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Chris Gill’s Biography

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I recently co-wrote the biography Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen (Hachette Books) with Brad Tolinski, which compiled numerous interviews we conducted with the musician over three decades.

I have been an on-staff editor at various music/musician publications since 1991, including Guitar Player and Guitar World. I was Editor-In-Chief of the electronic music magazine Remix from 1999-2002 and the music lifestyle magazine Guitar Aficionado from 2012-2018.

I am also a certified Califor…

Chris Gill’s Journalist Portfolio

Eddie Van Halen revisits Van Halen's landmark '1984' album

Eddie Van Halen revisits Van Halen's landmark '1984' album

(Image credit: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) This story originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Gui…

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Grapes Under Pressure

Grapes Under Pressure

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall in vivid detail the night of November 12, 1974, when a bottle of wine chang…

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Loved by George Harrison, the Isley Brothers and Rush’s Alex Lifeson, the Maestro PS-1 Phase Shifter changed the face of popular music – but it sure was bulky

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George Harrison performs with a Stat on German TV. During the late ’60s, Tom Oberheim earned notoriety among Los Angeles musicians for the ring modulators he built for everyone from the experimental electronic psychedelia band the United States of America to film composer Leonard Rosenman, who used Oberheim’s ring modulator on the soundtrack for 1970’s Beyond the Planet of the Apes.
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“Everyone who is anyone has used one at some point in their careers”: The story of the Boss digital delay pedal that changed the world

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Brad Paisley performs live with his Telecaster – his trusty Boss DD-2 Digital Delay is also pictured. Integrated circuit technology advanced at such a rapid pace during the late ’70s and early ’80s that only seven years passed between the introduction of the first analog delay pedals in 1976 and the debut of the world’s first compact digital delay pedal – the Boss DD-2 Digital Delay – in 1983.
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“Everyone who is anyone has used one at some point in their careers”: The story of the Boss digital delay pedal that changed the world

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“Quirky and off-the-wall, it’s waiting to throw a spanner in the works of your guitar tone”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Atomic Cluster review What is it? Long before the boom in boutique pedals, the one company that could be relied upon for pushing the ‘quirky and weird’ envelope was …
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