Instruments
Floyd Cramer, Chet Atkins: Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins: The Quiet Men from Nashville, Tennessee
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, September 1962
THE TWO most dominant figures in the Nashville, Tennessee, music scene – a scene noted for loud noises – are QUIET men. Chet Atkins, we ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
ON THE POPULARITY polls, instrumentalists come and go. Jet Harris, one-time bass player with the Shadows, used to win – especially when he broke away ...
Atomic Rooster: More Respect For The Rock Organ
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, October 1970
VINCENT CRANE, ambitious leader of Atomic Rooster, firmly believes that the full potential of the organ has yet to be exploited within a rock concept. ...
Hawkwind: When It Comes To Mind-Blowing, Hawkwind Are Really Into It
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, October 1970
HAWKWIND MAY not be the world's most affluent group, or the world's most successful group, but they are certainly one of the most mind-blowing. ...
Rolling Stones, The, Bobby Keys: The Rolling Stones: Bobby Keys
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, May 1971
"IT'S BOBBY Keys, the greatest saxophone player in the world," said Mick Jagger. And Bobby smiled modestly towards me. ...
Stevie Wonder: Stevie's Moog Music...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, January 1972
"I NEVER did realise it would take me so long to lose that 'Little' Stevie Wonder tag. There are times when I wish I'd only ...
Jeff Beck: Beck Looks Back (part 1)
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, October 1972
Page and Zeppelin, Stewart, the old band and the new... ...
Harvey Mandel: Fluctuating Intensity
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, November 1972
HARVEY MANDEL is a conversationalist of flucuatingly intensities. Sometimes he's right with you, sometimes he's way ahead, and other times he spaces out and you ...
Ben Gansell, Freelance Piano Tuner
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock Magazine, May 1973
BEN GANSELL is a stocky, heavy-set man of medium height with a full head of bristly hair which he keeps conscientiously trimmed just a shade ...
Roy Buchanan: The Guitarist's Guitarists' Guitarist
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, May 1973
THE WORD is out and the message is self-explanatory. Buchanan, they say; Roy Buchanan, they mean. And if you've missed this paean that's currently ringing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, June 1974
After years of drumming in a variety of hard rocking bands, Carl Palmer decided there had to be more to playing than simply marking time. ...
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 ...
Jeff Beck: Music And Cars And Sex…
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1974
A DIGESTIVE BISCUIT is poised, somewhat uneasily, a few inches away from Jeff Beck's, celebrated nasty leer. ...
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page: Guitars I Have Known
Interview by Nick Kent, Creem, February 1975
(As a guitarist, Jimmy Page has all the bases covered. Clapton has that soaring fluid thing down pat, Beck is the absolute Crowned Prince of ...
Bernard Purdie: Purdie's School of Drumming
Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, April 1975
Pete Makowski talks to top American session drummer Bernard Purdie ...
Joe Walsh, James Gang, The: 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 ...
Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan: Skunk Hunting In W1
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, July 1975
THERE'S A delicately detailed brass rubbing of Burlington House above the bed-head in room 420 at the Inn On The Park. Some rock musicians would've ...
Brecker Brothers, The: The Brecker Brothers: Everythin's All White
Profile by Roger St. Pierre, NME, August 1975
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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 ...
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 ...
Stevie Wonder: Technology and R&B: Get Arp And Get Down
Overview by Davitt Sigerson, Black Music, November 1975
Arps, Moogs, Rhythm Boxes... the sounds of black music have never been more complex ...
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 ...
Alan White, Yes: Alan White: Can A White Man Sing.....?
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, March 1976
"NOW TELL ME honestly, what did you really expect when you came to meet me?" The disarming question is posed as yet another Yes album ...
Genesis, Bill Bruford: Bill Bruford: Have Drum Will Travel
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, April 1976
IT WAS IN the unlikely setting of the Una Billings School of Dancing's basement that the partnership which will be titillating the timpani of drum ...
Rick Wakeman: Wakeman On The Attack With His Birotron
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, July 1976
RICK WAKEMAN is one of a very exclusive breed – the International Heroes of the Electric Keyboard. For Rick's meteoric career has been bound up ...
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 ...
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 ...
James Booker: A Winner Never Quits, A Quitter Never Wins
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, November 1976
'THE BLACK LIBERATCHI' That's what it says on the card and you can tell that it's going to be one of those interviews when you ...
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. ...
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, 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. ...
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 ...
Harvey Mason: Have Funk Will Travel
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, April 1978
ONE OF the most interesting developments in recent years on the contemporary music scene has been the recognition and attention paid to those folk who ...
Bonnie Raitt: Freebo's Travels With Bonnie
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, April 1978
LOS ANGELES – AT AN age when most rock musicians are superstars in decline, prosperous session players, or in their fifth or so year of ...
Jaco Pastorius: Portrait of Jaco
Interview by Steven Rosen, Player (Japan), June 1978
JACO PASTORIUS, at 26, has developed bass playing capabilities putting him at the top of the technical ladder. He combines an R&B feel with strict ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Back Door Men
Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, September 1978
Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman aren't exactly garrulous types. But behind the... er... stony facade lies a commitment which has kept them pumping up the ...
Review by Max Bell, NME, September 1978
LARRY CARLTON, super side-man should need no introduction. The weeping, fluid style that Carlton rings from his 335 has become a definitive sound on albums ...
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 ...
Journey, Aynsley Dunbar, Jefferson Starship: Aynsley Dunbar: Let There Be Drums!
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, February 1979
SAN FRANCISCO – Within the world of rock and roll there are certain performers whose distinctive virtuosity transcend their individual works recorded with a particular ...
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 ...
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, ...
Waddy Wachtel: Confessions of a 'Mafia' Guitarist
Interview by David Gans, BAM, March 1980
WADDY WACHTEL, ace guitarist and member of Peter Asher's "L.A. Mafia", has just finished the most important recording sessions of his career – his own. ...
Ry Cooder: Vinyl Choice: Ry Cooder
Interview by Mick Brown, Sunday Times Magazine, November 1980
RY COODER was once described as a "curator of American music". A fair assessment, but it hardly captures the joy and affection of his modern ...
Ry Cooder's Search For The Lost Chord
Interview by Noe Gold, Guitar Works, March 1981
Cooder gesticulates in much the same way as he articulates musically – with an emphasis that lets you know he's earned the insight. ...
Moog On The State Of The Synthesizer
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, June 1981
IT’S NOT UNUSUAL for a musician to become controversial, but it is rare for a musical instrument to be debated. Robert Moog may have envisioned ...
Purely Percussive: The Irresistible Rise Of Rock Drumming
Overview by Chris Welch, History of Rock, The, 1982
A GLITTERING ARRAY of drums surrounded by a forest of shining stands and cymbals has been the center-piece of the rock show since the early ...
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. ...
Eric Clapton: Farther Up The Road
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, May 1982
FEW MUSICIANS have been more misunderstood, more overburdened with great expectations and more erroneously worshipped than Eric Clapton. ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, In Dublin, June 1982
WITHIN HOURS of arriving from Glasgow, Ry Cooder walked into a room in Jury's Hotel wearing a black track suit, with a towel bundled under ...
Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, History of Rock, The, 1983
Pedal steel power from country pickers ...
Interview by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, The Guitar Greats (BBC Books), 1983
In 1969, The Who toured Britain, dragging around a support act who were, to say the least, an unknown quantity to all but a very ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
CARLOS SANTANA has continuously led the band that bears his name for nearly fifteen years, and maintained a substantial worldwide popularity, something which requires an ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Guitar Greats', 1983
WHEN WE MET Steve Miller in the Seattle studio where he mostly works these days, he was planning to make more than one album – ...
Elvis Presley, Rick Nelson, James Burton, Emmylou Harris: James Burton
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
ONE OF THE GREAT rock'n'roll guitarists of the 1950s, but a man who remained virtually unknown to all but the cognoscenti until comparatively recently, is ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, The Guitar Greats (BBC Books), 1983
AT THE START of the 1980s, the rock band which was generally accepted, if not as the most popular group in the world, then as ...
Danny Kortchmar, Don Henley, Crosby and Nash: Danny Kortchmar: The Standup Rocker
Interview by Dave Zimmer, Record, The, March 1983
"I HATE folk music, I always have," snaps Danny Kortchmar. Such a revelation is surprising, in view of the fact that Kortchmar (aka "Kootch") has ...
Rock Sax: Resurgence Of The Saxophone
Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, March 1983
THE SAX IS BACK.Honking saxophones played a major part in shaping '50s rock 'n' roll, but the instrument's role was virtually eliminated by the guitar ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Musician, May 1983
IT HAPPENS all the time. Some well-meaning rock fan comes up to guitarist Albert Lee and starts telling him he's a great player. "And man, ...
James Jamerson: Motown's Unsung Hero
Obituary by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, August 1983
THE EMPHASIS IN pop falls on people in the spotlight but some of the biggest contributions to our pop culture come from the musicians who ...
Michael Jackson, David Williams: David Williams: A Slight Case Of No Credit
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, January 1984
Session guitarist David Williams' name was left off Thriller album. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Lou Reed: Robert Quine: Red Red Quine
Interview by Richard Kick, ZigZag, April 1985
WILD MEN of rock come and wild men of rock fizzle out. Or, rebels don't – their voices just fade away. Robert Quine, mild mannered ...
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 ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, September 1986
"I DON'T REALLY see myself as a guitar player," says U2's Edge. "I'm more of a songwriter or composer. In looking for a new way ...
Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint: New Orleans Pianos: Talking Fingers
Film/DVD Review by Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, September 1986
You don't have to be addicted to New Orleans piano style to savor the rich portrait of Stevenson Palfi's Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together ...
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 ...
Robin Trower, Procol Harum: 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 ...
Coil: The Darker Side Of Sampling
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, July 1987
LONG BEFORE the verb was coined, Coil keyboardist Peter Christopherson started sampling. ...
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 ...
Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons: The E Street Man: Clarence Clemons
Interview by Deborah Frost, Elle, August 1987
CLARENCE DEMONS is so big it's hard to imagine him standing in anyone's shadow. ...
Cure, The: The Cure's Lol Tolhurst: A Dose Of Keyboard Fever
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, August 1987
EVER SINCE schoolmates Robert Smith, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey formed Easy Cure in 1976 – the name was eventually shortened to the Cure ...
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 ...
David Lindley: The Weird World Of David Lindley
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, October 1988
DAVID LINDLEY has found the oud of his dreams in a guitar store on Manhattan's Forty-eighth Street. "This is a beauty," he says, admiring the ...
Memphis Horns, The: The Memphis Horns: All The Way From Memphis
Interview by Robert Gordon, Music & Sound Output, December 1988
The Memphis Horns Celebrate 25 Years ...
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Revolution, 1989
AFTER 20 YEARS, it's just occurred to me: This rock 'n' roll stuff has lots of guitars. I call up Chuck Eddy and he says, ...
Jeff Healey Band: Jeff Healey: Have Guitar, Will Sit
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, March 1989
JEFF HEALEY is the most unorthodox guitarist since Stanley Jordan. He plays seated, most of the time, with his guitar flat on his lap. As ...
Joe Satriani, Mick Jagger: The Devil And Joe Satriani
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, April 1989
A Guitar Hero Strikes a Different Kind of Bargain ...
Leo Kottke: Of Ice Fields, Breath Mints & Corn Flakes: Leo Kottke
Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, October 1989
TRYING TO COME up with enticing copy about Leo Kottke, is a little like writing an ad for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. There's something about ...
Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Jeff Beck & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Guitar Slingers Shoot It Out
Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Rolling Stone, November 1989
Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan go head-to-head on U.S. tour ...
Whitesnake, Steve Vai: Steve Vai: Vaiing For Attention
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, January 1990
NO, YOUR eyes aren't deceiving you. Steve Vai is holding a seven-string guitar, custom-made for him by Ibanez. ...
Eric Clapton, Elton John: Ray Cooper: Who Are Those Blokes Up There With Ray?
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, October 1990
Wherever stellar rockular personages gather together he's there at the back, shiny of pate and blurred of hand. But who is this Bongo Basher By ...
Chic: Back to Bass: Bernard Edwards
Interview by Don Snowden, Bass Player, April 1991
"I THINK 'GOOD TIMES' is the song we're remembered most for," said Bernard Edwards of the reunited Chic. "We were a commercial band and a ...
Profile and Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1991
PROBABLY THE most underrated and yet most talented musicians are those who carry with them the less-than-heralded title of "session player." While some transformed themselves ...
Charles & Eddie, En Vogue: Harmony Singing: You Have A Lovely Singing Voice
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, July 1993
Three years ago it had all but disappeared beneath the deluge of hard rap and technological beats. Now, from the choreographed trouser arousal of En ...
Robin Trower, Alvin Lee, Blodwyn Pig: Is There Life After Rock Guitar Godhead?
Overview by Roy Trakin, Musician, 1994
ALVIN LEE HAD reached the pinnacle of rock guitardom. Of course, by the time Woodstock was over, his "I'm Going Home... by helicopter" histrionics would ...
James Booker: The Unsung Piano Genius with Star-spangled False Teeth
Profile by Ben Thompson, MOJO, January 1994
"IF ALL AMERICAN PIANO PLAYERS LINED UP IN A ROW, each knowing the other’s abilities and talents, all would take a step back to recognise ...
Kristin Hersh: Lipstick, Powder and Saint
Interview by Elaine Cusack, Guitar, January 1994
"Oh I look just like a sad old hooker!" wails Kristin Hersh as a false eyelash falls from her heavily made-up face and just misses ...
Slash, Guns N' Roses: Slash: Trigger with Attitude
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar, February 1995
After a whole year of well-publicised feuds with Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses' Slash has now cut loose to record his own album with a ...
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, The, June 1995
IT'S EASY to understand why so many jazz and pop musicians have gravitated toward the buzzing, grinding and squealing of guitar distortion, even if those ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Total Guitar, August 1995
AT 38, EDWARD Van Halen is a changed man. He's cut his locks, cut out the sauce (and other less legal intoxicants) – and after ...
Overview by Mark Sinker, Wire, The, September 1995
The story of the first electronic instruments is as twisted and circuitous as their primitive, labyrinthine wiring. Mark Sinker goes in search of these often ...
Lothar and the Hand People: Return Of The Weird: Lothar and the Hand People
Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, October 1995
"YOU THINK THERE'LL be enough interest in this that I'll be able to make a fortune giving theremin lessons?" ...
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. ...
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 Colin Harper, The Guitar Magazine, November 1997
ALL OVER the world there are individuals trading copies of grainy videos from European television, cassettes of horrendously obscure old records by people with unpronounceable ...
Harry Partch's Original Invented Instruments: Barbican, London
Live Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, February 1999
IT'S NOT every day – or every decade, come to that – that UK audiences get a chance to witness Harry Partch's bizarre instruments "in ...
Randy Holden, Blue Cheer: Randy Holden
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, April 1999
RANDY HOLDEN might be the Great Lost Guitar Hero of the 1960's. ...
Elvis Presley: Scotty Moore's Classic Axe Goes Under The Hammer
Report by Mark Pringle, Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, April 2000
Former Elvis Presley producer weeps after auctioning off "the most important guitar in rock and roll history" ...
Jim Keltner: His Time Is Tight: Jim Keltner
Profile by Tim Riley, publicbroadcasting.net, January 2002
Jim Keltner has drummed for everybody from Bob Dylan to Steely Dan to Ry Cooder; he drives a lot of the better rock albums you ...
John Entwistle, Who, The: John Entwistle, 1944-2002
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Bass Guitar, July 2002
IT IS A CLICHÉ THAT CELEBRITIES tend to be shorter in real life than they appear on stage. John Entwistle, who often wore brightly-coloured Cuban-heeled ...
Primal Scream: An Interview with Andrew Innes
Interview by Joe Matera, Total Guitar, 2003
JM: Over the years Primal Scream have continued to re-invent themselves musically with each subsequent release. In it's early incarnation it was a jangly Byrds ...
Johnny Marr: The Johnny Marr Interview
Interview by Joe Matera, Total Guitar, 2003
Joe Matera: Boomslang showcases a new sound for you that seems to be the culmination of all the different musical influences you've been exposed to ...
Jack Bruce: Back to Bass-ics: Jack Bruce
Interview by Joel McIver, Bass Guitar, April 2003
The bass maestro behind Cream, for several years now a successful solo artist in his own right, looks back on his remarkable career with Joel ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World Acoustic, June 2003
BEN HARPER'S NEW Diamonds on the Inside (Virgin) is a fireworks display of guitar. Colorful melodies played on an array of acoustics and electrics burst ...
Motorhead, Lemmy: Bassically Speaking: Lemmy
Interview by Joel McIver, Bass Guitar, June 2003
ALTHOUGH THE WORLD of metal is full of fearsomely talented bass players, many of which have appeared on these hallowed pages in recent months, few ...
Robben Ford At The Newcastle Opera House
Live Review by Craig W. Thomas, unpublished, November 2003
I'M TIRED OF the bullshit. I'm tired of TV advertising in my face. I'm sick of calls trying to sell me health insurance and I'm ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, November 2003
ACCORDING TO A body of instrument suppliers called the Music Industries Association, in the last 12 months the British people bought no less than 700,000 ...
Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Widowmaker (UK): Bass Instincts: The Bob Daisley Interview
Interview by Joe Matera, Total Bass Guitar, 2004
FOR MORE THAN 30 years now, Australian born-bassist Bob Daisley has been laying down the foundation of which some of the greatest rock and roll ...
A Fender Custom Shop Master Built Experience
Special Feature by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, January 2004
EVERYONE WHO grew up with "rock 'n' roll" during the 50s and 60s in the United States understood its message. Rebellion. The music served as ...
State of the Vintage Strat 2004: Four U.S. Experts Share Their Opinions
Overview by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, February 2004
WHILE AUTOMOBILES were designed to be driven, coins designed to be spent, and stamps designed for licking, such items have come to be valued and ...
How to Buy a Fender Stratocaster, Part One
Guide by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, February 2004
THE ARTICLE BELOW is not about collectible Stratocasters, vintage or otherwise. The information is provided in response to a frequently asked question: How in the ...
Melissa Auf Der Maur: World Of Bass: Melissa Auf Der Maur
Interview by Joel McIver, Bass Guitar, April 2004
MONTREAL-BORN bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, something of a four-string legend on the alternative rock and grunge scene since the early 1990s, has recently released ...
How to Buy a Fender Stratocaster Part Two: New Instruments
Guide by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, April 2004
THE THRESHOLD questions considered in Part One of How to Buy a Fender Stratocaster were: What is your budget? and What purpose will the instrument ...
Jimi Hendrix: Seven Fender Stratocaster Models That Pay Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Special Feature by Tom Watson, Modern Guitars, November 2004
OVER THE 34 years since his untimely death in 1970 at the age of 27, the music of Jimi Hendrix has inspired legions of budding ...
Film/DVD Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, January 2005
THE NAME ACTUALLY rhymes with 'vogue,' but the incorrect phonetic pronunciation somehow seems more appropriate to the noises made by the eponymous instrument created in ...
The Stratocaster Chronicles by Tom Wheeler
Book Review by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, February 2005
Apart from the weight of its own history, the Strat abides.– Tom Wheeler, The Stratocaster Chronicles ...
Freebass: Big Bottoms: Freebass
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, January 2006
One harebrained scheme, two dozen pints, three legendary Mancunian bassists and a love of Spinal Tap = one very drunk bass supergroup. Jenny Valentish gets ...
Interview by Greg Phillips, Australian Musician, June 2006
More than forty years on, the Rolling Stones still pack a mighty mean punch on stage. Sure, nostalgia accounts for much of the electricity they ...
Flaming Lips: Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips
Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, June 2006
STEVEN DROZD, guitarist for The Flaming Lips, plays guitar, keyboards, drums, sings, writes, entertains and philosophizes. He does a lot of different things. And that's ...
Bert Jansch: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, February 2007
Complete draft of the feature originally published in The Wire 276, Feb 2007 ...
Rolling Stones, The: First Effects: Caught by the Fuzz
Retrospective by Matthew Frost, Guitar Buyer, April 2007
In the first part of our new series, Matt Frost takes a trip back to 1965. It's the 27th of May and the Rolling Stones ...
Peter Green: Sleep Easy Jeff Beck
Essay by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages, September 2007
ON TOP OF the indignity of coping with a severed digit (which is coming along quite nicely, thank you very much) I learned last week ...
Twiddle Twaddle: The Guitarists Who Do Too Much
Column by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, November 2007
THIS MONTH'S column is inspired by Pete from Weston-Super-Mare and his controversial contribution to the letters page in last month's Guitarist: "Fret w*nkers - it's ...
AUDIO: Yngwie Malmsteen (2008)
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages Audio, 2008
The Paganini of Poodle talks about guitars, recording methods, his reputation etc... but mostly about himself.
File format: mp3; file size: 44.4mb, interview length: 48' 31" sound quality: * (phoner)
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, Guardian, The, February 2008
Rock drummer who graced the stage with Hendrix in his heyday ...
Super Smashing Lovely: Jon Stewart Laments The Lost Art Of Stagecraft
Column by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, May 2008
FOR MOST people at a gig (the normal people, the ones who aren't other guitarists) it's not what you're playing that counts - it's what ...
Profile by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, June 2008
SISTER ROSETTA Tharpe was born in a Mississippi delta cotton farm in 1915. ...
A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop
Report by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, September 2008
Little shop of adorers ...
The Faces: The Guitar Face Phenomenon
Column by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, November 2008
GUITAR FACE is a common complaint that can strike any of us at any time. It is an unconscious condition over which we have little ...
Interview by Greg Phillips, Australian Musician, September 2009
Greg Phillips speaks with the Pink band ...
Neil Young: Forever Young: Rick Rosas
Interview by Greg Phillips, Guitar and Bass, September 2009
Few are those musicians who bend enough to keep pace with Neil Young’s ever-changing whims. Rick ‘The Bass Player’ Rosas has done just that for ...
Steve Cropper: Rock Climbing: Steve Cropper
Retrospective by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, June 2010
GUITARIST, A&R MAN, engineer, producer, songwriter, promoter and founder member of Booker T & the MGs, Steve Cropper’s playing defines southern soul music. Cropper listened to ...
ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons: An Interview
Profile and Interview by Pete Makowski, Guitar Aficionado, Fall 2010
"It's not really about fashion; it's only about STYLE. Style lives on and fashion dies." John Varvatos, contemporary menswear fashion designer* ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Rock's Backpages Audio, October 2011
Top L.A. session bass player Kaye talks about her life in the Tinsel Town studios, laying down the low end for the likes of the Beach Boys, Monkees, Sinatra and so many more.
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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 ...
Band, The, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson: Garth Hudson on Levon Helm
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 2012
"THE FIRST TIME I saw Levon in action was in Woodstock, Ontario, about thirty-five miles from London, where I grew up. Ronnie and the Hawks ...
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