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“I’m not going to be here long. Just give me stuff to sing.” Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s last days The guitarist says Queen managed to carry on thanks to the gift he left them — and reveals the song Adam Lambert nails every time
Randy Bachman on the fake Guess Who — and how he reclaimed the band and the name After decades of watching other musicians tour under the band’s name, Bachman tells how he and Burton Cummings finally reclaimed the Guess Who
Erlend Krauser shows how to perform expressive hammer-ons, pull-offs, whammy-bar scoops and two-hand tapping Jeff Beck’s soaring licks meet Stanley Jordan’s fretting fluidity in Krauser’s tapping and whammy-bar techniques
Chrissie Hynde on her unforgettable first meeting with Lemmy — and the one band he truly loved Before he was shattering decibels with Motörhead, Lemmy was chasing Liverpudlian girls who were obsessed with the new band in town
He jammed with Prince and Miles Davis — until one deceptive meeting put an end to everything Prince could have anything... except the guitarist he wanted most
Courtney Barnett on the moment when everything clicked on her new album The songwriter recalls the epiphany that inspired “Mantis,” the track that pulled ‘Creature of Habit’ together
“I stole my first guitar from my dead friend’s house.” Pepper Keenan on the morbid origins of his guitar career The Corrosion of Conformity guitarist reveals how the instrument launched him onto the punk and metal scene in his native New Orleans
Ritchie Blackmore on the one musician he was closest to — and what drove a wedge between them The two men reconnected before one of them died, leading Blackmore to write a song in his memory
Zakk Wylde’s beloved Grail Les Paul fell off the back of a truck. Here’s how he got it back It was the guitar he launched his Ozzy Osbourne career with, but it nearly crashed out of his life forever
Alice Cooper reveals his new guitarist — and she’s got the approval of Nita Strauss As Strauss goes on maternity leave, 22-year-old Anna Cara steps in on the eve of the band’s latest tour
How a tip led Terry Kath’s daughter to track down the late Chicago musician’s lost guitars.  Decades after Kath’s death, Michelle Kath Sinclair  uncovered the instruments that helped define the sound of Chicago — and her father’s legacy.
“We were really limited onstage.” Eric Clapton on the group he said achieved what Cream could not Jack Bruce said Clapton had doubts about Cream from the start. “I remember him saying, ‘This is a good recording band, but it will never be a good live band.’”
The woman who found Paul McCartney’s bass guitar in her attic had no idea a global search for the instrument was going on Cathy Guest discovered she had the bass after uploading a photo of it to Google Images