This new generation of players has absorbed influences from the original instrumental guitar gods while pulling from the worlds of metal, post-hardcore and math-rock to create daring, invigorating ...

Credit: David Warner Ellis/Redferns In this feature, we are taking an in-depth look at some key instrumental innovators. The rock ’n’ roll and surf guitar styles first came to prominence in ...

Satriani wasn’t the first instrumental rock guitar star. (That would be Jeff Beck.) Or the first great shredder (hello, Eddie Van Halen) or the first instrumental shredder star (Yngwie Malmsteen).

Beyond mere musicianship, some guitarists transcend their instruments to become cultural touchstones, wielding their axes ...

Allan Holdsworth and numerous other musicians to release albums that appealed to jazz and rock fans alike. It also helped ...

We need to cut an instrumental.'" Hazlewood had recorded ... Creedence Clearwater Revival calling Eddy “the first rock and roll guitar god." The Hall of Fame goes on to note the influence ...

The most commercially successful instrumental artist in the history ... Clearwater Revival calling Eddy “the first rock and roll guitar god." The Hall of Fame goes on to note the influence ...

Eddy’s style of instrumental music dipped in ... “If there was any doubt left in the late 1950s that the guitar — not the saxophone — was rock & roll’s essential lead instrument, Duane ...

His 1978 instrumental showcase "Eruption" almost instantly became the much-imitated gold standard for guitar solos, essentially serving as a new alphabet for a legion of hard rock and heavy metal ...