“Eventually they shut their stupid mouths.” Don McLean on outlasting the critics, outfoxing the industry, and the one songwriter who beats Paul McCartney

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Use the 4th Position like Clapton at Hyde Park

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Clapton Someday After a While Style Lesson

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“He was facing jail time and needed a lawyer. I went out to his car and bought five guitars that day.” Lenny Kravitz on the desperate deal that gave him his number-one guitar

The guitarist learned vintage-guitar hunting from Tom Petty and Mike Campbell. Then a chance parking-lot encounter landed him a ’53 Goldtop conversion that's appeared on every album since Are You Gonna Go My Way.

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“That’s why he sounded like that — and that’s why we couldn’t crack the code!” Joe Walsh on Jimi Hendrix and the simple reason his sound and style were a mystery to his guitar-playing contemporaries

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Win tickets to see Charo in concert in Northern California

The flamenco guitar goddess performs at the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, California on Saturday, June 20

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“If he was that tuned into me and missed that point, then he missed the whole point.” Eric Clapton on the one thing Eddie Van Halen didn’t understand about playing the blues

History says Clapton insulted Van Halen. Taken within context, his comments were part of a wider discussion about understanding the blues

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