Blow By Blow

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One of the best albums of the best guiratist alive IMO. This guy just turns any genre he touches in some outstanding performance. His latest electronic work is exceptional too. I was determined not to bore anybody with any jazz. Things like Blow By Blow were just unadulterated jazz, but I didn’t think so at the time. During their double-headlining Fire Meets the Fury Tour, Guitar Player got a chance to sit down and catch up with the man himself.

I couldn’t even touch a guitar string because the pain was so bad… I had to re-establish the connection between my brain and my fingertips.” The Blasters' Dave Alvin on the highspots and the horrors of his career in five songsI never have to think about strumming patterns – it’s all taken care of because the motor is always going”: Cory Wong is the modern king of funk guitar – he shares his tips for tightening up your rhythm playing Cause We've Ended as Lovers" is a very beautiful song. He had his moments with the Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) but I'd still take his solo stuff over them.

Strings/tuning: Unknown (probably Ernie Ball Super Slinky .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042)/standardNo. He didn’t know I existed. The awe I would have been in of him, and he would have been sitting there, wishing he was fishing. Bernie had completely forgotten he had this. He said, ‘Oh, I looked in one of my old storage spaces today and I found another four guitars’”: Up close and personal with some of late guitar hero Bernie Marsden’s rarest vintage instruments As producers, you struggle to get inspired if you're using the same thing. A lot of times, a piece of analogue gear can break you out of that rut" – Shaun Lopez on crafting synth sounds for the long-awaited second album from Crosses

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 amps onstage were an early ’70s Fender Champ and an Ampeg VT-40. I believe the Champ was only used as a driver for his Kustom “The Bag” talk box, and the Ampeg was his main guitar amp.It was getting very stodgy. I was getting so depressed by ’65 because I was 10 years too late to be around the Gene Vincent, Cliff Gallup thing, and I bitterly resent that. It was a really dark time for Ronnie and for the band": Vivian Campbell on why Ronnie James Dio had no interest in doing the Hear 'n Aid project featuring Yngwie Malmsteen, Neal Schon, George Lynch and Iron Maiden Even when I once watched him play Savoy on an unplugged 1956 Gretsch Duo-Jet with heavy flatwound strings, it still sounded uncannily like what he recorded on Guitar Shop. Sometimes bad gear can give you a good idea! I’ll go with whatever’s around. There are no rules”: Code Orange’s Reba Meyers on writing “pure evil” riffs and why she’d rather play a guitar that “sounds a little sh**tier” than a studio classic As an all-instrumental album it was a surprising commercial success, with a jazz fusion-like approach seldom seen on best-selling lists at the time. It was certified Gold in 1976.