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His ex called up to complain about her marriage. The result was his first hit song
By Joe Matera published
Fuel’s “Shimmer” launched the post-grunge act to fame. Carl Bell says it wouldn’t have happened without that fateful phone call

The Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Know everything there is to know about the guitars of The Beatles? Then test yourself with the GP quiz…

John 5 shreds live in the studio on his upcoming song "Fiend"
By Christopher Scapelliti last updated
The guitarist tells us the song is destined for a solo album and that his producer assists him by handling effects so John can focus on his playing

"We used the mic amp of the mixing board to get distortion. It almost sounds like a synthesizer." Jimmy Page on creating the magic behind the famous Led Zeppelin riff he didn't write
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Page and the group struggled with the tricky rhythm. In the end, they discovered that keeping it simple was the solution

He was demonstrating four-track recording when he wrote a 3 million-selling hit song
By Joe Bosso published
Hooters guitarist Eric Bazilian imagined “One of Us” as a song for the Crash Test Dummies. Instead it became Joan Osborne's 1995 triple-Platinum breakthrough

Jimi Hendrix's record collection reveals the artists who shaped his guitar playing
By James Volpe Rotondi published
Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's former girlfriend, treated Guitar Player to a look at the albums he loved while they lived together in London

Springsteen hated it. Behind the most famous misheard lyric in rock history
By Andrew Daly published
The song caused their guitarist to quit, opening the door for Chris Thompson, who played guitar and sang on what became the band first number-one hit

Ronnie Baker Brooks, son of Lonnie Brooks, stakes his claim to a place in the Chicago blues hierarchy
By Alan Paul published
On the album's cover, Ronnie holds the 1967 Gibson SG his father held on his 1979 album, ‘Bayou Lightning’
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