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NOVEMBER 26: ROYAL ALBERT HALL Photo of CREAM, L-R: Jack Bruce, John Peel (sitting on chair in shadows), Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker performing live onstage at farewell concert, with Marshall amplifiers

Watch Cream’s Legendary “Sunshine of Your Love” Farewell Performance on the Anniversary of ‘Disraeli Gears’

By Rod Brakes published

Video Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker bring the house down at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1968.

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Peter Frampton

“I Suddenly Realized That Everybody Was Trying To Be Eric”: Peter Frampton Talks Finding His Own Style

By Art Thompson published

The British guitar phenom explains the importance of jazz in his formative years.

B.B. King performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on 6 July, 1969

Blues Turnarounds (Part 1)

By Phil Capone last updated

How to play soulful, harmonically effective melodies over the last four bars of a blues progression in the styles of the genre’s greatest players.

Jimi Hendrix, 1970

Watch this 1970 ABC Bulletin Delivering the Shocking News of Jimi Hendrix’s Death

By Rod Brakes published

Video “An astonishing performer whose onstage gyrations could make Elvis Presley look like a PE teacher.”

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Custom Kraft Beat Blaster

Looking for a Cool American-Made Vintage Guitar for Under a Grand? Keep Your Eyes Open for One of These

By Terry Carleton published

This 1968 Custom Kraft Beat Blaster looks, plays and sounds great.

Liona Boyd seated in her apartment in Toronto, 2014.

Five Reasons Liona Boyd is a Guitar Legend

By Guitar Player Staff published

The “First Lady of the Guitar” is a classical master.

Carolyn Wonderland with John Mayall performs at Rockefeller on March 3, 2019 in Oslo, Norway.

Carolyn Wonderland Talks Going from the Sidelines to Center Stage

By Sue Foley published

Following in the footsteps of Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor the Texan powerhouse has filled some of blues guitar’s biggest shoes.

Peter Green (right) and bassist John McVie of Fleetwood Mac rehearsing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, April 22, 1969.

Blues-Rock Power: Master the Electrifying Phrases of Peter Green, Jimi Hendrix and Others

By Guitar Player Staff last updated

Loud and heavy, with an emphasis on extended solos, this is a vital style of guitar. Nail it down with this lesson.

ROLLING STONES and Mick JAGGER and Ronnie WOOD, Ron Wood (Ronnie Wood) (playing Zemaitis guitar)

Zemaitis: King of Custom-Made Guitars

By Dave Hunter published

Video Axes of choice for Hendrix, Clapton, and Gilmour these vintage rarities are the ultimate rock star guitars.

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Eric Clapton (L) and Ed Sheeran attend the Ivor Novello Awards 2018 at Grosvenor House, on May 31, 2018 in London, England.

The Miraculous Story of Ed Sheeran’s Eric Clapton Guitar

By Rod Brakes last updated

Matt Gleeson, of Monty’s Guitars, on how they rescued "the world’s only fully roasted guitar"

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