Latest articles by Jonny Scaramanga
Is the guitar solo dead in the 21st century?
Opinion: With guitar solos absent from the charts, Green Day championing the anti-solo and Eddie Van Halen gone, is it the end for the fret-melting guitar hero?
Scott Gorham: “I’m not this real technical guy – I never had a lesson. Thin Lizzy was my school of rock“
The Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy icon on a life spent at the sharp end of rock's greatest hits
Lonely the Brave: ”We don’t try to fill every space. Atmospherics are key to what we do as a band”
Guitarists Mark Trotter and Ross Smithwick talk stripping back the overdubs and maximizing the emotion on blockbuster new album The Hope List
The Struts' Adam Slack: “I’ve always listened to old records, where you can hear the skin touching the strings. I found it cooler the sloppier it is“
The guitarist from Britain's fastest-rising rock band talks open tunings, Les Pauls and how Phil Collen stole his solo
Jimmy Page's 20 greatest guitar moments
Led Zeppelin's magic writ large, from the free-form jams of Dazed to the grandeur and majesty of Kashmir
Orianthi: “Michael Jackson taught me to do what’s best for the song. It’s not about crowding it with guitars“
The former Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper guitarist shares gear, music business and songwriting knowledge
Fontaines D.C.: ”We’re not great musicians but we can play a three-chord song and give it some welly”
Carlos O'Connell and Conor Curley detail their unorthodox pedalboards, scuzzy tones and why they recorded A Hero’s Death twice
