Learn 10 essential guitar rock riffs for beginner players By Leigh Fuge published 5 January 24 Get started with the classics from the Beatles to the Stones, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Hendrix and more
Luthier John Diggins of Jaydee Custom Guitars has passed away – Tony Iommi pays tribute By Rob Laing published 4 January 24 "He was a very dear friend to me and we’d known each other since the '70s"
5 essential Jethro Tull songs guitar players need to hear By Neil Crossley published 14 September 23 "And here was Jimmy Page waving like mad… I'm thinking, 'I can't wave back, or I'm going to blow the solo'”
See Tony Iommi become an honoury 'Vampire' as he joins Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper to perform Black Sabbath's Paranoid in Birmingham By Rob Laing published 12 July 23 The Sabbath legend guested with the Hollywood Vampires supergroup
Tony Iommi admits that, yes, sometimes he got carried away playing guitar solos – but Ronnie James Dio was his enabler By Jonathan Horsley published 7 July 23 Iommi says the Dio years challenged Black Sabbath to up their game and RJD would tell him to solo longer. “Listening back to things, you think, ’Bloody hell! That was a bit over the top‘”
Geezer Butler rules out future gigs with Black Sabbath and explains retirement from touring in general By Rob Laing published 15 June 23 "I didn’t realize how hard starting from scratch is, especially when you’re used to your own plane and staying at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton"
70 years on: Remembering Django Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz trailblazer who triumphed over adversity and changed guitar forever By Jonathan Horsley published 16 May 23 George Benson says it was his swing. Peter Frampton says it was his soul. John Jorgenson says he was the first to play the impossible. What made Reinhardt so special?
Watch Paul Gilbert pay tribute to the late, great Burt Bacharach with a solo guitar performance of God Give Me Strength By Jonathan Horsley published 10 February 23 It is the Bacharach and Elvis Costello tune as you have never heard it before, all arranged for and performed on electric guitar
A Black Sabbath ballet is coming to Birmingham and it might just turn out to be a genius meeting of worlds By Rob Laing published 8 February 23 The band's home city will host the Tony Iommi-endorsed Black Sabbath - The Ballet in September before it visits other cities
Why has Paul Gilbert recorded an album of classic Dio songs? By Rob Laing published 2 February 23 Well why not? Hear his take on Holy Diver from The Dio Album now
