Guitar Player
Guitar Player is a monthly magazine for guitarists, founded in California in 1967.
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Jesse Ed Davis: An Interview with Jesse Ed Davis
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, March 1974
JESSE ED DAVIS plays guitar like a man with a mission. You probably wouldn't find him listed in any guitar polls, but you'd sure as ...
Funkadelic: Scifi Funkiness: Triple Threat Guitar From Funkadelic
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1977
ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO, a group of singers organized themselves from a rather large barbershop group into a pop/soul conglomeration called Parliament. They moved from ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1975
THOUGH DAVE MASON admits he’s a songwriter first and a guitarist second, his work on the electric instrument has tagged him as a standout player ...
Lowell Fulson: 40 Years Of Playing The Blues
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, November 1976
THOUGH his name may not be as familiar as B.B. King’s, Ray Charles’, or T-Bone Walker’s, Lowell Fulson (with an n, not an m) has ...
Brothers Johnson: The Brothers Johnson
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, November 1979
'PLATINUM' IS THE perfect word to precede 'record' when you’re a musician today. And with a three-for-three tally, the Brothers Johnson are decorating their walls ...
Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore: Ritchie Blackmore: Wailing over the Purple Rainbow
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, 1978
WHILE RITCHIE Blackmore’s Baroque-tinged shred solos make him the in-vitro father of today’s progressive- and classical-metal movement (just ask Yngwie), his foot-stomping power chords in ...
Focus, Jan Akkerman: Jan Akkerman: Dutch Treat
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1975
JAN AKKERMAN, lead guitarist of Focus, represents the new breed of European guitarists so long invisible under the veil of the English players. Where the ...
Bachman Turner Overdrive: Overdrive Man: Randy Bachman
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1975
HAD RANDY BACHMAN (pronounced back-man) never even picked up a guitar, his talents as a songwriter and producer would have been enough to implant his ...
Back Street Crawler, Free, Paul Kossoff: Paul Kossoff: An Interview with Rock’s Street Crawler
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1976
THE LATE PAUL KOSSOFF, born in London, September 14, 1950, became the unsung guitar great of Free at the age of eighteen. That short-lived, but ...
Aerosmith: The Joe Perry Interview
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, 1979
UNLEASHING HIGH-ENERGY rock and roll led by Steven Tyler’s vocals and the often dueling guitars of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, the members of Aerosmith ...
Bo Diddley: Man Among Men, Guitarist Among Guitarists
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Guitar Player, October 1996
YOU KNOW BO Diddley invented that beat, one of the driving forces of rock and roll. You know he had a bunch of seminal ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, June 1974
ANDY POWELL, TED TURNER, and Martin Turner form the front instrumental line of England’s Wishbone Ash, a quartet (rounded out with Steve Upton on drums) ...
John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra: Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1975
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN has taken the guitar further in the last two years of his career than most players hope to in a lifetime. His ...
King Crimson, Robert Fripp: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1974
ROBERT FRIPP, lead guitarist with English rock King Crimson, conspicuous personality by appearing inconspicuous. Rather than stand when performing, he perches himself on a stool, ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer, King Crimson: Greg Lake
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, September 1974
GREG LAKE IS the surrounded L in ELP, the British trio which has brought to the forefront the power of classical music in a rock ...
Rory Gallagher talks technique
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1974
RORY GALLAGHER was mentor and founding member of Taste, a pre-Cream trio which pioneered the way for the so-called "heavy" bands. With his Irish trio ...
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1977
CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW with Jimmy Page, lead guitarist and producer/arranger for England's notorious hard rock band Led Zeppelin, amounts very nearly to constructing a mini-history ...
Genesis: From England's Genesis, here's Steve Hackett
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976
STEVE Hackett usually inhabits the deepest, darkest corner of Genesis' performing stage. Perched on a footstool, the English lead guitarist opts more for guitar technique ...
Pearl Jam: Mike McCready Gets His Feet Wet
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, February 1992
"IT RAINS all the time, so you're always inside." Mike McCready laughs; the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam is trying to explain why Seattle is ...
Robin Trower: Digging Deep Into The Pocket
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, September 1994
"IT'S BEEN difficult for me to drop into the background, since my whole life has been about being in the foreground," observes Robin Trower about ...
Phish and H.O.R.D.E.: In the Beginning
Report and Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, 31 August 1993
Blues Traveler, Phish, Widespread Panic & Col. Bruce Hampton haven't merely risen from the Dead ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Exploring The Outer Frequencies
Profile and Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, March 1992
"MY PENCHANT for feedback came naturally," smirks Billy Corgan of Chicago's Smashing Pumpkins. "One day I connected a Supro amp to a Les Paul, turned ...
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, October 1992
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM is finally a free man. "It feels great," he enthuses, savoring the fact that the release of his third solo album, Out Of ...
Captain Beefheart, Gods and Monsters: Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, September 1990
"THE MUSICAL landscape is completely moribund," says Gary Lucas. "It's one of the worst periods in memory, worse than the mid '70s. My music is ...
Interview by Paul Trynka, Guitar Player, January 1998
PORTISHEAD, THE British band who spawned the trip hop genre, appear to represent the cutting edge of electronic pop, but it's the guitar of Adrian ...
Canned Heat: Bass Guitarist Larry Taylor
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1975
LARRY TAYLOR is not one of your loud bass players; rather, he opts for minimum volume so he can punctuate and accent his playing with ...
Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd
Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, January 1988
RICHARD LLOYD would like to wring his guitar's neck. And he tries, throttling it bluefaced on the Television records Marquee Moon and Adventure, and damned ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1973
AMONG GUITARISTS, Jeff Beck has few peers. Bubbly, elusive, humoresque guitar work has been his trademark since his first performances with The Yardbirds over half-a-dozen ...
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi: Overcoming the Impossible
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1974
BLACK SABBATH lead guitarist Tony Iommi stands well over six-feet tall and plays like he has six fingers. Not bad, since several years ago Tony ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1977
LARRY CARLTON, guitarist with the famed progressive jazz-funk Crusaders, is at 28, one of the most in-demand session guitarists in Los Angeles. ...
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour: Beginning A Second Decade As Lead Guitarist For Pink Floyd
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1979
DAVID GILMOUR has been playing guitar with Pink Floyd for 11 years now – about one-third of his life. And for more than a decade, ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1976
THE MOST distinctive advance in American rock guitar of the last decade has been the so-called "southern" approach. Large groups of extremely talented pickers have ...
Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: Noel Redding: More Than Just Jimi Hendrix's Bass Player
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976
IT IS INEVITABLE when dealing with such a visible force as Jimi Hendrix that persons who were close to him – and even played music ...
Jimi Hendrix: Jim Marshall: The Man, The Amps; Together They Revolutionized Rock and Roll
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1977
EASILY THE MOST revolutionary electric guitarist of the past decade was the late Jimi Hendrix. In many ways Jimi was the first electric guitarist in ...
The James Gang, Joe Walsh: Joe Walsh: Rock Master
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, June 1975
JOE WALSH plays with the grace of George Harrison and the vehemence of Pete Townshend, a combination which earmarked his playing as lead guitarist of ...
The Faces, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood: Ron Wood
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1975
DURING THE musically bountiful years of the late Sixties, the Jeff Beck Group emerged; it was an outfit of undisciplined nature and unabashed energy. ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, January 1977
FRANK ZAPPA – guitarist, composer, producer, avid roller derby fan, and leader of the Mothers Of Invention – is, at 36, probably the elder statesman ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976
RONNIE Montrose, guitarist at various times for a melange of bands – Edgar Winter (where he was replaced by Rick Derringer), Van Morrison, and Boz ...
Mick Ronson: The Intense Guitar of Mick Ronson
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1976
THE THREE-WORD title of Mick Ronson's second solo album also happens to accurately describe his approach to the guitar: Play, Don't Worry. ...
Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster's Buck Dharma
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, January 1976
DONALD "BUCK Dharma" Roeser is the lead guitar player in the New York based band, Blue Oyster Cult, a driving and loud outfit which has ...
Aerosmith's Brad Whitford: Doubling On Lead And Rhythm
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, March 1979
BRAD WHITFORD might be considered the "refined" half of Aerosmith's guitar team — he's a deliberate player, whose steady rhythm lines complement lead guitarist Joe ...
Paco de Lucia's Flamenco Odyssey: Expression, Serenity & Feeling
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Guitar Player, April 1994
"PACO DE LUCIA, in opinion, is the greatest flamenco player alive," says John McLaughlin of his friend. "Working with him really was a great experience." ...
Jerry Jemmott: Session Bassist — The Groovemaster: Jerry Jemmott
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, May 1984
WHILE HIS name may not ring any bells, you've heard his bass before, setting the groove for Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Roberta Flack, ...
Eugene Chadbourne: The Lovably Low-Tech Eugene Chadbourne
Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, February 1988
"There's no type of music I don't like; it's important to be able to make fun of all types." ...
Chic, Nile Rodgers: Nile Rodgers of Chic: '80s Funk with 60s Roots
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, November 1984
GUITARISTS SINCE Charlie Christian have spent a lot of time and effort trying to play guitar like a horn. Nile Rodgers does it differently; he ...
Jason Falkner: Top Cat: Jason Falkner
Profile and Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, October 1996
JASON FALKNER loves "B" guitars and oddball gear. A tasteful, pop-savvy craftsman in the tradition of George Harrison, Andy Partridge, Neil Finn and Jon Brion, ...
Bo Diddley's Bar Mitzvah Beat Box
Report and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Guitar Player, October 1993
BO DIDDLEY GETS into rap and even whips up tropical flavors on his first major-label release in 20 years, A Man Among Men. But he's ...
Glenn Phillips' Voices In The Night
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, May 1992
THE POET CHARLES Bukowski believes that greatness is born of ordinary madness. Glenn Phillips would probably agree. In the liner notes for Echoes (1975-1985), a ...
Peter Gabriel, Random Hold, David Rhodes: David Rhodes: Atmospheric Guitar for Peter Gabriel
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, September 1987
DURING HIS RECENT So Tour, poker-faced Peter Gabriel offered fans a glimpse of his slapstick side. During 'Big Time', while Gabriel brayed in mock-macho tones ...
Special Feature by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, August 1986
LINK WRAY — whose 1958 hit 'Rumble' sounded an early tremor of what was to become rock and roll guitar — once divulged his jerry-rigged ...
Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, October 1991
PIERCED LABIA. Khaki-clad lesbian soldiers, posing topless in the Saudi Arabian sun. Advertisements for adult toys that resemble Star Trek props — the sort of ...
Glenn Branca's Guitar Symphonies
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, February 1992
"THERE'S not one hardcore band in this country — I don't care how good it is — that can touch Mozart for hardcore," growls Glenn ...
Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Lou Reed: Robert Quine: Newark's Reverent Iconoclast
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, January 1986
"YOU'VE GOT to hear this," insists Robert Quine, as he finds what he's looking for on a wall full of shelves sprouting thousands of records. ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, February 1986
"IF THERE'S anything worth writing about me, it's that I'm a guy like most of the people who read Guitar Player," insists G.E. Smith. "I'm ...
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