Any audience would be an artist's bread and butter, but Eric Clapton knew when he had to reach beyond what his fans wanted ...

Many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them.

The two-hand tapping pioneer on playing with Canned Heat, Jerry Garcia and John Mayall, getting beaten to the Stones gig by ...

Virtuoso soloists like Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson ... Then there was Eddie Van Haien, who — after raising the rock world's collective eyebrows with his solos on 1978's Van Halen and '79s ...

These include Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, Prince, and Jeff Beck. Fender is not just a legendary guitar maker but also a giant in the ...

Think of guitar heroes and the obvious names may come to mind – Page, Clapton, Van Halen – or ... an unassumed frame of reference.) Eddie Van Halen would be the first to admit that he copped ...