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'FOR 40 YEARS, fans-and especially a lot of musicians--have told me that this era of the band was a watermark,' Adrian Belew says, discussing the version of King Crimson that [...]

DAVID LINDLEY WAS the epitome of a musician's musician, not only for his comprehensive skills but also for his infectious personality. Lindley was best known as the ultimate sidekick, with [...]

Luther Dickinson has made a career of taking musical left turns without ending up where he began, spiraling up toward new horizons instead of turning back onto worn paths, as [...]

IN HIS BOOK, Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell asserts that at least 10,000 hours of practice are required to excel at any given skill. If that's indeed [...]

PROLIFIC IS NOT the word we use to describe David Gilmour, at least not when it comes to putting out music. His new album, Luck and Strange (Sony), comes nearly [...]

IF YOU'RE A regular at Guided by Voices shows--and most of the band's rabid fans have seen the group dozens, if not hundreds, of times--you'll know what to expect when [...]

EVERY GUITARIST HAS at some point in their development been unsure how to approach improvising. Whether it's a series of chord changes or a certain groove, we just can't seem [...]

WHEN ERIC EARLEY recently unearthed a box of demos he'd made on a four-track cassette recorder in the 1990s, he thought it would be amusing to hear his old songs [...]

'AT 50, EVERYONE has the face he deserves,' George Orwell wrote, observing how, by that milestone, our experiences, choices and character reflect our interior self. Under the circumstances, that vantage [...]

THE ONSTAGE BACKDROP for Al Di Meola's Electric Years Tour is a huge collage of 17 of his most recognizable album covers. Noticeably absent from the bunch is his groundbreaking [...]

IF YOU HAVEN'T figured out by now, this Dirty Knobs thing is no mere dalliance for Mike Campbell. True, he'll always be the lead guitarist from Tom Petty and the [...]

GROWING UP IN New York--specifically in Queen's Kew Gardens--a young Steven Schneider would go to see all-night rock and roll movies at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. [...]

DECEMBER 12, 1943-APRIL 18, 2024 DICKEY BETTS WAS larger than life in both his personality and musical range. His death at age 80 on April 18 brought the full scope [...]

RIGHT AROUND 700. That's how many issues of Guitar Player reside in our archive, from our debut publication to our last. (We tried running the numbers several times, but we'd [...]

ONCE IN A blue moon a player's name becomes synonymous with an instrument for an era, and Jerry Douglas is on that extremely short list. He is to Dobro what [...]

IF YOU WANT to find Diego Garcia these days, head to Marina Del Rey in California and look for the boat studio where he makes his home--and whose name, Panamerica, [...]

'We're well charged-up!' Jimmy Page reports over the phone from New York City. Page has been in New York the previous few days meeting minds and making plans with his [...]

AS THE MODERN-DAY 2020s roll on, so do the inevitable semi-centennial anniversaries. By my math, that means it's time to celebrate some now classic electric guitar moments from 1974. Speaking [...]

ON STAGE AT El Club, a respectably divey club in his hometown of Detroit, for a Cinco de Mayo show in 2022, Wayne Kramer was preparing to play something more [...]

TO TAKE A flyover of Steve Lukather's long and storied career is to essentially reminisce about the heights of the past 40 years of pop and rock music. He is [...]

THE NEW YEAR is just a few weeks old and John Fogerty is driving with his wife and manager, Julie, along a stretch of California highway. But as the road [...]

HERMANOS GUTIERREZ make music to get lost in. Brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutierrez weave intricate guitar parts to create haunting and beguiling instrumentals that work on a metaphysical level. They're [...]

GUITAR MAY HAVE historically been dominated by male players, but as Sue Foley exemplifies on her fabulous new album, One Guitar Woman (Stony Plain), some super women boldly went where [...]

CROWDED HOUSE'S RETURN five years ago was certainly a welcome one. The Australian-formed group had been dormant since 2016, when it played four shows at the Sydney Opera House and [...]

IN THE 11 YEARS since he left Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora hasn't exactly flooded the market with new music. In 2017 and '18, he teamed with his then girlfriend, Australian [...]

MOLLY MILLER IS working overtime this summer. Yes, she's reprising her role in pop star Jason Mraz's Superband, on tour for his latest release, Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, on [...]

THE CREEK THAT wraps around Sam Evian's analog recording studio/abode in New York's Catskills may rise only to his chest, but its influence on the singer/songwriter-guitarist's new power-pop album is [...]

ONE MIGHT NOT think that Dolly Parton, Rob Zombie, k.d. lang and Nikki Sixx would share any kind of common ground, but there is something they all emphatically agree on: [...]

GROWINGUPONa midwestern lake, under the wings of a loving family that would watch episodes of Hee Haw, a young John Lowery found the guitar at a tender age. With equal [...]

AT AGE 25, Quinn Sullivan is already a music veteran. That's what happens when you begin your career before you're out of first grade. The singer/songwriter and guitarist has cemented [...]

PUTTING MULTIPLE PERCUSSIVE fingerstylists in the same trio could be a three-ring disaster, but not when the ringmaster is the modern master and the others are accomplished disciples eager to [...]

GROWING UPAS a die-hard blues-rocker in 1970s South Florida, Scott Henderson fell in love with the sounds of that era's big-name rock guitarists. 'Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck... I [...]

PRINCE SLYLY TOLD her she was 'too funky.' Bruno Mars sent her one of his signature Fender Strats, and Bootsy Collins and Ray Parker Jr. left glowing comments on her [...]

'IT'S A ROUGH TIME,' veteran blues guitarist Walter Trout attests. 'The whole world feels like it's in a dark place, with the wars going on. In this country, the political [...]

THE CARBON-FIBER REVOLUTION may not be televised, but it's all over the internet and here in the pages of GP. The young Klosowiak brothers bring a unique perspective, focused on [...]

'AT FIRST, I thought every kid had a music store in their family,' Ben Harper recalls. 'But I realized when I was young that this place was called the Folk [...]

THE LATE LOU Reed took his walk on the wild side in 1972. But he didn't become an animal--a rock 'n' roll animal, to be specific--until the following year. Recorded [...]

Talking with Mark Knopfler about guitars--what else?--is a bit like speaking with an unrepentant kid and a hardened member of GAA: Guitar Aficionados Anonymous. 'I STILL STOP AND LOOK in [...]

When Sleater-Kinney emerged amid the '90s riot-grrrl movement, they stood out as a group of three young women making explosive records fueled by rage. The trio's new effort, Little Rope [...]

EPIPHONE HAS EXPANDED its Inspired by Gibson Custom range, and in doing so has arguably narrowed the gap in quality between these guitars and those of the parent company. At [...]

A DETAIL-PERFECT clone of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul is sure to set players' and collectors' hearts aflutter. So when the Gibson Custom Shop and Murphy Lab apply their skills [...]

AS FRONTMAN FOR the British rock group Bush these past 32 years, Gavin Rossdale has grown accustomed to hearing plaudits for his vocals. But the 58-year-old is also the band's [...]

THE FIRST TIME the public saw Dave Stewart, he was tapping away at the keyboard of an MCS Percussion Computer in the video for Eurythmics' 1983 hit, 'Sweet Dreams (Are [...]

IT WOULD STAND to reason that PRS's DG Custom 30 and Custom 50 amplifiers, released more than a decade ago, would eventually be joined by a lower-power version, and voila!--the [...]

JOHN OATES' FAVORITE word when it comes to music these days is 'untethered.' It speaks to how the 76-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist is feeling as he brings out a [...]

'SONGS KIND OF jump out of a guitar,' Justin Hayward notes via Zoom from his home in the south of France, where he splits time with his native England. He [...]

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN DISSECTING guitars as a teen and opening his own shop half a dozen years ago, Justin Abernethy has worked with several of the finest guitar makers in business [...]

ACOUSTIC GUITARS BREEDLOVE TB VINTAGE EDITION BLUES ORANGE CONCERTINA BREEDLOVE AND BEDELL guitars both fly under the banner of Two Old Hippies. As owner Tom Bedell explains, 'The Breedloves have [...]

AT THE START of the Black Keys' latest album, Ohio Players, singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach declares that he's going to 'spend the rest of my days in the middle of nowhere.' [...]

LAST MONTH, WE set our picks down to learn new fingerstyle skills we can add to our arsenal of electric guitar techniques. We covered the basics, then left off by [...]