Guitar Heroes

While the Flying V is still the guitar most synonymous with traditional metal, the Explorer, despite being around since the 50s, has evolved into the...

Along with the Explorer, is there a more METAL guitar? Screaming to be played heavy, played loud and played with an incredibly tight pair of...

Is there a more iconic guitar than the Les Paul? Heavy, simple and with a tone that is utterly unmistakable. The Les Paul guitar has become standard...

The Stratocaster is pure class. Classic in design and wielded by some of the greatest guitar heroes of the all. Whether white, upside down and on...

Kiss divides opinion. There are those that love Kiss & then there are those that are wrong. There is a similar debate to be had when discussing your...

Lynyrd Skynyrd was of course Ronnie Van Zant's band, and today the flame is kept alive by the great Gary Rossington, but head back in time to the mid...

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...

HE LIKES IT!!! Still gloriously unofficial, but boy was I relieved when I got a message from Ginger confirming that he liked this Ginger T-shirt. I...

One of the best gigs I ever saw was the Chili Peppers on the Uplift Mofo Party Plan tour, the last the 'Skinny Sweaty Man' played on. As Anthony...

Slash has become the most adored man in rock; Duff remains the rock god that we would all happily hang out with; Steven may be showing the scars, but...

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...

There can be no doubt that Joe Walsh changed rock history. The James Gang were a superb outfit and much underrated, whilst Joe Walsh's session and...

While the likes of Robert Johnson and Lead Belly never really got to see their success and those they influenced flourish, John Lee Hooker did. From...

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,...

It takes something special to thrive in a band of such magnitude as Metallica. Add in the ego and personality driven rivalries and sheer weight of...

The influence of Lead Belly (or Leadbelly as he is sometimes credited) is so much greater than the wider world could possibly imagine. Not just his...

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...

It is easy to forget just how broad Mark Knopfler’s reach in music over the last 30 years is. Mention his name and horrid images of day-glo headbands...

He played with Bowie, he produced Morrissey, and the last thing he ever played on was the Wildheart's "My Baby Is A Headfuck" - All of which...

I first took notice of Paul Gilbert in about 1991. I had gone to Hammersmith Odeon to see a band called The Throbs who were bottom of a bill topped...

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

When Ginger changed the words of the Wildhearts 29x The Pain from "Miss You Kurt Cobain" to "Where Are You Hiding Richey James" it seemed to be the...

I loved growing up in England, and there are a lot of great things about my home country. But one thing that really sucks is that no one over here...

You know the mythology and if you are looking at this Robert Johnson T-shirt intending to buy it then you will already have your own thoughts on...

Let's forget Scott Ian's involvement with VH1's Supergroup and concentrate on the fact that he is the most charismatic man in thrash. Wherever you...

That tone. One note from Slash on that glorious Gibson Les Paul and you know it could only be one guitarist. No one modern guitarist has a sound so...

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...

The finest blues guitarist of them all? I for one certainly wouldn’t bother arguing the fact. Stevie Ray Vaughan was always humble enough never to...

Jees, where do you start with Todd Rundgren? For me, he will be the man that turned the New York Dolls debut from what could easily have been a...

The writer of some of the scariest metal riffs of all time, and of course owner of the best moustache this side of the 1980’s Liverpool team. I am...

Total respect to the finest guitarist of his generation. The fact that Zakk is affectionately spoken of in the same breath as Randy Rhoads, should...