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Jim McCarty recalls Eric Clapton’s “quite unhappy” time with the Yardbirds
By Gary Graff published
The Yardbirds drummer tells GP Clapton thought the group was selling out when it chose to record “For Your Love.” It turned out to be their first hit

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

“You left your wax cylinders at home?” Jack White welcomes Stephen Colbert back to public-access TV
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Less than 24 hours after ‘The Late Show’ ended, White joined Colbert on Michigan's ‘Only in Monroe’ for a bizarre hour of music, Bigfoot talk and set-smashing

P.J. Harvey on why she stopped playing guitar onstage — and the real reason she chose her first pair of tour guitarists
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Her first proper solo album in 1995 marked a turning point in the iconic performer’s approach to performance

Lita Ford on the Runaways, rock and roll — and what happens to hecklers who get in her face
By Richard Bienstock published
Ford says as she talks us through her guitar history, from her first acoustic to her custom B.C. Richs

Melissa Etheridge walked into a guitar shop — and nobody knew who she was
By Gary Graff published
What she learned on her visit helped her become her band’s lead guitarist after years of playing acoustics

“They advertise it as a safe tonic to give you energy — and it’s not.” Brian Setzer on the “health drink” that sent him to rehab
By Gary Graff published
The Stray Cats guitarist explains how an over-the-counter tonic derailed the group’s last tour

Narada Michael Walden on the night he walked away from Tommy Bolin
By Christopher Scapelliti published
The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck collaborator says Bolin’s addictions forced a heartbreaking decision, months before the guitarist’s death.

“I cried.” John Mayer says his label didn’t hear any hits on his album. Then it sold five million copies
By Phil Weller published
After nearly scrapping ‘Continuum,’ Mayer said he learned a lesson about believing in himself

“His voice was a whisper.” Adrian Belew on the last time he saw Frank Zappa — and the memory he prefers to remember
By Phil Weller published
More than 30 years after Zappa’s death, Belew shares memories of visiting the ailing guitarist — and the unexpected phone call that gave him closure
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