Vic Garbarini

Articles by: Vic Garbarini

(from left) Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, performing the Beatles' Hey Jude

“It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison's proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude

By Jackson Maxwell published

Harrison suggested answering each of McCartney's lines with a guitar phrase, an addition McCartney saw as unnecessary

Peter Buck performs onstage with R.E.M. in Milton Keynes, England in 1995

“He was strumming this C chord and as he leaned over to get his beer on the amp, he moved his hand…” Peter Buck's stately guitar work defined R.E.M.'s Man on the Moon – and it all started when his bandmate fell off a chair

By Jackson Maxwell published

Michael Stipe's ode to the late comedian Andy Kaufman is driven by a riff of unusual origin, and some reluctant slide work

(from left) Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon perform onstage on August 1, 1964

“Nothing was even mic'd up through the P.A. – they just listened to our amps and the two vocal mics. Sometimes we'd just play rubbish”: The Beatles on their struggles to be heard over the screams of Beatlemania – and the toll it took on their performances

By Jackson Maxwell published

Technology has advanced light years in the six decades since the frenzy of Beatlemania, and the world of onstage guitar amplification is no exception