Buddy Guy discovered feedback and distortion one fateful night in Chicago thanks to a passerby's trailing dress.

Keith Richards could have taken credit for countless Rolling Stones hits, but he was happy acknowledge when his bandmates knocked it out of the park.

It was much harder to get a Rolling Stones sound with him.” Brian Jones, Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood? Keith Richards says one ...

While no one will confuse Gavin Rossdale, Joe Elliott, or Mick Jagger with a Yankee, they each front groups with a distinctly American sound.

And when he decided to go outside the realm of normal guitar playing, his riffs in open-G tuning opened up a new world for guitarists. Everyone had been used to the signature Chuck Berry licks that ...

Every single one of The Rolling Stones’ best records had to do with making songs with the same 12-bar foundation, and listening to the way that everyone from Robert Johnson to Buddy Guy played guitar, ...

“I remember tuning up after every take on guitar. He’d say, ‘Check the tuning, man!’ It could be a three-note punch-in, and he’d have me check the tuning. “This went on and on. We were there [at ...

Many people in the music industry aren’t meant to stay friends forever. It’s important to realise the people who will be around for your entire career, but it’s safe to say that decades around the ...

Referring to his guitar lesson from Richards, Rappaport says, “It was fabulous because it wasn’t Keith the rock star, it was just guitar player to guitar player. And he told me something amazing.

And it’s not like Richards didn’t share Mayfield’s love for strange tunings. Since Richards had become for the open-G tuning, the ‘black key’ tuning that his soulful counterpart had on his guitar made ...

Our first entry is the most pedestrian of guitar pedals but one of the most important. Accurate tuning is fundamental to a good performance, and it can often be hard to determine a perfect pitch ...

“‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ came out flying – I just found the tuning and the riff and started to swing it and Charlie picked up on it just like that, and we’re thinking, hey, this is some groove” ...