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Watch Neil Giraldo Perform 'Come Together' by the Beatles

The longtime Pat Benatar guitarist and collaborator shares how he's working to help people struggling with mental health and isolation. Continue reading…

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo Perform During ‘American Idol’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo took the stage during 'American Idol's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame night, bringing their iconic work to the competition series. The post

“The record label hid my name in a very small font size behind the CD. It took a long time to find!” You may not know wh...

The self-confessed late developer was in his 50s when his career hit its stride. He explains how he wound up working with Liz Phair, Demi Lovato, and more, and reveals the gear tha...

“My friend’s mom told Harry Nilsson, ‘You gotta hear him play!’ I played and he asked, ‘What are you doing next Wednesda...

He’s worked with Jackson Browne, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, and others, but doesn’t regard himself as an in-demand studio guy. The gearhead lists some of his favorite tools, in...

“She had no idea this was going on. They came out with this guitar case and said, ‘Close your eyes.’ We opened it up, an...

The Aerosmith icon tells GW about the time he surprised his wife, Billie, with a Lucille inspired by WWII fighter pilots

On This Day in 2017, We Said Goodbye to the Trailblazing Female Guitarist Who Later Married a Legendary Country Songwrit...

On This Day in 2017, We Said Goodbye to the Trailblazing Female Guitarist Who Later Married a Legendary Country Songwrit...

“I heard him say in some interview that if you only play electric guitar, you're half a guitar player”: Her guitar playi...

Already an established instrumental composer, Rebecca Mardal took up acoustic guitar at the Smiths man’s suggestion, and she changed her playing style after he gave her a slimmer n...

“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining ant...

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The...

“I was 8 and Andy was my first guitar teacher – to me he was Mr. Summers with a funny accent!”Doug Pettibone on taking l...

The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel u...

“He rolled up with his guitar on his back and his Fender Deluxe in his right hand”: Mark Lettieri on his jams with John...

Three guitar greats needed a band, and Lettieri came to their rescue

Haylie Davis Can't Do Without Her 1974 Gibson J-40

Laurel Canyon singer and songwriter Haylie Davis told us about her Gibson love... Haylie Davis: My 1974 Gibson J-40. She’s big and bold, and forever has my heart. I have two guitar...

“We would roll into, say, Portland, and go to the pawn shops. You could find a ’57 Les Paul for $200!” Melissa Etheridge...

The veteran hitmaker charts her evolution from acoustic to electric and back again and explains how she went digital, how she keeps her classic songs fresh, and how her family deal...

St. Vincent Swears by Steely Dan’s ‘Kid Charlemagne’

The guitarist riffs on her favorite solo, giving all credit to Larry Carlton

“As soon as Isaw the Blade Runner, I said, ‘That’s mine. Igotta have that.’ It’s the ultimate pointy guitar”: Joe Perry...

The Aerosmith guitarist's mid-’80s X-100 Blade Runner is so cool it makes you wonder why Guild doesn't bring it back

“I didn’t have a guitar, so he let me play this Strat that he got from Jimi’s old guitar tech. It was the best-playing g...

A guy named Jimmy gave him a guitar owned by Jimi, and it was a revelatory experience

3 of the Greatest Guitarists Who Ever Shredded With a Fender Stratocaster

3 of the Greatest Guitarists Who Ever Shredded With a Fender Stratocaster

“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedi...

The underrated guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he’s been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the...

"She said, 'Mick wants to speak to you.' It was Jagger asking if I was free to tour with the Stones." He produced the Se...

The cult singer and guitarist whose fingerprints are all over British music

“I’d seen pictures of Keith Richards playing it. I figured I’d try one out”: How Joe Perry found his ultimate slide guit...

And even better still, the Ampeg Dan Armstrong was see-through…

“If you would have told me 15 years ago that Paul Gilbert’s main amp in the future would be a solid state Fender Twin, I...

The shred pioneer is using one as a monitor, one to push air at the crowd, and he believes it is a top-tier pedal platform

“I had a little too much Jack Daniels and went to sleep. Early the next morning, I woke up to Eric and George playing uk...

Terry was Clapton's guitarist in the 1970s, and through Slowhand he was able to meet a particularly famous face

“As it was going up in the air, I thought, ‘Wow, that looks so cool.’ On the way down, I was thinking, ‘What did I do?!’...

The Aerosmith guitarist on the iconic Junior with the custom mother-of-pearl inlay, his desert island guitar – and why he reads Guitar World every month