Phil Weller

Although his solo career was going strong, the Quiet Beatle entertained the possibility of forming a new band with one of his former Fabs

The time the young Ron Wood found himself in the Yardbirds for one night only

The guitarist dismisses the belief that speed is the be-all and end-all

Mastodon has released a short film about the guitarist who died just six months after leaving the band

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have reflected on the band’s changing creative process as they ready their latest album, “Foreign Tongues”

Some artists – AC/DC, the Ramones – find their sound and lock in. David Bowie never stood still. Here's why…

When FedEx ships your guitar to the wrong state, you need Johnny Marr to bring it home

Guitarists, he says, need to stop comparing themselves to others

Playing in subzero temperatures meant frozen fingers, failing tuning and some very unusual rules — including one gig where the audience had to wear headphones

Hitmaker Desmond Child gives a unique insight into Dave Lee Roth's unique working methods in the 1990s

Page hadn’t picked up a guitar for two years. A casual encounter with the Bad Company bandleader changed everything

And one of Van Halen’s most enduring hits seems to back up her argument

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