Darrin Fox

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Eddie Van Halen of the rock group Van Halen performs at the Forum in May, 1984 in Inglewood, California.
Meet 30 players who tapped, twanged, sweep-picked and shredded the 1980s to its greatest glory

By GP Editors Last updated

From Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Daniel Ash and Jamie West-Oram, we present the decades' greatest players across the genres

Guitarists
David Gilmour performs during the David Gilmour concert as part of the Luck and Strange tour at Madison Square Garden on November 04, 2024 in New York, New York.
David Gilmour revealed his favorite solo and the guitar behind Pink Floyd’s biggest songs (it’s not the Black Strat)

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The guitar icon shared insights into his guitar style and the origins of his pedal-steel guitar with Guitar Player in 2003

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(from left) Dweezil Zappa, Eddie Van Halen and Frank Zappa perform onstage
"I showed Eddie Van Halen some of what I had to learn in order to pull off Frank’s music... Eddie said, 'Who would've thought that you'd be giving me a guitar lesson!': How Dweezil Zappa took EVH inside his father's playing, and left him in awe

By Jackson Maxwell Published

In this vintage GP interview, Dweezil also reflected on the idiosyncratic nature of his father's soloing, and how the elder Zappa worked around his technical limitations

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Andy Partridge of XTC
“I never practice, so my technique is not great, but I also don’t go down a lot of ultra-rehearsed alleyways. I can still find things that are surprising to me. That may not happen if I practiced every day”: An archive interview with Andy Partridge of XTC

By Darrin Fox Published

Andy Partridge on how he approaches solos, his biggest influence, and how he takes the same chords and scales as anyone else but makes them sound totally original…

Guitarists
Gary Moore performs onstage at Shepherds Bush Empire in London on November 1, 2009
Gary Moore: "When I’d See Peter Green, I Was Hanging on Every Note He Played. When He Would Hit the Note, it Would Just Go Right Through Me"

By Darrin Fox Published

The late blues guitar great discusses channeling Roy Buchanan with a Tele, the best piece of playing advice he ever got, and the hard-rock guitar icon who borrowed liberally from his "Parisienne Walkways" melody in this 2007 GP interview.

Guitarists
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa's Favorite Guitars and Amps

By Darrin Fox Published

“Frank rarely used anything stock": Dweezil Zappa reveals the custom gear behind some of his late father's greatest recordings in this essential read from the 'GP' vault

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown during 2005 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Day 1 at 2005 New Orleans Jazz Festival in New Orleans, Louisana, United States.
“Stop Thinking About the Guys You Idolize. Think for Yourself”: Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Pulls No Punches in this Incredible Interview From the GP Archive

By Darrin Fox Published

The guitar legend defiantly stares down death, blues clichés, and brainless categorizations.

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Joe Satriani Reflects on 20 Years of Surfing With the Alien

By Darrin Fox Published

“I didn’t want my follow-up album to be a weird, quirky record”

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