Phil Weller

The corporate buyouts of America’s biggest brands have been blamed for a decline in quality – but what if they only exacerbated the issues facing the industry at that time?

A forgotten piece of 1970s gear became crucial to their late-career swan song

62 years after he last played it, Paul McCartney dug out a significant song for Taylor Swift's wedding

The Goo Goo Dolls frontman says Swift's 2011 Madison Square Garden duet — and viral social media moments since — helped keep one of rock's biggest songs alive

Originally dismissed during early sessions, “Eagles Fly” was later revived by Hagar and Eddie Van Halen for his first Van Halen–era solo album

The Muse guitarist says he never expected his band, the White Stripes and the Strokes to outlast their early-2000s peers — and he credits White with changing guitar culture along the way

Van Halen revealed his very practical reason for ignoring the rule against performing on other artist’s recordings

With Lee sidelined by laryngitis and bronchitis, it’s a reminder of 1979’s ‘Hemispheres’ tour, when Lifeson’s fretting hand took a hit just as Rush were becoming one of rock’s hottest live acts 

May says creative friction was part of the process that made the group so successful

The son of John Lennon traces his love of dark, dissonant music to Fantasia and the Beatles' “I Want You (She's So Heavy),” which he calls one of rock's most groundbreaking riffs

McCartney says the band was happy to see if Lennon’s altered state created studio magic. On this night, it nearly ended in catastrophe

As the Best of All Worlds band heads to Europe for July dates, Satriani says Hagar's greatest strength as a guitarist comes from thinking more like a lead singer than a shredder.

The former Mr. Big guitarist says tinnitus can make entire performances sound painfully out of tune — even when audience recordings prove everything was pitch-perfect. But the condition also led him to become a more melodic player

Trower says the band only discovered the tape a copy was sent to them. One quick vocal overdub later, they had ‘Robin Trower Live!’ — now expanded for its 50th anniversary

After discovering the track during a visit to America, Harrison carried it with him for nearly a quarter-century before revisiting it on ‘Cloud Nine’

The solo changed the Queen guitarist’s life, but when he tried to pay tribute to its writer, the effort backfired spectacularly

Beck saw evidence of rivalry stretching back to the Yardbirds and his Stevie Wonder collaborations. But a remark Clapton made late in Beck’s career changed his perspective

The Moving Sidewalks took a gamble by covering Hendrix songs in front of the guitar icon himself. His reaction launched a friendship that lasted until his death

Years before the ill-fated post-Eddie Van Halen tribute tour, Roth approached Satriani with a very different proposal: a band dedicated to Van Halen's music while Eddie was still on the road.

Copeland says he and Sting still talk regularly — and have finally figured out how to keep the peace

Norman Harris says giving back is important. Through the store's hugely popular videos, he's helped emerging players find audiences — and in some cases launch careers, including Marcus King’s

A new documentary uncovers the intense sibling dynamic that fueled the group’s rise — from fighting over a guitar to reaching rock stardom

The guitarist is embarking on a new chapter, making “music for the girls in the front row”

The guitarist says she used to fill her solos with every trick in the book. Then she tuned into the song’s melody — and it changed everything