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“Not the most relaxed situation for me,” the former Michael Jackson guitarist told GP in a 1989 interview

“Not the most relaxed situation for me,” the former Michael Jackson guitarist told GP in a 1989 interview

Self-effacing as ever, the Dire Straits man gave multiple reasons – serious and humorous – for moving away from the plectrum, while still citing the pick as “a superior thing”

Having spent years attempting to settle on a sonic direction in the wake of the departure of Syd Barrett in 1968, Echoes was the sound of a band finally locking into place

In this vintage chat with Gibson, Page talks about his most famous Les Paul and some of its unique aspects, such as its sealed Grover tuners and bridge humbucker-splitting push-pull knob

Though two of the surviving members of Floyd reunited for the 2022 Ukrainian aid single, Hey Hey, Rise Up, Gilmour says there are no further plans to resurrect the band

Speaking to GP in 2020, Page said that he, John Paul Jones, and Jason Bonham “had honed ourselves to the point where we were ready” for a tour after the band's acclaimed full set at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert

In Queen's early days, May didn't have backup copies of the Red Special – let alone a company that manufactures replicas of it – leading him to keep both models around as Plan Bs

Ironically enough, White would end up writing an actual Bond theme just five years later

Speaking to GP in 2009, Elvis Presley's original six-string sideman said the near-mythical session began somewhat inauspiciously

The Toto guitarist revealed that Beck's camp has offered a number of other guitar heroes – including Billy Gibbons and John Mayer – a chance to use the Strat onstage as part of an ongoing tribute to the late guitar hero

Speaking to GP in 2008, the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Allman Brothers Band virtuoso reflected on how recording with McCoy Tyner and other jazz luminaries kept him on his toes, and took him out of his comfort zone

“You have to remember,” Macca's longtime six-string sideman emphasized to GP in 2005, “the Beatles did a record every six months”

The seemingly dramatic end of Hall & Oates' incredibly successful run, the latter maintains, is a matter of “very boring business details,” rather than personal acrimony

The hangover (sonically and otherwise) from Oasis's infamously overstuffed and overlong third album, Be Here Now, led Gallagher to pursue a wholesale transformation in sound

Though he did so with incredible creative and commercial success, leading the Allman Brothers Band in the wake of Duane Allman's untimely passing took a heavy toll on Betts, emotionally and musically

May famously built the original with his father while in his teens. The duo even originally built the guitar's pickups themselves, though on that particular front they faced some headwinds

Speaking to GP about the studio rig he used for the band's then-new comeback album, Switch, Farriss cited his love for guitars both traditional and unusual for an arena-rocker

In an interview with GP, the Steve Miller Band leader recalled the monumental impression Paul left on him as a youngster

Creedence were scheduled to go on after the Grateful Dead, who, unsurprisingly, took liberties with their allotted set time, leaving the band to take the stage at 12:30 in the morning

Radio-friendly as it was, Owner of a Lonely Heart nonetheless had a one-take solo that was the product of some quirky mic placements

In 2013 – in the midst of a tour, and just one month after the release of Bon Jovi's What About Now album – Sambora ended his 30-year run with the enormously successful band