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4 days ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
You could probably say Dumble Amplifiers are about as mythical as music gear can possibly get. Named after founder and owner Alexander Dumble – who sadly passed away on January 16, 2022 – the business was very much a one-man operation, with only a handful of meticulously crafted amplifiers built every year. The custom heads and combos famously ended up in the hands of players like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Robben Ford, whose tones made history almost as much as the music they wrote.
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2 weeks ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
You could say Kirk Hammett knows a lot about guitars. He’s been collecting them for over four decades, with many of his finest specimens exhibited on last year’s Gibson TV interview – part of an ongoing series presented by the company’s Director of Brand Experience Mark Agnesi.
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3 weeks ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
Though he’s fast approaching his 70s, Joe Satriani remains one of the busiest guitar players in the game. There’s a new live album out, documenting the original G3 lineup’s sold-out reunion tour of last year. He’s been paying tribute to Eddie Van Halen in the ongoing Best of All Worlds tour alongside Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham.
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1 month ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
As the founding guitarist in American AOR heroes Boston, Tom Scholz ended up penning some of the biggest melodic rock anthems of the mid-to-late 70s and 80s, etching his name in history with world-conquering hits like More Than A Feeling, Don’t Look Back and Amanda. On top of that, he also trained at MIT as a sound engineer and ended up building the studios his band used to record, so it’s easy to see why the word ‘genius’ often winds up in the sentences describing him.
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1 month ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
There are metal legends and then there are metal gods: visionaries who drag their music into the deeper abyss, far beyond the point of no return. When the Los Angeles quartet Slayer formed in 1981, they did so with the purpose of pushing their new wave of British heavy metal influences to the very extremes.
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1 month ago | 
musicradar.com | Amit Sharma
On this day (21 March) in 1995, Steve Vai’s E.P. Alien Love Secrets was released. And it features what is arguably the guitar virtuoso’s greatest song - Tender Surrender. Looking back on the 30th anniversary of this landmark track, Vai tells MusicRadar: “I guess I’m not considered much of a blues player in the conventional sense. "But I’ve always been rock/blues oriented," he adds, "because I’m a huge Page, May and Blackmore fan. None of them were strict blues, though.
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1 month ago | 
musicradar.com | Amit Sharma
Steve Vai had a great time in the ’80s, playing guitar for ex-Van Halen singer David Lee Roth and with former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale’s band Whitesnake. But as Vai admits to MusicRadar, it’s a risky business when you’re up on stage strutting your stuff, night after night. You’re walking a tightrope - and sometimes you can end up flat on your back.
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1 month ago | 
guitarworld.com | Amit Sharma
When we think of the earliest electric guitar amps, names like Rickenbacker, Gibson, Vox, Marshall and Fender will often be the first that come to mind. Peavey came into the picture not too long after, with the company dating way back to 1965. Founder Hartley Peavey – the son of a music store owner in Meridian, Mississippi – was a guitar player who dreamed of becoming a rock star, but quickly found he was better suited to building the equipment being used by working musicians.
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1 month ago | 
musicradar.com | Amit Sharma
Steve Vai was the guitar-playing sidekick for David Lee Roth in the late ’80s, appearing on the first two albums that the singer made after leaving Van Halen - Eat ’Em And Smile and Skyscraper. But as Vai tells MusicRdar, one of the best things about working with Roth was the chance to perform classic Van Halen songs in concert. “I mean, every one of those songs was a classic!” Vai says. “Have you ever tried playing along to those parts? They’re so fun!“Panama, Unchained, Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love...
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1 month ago | 
musicradar.com | Amit Sharma
It was rock’s version of the heavyweight championship of the world. In one corner, Van Halen. In the other, the band’s former singer David Lee Roth. It was 1986, and there was outright hostility between the two camps after Roth quit Van Halen and was replaced by Sammy Hagar. Van Halen landed the first blow. Their album 5150 was released on 12 March 1986, and was an instant hit.
