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Steely Dan’s key guitarist on what happened behind his hit tracks with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
The ace says he never knew the outcome of a session. ”They would never tell you whether what you played would be kept or not.”
How George Harrison, banjo and a studio accident inspired Roger McGuinn’s invention of folk rock
The Byrds’ guitarist was later told he influenced Harrison to write a Beatles’ classic. “We had some cross-pollination,” he says
How a 1970s rock legend scored his second career-defining hit — and why it feels like a curse 50 years on
Video Recorded in 30 takes with his Martin 00-21, this 1972 hit has delivered mixed blessings
Randy Bachman on his jaw-dropping introduction to Stephen Stills at Neil Young’s 70th birthday party
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Randy Rhoads’ constant practice drove Ozzy Osbourne crazy. The solution? A tiny pedalboard designed to please them both
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Joe Walsh names the “12 best all-time-forever” guitar solos by Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and nine other icons
The Eagles guitarist told us what rocked his boat from these classics across the decades of rock and roll
John Lennon played it on repeat. Frank Sinatra called it the best song of the 1970s. How a simple C9 chord inspired a timeless top-10 hit
“It was a spiritual download that just flowed through me”: guitarist Graeham Goble explains how learning this extended chord unlocked LRB's “pinnacle song” in half an hour
From Triumph to Bon Jovi — Phil X on working with Chris Cornell, Richie Sambora, Alice Cooper, Orianthi and Rik Emmett
The guitarist riffs on the guitarists and artists he’s known and worked for in a career spanning 40 years
