Latest about Pete Townshend
“Young kids that buy their first really good guitar end up in a love relationship with it – I've never had that”: Why Pete Townshend won't apologize for his '60s-era guitar-smashing antics
Rock's most famous guitar-smasher (mostly) abandoned that particular act over 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean he's wracked with guilt over his innumerable six-string beatings
“I didn’t want to be the flashy lead player. Whether it was Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, David Crosby or Richie Havens, what the left hand was doing was more fascinating to me than what the right hand was doing": The Paul Stanley interview
As Kiss hang up their guitars, Paul Stanley looks back on the instruments and musicians that shaped his musical personality
“I’ll Never Be Able to Play the Kind of Leads I Want”: Pete Townshend Discusses Guitar Solos, Gibson SGs and More in This Fascinating Interview From the ‘GP’ Vault
“I was happiest listening to Jimi Hendrix – that, to me, was like heaven,” said the Who’s six-string destroyer
Favored by Angus Young, Pete Townshend and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Here’s How the Gibson SG Came to Be
This classic electric guitar design has come to hold a unique place, both tonally and visually, in rock and roll history
The 50 Greatest Rhythm Guitar Players of All Time
The players who don't hog the limelight but do lay down the best chords and riffs in guitar history
Listen to the Who’s Psychedelic Pop Masterpiece, “Dogs”
A champion of psychedelia, the group’s June 1968 single was a dog on the charts
Jam-Jazz Cat Scott Metzger Steps Out With New Album ‘Too Close To Reason’ Armed With a Vintage Martin
This intimate solo debut highlights the unique charms of a 1955 Martin 000-18.
Rickenbacker Boss John Hall Endorses “Definitive” New Book at London Launch
The Californian electric guitar innovator’s conclusive history is finally revealed in ‘Rickenbacker Guitars: Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fireglo.’
