“I would rather do anything than sit there and watch somebody fiddle with pedals” Snail Mail on why she’s embraced the guitar on her terms on new record, Ricochet

Lindsey Jordan on troublesome but magical Gibson SGs, the power of trying stuff out, and why she’s learned to make label-backed records feel DIY.

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“The strongest opinion in the room is often the right opinion”: How Mark Morton handles writing disagreements with his Lamb of God co-guitarist Willie Adler

“Somebody’s got to be willing to say, ‘I’m not directing this one…’”

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“I auditioned for The Ultimate Sin record. I was there for 21 days and recorded almost every day or night”: Greg Chaisson on his gruelling Ozzy Osbourne audition

Chaisson didn’t get the gig, but he did strike up a friendship with Jake E. Lee – which would be rekindled a few years later with Badlands

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“A band member said, ‘If we didn’t write it, there’s no point in doing it because we won’t get writing credits.’ I was really disappointed”: The moment Ritchie Blackmore knew he’d leave Deep Purple

Blackmore looks back on his Deep Purple departure

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“That thing is unbelievable. It’s one of the most impressive new amps I’ve tried”: Misha Mansoor has a ton of amps. But one new design has blown him away

The Periphery tonesmith uses digital and analog gear in the studio, and one tube head in particular has knocked his socks off

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“They’re not just relics of the past. They are benchmarks”: The holy grail of tone – three amps that built the sound of recorded guitar

From shimmering cleans to full throttle roar, these three classic amplifiers helped shape the sound of modern music and still define what great guitar tone means today

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“Call my guitar man if you want the exact number”: Keith Richards reveals the astonishing number of guitars in his collection

“It’s not like I go around buying them or anything; a lot of these guitars have been given to me…” says the Rolling Stones man.

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“With the solo, my mindset is that we’re at the start of a musical journey, and it’s my mission to tell a story”: Jared James Nichols on his melodic soloing ideas every guitar player can take from Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa and SRV

In his latest Guitar World column, the blues powerhouse channels Slowhand (and uses his own track Threw Me to the Wolves) for a lesson in lyrical leads

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“The house and studio burned to the ground. When we got there, Pink was sitting in the driveway. She gave me a Gibson guitar case with a bow on it”: How Butch Walker’s ear for killer tone took him on a journey from obscurity to in-demand producer

From Taylor Swift to Green Day, he’s worked with the world’s biggest stars, and still managed to make 16 of his own records –and, now, his own signature amp with Divided by 13

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Gary Holt: “All I listen to is Adele”

“I’ve always liked pop. I was listening to Madonna on the Exodus tour in the ’80s with Venom.”

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“They gave me an MRI and said it looked like I’d been in a car crash”: Gary Holt once gave himself clinical-grade whiplash because he headbanged to his riffs too hard

The guitarist says he “dodged a bullet” by avoiding surgery

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“Brad said, ‘I know where it is.’ I said, ‘Really? Where?’ He opened up Guitar Player and there was a spread of Slash’s guitar collection”: The story of Joe Perry’s ’59 Les Paul Standard – his lost treasure and ultimate birthday gift

Joe Perry was forced to part with his beloved ‘Burst in 1979, but it was his Aerosmith bandmate who found it again

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“I laughed my head off! Like, ‘Oh my God, what have we spawned?’” Keith Richards shares his response to the Sunset Strip shredders of the 1980s

Richards never had any interest in becoming a lead player – and the early innovators of the shred movement did not change his mind

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Metallica gifted Wolfgang Van Halen a “perfect attendance during a world tour” certificate for not missing a support slot on his M72 tour run: “If that doesn’t show you how much they care…”

Wolfgang says touring with Metallica has been one of the craziest things his band Mammoth have ever been a part of…

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“I quit playing music for two years. I was done. Then I got a call from Stone”: Mike McCready followed Duff McKagan to LA to make it big – but he nearly missed his shot in Seattle

Before Pearl Jam, the lead guitarist sought to make a success of his teenage hard-rock outfit, Shadow

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“You’re hanging out with your hero, then they go, ‘Okay, cool. Now pick up the guitar and show us what you got’”: Virtuoso Luis Kalil recalls the time he met – and played for – Jason Becker, at the shred icon’s house

The Red Devil Vortex guitarist started uploading Cacophony covers to YouTube in 2014, and soon caught his idol’s attention

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