interview "Advice? Sometimes you are going to be so frustrated you want to give up – you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded.” Jimi Hendrix talks technique, songwriting, making records and more in this 1968 Guitar Player interview Electric Ladyland was released 25 October 1968. Guitar Player interviewed Jimi Hendrix shortly before the album's release... “I’d Never Heard Anything That Brilliant, and Ed Said, ‘No, It’s Nothing’”: Producer Ted Templeman Reveals How He Helped Turn Eddie Van Halen’s “Warm Up” Into One of the Greatest Solos of All Time, “Eruption” “He said, ‘It’s just something I warm up with before each show.' 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“I Would Try to Get Different Sounds out of My Guitar”: Muriel Anderson Talks Interpretation, Inspiration and Dreaming About Guitars By Sue Foley published 3 August 23 A true musical adventurer, Muriel Anderson has played with Chet Atkins and Les Paul and continues to perform throughout the U.S.
"Blues Music Is My First Love": Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Reveals Five Life-Changing Riffs By Jim Beaugez published 2 August 23 Video The Fender signature artist and Grammy-winning bluesman talks vital influences from Albert King and B.B. King to Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel
“A Lot of Cats Don’t Work on Their Rhythm Enough…The Next Thing Is Pitch”: Prince Shares Some Guitar-Playing Wisdom in This Awesome Interview From the ‘GP’ Vault By Art Thompson published 27 July 23 “When you get these things down, then you can learn how to solo,” said the purple one
“Study Is a Big Word. I Just Looked at the Charts and Saw New Chords”: Peter One Reveals His Approach to Guitar Playing and Talks Returning to Music With an Intoxicating Solo Debut, ‘Come Back to Me’ By Jim Beaugez published 22 July 23 “African music is sometimes weird; the beat is difficult. So I said to myself, If I play an instrument like guitar, I’ll probably get it,” says the former West African star
“If You Want to Play Guitar, It Isn’t Something That Comes Overnight”: A 27-Year-Old Rick Derringer Details His Gear, Technique and Outlook in This Savvy Interview From the ‘GP’ Vault By Guitar Player Staff published 6 July 23 “My personal goal is just to make the next thirty years, or the next fifty,” Rick Derringer told ‘Guitar Player’ in 1975
“Furch Guitars Sound Quite Distinctive and Special”: These Sublime Acoustics Deserve Your Serious Attention By Jamie Dickson published 2 June 23 Timeless in tone and style, yet built with advanced luthiery techniques – we travel to the Czech Republic to find out more
“’Sunday Bloody Sunday’ Was an Absolutely Pivotal Song for Us”: Three Albums Into Their Career, U2 Found Their Triumphant Sound and Activist Voice on ‘War’ By Joe Bosso published 1 June 23 Forty years on, The Edge and producer Steve Lillywhite discuss the album on which the group built its legacy
“There Were No Rules With This Project”: The Edge Reveals the Secrets Behind U2’s New Album, 'Songs of Surrender' – a Whopping Collection of “Reimagined” Songs From Their Back Catalog By Joe Bosso published 1 June 23 When it came to remaking 40 classic U2 tracks, The Edge was guided by his heart and one grand idea: “to make intimacy the new version of punk rock”
Child Prodigy Taj Farrant’s Top Ten Tips for Guitarists By Rod Brakes published 31 January 23 The six-string wunderkind offers these solid-gold pointers for fellow guitar players of any age
"I Was Set Free": Humble Pie Guitarist Clem Clempson Talks Lighting up One of the 1970s’ Hottest Rock Albums: ‘Smokin’’ By James Volpe Rotondi last updated 2 December 22 How Humble Pie was reignited after Peter Frampton's sudden departure
