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Dennis Coffey: Guitarist Dennis Coffey: "No Room for Temperament in Music"

Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 7 November 1969

WHEN YOU talk to him he impresses you as a confident man. He knows what's going on but chooses to do things his way rather ...

Police, The, Andy Summers, Robert Fripp: Andy Summers Unmasked

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, July 1983

HIS IMAGE is pure pop. Shaggy blond hair (dyed) in a modified Beatles cut. Mod clothes that might have come from England's trendy King's Road: ...

Stanley Jordan: Have Fingers, Will Fly!

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 16 November 1985

When STANLEY JORDAN straps on his guitar, he can play rhythm, lead and the other fiddley bits all at once! PAOLO HEWITT, disbelief in his ...

Jeff Beck: Ambitious in his artistry

Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 22 March 1986

The reclusive Jeff Beck is back with a new single, released on Monday. Interview by David Sinclair ...

Rhys Chatham, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Elliott Sharp: The Downtown Sound — New York Guitar 1986: Part I, The Solo Artists/Composers

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 ...

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." ...

Bill Frisell Quartet: Look Out For Hope (ECM)

Review by Gene Santoro, Spin, May 1988

BILL FRISELL IS the Clark Kent of the electric guitar. Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungfuls of raw fire when he ...

Dick Dale: Pulp Dick Shone

Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 25 March 1995

DICK DALE, man. Dick f***ing Dale. He's the King Of Surf Guitar. He taught Hendrix everything he knew. He breeds lions. They played his music ...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, The, Grinderman: Howl: An interview with Warren Ellis

Interview by Mark Mordue, The Sun-Herald, 10 January 2010

WHEN THE American author Mark Twain visited a Victorian gold mining town back in 1885, he was inspired to write: "It was as if the ...

Marc Ribot Considered: Cosmopolitan guitarist without portfolio

Profile by Graham Reid, elsewhere.co.nz, 25 February 2015

IF THERE IS a distinguishing feature of American guitarist Marc Ribot's style, it is that you'd be unwise to attempt to attribute a distinguishing feature ...