Legendary guitarist and songwriter Dickey Betts (of Allman Brothers Band, Great Southern and Dickey Betts Band fame) was captured on film by Arnie Goodman at a recent concert in New York City. Whether toting a Gibson Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster, Betts makes the guitar sing. Check out the nearly 100 images of Betts and [...]
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Guitarist Robin Trower made a seamless jump from Procol Harum in the early 1970s to a solo career, exciting new audiences with his Jimi Hendrix-tinged sound and stylings. Trower turned up the reverb and unleashed walls of brooding, powerful sound from his Fender Stratocaster. Though it would be his sophomore release, Bridge Of Sighs, that [...]
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Sweden’s Yngwie Malmsteen is one of rock’s most influential and original guitarists. When most guitarists were woodshedding to copy Eddie Van Halen’s tapping technique in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Malmsteen looked much farther back for his inspiration, to the unlikely world of classical music and composers such as Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach and [...]
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One of the pleasures of assembling a collection of “greatest” or “essential” tracks for an artist like Rory Gallagher is the unbounded, subjective freedom for picking songs. After all, Gallagher got scant if any radio play, but he had a huge following thanks to his incredible live shows and uncompromising approach to music. The Essential [...]
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