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![Joe Satriani [left] plays his Chrome Boy Ibanez signature S-style on stage, and wears a black T-shirt and wraparound shades; JImi Hendrix [right] wears a bright patterned shirt and plays his Olympic White Fender Stratocaster onstage at Royal Albert Hall.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sPWCirz8fjBvGixtRANGCo-840-80.jpg.webp)
Joe Satriani explains the difference between today’s online virtuosos and Jimi Hendrix
Satch says Hendrix was never played anything that sounded like an exercise – he “just sounded like music”
“Put it away and get a proper guitar!”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton
Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so much...
Adrian Belew has surgery to relieve carpal tunnel syndrome following BEAT Tour
The former King Crimson guitarist was operated on by the surgeon responsible for the first successful human hand transplant in America
“I'd lost a close friend and a hero of mine took the time to console me”: Pete Thorn recalls Steve Vai's kindness
And there’s a happy ending. Thorn and Vai are now band members in SatchVai Band, alongside Joe Satriani
“One of the biggest mistakes we ever made!”: Journey's Neal Schon names the song he wishes they'd never recorded
And he remembers the chemistry he had with singer Steve Perry
"It wasn’t the sound we wanted to make": Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe talks Britpop and inspiration
“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"
“I didn’t even want to record the song!”: How a famous guitarist scored a surprise solo hit
“I stepped out of my comfort zone with the funky guitar!”
NAMM 2025: “I’ve honestly never felt a smoother neck in my life”: Cory Wong feels the humbucker heat as the funk guitar virtuoso and Ernie Ball Music Man team up for StingRay II and StingRay II Deluxe
Wong is still a paid-up member of the Stratocaster club but says he has been on the hunt for humbucker-equipped guitar for years and this is the one
