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Matteo Mancuso on why he plays fingerstyle on electric — and how he got Steve Vai to work with him
The Sicilian virtuoso spoke with us on a rare visit to the United States
Steve Stevens on smashed guitars, being pushed offstage — and what he discovered watching Billy Idol’s new documentary
As ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ hits theaters, the New York native talks highlights from his long career with the British rocker
oni Mitchell on the guitar she got from a Vietnam soldier — it vanished after she wrote and recorded her signature hits with it
Mitchell said her 1956 Martin D-28 helped create ‘Blue’ and her most beloved songs. Losing it changed her relationship with guitars forever.
The night Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discovered the blues
Before Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, they heard the blues live — and were inspired to change rock music forever
Before the Oscar, before ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Jeff Bridges was ready to give his life to music. Then Hollywood intervened
The actor's history as a musician wasn’t fully revealed until his 2009 Oscar-winning role in ‘Crazy Heart’
Scotty Moore on the night Elvis Presley walked into Sun Records — and the session that launched the King’s career
As Baz Lurhmann’s new ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ comes to screens, we revisit Guitar Player’s classic interview with Presley’s first guitarist
Julian Lage says noise from cellphone towers made recording his guitars impossible. Just by luck, he had a fix
The guitarist was cutting his new album near the Empire State Building, where interference from 5G towers was excessively strong
Al Jardine on the Beach Boys’ “lost album” and Brian Wilson’s strangest comeback
As ‘We Gotta Groove’ highlights a polarizing, two-year period in the group‘s history, the long-running guitarist reflects on a band in transition
