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Eddie Van Halen was "a pretty complex person" says his longtime friend and biographer
Steven Rosen had a 26-year friendship with the guitarist, whose personality was split between the guitar and the rest of his life, he says
Joe Bonamassa on the playing advice he got from Leslie West 30 years ago — and how it's elevated his live performances
It turns out the late guitarist gave similar advice to another blues-rocker who made it one of his essential tips for other players
Buddy Guy on his unconventional means of discovering the joys of feedback
The guitarist said the absence of stages in Chicago's juke joints brought musicians and audiences together, resulting in a lesson in the joys of feedback
“I’m listening to the guitar riffs and what they’re talking about. It’s just blues music sung by white people.” How Alice In Chains' blues influences and three 1932 Dobro Cyclops guitars made 'Sinners' one of the year's biggest films
The blues-meets-horror blockbuster features a wealth of blues greats, including Buddy Guy and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
John Lee Hooker told us how the blues is supposed to be played
The blues giant also called Stevie Ray Vaughan "one of the greatest" and raved about B.B. King and Muddy Waters in this engaging chat from our August 1992 issue
Ian Anderson and guitarist Mick Abrahams regroup the original Jethro Tull in 2002 for a return to their blues roots
The get-together reveals how the prog-rock innovators might have turned out were it not for Anderson's ambitions
Cory Wong sets a new bar for guitar excellence. But Stevie Ray Vaughan probably wouldn't have passed his test
The funk maestro says if guitarists can't ace this one skill, “I would not consider you an advanced guitarist”
Molly Miller shows six licks that put the power of modes to work in blues and jazz
Often the best way to develop modal vocabulary is by learning short phrases which resonate with "flavor" notes that are uniquely placed in the mode
