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Mark Knopfler borrowed this 12-string electric for 50 years and played it on some famous songs. Now it could be yours
By Phil Weller published
Loaned to him by a folk-rock guitarist in the mid ’70s, the instrument spent five decades in his care and featured in notable moments of Knopfler's career

“It was magic.” Jack Bruce on the day he met Eric Clapton and how the guitarist changed his way of listening and playing
By Tom Mulhern published
Bruce recalled the very first jam between Cream's future members at the Windsor Jazz Festival

John Mayall recalls Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor in Guitar Player's December 1970 issue
By Fred Stuckey published
We remember John Mayall on the first anniversary of the blues legend's death with a classic interview from our vault

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker wanted to keep Cream a secret. A record project nearly blew their cover
By Phil Weller published
Tasked with putting together an all-star band in 1966, Manfred Mann's singer coincidentally formed a dream team that included all three of Cream's members

Eddie Van Halen was "a pretty complex person" says his longtime friend and biographer
By Phil Weller published
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

“I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on his 1960s contemporaries — and the one guitarist he thought was fun
By Phil Weller published
With news that a new King Crimson album is in the works, Fripp's past comments highlight the left-field ideas that make him an original

Andy Summers on why Eric Clapton bored him and how his love of jazz fueled the Police
By Phil Weller published
"It’s too simple to play because it’s based on a five-note scale, and I had come way past that," the guitarist says

Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, George Harrison and John Lennon performed with him. Today he’s virtually unknown
By Ben Fisher published
Delaney Bramlett helped Clapton and Harrison find their footing as they approached their solo careers at the end of the 1960s
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