Learn Electric Guitar

Richard Hugh Blackmore is an English guitarist, songwriter and bandleader famous for his work with Deep Purple and Rainbow. Ritchie left school at age 15, and first worked as an apprentice radio mechanic.  During this time he got guitar lessons from session musician Big Jim Sullivan. In the early years of Deep Purple, Blackmore favoured [...]

The Gibson guitar company is compiling a list of the top 50 guitarists of all time.  They’ve got their list from some fairly inscrutable process involving votes from their website’s readers, and from their own team of judges.  They are releasing their results ten at a time, so here are guitarists #50 to #41- I’ve [...]

This post is a bit unusual, and slightly off-topic for the site.  I normally try to post only about learning electric guitar, rather than just general music news.  But, because Ronnie James Dio has been such a hero of mine, I’ve decided to make an exception here.  Even though he is known as a singer, [...]