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.
Category: guitar heroes
That time Coheed and Cambria’s Travis Stever told me about his favourite guitarists and guitar albums
Back in May of 2008 I interviewed Coheed and Cambria guitarist Travis Stever when the prog-rock band was touring behind its fourth album.
The Derek Trucks Band is versatile enough to exist in a lot of worlds
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.
Popa Chubby dropped out of school when he got a copy of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland
"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."
Teenaged bluesman Jimmy Bowskill has already recorded with Jeff Healey and jammed with Dickey Betts
Before he moved on to that big jam in the sky, Jeff Healey discovered a young guitarist from Peterborough named Jimmy Bowskill.
Al Pitrelli says the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s audience crosses every genre and every age demographic
Guitarist Al Pitrelli admits that the success of his decidedly unhip ensemble, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, goes against all odds.
Derek Trucks says that making it onto Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list isn’t really what he’s shooting for
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.
That time I asked Steve Vai if playing guitar with Billy Gibbons made him want to slow down a bit
I interviewed Steve Vai back in September of 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.
That time guitarist Joe Gooch told me that he just got lucky when he replaced Alvin Lee in Ten Years After
I interviewed Joe Gooch three years after he replaced Alvin Lee as the guitarist-vocalist for legendary blues-rock band Ten Years After.
That time Godsmack’s Tony Rombola told me who his eight main guitar influences were
I interviewed Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola back in 2006, when the Boston alt-metal band was touring behind its fifth studio album, IV.
That time Steve Vai told me that he wouldn’t want to play guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen
I interviewed Steve Vai for the third time back in 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.
That time I asked Robben Ford if touring with George Harrison was the highlight of his career
While prepping for my interview with Robben Ford I noticed in his Concord bio that he'd toured with George Harrison in the fall of 1974.
That time Zakk Wylde told me that Dimebag was keeping the beer on ice up in God’s tavern–but the Crown Royal might already be gone
I did my third interview with Zakk Wylde when his band Black Label Society was touring behind its sixth studio album, Mafia.a