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September 28
- "This Was the Secret We’d All Been Searching for!" Discover the Key to Peter Green's “Magic” 1959 'Burst Les Paul Tone
- Here’s Why Fleetwood Mac's 1969 Album 'Then Play On' is One of the Greatest Blues-Rock Records Ever Made
- “First of All, There Was No Guitar Player Who Had Ever Played Like That”: Van Halen Producer Ted Templeman Tells ‘GP’ How It All Began
- “These Are All Familiar Songs From a Play or a Movie”: As He Drops ‘Stage & Screen,’ John Pizzarelli Celebrates His 40th Year of Recording and Reflects on the Lessons He Learned From His Father, Bucky
September 26
- “I Kind of Stole Ed...And That Wasn’t Something That Happened Very Often”: Brian May Expounds on Eddie Van Halen’s Role in the Fabled ‘Star Fleet Project’
- “You Have to Account for 'Tales'…I Don’t Think We’d Be the Same Group Without It”: Steve Howe Talks Yes's ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans’ and Other Milestone Albums
September 22
- Hear These Fine Vintage Martins in Action on Collector and Bluegrass Ambassador Gary Brewer’s Latest Cut, ‘House of Axes’
- Featuring Unhinged Electric Guitar Work and a Contradictory Shredding Non-Solo, Here Why You Need to Listen to Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto’s ‘Love, Love’
September 21
- “It’s About Having Teeth”: Simon McBride Explains How to Get a Kick-Ass Hard-Rock Guitar Sound in an Arena
September 20
- “Your Best Song Is Always yet to Come”: Telecaster Master James Burton Names Five Career-Defining Tracks
September 19
- “If You Think You’re Going to Get Better by Watching 30-Second Instagram Clips of Guitarists Playing as Fast as They Can, Think Again”: Eddie 9V Shares the Advice That Made Him Blues-Rock’s New Guitar Star
- “We Got One Play on MTV at 1:55 a.m. Then Everything Just Lit up”: Reb Beach Reveals How “Seventeen” Rescued Winger From Obscurity
September 18
- Vernon Reid: "One of My Key Reference Points is Mahavishnu Orchestra’s 'The Inner Mounting Flame'. When it Came Out, it Was the Jazz Equivalent of 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols'"
September 15
- Albert Lee: "Back in 1963, I Bought a Second-Hand Tele and it Changed My Life Completely. The Tele Had a Really Wiry Sound Compared to My Les Paul Custom... I Immediately Began to Approach Music Differently"
September 14
- Gary Moore: "When I’d See Peter Green, I Was Hanging on Every Note He Played. When He Would Hit the Note, it Would Just Go Right Through Me"
September 12
- Peter Frampton: "I Arrived in San Francisco To Do the Fillmore with Humble Pie. I Had a Terrible Guitar. I Was Almost in Tears Trying to Play it. Lo and Behold, This Young Man Came Up to Me and Said I Could Borrow His Black Les Paul"
September 11
- Jeff Beck: "I’ve Done a Whole Tour with a Fender Twin When Stevie Ray Vaughan Was Going Through About Four Billion Watts... He Asked Me, ‘What the Hell Are You Using? Are Your Amps Under the Stage?’”
September 7
- "I Kept Trying to Use Other Guitars, but Nigel Godrich Would Say, ‘You Know What We Should Try, Don’t You?’ ‘Casino?’ ‘Yep!’": Paul McCartney Reveals How He Fell Back in Love with His Epiphone Casino, and Transformed His Sound, in 2005 GP Interview
- "He Was Not Only a Great Rock and Roll Player, But in the Classics, and in Every Other Field, He Was Phenomenal": Ozzy Osbourne Shares His Fond Memories of Randy Rhoads in 1982 GP Interview
September 5
- "I Was 19 When I Left the Yardbirds. I Intended to Give Up Then, but John Mayall Offered Me a Job... I Needed the Bread, and Some Kind of Identity Too': Cream's Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce Discuss Balancing Blues, Jazz, and Volume in 1967 GP Interview