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Joan Jett and Garbage rally around L7 bassist Jennifer Finch after she receives brain cancer diagnosis
By Phil Weller Published
The band has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help cover extensive medical care and in-home support after multiple surgeries and complications

Peter Frampton on why he quit Humble Pie — and the band member who helped push him out the door
By Phil Weller Published
Frampton says his rift with Steve Marriott forced him to leave before the band’s breakthrough record came out

“We did our best work with Dave.” Alex Van Halen explains why David Lee Roth was Van Halen’s secret ingredient
By Phil Weller Published
The drummer says Roth’s chemistry with Van Halen “was brilliant soup” — and credits the singer with connecting to audiences like no one else could

Don Felder on helping out Tom Petty, recording with Joni Mitchell and writing the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ solo with Joe Walsh
By Gary Graff Published
The former Eagles guitarist shares reminiscences — and explains how Walsh helped develop the iconic dual-guitar lines in “Hotel California”

George Harrison said he would have formed a new group with just one Beatle
By Phil Weller Published
Although his solo career was going strong, the Quiet Beatle entertained the possibility of forming a new band with one of his former Fabs

For Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan, Live Aid was a case of bad vibes for a good cause
By Gary Graff Published
We look back at a few of the big guitar moments from the global music event, held 41 years ago this weekend

George Thorogood on his Live Aid performances with Bo Diddley and Albert Collins, and the two actors who made his day
By Gary Graff Published
Enlisted at the last minute, Thorogood and the Destroyers brought along two special guests and turned in one of the day's best guitar performances

When Ron Wood first met Eric Clapton
By Phil Weller Published
The time the young Ron Wood found himself in the Yardbirds for one night only

Danny Cedrone recorded possibly “the best rock and roll solo of all time” – twice! – but a cruel tragedy meant that he never got to perform it
By Tom Poak Published
Danny Gatton said his playing “knocked him on his ass” and Brian Setzer calls it “the best solo of all time”: Danny Cedrone could have been rock’n’roll’s first guitar hero – but he didn’t live to see the impact he had
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