2018年9月29日 · Was Malcolm Young the greatest rhythm guitarist in the world? No contest! "I recall being given one of his guitar picks after a gig on the band’s current tour, and it was half worn down.

2018年9月29日 · Nowadays as a guitarist you want to celebrate what you’ve been able to play, which goes back to quoting other great players, but you also feel a responsibility not to copy those people. In my mind when I’m playing my heroes are sitting on my shoulders."

2018年9月29日 · He must have been the first guitarist to bring the Latino rhythm and approach into rock and make it work on such a scale. He began something all those years ago, and perhaps it’s the greatest compliment you can pay him that the Latin sound has become such a …

2023年8月26日 · Over the years, Classic Rock has talked to many of the world’s greatest guitarists about the fellow players who inspired them to pick up the instrument in the first place, from Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash and AC/DC’s Angus Young to the likes of Metallica‘s James Hetfield, ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons and fretboard wizard Steve Vai. Here ...

2018年9月29日 · Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top): "My favourite guitarist is BB King. The album Live At The Regal, recorded in 1964, remains a classic. The electricity, the crackling atmosphere… Plus it’s a great sound, recorded with a full band, horns and piano, and a rabid audience thrown in.

2025年3月9日 · Tony Iommi has never been a man to use his private life to foster celebrity status. While others have invited the world to invade their privacy in search of ephemeral fame, the Black Sabbath guitarist has always refused to talk about such matters.

2018年9月29日 · "As a guitarist, I come from the Malcolm Young [AC/DC] school of rock, which is about rhythm and songwriting. If you talk to anybody, I’m not really known as a virtuoso soloist. Where it’s at for me is rhythm, tone, feel and arrangement.

2025年3月8日 · Along with Ann in the first line-up of Heart was guitarist Roger Fisher, drummer Michael Derosier and bassist Steve Fossen. Nancy, who had gone off to college, would be persuaded by Ann to join the band a while later.

2023年12月21日 · Guitarist Albert Lee is still in the road, performing solo shows and, if called upon, with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, but it’s his track record as a session guitarist – stretching back to the early 60s with Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds and then Heads, Hands & Feet, with whom he really made a name for himself – that catches the eye.

2025年1月31日 · With guitarist Justin Derrico playing the Jimmy Page to her Robert Plant, Pink introduced the Zeppelin classic saying, "Tonight is so special, I'm so inspired by the love that is happening... this is one of our favourites", then asking "We got any Led Zeppelin fans out there?"