• Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories

    Adopt The Arts: A Tribute to Sammy Hagar A Night of Giving and Gratitude

    "When you get bit by the charity bug, it makes you feel good. Anything that makes you feel good is addicting. And the more you ...
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  • Feature Stories, Music Biz FS, NAMM 2018 FS

    Diary of a NAMM Virgin

    Dear Diary, My trip to NAMM began at my regular corner bar on the Jersey Shore. The one I go to each Thursday. To see ...
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  • Feature Stories, Music Biz FS

    Yamaha Reveals Some Gear at a Pre-NAMM Demo in NYC

    As if the industry isn’t busy enough getting ready for the NAMM Show, Yamaha held a small gathering in New York City last week to ...
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  • Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

    The Phil X Factor

    Photos by: Ceól Photography, Linda Wake-Garza Photography, Heather Donovan Photography, and Alice Kordsmeier For Phil X, it started like any typical day would at Henson Studios in Los ...
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  • Feature Stories, Keyboard Player FS

    David Rosenthal: The Piano Man's Keyboard Man

    Grammy-nominated keyboard player, David Rosenthal, is no ordinary musician. He’s an unsung hero of the keyboard world, currently serving as musical director for Billy Joel’s ...
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  • Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories

    Steven Wilson From Prog to Pop...sort of

    Steven Wilson is known worldwide as the mastermind behind the progressive rock band, Porcupine Tree, collaborator with Israeli pop star Aviv Geffen in the rock ...
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  • Bass Player FS, Feature Stories

    Billy Sheehan: Defying Gravity

    Billy Sheehan is widely regarded as one of the rock world's finest bass players, both on stage and in the studio. Although critics always tell ...
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  • Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

    Paul Gilbert: Defying Gravity

    It's hard to be guitar player into hard rock and not have at least some passing familiarity with Paul Gilbert's playing and lineage. At the ...
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  • Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

    The Top 40 Under-appreciated Guitarists of the 1980s ...who didn't receive the press recognition they ...

    Every musician’s magazine routinely publishes a list of the greatest guitarists known to mankind. Some are reader polls where you vote on names from a ...
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  • Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

    Dweezil Zappa: Dweezil Zappa (solo), Zappa Plays Zappa

    Why You Should Know Him Son of legendary rock guitarist Frank Zappa, guitarist Dweezil Zappa grew up in close proximity to the spotlight, however over ...
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