Guitar Player

Guitar Player is a well-known magazine in the United States that caters to guitar enthusiasts. It was established in 1967 in San Jose, California. The magazine features a variety of content, including articles, interviews, reviews, and lessons that cover a diverse range of artists, music styles, and products. Since its launch in late 1967, it has maintained a print presence. Currently, Michael Molenda serves as the editor. Guitar Player is also a member of the Music Player Network.

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“I’m just standing there strumming a chord. And the audience looks at me and goes, ‘How does he produce that noise?’” Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player

2 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti

Pete Townshend is hailed as one of rock’s greatest rhythm players. Even he’s not shy about his talents, telling Sound International in 1980, “in that particular area, I don’t think I’m topped.”But when it comes to lead work, he admitted long ago he’s not much of an improviser. Most of his solos — from “I Can’t Explain” to “Love Reign O’er Me” were composed ahead of time.
“Those aren’t the words. It’s ‘I can’t hide.’ ” How a misheard John Lennon lyric led Bob Dylan to meet the Beatles and change both their destinies

3 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti

In the Beatles’ evolution from rock and rollers to psychedelic rock innovators, no figure looms larger than Bob Dylan. It was Dylan who introduced the group to pot, a drug that would have a transformative affect on their artistry, leading them to LSD and the psychedelia of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It may not be an exaggeration to call August 28, 1964 one of the most significant dates in Beatles history. It was on that day that the Fab Four met the Voice of a Generation, who.
“It’s a really dumb little thing with a lot of words that rhyme with c***.’’ Jill Sobule’s last song was a profane rant against J.D. Vance

5 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti

From Neil Young’s “Ohio” to Green Day’s American Idiot, Pearl Jam’s “Bushleaguer” and the Beat’s “Stand Down Margaret,” songwriters have occasionally used their poison pens to take on political figures, including prime ministers and presidents. You can add the late folkie Jill Sobule to that list. The 66-year-old singer-songwriter — who died tragically in a house fire on May 1 — made a final recording that denounces the current U.S. vice president.
“That rhythm guitar is Freddie. I don't think I played any of that.” Brian May said Freddie Mercury edged him out of this chart-topping Queen hit

5 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti

Freddie Mercury may hold the record for history’s most profitable half hour in the bathtub. In May 1979, as Queen were preparing to record The Game at Musicland Studios in Munich, Queen’s lead singer stepped into a bathtub inthe Bayerischer Hof Hoteland emerged 30 minutes later with a new song fully formed: “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”Grabbing an acoustic guitar, he quickly worked out the tune in his hotel room.
“It was just Joe playing some chords and me struggling through this riff.” Steve Vai and Joe Satriani tell how a 50-year-old riff inspired the creation of the SatchVai Band in a new in-depth video interview

5 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Joe Bosso

Last year, when Joe Satriani and Steve Vai issued their incandescent collaborative track, “The Sea of Emotion, Part 1,” millions of fans across the globe celebrated the news they’d been waiting decades to hear, that the two electric guitar virtuosos were finally — finally — recording together. As it turns out, that’s partially true.
"He said, ‘If Yngwie Malmsteen is playing, I'm not.'" Yngwie says Eddie Van Halen felt threatened by him. He has no idea why

6 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Phil Weller

Eddie Van Halen had established himself as one of the world's greatest guitar players by the early 1980s. Despite that acclaim, the guitarist was reportedly intimidated by Yngwie Malmsteen when the Swedish shredder arrived on U.S. shores in the early 1980s. So claims Malmsteen, who says Van Halen frequently put distance between them during that time. . The Swede’s star rose after he was introduced to the guitar scene in a Guitar Player spotlight in its February 1983 issue.
“George started freaking out. He said, ‘I feel like I’m dying.’ And then, Peter Fonda said, ‘Oh, I know what it’s like to be dead.’” Byrd’s founder Roger McGuinn on the origins of John Lennon’s trippiest track

6 days ago | guitarplayer.com | Andrew Daly

Before the British Invasion swept the Beatles across American airwaves, popular music in the United States had a distinct sound. Roger McGuinn, who co-founded the Byrds, accented by his now iconic Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string, was a big part of it. When the Beatles landed in America on February 7, 1964, McGuinn was working as a session player and songwriter, writing songs for singer Bobby Darin’s T.M. Music company.
"When 'Dazed and Confused' fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page..." The guitarist is sued again over “Dazed and Confused” as the Led Zeppelin documentary sparks a fresh lawsuit from the song's composer

1 week ago | guitarplayer.com | Phil Weller

Jimmy Page faces a fresh lawsuit over the song “Dazed and Confused” in the wake of the band’s recently released documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin. American musician Jake Holmes' track of the same name appears on his 1967 debut album, The Above Ground Sound. Soon after its release, the song was picked up by the Yardbirds after they toured together, and the band — then featuring Jimmy Page — began performing their version during live shows.
"You’d be surprised what you can plug a guitar into." Lita Ford weighs in on what's more important — your guitar or your amp

1 week ago | guitarplayer.com | Christopher Scapelliti

Which is more important — your electric guitar or your amp? The debate has been raging with some regularity in the pages of Guitarist magazine. If you’re like Yvette Young, you would most likely go for the most expensive amp you can get. As the guitarist for math-rockers Covet explains, there’s no point playing a pricey guitar through an amp that can't bring out the best it has to offer.
"They were going for shock value, like, ‘There’s this whole new world of guitar...’” Steve Stevens on introducing the guitar synthesizer to America and shaping sounds on Billy Idol’s new hit album, ‘Dream Into It’

1 week ago | guitarplayer.com | Gary Graff

Steve Stevens recalls the day he made an arrangement to debut Roland’s revolutionary GR-707 guitar synthesizer to America’s guitarists. It happened while he and Billy Idol were in Japan promoting Idol’s 1983 smash hit, Rebel Yell. “We went to the Roland factory and they brought us into a room, very secretive, and showed us this GR-707 with the foot controller and pickup,” Stevens explains to us via Zoom from his home studio in Las Vegas.