rock music Archives – MusicPlayers.com

December 10, 2017

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 ...

Bass Player FS, Feature Stories

September 17, 2017

byKel Pilshaw

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 ...

Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

September 17, 2017

byDerek Davodowich Scott Kahn

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 ...

Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories, Guitar Player FS

July 17, 2017

byScott Kahn

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 ...

Feature Stories, Music Biz FS, NAMM 2017 Special Report

February 15, 2017

byScott Kahn Bruce Sokolovic Jason Buchwald Derek Davodowich Kel Pilshaw

Winter NAMM 2017 Special Report

A fresh look at the products that grabbed our attention at the MI industry's premiere trade show. It was a bright and beautiful day in ...

Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories

April 26, 2016

byScott Kahn

Dream Theater's Astonishing John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess

Dream Theater’s thirteenth studio release, The Astonishing, is a grand, double-album, concept story that, if reduced to a single sentence, tells the fantastic tale of ...

Feature Stories, Keyboard Player FS

January 16, 2016

byScott Kahn

Ryo Okumoto: Keyboards (Spock's Beard)

MPc: Let’s start with a 30-second summary of your musical life. RO: I grew up in Japan. Started playing piano when I was three years ...

Band & Musician FS, Feature Stories

January 1, 2016

byScott Kahn

Spock's Beard: The Prog Particle

Spock’s Beard. Just the name is enough to conjure up thoughts of life in a parallel universe. But if you aren’t yet a fan of ...

Drummers & Percussionist FS, Feature Stories

June 5, 2015

byScott Kahn

Gavin Harrison: Cheating the Laws of Drumming Physics

In the world of technical rock/progressive/fusion drumming, the “best of the best” list is a short one, filled with names such as Peart, Portnoy, and ...