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March 2026

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23 articles

March 17
- “Let’s stop playing this rubbish.” The night Jimi Hendrix hijacked live TV — and got himself banned
- “We were watching this Beatles concert on TV when Keith comes walking down the stairs.” Keith Richards had a priceless response when he caught his band watching the Fab Four
March 16
- “Come on, get a move on!” John McLaughlin recalls the night Ginger Baker started throwing drumsticks at Jack Bruce
March 15
- “He remembered the amphetamine, not me.” Motörhead’s Phil Campbell on the wild thing Lemmy recalled about his audition
March 13
- “I’m not a cork sniffer.” Guthrie Trapp pushes back on vintage guitar hype
- “I have never been impaled through my whole hand.” Machine Gun Kelly injures hand on a giant thorn while filming video in Dublin
March 12
- “I don't know if I want to play this.” Rush’s new drummer had a ‘Yikes!’ moment over one classic song
- “This is a whole different thing.” He was a punchline on MTV in the ’90s. Now symphony orchestras play his music
- “I work all day.” Steve Morse spends his days fixing tractors and flying planes — and says it makes him more creative
- “Whoever said the best sound from a speaker is dead center?” Joe Bonamassa says you’re miking your amp wrong
March 11
- “I'll do that in solos. I’m a cheater.” Samantha Fish on the guitar trick behind her most distinctive sound
- “I know what he means.” Sammy Hagar compares Alex Van Halen to Roger Waters in new swipe at former bandmate
- Win tickets to see the SatchVai Band and Animals As Leaders perform in Northern California at Guitar Player Presents
March 10
- “They started chanting ‘Huey!’” Stevie Ray Vaughan bombed on opening night of a major tour
March 9
- “Valerie looked at me like, ‘Oh no…’” Steve Stevens showed up to rehearse with Eddie Van Halen — and instantly knew he’d made a mistake
March 8
- “Oh my God, hold up — are you OK?” Machine Gun Kelly stops the show after a female fan falls through a hole in the stage
March 6
- “An owl meeting a bumblebee in mid-flight.” Ritchie Blackmore on crafting the perfect Deep Purple–era guitar tone
March 5
- “About two weeks later he sent me a cassette.” Chris Cornell wrote “Black Hole Sun” after one producer told him to stop writing for fans
March 4
- “His first words were, ‘Ouch!’ and then ‘Good shot!’” Suzi Quatro on the time she almost sent Alice Cooper to the hospital on the Welcome to My Nightmare tour
- “I loved Tommy, but I couldn't be around the alcohol and drug thing too much.” Narada Michael Walden on the night he walked away from Tommy Bolin
March 3
- “I told Alex, ‘We’re either doing this or we’re not.’” Geddy Lee on forcing Alex Lifeson to restart Rush
March 2
- “You can’t evacuate everything.” Joe Bonamassa rethinks his massive guitar collection a year after L.A. wildfires forced a last-minute rescue
- “And he goes, ‘No… I’m Mick Jagger.’” Steve Stevens on the time the Rolling Stones frontman was mistaken for a session bassist