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Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Read one of Guitar Player's top stories of 2025

Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the 1960s guitar icon who led an electric blues revolution and died alone and unknown
By Alan di Perna published
Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success

Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards on the country-rock pioneer who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26
By Alan di Perna published
Despite his tumultuous lifestyle, Gram Parsons delivered transcendent music with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his own Fallen Angels

Buddy Guy on how a 150-foot guitar cable, a great big lie and a little kindness got him the gig that launched his career
By Dan Forte published
The legendary guitarist's story reveals the supportive brotherhood hidden beneath Chicago's cutthroat blues scene

Brent Mason is a first-call session guitarist. But even he can’t say what makes him so in demand
By Joe Bosso published
Brent Mason recalls his journey from struggling session guitarist to the Musician’s Hall of Fame, and the moment that changed everything

Paul Rodgers on playing with Paul Kossoff, Mick Ralphs, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Steve Cropper, Slash and Joe Bonamassa
By Gary Graff last updated
“I don't really know the secret of how guitarists create their own unique sounds,” Rodgers tells us, “but I know a good guitar sound when I hear it”

Doyle Bramhall II on Eric Clapton's incredible offer that brought him the gig of a lifetime
By Joe Bosso published
An opportunity to show Slowhand a few songs landed him on Clapton's Grammy-winning duet with B.B. King and opened the door to a lasting friendship

On the anniversary of Duane Allman's death, we present Guitar Player's 1973 memorial to Allman Brothers Band icon
By Richard Albero published
Guitar Player was scheduled to interview Skydog the December after his death. This memorial ran 18 months later in the May/June 1973 issue.
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