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This interview was originally published in 2014. I remember the buzz going around my fellow Southern Californian musicians -- especially bass players -- when early...

This interview was originally published in 2014. It’s all about the guitar. Or at least it started that way. Richie Kotzen picked one up around...

This interview was originally published in 2014. Absolutely mind blowing. He’s been absolutely mind-blowing on the fretboard since he was a teenager. That’s six-string voodoo...

This interview was originally published in 2014. Indestructible. That's as good a definition for the band Judas Priest as any. Despite an oft-changing roster over...

This interview was originally published in 2014. Fingerstyle guitar was not where he started out, but it is as one of the world’s pre-eminent fingerpickers...

This interview was first published in 2014. “School Days” has come full circle for Stanley Clarke. The 1976 jazz rock hit long ago made the...

At the dawn of the electric age one pickup was all you got, but then came the ’50s and ’60s with switching choices aplenty. Is there still a place for a guitar with the bare minimum of electronics, reflecting everything back on the skills of the player? Michael Heatley thinks there is…

The famous Marshall sound was founded upon an amplifier built in a garden shed by a few amateur radio fanatics, and the period until 1968 became the era of the first Marshalls – the classic JTM series. Rob Stockley tells the story of Marshall Amps...

This interview was originally published in 2011. Since resuming recording and touring activities in 1993 after a 19-year hiatus from the road, Steely Dan has...

This interview was originally published in 2010. In a world where everything is amazing and nobody's happy, I was very happy when I was told...