Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size of two large refrigerators — held together by more than 200 connections and ...

Jimi Hendrix’s solo career is pivotal to the history ... Matthews sold his first Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz pedals to Manny’s in New York. He reports that Henry Goldrich, Manny’s son ...

55 years after his death, Washington state has finally awarded Hendrix with the Washington State Medal of Merit, the highest ...

Plenty of players have impressed Malmsteen, but it was a solo violin performance that would have the biggest influence on his ...

Returning with one of the hard-rock records of the year, the dynamic duo talk tone, collaboration, and the limits of ...

Having immersed himself as a teen in jazz's bandleader era, Quincy Jones credited one instrument with ending its rigid ...

The wah pedal was invented in 1966 when guitar effects were becoming mainstream, and it was quickly adopted by the guitar heroes of the day, including Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Having found ...

Before his Grand Ole Opry debut, musician Colt Graves and legendary label boss Timbaland discuss country re-rooting itself in soul music.

Julian Gross Robert Randolph has started a new chapter in his storied career today with a twofold announcement: the pedal steel powerhouse ...

“Over the years, I have heard people talk about how Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin would ... since Randolph began blending gospel with pedal steel guitar, known as the sacred-steel style.

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