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Black Stone Cherry’s Ben Wells and Chris Robertson on How to Stick the Landing on Their Hard Rock/Country Crossover Sound By Mark McStea ’The Human Condition’ finds the Kentucky stalwarts going all in with big hooks and songs that'll live long in the memory.
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The Unstoppable Rise of Ritchie Blackmore and the Making of 'Deep Purple in Rock' By Richard Bienstock How the maniacal mind and guitar mastery of the Man in Black created a hard-rock masterpiece.
How Grand Funk Railroad Made Stadiums Their Own as They Shook a Generation with a Fierce Rock Sound By Joe Bosso Mark Farner looks back on the gear, songs, and stories behind the biggest American hard-rock band of the early 1970s.
They Came From Planet Shred: How '80s Guitar Heroes Changed Hard Rock Forever By Guitar Player Staff Slash, John Sykes, Mick Mars, George Lynch, and more invaded hard rock in the '80s, moving it further from its blues-rock origins.
Jimmy Buffett Returns to His Folk Roots to Rework Deep Cuts From His Catalog By Jimmy Leslie The mayor of Margaritaville on songwriting, desert island guitars, and the importance of telling a good story.
How George Kooymans, and Michael and Rudolf Schenker, Put a European Spin on Hard-Rock Guitar By Mark McStea Look back at three guitarists who drove hard rock's European evolution with the Scorpions, Golden Earring, and UFO.
How Brian May, Joe Perry, Eddie Van Halen, and More Re-Shaped Hard-Rock Guitar in the 1970s By Guitar Player Staff As hard-rock diversified and graduated from halls to arenas, these guitarists defined the sounds and styles of the '70s.
Vinyl Treasures: Deep Purple's 'Machine Head' By Jim Campilongo Ritchie Blackmore brings the fire on Deep Purple’s 1972 hard-rock masterpiece.
![Tom Scholz [left] and Barry Goudreau put together one of their immaculate guitar harmonies](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KLesjaF9LhNnfRsS243P2k-840-80.jpg.webp)
