Eric Clapton. His life is a story of breaks, losses, and great music. On March 30, he celebrates his 80th birthday.

There’s just something about a man with a perm and an electric guitar that leads to drama. The history of rock and roll is ...

You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos ...

The annual event celebrates the art and legacy of Jimi Hendrix with an all-star line-up of guitar heroes — just a few of the ...

Still, many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them. Not everyone in 1980 chased the dive-bomb ...

Long before the current plethora of ‘rig-in-a-box’ pedals there was the Rockman. Anyone who played electric guitar in the ...

We suggest looking past the harbinger of '80s music that was synthesizers to ... Flat Tires" — a jazz fusion type bass part, a rock guitar solo, tight backing harmonies — but somehow it ...

"I can't imagine Rock Guitar without Pete Townshend ... influenced playing which also underpinned the evolution of 70s and 80s rock music," he elaborated. "Townshend brought to the scene a ...