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“I was feeling like I had so much s*** to hurl at the tape.” How Sheryl Crow broke up her hit-making band with just two words
A remark during a David Letterman interview ignited tensions with the musicians who helped create one of her earliest career-defining tracks.
Bruce Springsteen hated Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light,” says singer Chris Thompson
The guitarist recalls the tape-machine glitch that created rock’s most infamous misheard lyric — and the awkward dinner where he asked Springsteen what he thought.
“Keith, your guitars only have five strings!” Brian Setzer recalls the day Keith Richards handed him his Les Paul
The Stray Cats guitarist adds that he’s picked up a couple of new guitars — and they’re not Gretsches
Randy Bachman was 15 and waiting for a bus when Les Paul pulled up with a proposition
Turned away from a Winnipeg nightclub, the future Guess Who guitarist suddenly found himself face to face with his hero.
Steve Howe reveals the accident that nearly destroyed the guitar behind Yes’s best-loved songs
For more than two decades, the guitarist kept quiet about the trauma that befell his treasured 1964 Gibson ES-175
“That’s where they f***ed it up.” Why Keith Urban still plays the battered Telecaster behind his biggest hits
The country star says perfection kills soul — and explains why his road-worn “Clarence” Tele still beats newer, better guitars.
Miles Davis gave him a cryptic instruction. The result was jazz-fusion’s foundational album
John McLaughlin was shaking when the recording began. By the time it finished, he had made history
Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth on Brian Eno and the studio moment that changed everything for her
By imagining her instrument as horn lines and later as tuned percussion, the Talking Heads bassist reshaped its role on ‘Remain in Light’
