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John Anthony Genzale, Jr., better known as Johnny Thunders, is an american guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of New York punk. Johnny Thunders also went under the pseudonym “Johnny Volume” Thunders was known as a heroin user for much of his life, a subject that was frequently reflected in his songs [...]

Steven Siro Vai is an american guitarist, songwriter and producer responsible for some of the most innovative and technical electric guitar music of the late twentieth century. Steve Vai has appeared onscreen in a number of feature films.  He is best known for his work in the movie Crossroads, playing the devil’s guitarist Jack Butler.  [...]

David Albert Wyndorf is the guitarist, vocalist, frontman and songwriter for New Jersey hard rock band Monster Magnet. Dave Wyndorf was a late starter on the guitar.  He did not start learning to play guitar until the age of 28.  Before he learned to play guitar, he used to write guitar parts by singing them [...]

I laughed myself silly over this video I found on youtube: But after I finished having a good laugh, it made me think about how I’ve noticed that a lot of the time on various guitar and music forums that I frequent on the internet, when the topic has come up about why everyone made [...]

Mick Mars is an american guitarist and a founding member of the Glam Metal band Mötley Crüe. Mick Mars was born Robert Alan Deal, but took the stage name Mick Mars and dyed his hair jet black due to his frustration with the LA music scene. Mick came up with the name Mötley Crüe while [...]

Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley is a New York guitarist best known as one of the original members of hard rock band KISS. Ace started to learn guitar at the age of 13, and never received any formal guitar instruction, stating that “I never went to music school; I never took a guitar lesson, but everybody [...]

Josh, from the consistently awesome and extremely worthwhile Fretterverse blog has recently vented his frustration about what he terms the world’s must infuriating guitar product. The product he is referring to is the Power Chord Trainer.  This product is a small bit of plastic that fits between your fingers to train your fingers into the [...]

John James Sykes is an English guitarist born in 1959, who has played in a number of famous rock bands. John was briefly in the Tygers of Pan Tang, a band that formed part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the late 1970s.  He joined as a second guitarist and played [...]

Ross “The Boss” Friedman is a New York guitarist known for founding both punk rock pioneers The Dictators, and the loudest band in the world, Manowar. Ross became known as Ross The Boss at a young age.  The other kids gave him the name because he was good at baseball. Ross The Boss founded Manowar [...]

“One of my favourite things on the album is the title track, where we can hear you flip the pickup switch… Oh yeah! I love that because usually you’d edit that kind of thing out, but hearing little details like this is just great! Oh yeah! I like doing things in one take, not chopping [...]