and cameras were there to capture the moment

“The emotion of Clapton, the feel of Joe Perry, and the dexterity of Eddie Van Halen”: Criss Oliva was one of heavy music’s most electrifying guitar players – and then a drunk driver took his life
By Clay Marshall published
We look at the career, technique and melodic approach of one of electric guitar’s largely forgotten masters: Savatage's Criss Oliva

4 soloing ideas you can learn from Leslie West
By Richard Barrett published
Scale the blues-rock mountain and balance on the edge of major and minor tonalities with this lesson in the style of one of rock's greatest players

Hear Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and Eddie Ojeda team up with Rudy Sarzo and Mike Portnoy for a thunderous cover of Theme For An Imaginary Western
By Jackson Maxwell published
The hard-rocking version of the Pete Brown/Jack Bruce-penned tune – famously covered by Mountain – features on Legacy, the forthcoming all-star Leslie West tribute album

Leslie West: "I wanted the biggest tone, and vibrato like somebody who plays violin in a 100-piece orchestra"
By Alan di Perna published
The life and times of a titanic presence in hard rock and a trailblazer for tone

Leslie West, 1945-2020: the guitar world pays tribute
By Matt Owen published
Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa and Joe Satriani are among the players who have paid their respects to the influential Mountain guitarist
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