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In a 2017 interview with Guitar Aficionado, the country-rock six-string ace revealed how a sad and deeply personal twist of events brought a prized '59 Les Paul into his life
“You have to remember,” Macca's longtime guitarist told us, “the Beatles did a record every six months”
The former Dire Straits guitarist told us why he moved away from the plectrum but still regards the pick as “a superior thing”
In a 2017 interview with Guitar Aficionado, the country-rock six-string ace revealed how a sad and deeply personal twist of events brought a prized '59 Les Paul into his life
In a 1990 GP interview, McCartney expressed his personal preference for getting gnarlier rock tones out of his Vox amps, despite his pop reputation
Though the two budding virtuosos had plenty of respect for one another, it perhaps isn't a huge surprise that their respective styles occasionally clashed in the Yardbirds
“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
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, 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
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
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
