Latest articles by Christopher Scapelliti
The late guitarist first met Lemmy as a 12-year-old Hawkwind fan — but when he auditioned for Motörhead years later, the frontman remembered something very different.
The singer, who is currently on tour with Heart, says she didn’t expect artists like Robert Plant, Joey Ramone and David Byrne to be listening to her
Teachers told her to play the masters instead of writing songs, but she was determined to create the sounds she heard in her head
The pub-rock icon thought his tune had vanished for good — until a few seconds in ‘The Bodyguard’ changed everything.
The jazz legend’s battered 1958 Gibson ES-175 bore an unlikely repair throughout the most important years of his career
The legend reveals how Marshall, Fender and even a tape deck helped shape his famously heavy — but barely distorted — sound
Mitchell said her 1956 Martin D-28 helped create ‘Blue’ and her most beloved songs. Losing it changed her relationship with guitars forever.
The singer-songwriter opens up about her struggles with performance and the urgency at the heart of her latest collection of songs
As Baz Lurhmann’s new ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ comes to screens, we revisit Guitar Player’s classic interview with Presley’s first guitarist
Carl Perkins was friends with Elvis and inspired the Beatles. But in a split second, one of rock and roll’s pioneers was nearly silenced forever
Long before stadium tours and Platinum sales, a cheap Dallas Tuxedo was the bassist’s secret studio weapon
The King offered invaluable advice that any guitarist can put to use
The celebrated country icon spoke with us as he enjoyed a long-awaited — and much-deserved — career revival
"People love us when we’re starving,” noted Benson, who said performing may not pay, but it lets musicians stay true to their musical soul
The song came at a turning point in Cooper’s profile, with icons like John Lennon praising his music
Kaukonen was still making the transition from acoustic to electric guitar when he improvised his transformational solo
Behind the 1958 guitar instrumental that changed rock and roll’s sonic landscape forever
The two guitarists were growing closer as friends and musicians when they leaned on the other for assistance
May’s comments come in the wake of ICE killings in Minnesota
The guitarist wondered “why these guys look like that, and why it is that they think they look so cool?”
The guitarist was at his peak with Dire Straits when Dylan hired him to produce the celebrated album that ended his “born-again” phase
The result was a song entirely unlike anything the Rolling Stones would have recorded
Beck had been Bowie‘s first choice as guitarist in the Spiders From Mars. He proved temperamental to the end
