Slow Burn: The Top 10 Slow Guitar Solos
Remember those old Bugs Bunny cartoons where a pompous Bugs would race a tortoise—and lose? The moral of the story: slow and steady wins the race. The same principle can hold true with guitar...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Songs That'll Get You Lucky
When you first started playing guitar, it was to get girls, right? Perhaps you were influenced by the party scene in Animal House where the collegiate folkster attracts a gaggle of swooning females by...
View ArticleTop 20 Hair Metal Albums of the Eighties
Yeah, they dressed funny and their lyrics often lacked the angst and agonized self-awareness that we’ve come to expect in this decade of the rock and roll sissy-band, but the pop metal acts of the...
View ArticleWeird Science: The 10 Strangest Vintage Effects of All Time
It’s probably not a coincidence that effects such as wah pedals and fuzz boxes started appearing en masse about the same time that recreational drugs like marijuana and LSD became popular with rock...
View ArticleTop 10 Greatest Rock and Roll Song Endings of All Time
Well, bub, no matter how good the song is, it eventually has to end. The question, then, is: How’s it going to end? A studio fade giving the illusion of a sing-along chorus going on forever in some...
View ArticleDark Horse: George Harrison's Top 10 Solo Albums
Despite the diversity of George Harrison's many pursuits during his 58 years on earth—racing, gardening, Indian religion and culture, film making and anything remotely associated with ukeleles, Mel...
View ArticleThe Fab 50: The Beatles' 50 Greatest Guitar Moments
In 2014, on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the United States (and legendary February 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show), Guitar World celebrated the 50 best guitar moments from...
View ArticleTop 10 Weirdest Guitar Sounds Ever Recorded
Electricity can do strange things. When it was added to the guitar, some years ago, it opened up new possibilities for players of the old box o’ six strings. The following sonic scientists, using...
View ArticleAustin Power: Stevie Ray Vaughan's 30 Greatest Recordings
Guitar World celebrates the 30 greatest recordings of Stevie Ray Vaughan—from “Texas Flood” to “Riviera Paradise”…from “Couldn’t Stand the Weather” to “The Sky Is Crying.”For someone who spent a mere...
View ArticleNeed for Speed: The 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time
From Les Paul to Paul Gilbert, Johnny Winter to Johnny Hiland, and Paco De Lucia to Al Di Meola, fleet-fingered guitarists have made their mark in every genre throughout the modern history of the...
View ArticleE.C. Listening: Eric Clapton's 50 Greatest Guitar Moments
Guitar World celebrates the 50 greatest guitar moments of Eric Clapton's five-decade career—from the Yardbirds to Cream to Derek and the Dominos and beyond.There was a time when the name Eric Clapton...
View ArticleThe 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time
Metallica are undeniably the most influential rock band of the past 30 years. That fact can be perceived simply by looking at the numbers. They are on the exclusive list of music artists who have sold...
View ArticlePedal to the Metal: The 25 Greatest Wah Solos of All Time
Since the guitar's inception, there have been countless talented players who could make the instrument sing, but it wasn't until the mid-Sixties and the arrival of the wah pedal that guitarists could...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Biggest Hair Bands ... Literally
Face it: They weren’t called “hair” bands for nothin’. In fact, the copious coifs of the artists on this list were so high, the FAA had to adjust flight patterns whenever these bands hit town.And don't...
View Article10 Things You Didn't Know About Black Sabbath
It’s been nearly 46 years since Black Sabbath emerged out of Birmingham, England, and defined the genre of heavy metal with detuned guitar riffs, occult themes and monolithic heaviness. Think you know...
View Article25 Things Every Guitarist Should Know
Many people believe that possessing talent alone is enough to guarantee an artist success in the music business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In a perfect world, the best musicians — the...
View ArticleThe 30 Most Badass Guitarists of All Time
Guitar players are the coolest creatures on this planet. Don’t believe us? Consider Buddy Holly. Take away his guitar and he might as well be Melvin Poindexter, full-time accountant and part-time...
View ArticleThe Top 30 12-String Guitar Songs of All Time
When considering the choices for this list, we realized it wasn't as easy a task as we first thought. What makes for a great 12-string guitar song as opposed to a great song that just happens to have a...
View ArticleTop 10 Weirdest Custom Guitars — Photo Gallery
Most guitarists at one point or another in their development have gone through some sort of “I want a custom guitar” phase. Whether it’s a funky paint job or a radical new shape, a custom ax presents...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Heavy Metal Album Openers
No one ever went to a Led Zeppelin concert expecting the band to open with “The Rain Song.” It's a fine tune, to be sure, but the electric charge of a crowd in waiting must be met in kind. The same...
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