Guitar World
Guitar World is an American monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since 1980.
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The Sex Pistols, Chris Spedding: The No-Frills Attack of Chris Spedding
Interview by Van Gosse, Guitar World, May 1981
Don't ask this guitar star what gauge of strings he uses. He just might punch you in the face. ...
The Yardbirds: Having a Rave-Up With The Yardbirds
Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, Guitar World, September 1981
CLAPTON, BECK and Page: a holy trinity whose rippling lead lines and powerful slashing chords have provided a world on instruction for countless aspiring players. ...
Frank Zappa: The Frank Zappa Interview
Interview by John Swenson, Guitar World, March 1982
FRANK ZAPPA was at the Palladium in New York for his perennial Pumpkin Day concert celebration with his most loyal fans. ...
Carlos Alomar, David Bowie: Carlos Alomar: Hard Driving Anchor Man For The David Bowie Show
Profile and Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, January 1984
IMAGINE THE fairy-tale scene this way, since this is how it actually happened: It is 1973, the setting is RCA's recording studios in New York ...
Van Halen: Eddie Van Halen drops the bomb on Heavy Metal
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, January 1984
SIX ALBUMS AGO (including the one yet to be released). Van Halen issued its first record. It was dramatic, intense and bold. and contained within ...
AC/DC: Angus Young: The Man In Short Pants Is Long On Guitar Chops
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, March 1984
...but don't ask him what equipment he uses. ...
Queen: Brian May Brings Out the Stars
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, March 1984
The Queen guitarist brought together some heavies with Eddie Van Halen on guitar and Phil Chen on bass – for his Star Fleet Project. ...
Gary Moore: Guitar on a Rampage
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, November 1984
The Irish terror has been compared to Beck, Van Halen and every whippersnapper coming up on the circuit. ...
Jeff Beck: Twenty Years of Rock And Roll Power
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, January 1985
IT'S BEEN a long time since anybody's heard from Jeff Beck. With the exception of the ten-date ARMS tour of 1984, his last time on ...
Jimi Hendrix: Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to ...
Jimi Hendrix: Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to Gene ...
Jimi Hendrix: James Marshall Hendrix: Undisputed Master of the Electric Guitar
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
Every guitarist today — from Coryell to Steve Stevens — has been marked by the stamp of Purple Haze genius. Sixteen axmen explain Hendrix' influence in their ...
Jimi Hendrix: Alan Douglas Builds A Castle Made of Sand
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
The record producer had Jimi's ear just before the end. Now he's re-packaging it for the masses. As Told To Gene Santoro ...
Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Knight: Jimi Hendrix: Curtis Knight's Encounter With The Divine Light
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
As told to Gene Santoro ...
Jimi Hendrix: Jimi's Army Buddy Bass Player
Retrospective and Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985
Billy Cox was the only sideman Jimi could trust. He says the world is still catching up to what Jimi played fifteen years ago. As ...
Johnny Winter: The Bluesman Do Play Rock and Roll...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, November 1985
...and Cajun-style, and country ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, January 1986
If you consider yourself a vibrato-bar player, you owe a huge debt to Lonnie Mack ...
The Cars, Elliott Easton: Elliot Easton's Guitar Trick Bag
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, May 1986
The left-handed wonder is much more than just a member of the Cars. He's a magician, a wizard, a merlin of the fretboard. ...
Eric Johnson: The Warm Tone of a Texas Twister
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, May 1986
The soft-spoken guitar genius has waited a long time to spring his music on us. We present a play-by-play of his layered approach to axe ...
Led Zeppelin: Chris Huston, Eddie Kramer's Co-engineer on Led Zeppelin II
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
FOR MANY, the first two Led Zeppelin albums were Led Zeppelin. The enormous drum sound, those magical guitar tones and just the energy and volume ...
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds: Jeff Beck on Jimmy Page
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
The following excerpts are from a book I wrote in 1978 titled The Beck Book, a documentary detailing the life and music of guitarist Jeff ...
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds: Jimmy Page: Of Yardbirds And The Shapes of Things to Come
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, July 1986
For a short time in the late sixties, Page and Beck were in one of the most happening bands to ever come out of England. Some say ...
Led Zeppelin: Danny Goldberg's Hideaway
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
IN 1973, DANNY Goldberg was working for Lee Solters, a show business public relations man who included Frank Sinatra as one of his clients, when ...
Led Zeppelin: Rodney B.'s Endless Party
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
The parties were legendary, the hotels trashed regularly, the hangers-on flowed constantly when the Zep cruised the skyways. ...
Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant: Robert Plant: Deference to the Taskmaster
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
In team play, where everything clicks, somebody has to call the shots. ...
ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons: Sittin' On Top Of The World
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, November 1986
"B.G. HERE," drawled the voice on the phone. Billy Gibbons was calling from Arizona where he was en route to Los Angeles for the filming ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, November 1986
LARRY CARLTON could sit on his laurels, coasting on his rep from countless albums and sessions. But he keeps pushing himself — and his guitar — to higher spaces. ...
Adrian Belew: Belew's Menagerie
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, March 1987
Inside the fertile mind of ADRIAN BELEW, master of sound mixology. ...
Joseph Spence: The King Of Sling
Discography by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, April 1987
THE VERY bedrock of an entire school of folk and rock guitar is the idiosyncratic work of Bahamanian guitar great Joseph Spence. ...
Procol Harum, Robin Trower: Robin Trower: Keeper Of The Dream
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, April 1987
The one-time Procol pace-setter has seen musical trends come and go, but he's back to playing among us because he has a vision of the ...
Interview by Noe Gold, Guitar World, April 1987
FRANK ZAPPA'S fully-equipped home recording studio is where he'd most rather be. "I never go out," he says, though his Laurel Canyon home commands a ...
Marcus Miller, Miles Davis: Marcus Miller: Bass For All Seasons
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, June 1987
What is it about MARCUS MILLER'S eternal thump that makes him Miles' choice bottom and the Bee Gees' top choice? ...
Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn: Marcus Miller: Bass for All Seasons
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, June 1987
What is it about MARCUS MILLER'S eternal thump that makes him Miles' choice bottom and the Bee Gees' top choice? ...
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1987
A NATIVE OF Los Angeles, Paul Jackson, Jr. credits "The Lord" for his entry into the protected domain of the session player. While no one ...
Interview by Deborah Frost, Guitar World, July 1987
LIKE LOU Reed, Bob Dylan and John Lennon, to whom he has been compared, Robyn Hitchcock's lyrics are so brilliant they tend to obscure everything ...
Dean Parks: Session Aces: Dean Parks
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1987
DEAN PARKS is the veteran of this wild bunch, having been a staple in the studios for 15 years. But like every other member of ...
Albert Collins Puts The Blues On The Map
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, November 1987
THE MASTER of the Telecaster. The Ice Man. The Houston Twister. The Razor Blade. Those are just a sampling of the titles that have hung ...
Aerosmith, Joe Perry: Aerosmith: Joe Perry
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, December 1987
Bad Boy Joe Perry has always looked like a guitar hero. Aerosmith's new LP affirms once and for all, that he is the one. ...
Joe Satriani:Wailin' With The Alien
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, December 1987
JOE SATRIANI is the eternal student of guitar. That's why he's such a great teacher ...
Robin Trower: Trower’s Travails
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Guitar World, July 1988
IT’S ONE THING to be influenced by Jimi Hendrix, it's something else altogether to be hounded by Hendrix' ghost, as Robin Trower has been for ...
T-Bone Walker: The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954 (Imperial/EMI)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1991
CONTEMPORARY BLUES guitar starts here. True enough, everything has its origins in something else: Aaron Thibaux "T-Bone" Walker (1910 – 1975) had hung out in ...
Albert King: An Interview with Albert King
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, July 1991
2003 note: Just days after I became the Guitar World Managing Editor in February 1991, I sat at my desk listening two of my colleagues ...
Danny Gatton, Reverend Horton Heat: Timelocked Moments: Danny Gatton and Rev. Horton Heat
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1993
Danny Gatton: Cruisin’ Deuces (Elektra)Rev. Horton Heat: The Full Custom Gospel Sounds Of Rev. Horton Heat (Sub Pop) ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, March 1993
WHAT’S YOUR favourite colour? Between the death of Jimi Hendrix in 1970 and the arrival of Living Colour’s 1988 debut album Vivid, the hard rock ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1994
WHOEVER FIRST claimed that guitar, bass and drums are the "three primary colo(u)rs of rock and roll" ignored the possibility that some of us might ...
Husker Du, The Jayhawks, The Replacements, Soul Asylum: The Minneapolis Scene: Left Of The Dial
Overview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, August 1995
In the early Eighties, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and a handful of other scruffy Minneapolis bands forged what is now known as indie rock. This ...
Neil Young: Journey Through The Past
Retrospective by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, September 1995
Neil Young is the ageless chameleon of rock. In this history of his long and distinguished career, Guitar World traces his evolution from hippie icon ...
Paul Westerberg's 1962 Gibson Melody Maker
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, June 1996
PAUL WESTERBERG may be known for his bittersweet lyrics and forlorn melodies, but his sentimentality certainly doesn't extend to his guitars. ...
Phish: Trey Anastasio, The Brains Behind Phish
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, December 1996
OVER THE LAST several years, Phish has emerged as rock's most surprising success story, building a massive grass-roots following and becoming one of the nation's ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: The Lost Interview
Interview by Jon Savage, Guitar World, 1997
In July of 1993, Kurt Cobain gave a dramatically candid interview to respected British rock journalist Jon Savage. Freely discussed were such controversial topics as ...
Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin: Hubert Sumlin: The Wolf’s Man
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, 1998
INTRODUCTION: I had heard that Hubert Sumlin was a genuinely nice guy. But before I ventured uptown to a Manhattan club to interview him, there ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1998
Let’s get the paradoxes out of the way right up front: the blues was a musical space to which Jimi Hendrix would always return in ...
Radiohead: The Golden Age of Radiohead
Profile and Interview by Mac Randall, Guitar World, 1 April 1998
ON A FRIDAY RELAUNCHED itself in the summer and autumn of 1991, playing a series of gigs at Oxford's Jericho Tavern and circulating its first ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, June 1998
JERRY CANTRELL is sitting in the breakfast room of New York City's Rhiga Royal Hotel, inspecting the cover art for the vinyl version of his ...
Bob Dylan: A Session With Bob Dylan
Memoir by Happy Traum, Guitar World, 1999
IN OCTOBER OF 1971, I got a call from Bob Dylan asking me if I'd like record some songs with him for his Greatest Hits, ...
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1999
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? (MCA) HENDRIX AS superstar-in-waiting, UK-style. Rough, raw, crunchy, funky and designed for maximum impact, this ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Blue Smoke: The Life and Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, April 1999
NINE YEARS AFTER his death, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s influence only continues to grow. It can be heard in barrooms and arenas around the globe, in ...
Review by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2002
THE BLUES NEEDS a new messiah, a musician who can prove the style's vitality by exploding it across the barriers of age, culture and taste, ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Petty Grievances
Interview by Alan di Perna, Guitar World, January 2003
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers take on the corporate giants with their new concept album, The Last DJ. ...
The Doors: The Scream Of The Butterfly
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, February 2003
IGNITED BY THE success of 'Light My Fire,' the first two Doors albums introduced rock audiences to the tortured mind of Jim Morrison and his ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, March 2012
His Nashville studio is full of sweet vintage gear, but Dan Auerbach isn't just a retro-obsessed guitar hound. The Black Keys guitarist gets his motor ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, July 2012
IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT in Cleveland… April 14, specifically, and blues guitar legend Freddie King has just been inducted by Z.Z. Top into the Rock 'n' ...
Retrospective by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, August 2012
NOTE: This is an expanded version of a piece that was in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's induction program in 2012: the lengthier ...
The Black Keys, ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons and Dan Auerbach
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2012
MISSISSIPPI FRED McDowell's haunted, woody voice sails through the air as the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach nurses a cup of coffee and flips through a ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2012
BILLY GIBBONS AND Dan Auerbach are standing shoulder to shoulder on Easy Eye Studio's checkerboard floor, trading lazy blues licks through a battered old Gibson ...
Willie Nile Hits New Career Peak with American Ride
Report and Interview by Jeff Slate, Guitar World, 1 July 2013
ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, BBC disc jockey Spencer Leigh reviewed a show by my old band, the Badge, and wondered how we were able to ...
Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
Review by Jeff Slate, Guitar World, 2 September 2013
THE THING ABOUT being a fan of Bob Dylan is that the discovery of his greatness is never-ending. ...
Denny Laine, Wings: "I'm actually surprised we're that well-remembered": Denny Laine on Wings
Interview by Bill DeMain, Guitar World, January 2023
1973 was the year Paul McCartney's ragtag group, Wings, first scored Beatles-sized success. As late guitarist Denny Laine recalled, they were no overnight success. ...
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