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Christopher Scapelliti

Christopher Scapelliti

Editor in Chief at Guitar Player

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“Gordon gave me a nod around the third verse. We had never heard the song.” The hit single that’s...

With spare time in the studio, Gordon Lightfoot peeled off a commemoration to a modern tragedy that's 50 years old today: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
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“Due to serious illness, I am unable to perform.” Health issues for...

After initially bowing out of the opening show, Setzer announced the band "very regrettably have to cancel our tour"
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Ace Frehley, beloved guitarist and cofounder of the band Kiss, is r...

The guitarist was on life support following a fall in his studio in late September
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“We are completely devastated and heartbroken." Ace Frehley, Kiss c...

The guitarist was on life support following a fall in his studio in late September
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“About a quarter mile out, some guy is flicking his lighter.” John ...

Delayed by the previous act’s trouble-plagued set, CCR went on past midnight to find the audience dead asleep
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“It’s the most misunderstood song I ever wrote. But some people sai...

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"It's time for a celebration of 50-something years of RUSH music!" ...

The announcement came at a Sunday night private event, much to the surprise of everyone in attendance
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“We got the guitars out, and then things loosened up.” George Harri...

Dylan's invitation for Harrison to spend Thanksgiving with him in Woodstock forged a friendship that lasted through Harrison's life
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“I had never heard the guitar quite sound like this.” Robert Fripp ...

The duo first worked together in 1972, an experience from which Fripp developed a unique guitar tone he would go on to make famous 
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“I hadn’t seen him in a while, and I wish I had.” Jimmy Page rememb...

Dreja died of complications recently, just weeks before his 80th birthday. The guitarist suffered strokes in 2012 and 2013
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“I cried for two years. I blamed myself.” Don McLean on the “unspea...

The songwriter recently took to the stage to sing the song with another artist for only the second time in 55 years
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“It's never that easy to play, even after all these years.” Brian M...

As the celebrated track turns 50, May says he has no desire to tour but is considering a residency for the band at the Las Vegas Sphere
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“John said to me, ‘Have you seen this? We should go down, just you ...

How a $230 million bid to reunite the group led to a comically low bid that Lennon and McCartney nearly took
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“If I chicken out this time, I cop out to myself too.” After quitti...

The guitarist knew he was the reason his previous groups had broken up. This time he planned to make it stick
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“There was this terrible smell of fuel, and all we could see was fi...

The wife and manager of Ozzy shared details for Hulu’s new metal docuseries ‘Into the Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal’
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“There are a lot of guys who can play that. But I don't.” David Gil...

The guitarist says that when it comes to performing live, he has a different approach that makes rote repetition unnecessary
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“The guitar sounded like a voice, the voice sounded like a guitar —...

With Cream producer Felix Pappalardi and drummer Corky Laing onboard, West had everything he needed to make his dream group— until Pappalardi drew the line
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“About three in the morning, there's a knock on the door. And John ...

Bowie and the ex-Beat;es discussed forming a trio at a time when Lennon was hungering to collaborate on music for the first time in years
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“He's got what looks like a syringe and wants to see how I'm gonna ...

Kotzen and Ozzy watched the comedy 'Dumb and Dumber' together — but the guitarist didn't seem to get the singer's big joke
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“That was when his songs started speaking to what the freak on the ...

It wasn’t until Dylan went electric that Garcia was won over by the folk icon