That time I asked Joe Satriani who he’d been listening to lately

I did my seventh interview with Joe Satriani back in December of 2010, when he was touring behind his 13th studio album.

Youthful picker Tyler Bryant’s “Curtis Loew moment” led to Guitar Hero 5 and touring with Jeff Beck

When Bryant was 11 he experienced his own “Curtis Loew moment” when he came across a 63-year-old bluesman at a music store in Paris, Texas.

I did my seventh interview with Joe Satriani back in December of 2010, when he was touring behind his album Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards.

I did my second interview with Jonny Lang back in April of 2010, shortly after he finished taking part in the Experience Hendrix Tour.

Steely Dan is famous for a lot of things, not the least of which is having the world's best guitar players take solos on their songs.

I did the third of my five interviews with Derek Trucks when he was touring behind the final Derek Trucks Band studio album, Already Free.

Back in May of 2008 I interviewed Coheed and Cambria guitarist Travis Stever when the prog-rock band was touring behind its fourth album.

To get a good idea of where Derek Trucks's head is at musically, all you have to do is check out the autographs on his red Gibson SG.

"I remember it bein' 1967 and hearing 'Purple Haze', and just feeling like, 'This is deep shit, man.' Being seven, it just rocked my world."

Before he moved on to that big jam in the sky, Jeff Healey discovered a young guitarist from Peterborough named Jimmy Bowskill.

Guitarist Al Pitrelli admits that the success of his decidedly unhip ensemble, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, goes against all odds.

When I track down slide-guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks at an L.A. hotel, he's just checked in for a few gigs with his wife, Susan Tedeschi.

I interviewed Steve Vai back in September of 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.