“He’s an extraordinarily original player in a world full of people who sound like each other,”
#Garcia said of
#Weir. “I don’t know anyone else who plays guitar the way he does… “
#BobWeir #GuitarSky www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...“There is not another guitaris...
“There is not another guitarist in the world who plays like him”: The life and times of Bob Weir
The Grateful Dead original who – in the last 30 years of his life – stepped out from Jerry Garcia’s shadow to emerge as a guitar hero in his own right
“He was completely ignored by the
#guitar press of that time period. Especially in his prime, when he was young, on fire, he was summarily ignored, and I remember that pissed me off.”
www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit... #ErnieIsley #guitarists #GuitarSky #music #MusicSky #VernonReid“He was completely ignored by ...
“He was completely ignored by the guitar press of that time period”: Vernon Reid on the guitarist he believes is massively underrated – even though he kept “the Hendrix voice” alive
In a chat with Guitar World last year, Reid even insisted that this guitarist's “continued non-acknowledgment as a near direct tonal descendant of Jimi Hendrix continues to this day”
“There are
#instruments where you look at it and go, ‘Holy shit, what has this thing seen? … Just imagining
#Garcia in his dressing room, fucking playing the thing. Instruments carry a spirit.”
#guitars #GuitarSky #JerryGarcia #DerekTrucks www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit... #music #MusicSky“We knew that if Tiger went so...
“We knew that if Tiger went somewhere else, it was most likely going to be left behind glass”: Derek Trucks plays Jerry Garcia’s ‘Tiger’ guitar on stage just hours after it sold for $12 million
The second most expensive guitar of all time is already playing out its new owner’s promise of an active second life
YouTube“When I was a teenager he was one of my greatest heroes, along with
#Hendrix,
#Clapton and
#Beck,” says Fenn. “Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity, but then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger.”
#PeterGreen www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit... #GuitarSky“I got a call from a manager w...
“I got a call from a manager who was trying to drag him out of obscurity. We jammed daily, but he was away with the fairies”: Rick Fenn on the time he tried to help bring Peter Green back into the limelight
The late Fleetwood Mac guitarist was a hero of Fenn's, so when the call came in to help Green out, there was only one answer. But whatever happened to the music?
“nearly 10,000 people will flock to see a 72-year-old
#Japanese #jazz #fusion #virtuoso play a surfboard-shaped
#guitar in March. Come the summer, he’ll headline an outdoor festival in London’s Crystal Palace park.”
#guitarists #GuitarSky #music #MusicSky
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...‘Do what you really want to do...
‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s
Playing a surfboard-shaped axe, Takanaka was a stadium-level artist at home but little known in the west – until YouTube brought him a huge new audience
“Words fail me in describing his impact. He was on the session when history was made. He came up with the parts we all studied. He produced the records we all worshipped”: Why Steve Cropper was one of guitar’s most humble heroes
The departed soul man was the Stax band’s MVP, writing and driving the R&B classics that ruled the ’60s
Ralph Towner does winter
Ralph Towner/Solstice and Oregon/Winter Light
“There wasn't that kind of vibe, and the
#guitar is, after all, do-it-yourself. You can make of it what you want to, and that's the great thing about it. It can be anything and everything to all kinds of people.”
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/h... #RyCooder #Guitarists #music #MusicSky #GuitarSky“He goes, ‘I play a little. I'...
“He goes, ‘I play a little. I'm a hillbilly.’ Whips out his flatpick, man, and wailed on it.” How a devastating childhood accident and chance encounters with legends helped Ry Cooder become one of guitar’s most influential stylists
The guitarist would help define the Rolling Stones’ late-‘60s shift to country rock and bring Cuban music to a global audience
“Jack came up with the concept a couple of days before this Lions' halftime show, and we came up with this,” he says, explaining the
#electricguitar was inspired by the away helmet of the
#Lions.
#guitars #JackWhite #guitarists #music #GuitarSky www.guitarworld.com/gear/electri...“We didn't have enough time to...
“We didn't have enough time to do a proper powder coating on the hardware...” Up-close with Jack White’s NFL halftime show Triplecaster – built just days before his surprise gig with Eminem
Third Man’s Dan Mancini tells the story of a guitar that came to life at the last minute
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