Latest articles by Darrin Fox
"I showed Eddie Van Halen some of what I had to learn in order to pull off Frank’s music... Eddie said, 'Who would've thought that you'd be giving me a guitar lesson!': How Dweezil Zappa took EVH inside his father's playing, and left him in awe
In this vintage GP interview, Dweezil also reflected on the idiosyncratic nature of his father's soloing, and how the elder Zappa worked around his technical limitations
“I never practice, so my technique is not great, but I also don’t go down a lot of ultra-rehearsed alleyways. I can still find things that are surprising to me. That may not happen if I practiced every day”: An archive interview with Andy Partridge of XTC
Andy Partridge on how he approaches solos, his biggest influence, and how he takes the same chords and scales as anyone else but makes them sound totally original…
Gary Moore: "When I’d See Peter Green, I Was Hanging on Every Note He Played. When He Would Hit the Note, it Would Just Go Right Through Me"
The late blues guitar great discusses channeling Roy Buchanan with a Tele, the best piece of playing advice he ever got, and the hard-rock guitar icon who borrowed liberally from his "Parisienne Walkways" melody in this 2007 GP interview.
Frank Zappa's Favorite Guitars and Amps
“Frank rarely used anything stock": Dweezil Zappa reveals the custom gear behind some of his late father's greatest recordings in this essential read from the 'GP' vault
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