Joe Bosso

1 week ago | guitarworld.com | Phil Weller |Joe Bosso

When they weren't penning a string of hits in the 1980s, Jim Babjak and the Smithereens were writing for other artists and projects, but sometimes, those worlds collided. When the band adopted A Girl Like You, which would become one of their biggest hits, Babjak knew his go-to Gibson SG didn't have the bite needed to make it work, and he bought the guitar used in its place without even playing it.

1 week ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti |Joe Bosso

Heart’s Nancy Wilson knows a thing or two about men with malice in their hearts. Back in the 1970s, the guitarist and her sister Ann wrote a song about a lying scumbag who planted a story that the two founders of Heart had an incestuous relationship. They called it “Barracuda,” and in 1977 it went on to become a major hit for Heart, one of the most successful female-led groups in rock and roll.

1 week ago | guitarworld.com | Joe Bosso

Since 2002, Brian Ray has held down the enviable gig as guitarist and bassist in Paul McCartney’s band. At the same time, he’s built a successful side career as a solo artist – sometimes with his garage rock band, the Bayonets – and has released a series of punchy power pop albums and singles that recall the ebullient, hard-driving and hook-laden sounds that dominated the Southern California scene in the late Seventies. “I’m a West Coast guy, so that stuff is in my roots,” he says.

2 weeks ago | guitarplayer.com | Joe Bosso

“It’s an odd song to begin with, and it’s a very odd song to be on a Tom Petty album, especially one called Southern Accents.”So says guitarist, songwriter writer and producer Dave Stewart about “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” the ethereal, neo-psychedelic rocker that became a smash hit for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1985. “The song came about in the most peculiar way, and almost immediately it went off in a couple of directions," Stewart explains.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joe Bosso

3 hours agoMental Illness Took My Dad. After His Death, I Discovered His Secret Past Inside An Old Filing Cabinet. "I had to accept that I would never know my father like I wanted — and also that, to some degree, he’d been there right in front of me." In my memory, there are two dads: the Richard before mental illness — and the one after. The Richard before never seemed very rock ‘n’ roll.