Latest articles by Henry Yates
Lance Lopez: “Texas guitar playing is the attitude of putting everything behind each note”
Back with a candid new solo album, Texas gunslinger Lance Lopez recounts his rocky road from hell to redemption…
Then play on: the story of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan
Bernie Marsden, Jeremy Spencer and more reflect on the underrated six-stringer
James Hunter: “I think guitar playing needs to acknowledge what kind of record it’s on. A solo shouldn’t disappear up its own arse”
British soul sensation James Hunter’s golden voice belies a tarnished backstory that takes in brawls, busking and assorted “bastards”
Steve Lukather: “I’m a journeyman guitar player. And I’m proud to be that. I’m the guy you call to fix s**t”
The session ace looks back on 40 years of Toto
James Valentine and Sterling Ball: “Building a guitar is not like writing a song. You’re creating a three-dimensional tool”
The Maroon 5 star and Ernie Ball Music Man head honcho discuss the making of the Valentine signature model
Gibson: how did we get here?
Charting the troubled guitar giant's decline and how it can rise once more
Def Leppard's Phil Collen: “We worked. We went somewhere. I came out of Hysteria a better player”
30 years on, the guitarist revisits a classic album
The history of the Gibson Black Beauty
Hackett, Hawkins and Heafy on the be-suited 'Beauty's origins and evolution
Mike Oldfield: “It’s the age-old story. Out of suffering comes beauty”
When Oldfield’s world fell apart in 2012, he found salvation through a new album that channelled the spirit of his 70s work
Steve Vai tells the story of the Ibanez JEM
"I had no expectations. I thought I was just designing a guitar for myself"
One for the road: Black Star Riders
Scott Gorham and Damon Johnson reflect on snakes, the cocaine days and shattered kneecaps...
Laurence Jones and Mike Vernon on why Take Me High is "the future of blues"
Exploring the burgeoning British guitarist's latest
Eric Gales' 11 tips for guitarists
On first impression, Middle Of The Road seems a strange choice of album title for Eric Gales
Nick Johnston talks technique, gear, Guthrie and Gilbert
If you think instrumental guitar is mindless widdling, then you haven’t heard genre-blurring visionary Nick Johnston
A-Z of classic rock guitar
Music styles don't come much wider, cooler or more inspirational than the behemoth that is classic rock
Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster
Don't be fooled by the name: this Dinosaur Jr. Jazzmaster bites like a T. rex…
Danny Bryant talks Trout, tours and Trev Wilkinson
Written on the road. Recorded in the shadow of death. Performed with a pint glass...
Busking with Rodrigo Y Gabriela
It's all about cash in the hat as TG takes flamenco duo Rodrigo y Gabriela back to their roots with a busking session in Camden Town
Guy Chambers on his gear, George Harrison and golden rules
As songwriter-in-chief for Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers has ridden shotgun with the star through the highs, hell-raising and planet-gobbling hits
