One goal of the alternative rock guitarist is to avoid rock clichés. And one of rock’s biggest clichés is the guitar solo.
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What killed the guitar solos

This video charts the history of the guitar solo, from rock’s greatest stages to the digital world, exploring how technology and changing culture reshaped its place in music.
The reviews are in, and Jeremy Allen White delivers as Bruce Springsteen in the rock biopic, "Springsteen: Deliver Me From ...
“My dad was a great guitarist but a terrible guitar teacher – he’d tell you that himself,” Wolfgang reveals to Guitar.com.
The co-founding member of the band was known as the Spaceman and had a hit single of his own in "New York Groove." ...
Former teen idol Shaun Cassidy is embarking on his first major tour in 45 years. The 66-year-old son of Oscar-winning actress Shirley Jones, 91, and the late Tony Award-winning actor Jack Cassidy rose ...
It's the perfect lesson for newer students that are starting to become confident with simple chord progressions and are looking to develop creativity with their strumming. If you are struggling with ...
Happy Birthday to one of the rock world’s most virtuosic guitarist, Steve Vai, who celebrates 65 spins around the sun today (June 6). At age 12, Vai took guitar lessons from fellow New York native Joe ...
The last decade has seen the release of the last Beatles song and Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks 2 (a box set with eight unreleased albums). So it makes sense to see more of our boomer favorites feeling ...
You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos we ...
You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos we ...
Michael Diehl, owner of Freehold Music Center and the man who gave Bruce Springsteen his first guitar lessons, passed away on Dec. 15. He was 97. Diehl, a native of Farmingdale, owned and operated the ...