My life in three guitars: paul gilbert

IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre

MUSIC FANS KNEW Ozzy Osbourne as the Prince of Darkness or maybe even the Messiah of Metal, but among the hard-rock guitar community, he’ll always be remembered as the Godfather of Heavy Guitar. Thank

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BELLA RAYNE used to run for the hills whenever her parents played Grateful Dead records in the house. “It drove me crazy. It’s like they pushed it on me,” she says. “I liked punk ro

How’d you get this guitar? I worked at Hogan’s House of Music in Hawthorne, California, when I was younger. I bought it there. I paid $300 for it in 1980. Did you modify it? And what sort of rig did y

RETURNING TO THE drawing board for his third ESP/LTD signature guitar, Rammstein’s Richard ZK has pivoted toward the trending offset shape and bestowed it with some killer appointments. Headlined by s

BELOW, ZAKK WYLDE — who shared innumerable on- and off-stage experiences with Ozzy (and almost as many Guitar World covers) — looks back on his Wylde ride with the Prince of Darkness. More than any ot