Details the author's efforts to track down the legendary guitar heroes of the golden age of heavy metal, including Slash, Ace Frehley, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, and Mick Mars, and get them to share the secret to their success.
Complemented by never-before-seen photographs and first-hand interviews with the legendary rocker, provides access to the life and career of the "guitar god."
Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called?a guitar God!" Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genre…
Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called "a guitar God!" Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genr…
The life and career of Tony Iommi, a rock guitarist for the band Black Sabbith.
The memoir of one of the great musicians of our time, Tony Iommi-Grammy-winning revolutionary guitarist, cofounding member of Black Sabbath, and architect of heavy metal.
Describes the life of the experimental guitarist who quit his job as a highly successful 1960s session musician to pursue an abstract form of avant-garde, improvisational music that has been admired by many other progressive, leading-edge musicians.
After ten years working himself to the top of his profession as dance hall and session musician, Derek Bailey committed himself to 'free improvisation' in the early 1960s. He has lived to see it become the lingua franca of today's art music scene.
"This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the ea…
Jimi Hendrix: starting at zero: his own story
by Neal, Peter, Hendrix, Jimi, Douglas, Alan
Jimi Hendrix in his own words. An intimate, posthumous memoir from one of the great gods of rock and roll.
"It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him forever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest …
"It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him forever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest …
Jimi Hendrix in his own words. An intimate, posthumous memoir from one of the great gods of rock and roll.
