#guitarists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #guitarists, aggregated by home.social.
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Jimmy Page on how a ‘lost guitar track’ almost derailed Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti: “He erased one of the original guitar tracks. For some reason, he rubbed the damn thing out”
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“He said, ‘The thing was made wrong in the first place!’ I joked, ‘Let me see you build a vibrato contraption that works!’” How Merle Travis pushed Paul Bigsby to one-up Gibson with his iconic vibrato
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“He fired the whole band at the end of that tour, and I managed to survive”: Albert Lee on his time as Eric Clapton’s sideman
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“If James Burton recorded that song one more time, it would not have sounded the same. They caught lightning in a bottle”: An all-star guitar panel choose their Telecaster Mount Rushmore – its greatest players, their greatest tracks
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/telecaster-mount-rushmore
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“I didn’t think it was that strong, but I never got around to fixing it”: The Alice in Chains guitar solo that Jerry Cantrell hated – and the one he wished he re-recorded
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“Vintage guitars that are too nice repel me – I have a 1945 Martin, and it sounded good, but it was like sunlight to a vampire”: Brian Fallon on what makes for guitar greatness, and the most fundamental lick
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“Ijust wacked it off from the very beginning tothe very end, but it turned out that the tape operator hadn’t pressed the ‘record’ button”: Elliott Randall on his blistering Steely Dan solo – and what Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were really like
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/elliott-randall-steely-dan
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“A lot of people might think it was ruined, but I think it’s like 10 times cooler because of that”: King Tuff on his beloved butchered Gibson SG and the world’s most embarrassing Uber journey
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/king-tuff-moo
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“She entranced audiences and inspired untold numbers of blues-loving players from across the pond, like Eric Clapton and Keith Richards”: Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s epochal performance at an English train station paved the way for the blues-rock revolution
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“If the house were on fire, it wouldn’t just be the one guitar I’d take – it would be the one possession I’d take. I love it that much”: Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on the guitar he values most, and what links Jimmy Page and Prince
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Session guitar great Chris Spedding diagnosed with lymphoma
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New footage of Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock performance unearthed after decades
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The Smiths held their label to ransom until Johnny Marr got this guitar: “As soon as I got that back to the hotel, I wrote Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now in about 10 minutes”
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“He said, ‘You sound like Jimi Hendrix!’ I said, ‘Jimi who?’” How Buddy Guy first encountered Jimi Hendrix
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“You’re an unknown – then all of a sudden 10 million people have seen you”: How Sawyer Hill went from playing in Arkansas garage bands to touring arenas with Yungblud
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“The way he put it to me, it just seemed really distasteful. Eric had been a friend of mine, and I couldn’t possibly have been a party to that”: Why Jimmy Page turned down multiple offers to join the Yardbirds – and why he relented
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“His death was such a shock. I met him before he joined the Pretenders – he had actually talked to me about playing with the band”: How the Pretenders emerged from tragedy with new guitarist Robbie McIntosh
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Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell says his cancer has returned: “I did a donor transplant. Unfortunately, it didn't stick”
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What Ritchie Blackmore thinks of Yngwie Malmsteen: “He’s probably the best at what he does and – for what it’s worth – the fastest”
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“Eddie Van Halen came over and yelled at me for not doing anything”: Lita Ford on how Eddie Van Halen encouraged her to kickstart her solo career after The Runaways
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Joe Bonamassa reveals how many Gibson and Epiphone signature models he’s sold – and it’s a lot: “They weren’t expecting to sell those kinds of guitars that fast”
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“My hands started shaking as soon as I began recording. We weren’t talking about it or rehearsing – we were actually doing it”: Vivian Campbell on joining Dio just before recording their classic debut album
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/vivian-campbell-on-joining-dio
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David Bowie’s guitarists on what it was like to play with the Thin White Duke: “I had just come from working with Frank Zappa for a year, and Frank was very directive. David was entirely the opposite”
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“I was nervous. I said, ‘Hi, Keith. Ron Wood might have mentioned me…’” Nils Lofgren on the time he put his name forward to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones
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“I got a call from my lawyer – she told me to sit down. She’d just gotten off the phone with the Stones’ manager…” The Canadian musician who co-wrote a Rolling Stones song without realizing it
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“You can copy notes, but you can’t copy the spirit. This guy gets as close as I’ve ever heard anyone”: No-one nails Eddie Van Halen’s playing quite like Jacob Deraps – now he’s the face of the new EVH Wolfgang
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“I got on the mic and said, ‘I’m gonna go see Albert King. If you got any brains, you will, too.’ And I picked up and went”: The night Stevie Ray Vaughan walked out of his own show to go watch his blues hero
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“I was sitting on the edge of my bed, at 2 o'clock in the morning, thinking if I made the right decision. Can I play? Am I good enough?” Alex Lifeson reveals his struggles leading up to the Rush reunion tour
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“That’s the closest to my feel in that solo anyone ever got”: Brian May hails 17-year-old for his uncanny Queen guitar covers
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“Paul turned his back to me to get something. What emerged was a perfectly rolled ganja joint”: Carlos Alomar’s hazy first encounter with Paul McCartney