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THERE ARE VARYING degrees of guitar hero, but Carlos Santana is a name you’d expect to find near the top of any list. Like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May or Slash, Santana has transcended guitar music and pe

“If ‘psychedelic’ means something immersive and transportive, then ...

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ON MY LATEST album, One Guitar Woman, I pay tribute to many of the female pioneers of the guitar, all of whom are among the biggest influences on my approach to playing the instrument. On the album, I

AL JARDINE WILL be the first to tell you he didn’t play much guitar for the Beach Boys in the Sixties. Early Beach Boys albums — like Surfin’ Safari (1962) and Surfin’ U.S.A. (1963) — feature plenty o

FROM HIS EARLIEST days as the apple of Mike Varney’s eye to stepping in for Slash in Guns N’ Roses, it’s always the same for Ron Thal, aka Bumblefoot. “With every album, the inspiration comes from liv