“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger”: How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/rick-fenn-10cc

“I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t play this thing’”: Why Steve Vai struggled to play Brian May’s iconicRed Special

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/steve-vai-on-brian-mays-red-special-guitar

“I got to play with Layne and Chris and Lanegan. Now they’re gone. What would they be doing now? That haunts me to this day”: Mike McCready opens up on his new rock opera, the Seattle jams that changed him, and the future of Pearl Jam

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/mike-mccready-farewell-to-seasons-interview

“If you talked to me when I was 25 years old, I would have been frightened to take a solo after Joe Satriani…” Why Cory Wong is no longer afraid to trade leads with his heroes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/cory-wong-no-longer-afraid-to-trade-solos-with-his-heroes

“It’s not a Bowie tribute, though it’s hard for people not to think of us as that, because look who we have”: How the Thin White Duke's longest-serving guitarist became the hero in his own story with KillerStar

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/killerstar-earl-slick-the-afterglow

“We can’t let anything happen to it”: Ziggy Marley on the whereabouts of Bob Marley’s iconic Les Paul Special – and why he prefers a Strat now

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/ziggy-marley-bob-marley-les-paul-special-whereabouts

“After mine was stolen, I didn’t have time to go to the factory, so they just handed me this 10-string”: The 10-string oddity that became one of Joe Perry’s most iconic guitars – even though he hardly played it in Aerosmith

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/joe-perry-bc-rich-bich-10-supreme

“He had a knife to my groin. I was petrified. He went for my guitar”: Mikael Åkerfeldt on nearly losing his prized PRS on the way to record a landmark Opeth album – and why he doesn’t deserve a signature model (even though he’s got one)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/mikael-akerfeldt-opeth-blackwater-park-25

“There is not another guitarist in the world who plays like him. As raw as John Lee Hooker and sophisticated as Andrés Segovia from one phrase to another”: The life and times of Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/the-life-and-times-of-grateful-dead-icon-bob-weir

"His guitar was his life’s breath”: Tributes pour in as The Dictators and Manowar guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman dies aged 72

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/ross-the-boss-dies-aged-72