12 Rhythm Guitar Greats

Mar 22,2012
Richard Thompson  (From top to bottom) Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Larry Carlton, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Nolan, Grady Martin More...

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine

Mar 22,2012
“I could have been the biggest guitar player in the world, if only I had been able to handle my fists—and my thirst,” wrote Dave Mustaine near the close of his 2010 autobiography, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir. It’s a clear More...

Oz Noy's Twisted Blues

Mar 22,2012
The title of Oz Noy’s new instrumental album, Twisted Blues Volume 1[Abstract Logix], might have taken a few of his fans by surprise—but one listen to any cut on this CD should be enough to convince anyone that “blues” is a More...

What Was Rory Gallagher Really Like?

Mar 22,2012
The past year has let loose a deluge of bliss for Rory Gallagher fans, as his brother Donal and nephew Daniel have guided not only a complete reboot of the late guitar legend’s entire catalog, but the duo have also unearthed More...

Editor Boy's Latest Live Discoveries: Punk Floyd

Mar 22,2012
Punk Floyd at Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco. As Keyboard and Electronic Musician art director Patrick Wong and I are now on the fractured tribute-band scene with our “Punk the Monkees” concept act, the More...

Joe Satriani and Michael Anthony Create One Big Sound on Chickenfoot's "Second" Album

Feb 16,2012
Joe Satriani is in a good mood. He’s hanging out in Sammy Hagar’s studio, narrating a playback of the previous night’s webcast. “We shot this right here in Marin,” he says as the band—with touring drummer Kenny Aronoff sitting More...

Nels Cline’s Dirty Baby

Apr 23,2012
A provocative mating of art and music, Dirty Baby [Cryptogramophone] is guitarist and composer Nels Cline and poet and producer David Breskin's re-contextualization of Ed Ruscha's "Censor Strip" paintings. The lavish double-CD More...

Five Finger Death Punch

Apr 17,2012
“I arrived in the United States with one guitar, a bag of clothes, and no idea how to speak English,” says Hungarian-born Zoltan Bathory. “After starting about 35 bands, I finally threw everything I love about heavy More...

Andy Timmons Plays Sgt. Pepper

Apr 17,2012
Musical genius is often determined by how well someone Does something brave or foolish, but tackling the Beatles songbook is always a nail biter. As generations of music lovers consider the recordings of those More...

Joseph Arthur on Making Guitars “Sacred”

Apr 16,2012
I’m sure you noticed our stunning cover guitar this month. It’s a Godin 5th Avenue CW Kingpin II custom painted by singer-songwriter and artist Joseph Arthur. The first American musician signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World More...

Carl Verheyen’s Cranktone Chronicles

Apr 16,2012
On a recent tour of Italy, My band was treated to a VIP tour of the Ferrari factory in Maranello. We saw the famous design center, the engine assembly, bodies being painted, ladies hand-stitching upholstery, and the More...

Brian May Still Reigns as the King of Tone

Apr 16,2012
George Martin has said that you don’t have to teach children to love the Beatles. You merely have to expose them to the Beatles and they’ll take it from there, exploring the catalog, identifying with the songs, and More...

Stian Westerhus: Pitch Black & Star Spangled

Apr 16,2012
Stian Westerhus certainly resembles a rock star: tight pants, boots, vintage military coat, long spiky hair waving as he attacks his instrument with punk-like fervor. But unlike, say, Slash, he is often alone on stage, save for More...

David Cassidy’s Top Guitar Memories from the ’70s

Apr 16,2012
In the 1970s, David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world, outselling and breaking attendance records held by Elvis and the Beatles. Less known is that Cassidy has always been a total guitar freak. Here, the Partridge More...

Guitar In Pictures

Apr 16,2012
Guitars have always played a role in film and television music. From George M. Smith’s pioneering work for Paramount Studios in the ’30s and ’40s to Bob Bain’s radical riffing on Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme in 1958 to More...

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