Jason Shadrick

Pearl Jam outlasted just about everyone who came out of Seattle, and more than three decades on, they still command one of the most devoted followings in rock. To dig into their guitar work, we called on Mark Hopkins—host of the YouTube show At Home with Mark and the biggest Pearl Jam fan we know—who walks us through Stone Gossard's songwriter's instinct, the surprising difficulty of soloing cleanly over "Yellow Ledbetter," and his case for Yield as the band's masterpiece.

The Beatles changed everything—the sound of music, the fashion, the politics, even the idea of what a band could be—and they did it across a span of just seven years. To dig into the guitar playing of John, Paul, and George, we called on Jimmy Vivino, longtime member of Conan O'Brien's house band and a guy who's done the deep forensic work of recreating later-period Beatles material with the Fab Faux.