It’s not easy to define what a “guitar hero” really is. However, with a player like Tom Morello, we get the privilege to witness some of the elements that make one. But we’re not just talking about the technique or how well a musician applies music theory in practice. Tom has a...
“I can’t think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical talent to change what was there before, and take music in another direction. That’s a guitar hero for me.” –Jimmy Page of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin “Les Paul brought six strings to electricity and elect...
In the late '70s and early '80s, Ian Dury became an unlikely hero of the British new wave scene. Born on May 12, 1942 in Middlesex, England, Dury suffered from polio as a child, spending a year and a half in a hospital and emerging with a crippled arm and leg. In the mid '60...
This 0-17 likely came to his hands sometime in the late 1990s when they were working together on Atkins’ final album. As Chet was Emmanuel’s guitar hero, this guitar doubtless holds significant sentimental value for him. He does not tour with this instrument, as its age and heritage, m...
Of course, this list wouldn’t be complete without Emmanuel’s hero. Chet Atkins began his musical journey by learning how to play the ukulele. He then switched to the acoustic guitar, which inevitably became his obsession. As legend has it, Atkins regularly falls asleep while holding his gui...
More often than you’d think – but never quite as beautifully on this track, whose pretty tune, graceful improv, and shimmering tone all seemed to come out of nowhere in the context ofJoe’s Garage. But since the hero escapes a totalitarian society by imagining guitar solos, it somehow ...
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Star Challenges are a feature in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. They are the equivalent to the Bonus Challenges in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero but in Quickplay+. The challenges are more or less the same as the ones in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero. The onl
Last Gasp Guitar Hero ; Blues Singer Joanne Shaw Taylor May Have Left Solihull to Pursue a Career in the US but She Is Excited to Be Returning for a Homecoming Gig. She Talks ToIT STRIKES me that blues musician Joanne Shaw Taylor was the kindof pupil who did her essays the...Wood, ...
“We had a prototype of ‘Back in Black,’ theAC/DCtrack, so that was the first song,” Kay confessed. “It’s really disappointing, as we never got the license for it to be in the game.” Watch Kobe Bryant, Tony Hawk, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Phelps in a 'Guitar Hero: World...