Guitar Heroes

Sure, there are better guitarists and there are certainly cooler ones, but the fact remains that Angus is still secretly everyone's favourite.......

Let us all be upstanding for Mr Brian Jones – legendary boozer and substance abuser. Mick may be the business brain and Keith is certainly the soul...

We all have things in our record collections that we could live without or that we would deny owning if we thought it would lead to ridicule, but for...

Dave Mustaine must have been one hell of drinker to have got thrown out of Metallica for being drunk. Such a blow would have smashed the heavy metal...

On December 8th 2004 metal lost not only a great guitarist, but an icon of the scene. The Double D was a true southern gent that represented...

People think Dave Lee Roth was the Rock and Roll in Van Halen, however Eddie Van Halen was twice treated for tongue and mouth cancer, he said he...

Writer, guitarist, composer, father of strangely named kids, and of course so utterly barking that Ritchie Blackmore wrote a song about him.

Loving Lynyrd Skynyrd is not considered cool. Personally I don’t give a shit. I love them, and at the risk of damaging any last shred of...

John Peel loved him, NME voted him the 'coolest person in rock' and the Flaming Lips even wrote a song thanking him. He also manages to play so well...

Jimmy Page reckons Jeff Beck is the best. Who the fuck are we to argue?

Layne Stayley may have stolen the headlines with rock’s ultimate career move, but if it wasn’t for the finest guitarist to have emerged from the...

Jimi Hendrix was quite good at guitar. Apparently he also took drugs and set fire to his guitar.

With Eric Clapton enjoying life as rock royalty and the likes of Rory Gallagher, Jeff Healey and Stevie Ray Vaughan no longer with us, it would be...

When you have a front man like Anthony Kiedis, a maniac like Flea and the legacy of Hillel Slovak to compete with, is it a wonder that anyone knows...

Live toasted or die…. Everything you hear about Josh Homme reinforces his reputation as one of the most likeable guys in rock. The fact that he so...

Legend has it that when Keef was up in front of the beak on drugs charges, he called his doctor as a witness to confirm that even though the amount...

OK, so he may be Malcolm's little brother, but when Angus Young describes someone as the greatest guitarist in the world, then that is fine by me....

I first saw Cavalera live in March 1992 when I was one of the lucky few to get my mitts on a ticket to see Sepultura play the Amersham Arms in New...

Oasis is what happens when you have two brothers, only one with any talent, but they both know it.

Blizzard Of Ozz…. What else do you want to know?

There are so many stories about Ritchie Blackmore and no doubt some of them are true. Ritchie Blackmore probably is a right royal pain in the butt....

The fact that he failed the audition for Poison on account of him being too ugly makes him as rock n’ roll as they come. What a star. Whoever he...

Like most rock fans, I first heard about Steve Vai through his work with Dave Lee Roth (I didn’t realise it was him in Crossroads), but when I first...