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Before Andy Fairweather Low joined George Harrison’s band, the Beatle was eyeing up Gary Moore and Alvin Lee
By Matt Owen published
The prolific session player joined Harrison for his 1991 tour of Japan, but it turns out he was rather low on the pecking order when the Beatles legend came to assembling his band

This unsung guitar hero's band was called the American Led Zeppelin, and his virtuosic playing paved the way for Van Halen and Satriani
By Mike Mettler published
Often left out of discussions of the great rock guitarists of the '70s, Ronnie Montrose had little interest in chasing hits or following a consistent artistic path. Nonetheless, he left the guitarists who heard him spellbound

Steve Hackett on his pedalboard, the illusion of noise, and why prog players need a volume pedal
By Andrew Daly published
The Genesis alumnus and prog trailblazer reveals what's on his pedalboard and explains the need for dynamics and the “delinquent” sounds

Joey Molland, guitarist, singer, last surviving original member of Badfinger, dies at 77
By Jackson Maxwell published
In addition to his time with the early '70s hitmakers, Molland worked independently with all four Beatles, playing guitar on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and John Lennon's Imagine

When Rory Gallagher was asked to fill Eric Clapton's shoes in rock's pioneering power trio
By Jackson Maxwell published
As Cream began to disintegrate barely two years into their existence, the enormously successful band's managers were desperate to keep them going

Billy Zoom on the making of X’s stone-cold L.A. punk classic, Under the Big Black Sun
By Mark McStea published
In X guitarist Billy Zoom's mind, the band could have been Eddie Cochran meets the Ramones, but they ended up being much more. A renaissance man with a love of Gretsch, Zoom takes us back to revisit the band's seminal 1982 album

“We’re guitar players. The reason we’re designing gear is we’re making things that we wish existed”: Tosin Abasi is pushing the boundaries of progressive music and guitar gear on multiple fronts – and he’s got no plans to slow down
By Matt Owen published
The Animals As Leaders and Abasi Concepts mastermind on upcoming music, his favorite new players, switching from modelers to tube amps, and why he might not be ready to record a blues album just yet

Sting's longtime guitarist finds everything in the Police's catalog “playable,” but says this song is the band's most challenging to play
By Janelle Borg published
Dominic Miller also reveals whether there are any Police songs that prove tricky to recreate without the original lineup
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