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“I gave him 1,600 bucks and my guitar. It was all the money I had in the world.” Vince Gill on the guitar that launched his career

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By Richard Bienstock, Christopher Scapelliti 
| Guitar Player
"My career has been all over the map," Vince Gill acknowledges. "It's been real traditional country; it's been real pop. It still rocks pretty good; it's bluesy — all these things. I never wanted to do just one thing over and over." Since emerging in the mid 1980s as a country crossover hit maker, Gill has released a string of impeccable solo albums that showcase his sterling songcraft, his high, lonesome, Orbison-esque tenor voice, and his formidable six-string prowess.
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“I kicked him in the wrist as hard as I could. I know I broke it, because I used to wear these great big platform shoes onstage.” Lita Ford on the Runaways, rock and roll — and what happens to hecklers who get in her face

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By Richard Bienstock
| Guitar Player
“Back in the early 1980s, there were no other girls out there that could play like I could play,” Lita Ford says. “And I had to prove it was me playing those songs, because nobody could accept it.” These days, it’s a well-established fact that Ford knows her way around an electric guitar.
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The Black Crowes at the Speed of Sound

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By Richard Bienstock
| Premier Guitar
When the Black Crowes convened at producer Jay Joyce’s Neon Cross studio in Nashville to work on what would become A Pound of Feathers, the plan was straightforward: spend a week with guitarist Rich Robinson, his brother and Black Crowes singer Chris, and drummer Cully Symington fleshing out songs, then bring in the full band to properly record everything. “We did two songs the first day,” Rich recalls. “We’d finish a song, I’d add bass, add guitars, and it was like, ‘Wow, this is great.
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