Arteconciencias: “If I had joined Guns N’ Roses, that would have basically been me filling the role of someone having to back up Slash”: Marc Ford on the highs, lows and musical triumphs of The Black Crowes

“The direction I was given was, ‘We want to encompass the history of the guitar’”: The guitarist behind Back to the Future’s Johnny B. Goode scene says he used a Strat copy with a Floyd Rose | “There are people out there with extraordinary technical ability, but you listen to their tone and you’re like, ‘Have you got ears or not?’”: Steven Wilson explains why he’s “constantly disappointed” by modern guitarists’ tones | “I played with Satriani, Bonamassa, Iommi and Blackmore… but Gary Moore was the best”: Glenn Hughes has performed with some of the greatest guitarists of all time, but he reckons the late, great blues-rocker surpasses them all

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October 6, 2023

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“The direction I was given was, ‘We want to encompass the history of the guitar’”: The guitarist behind Back to the Future’s Johnny B. Goode scene says he used a Strat copy with a Floyd Rose

The scene is famous for Marty McFly's (historically inaccurate) Gibson ES-345 – but it was recorded on a very different guitar

"There are people out there with extraordinary technical ability, but you listen to their tone and you're like, 'Have you got ears or not?'": Steven Wilson explains why he's "constantly disappointed" by modern guitarists' tones

The Porcupine Tree maestro says "a lot of the modern generation of guitar players" aren't paying attention to tone – and the results are "boring"

"I played with Satriani, Bonamassa, Iommi and Blackmore… but Gary Moore was the best": Glenn Hughes has performed with some of the greatest guitarists of all time, but he reckons the late, great blues-rocker surpasses them all

The rock frontman and bassist admits they were close, but says Moore was "unbelievable"

Features

"If I had joined Guns N' Roses, that would have basically been me filling the role of someone having to back up Slash": Marc Ford on the highs, lows and musical triumphs of The Black Crowes

The respected SoCal guitarist explains why he chose the Black Crowes over Guns N' Roses – and how the Crowes' internal friction made them a compelling alternative to grunge

How rubber bridge guitars became the hottest trend for the next generation of players: 10 songs that tell the story of its unstoppable rise

From its beginnings on tracks by alt-rockers like Phoebe Bridgers and Blake Mills, this fascinating mod made its way onto chart-topping albums by the likes of Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo

From Guitar Player

John Lee Hooker: "Out of the younger generation of the blues singers, who was my pride and joy? Stevie Ray Vaughan... He could do anybody – Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson – anybody's thing. I'd sit down and watch him do that"

The bluesman who Miles Davis once described as the "funkiest man alive" discusses his love of B.B. King's signature Gibson, his most beloved Fender amps, and the guitarist who came closest to his style with GP in this 1992 interview

Carlos Santana: "I told René Martinez that I didn't want to play a Strat – I thought to make it sustain, I'd have to play so loud that I didn't know if I could have babies!"

On the eve of the release of his astonishingly successful 'Supernatural' album, the virtuoso sat down with GP to discuss taking inspiration from Miles Davis and Peter Green's legato lines, and reveal what (and who) finally got him to use a Tube Screamer

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Lessons

Tom Verlaine influenced generations of alt-rock guitar greats – find out why they worshipped his playing with this lesson in his idiosyncratic style

The recently departed Tom Verlaine was one of the most important of the alt-rock and new wave players who brought an expansive and musically audacious approach to punk