Guitar Heroes

After several decades of seeing him as a nice, if slightly dull, guitarist, what a shock we all got when pictures of a bloodied and bruised Lifeson...

If you have found your way here then I pray you are not one of those people that thinks the BB King legacy starts and finishes with his work on the...

Now Green Day is a contentious issue..... All those old punks out there have been grumpily dismissing Green Day as no more than a pop band with no...

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...

Can anyone explain to me why Chris Rea is so lightly regarded by the world? The man is a truly brilliant blues guitarist that should be heralded as a...

Philanthropist, pilot, family man, poet, charity worker, CBE…. Oh, and he played guitar and sang a bit too

Hey, this is the guy responsible for recording Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, so what on earth else is there to talk about. There are many...

Opinion on EC often divides, and at Sleazy Rock N' Roll we are no different. Personally, I think just about everything he did post 461 Ocean Blvd...

Most people know Gary Moore for his associations with Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, but for those that know their blues rock it is his solo work that...

For those of you that have completed Guitar Hero 3, the sheer scale of the Heman Li guitar technique is in no doubt. His sizzling fret-work has...

Let's face it, without Howlin' Wolf decades of joy we have all gleaned from rock n' roll would be wiped away. One of the key men responsible for...

All those Baby Boomers keep banging on about knowing where they were when they heard about the Kennedy assassination, the equivalent for us rockers...

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...

OK, so I can’t eulogise about what a good bloke Johnny Ramone was in the same way you could about band mate Joey Ramone. And I can hardly try to tell...

I have designed a lot of T-shirts, but not many that I love as much as this one. Maybe it’s because of the subject, maybe it’s because it seems to...

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...

What can you really say about the bloke? Whatever it is, it had better be nice, given Kerry's reputation as one of Metal's hardest guys. That aside,...

What on earth is left to say bout Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain? I could tell the story of how I had tickets to see Nirvana at the Astoria in London just...

A T-shirt tribute to the true genius of Little Feat’s magnificent Lowell George. A musician's musician, this man was one of the most talented...