By D. Beall He taught Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai to play guitar. He’s sold over 10 million albums. From Joe Satriani’s epic Surfing with the Alien to the brand-new Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, the guy is a legend to any kid who’s ever read Guitar World or took an axe seriously. When he’s not creating space oddities on his guitar, he’s using it to blow minds internationally. He recently talked to Buzzbin from Spain about his new album. DB: What’s going on now? You’re on tour, right? JS: I’m in a great little town called Valladolid. We’re headed ...
The seed The Dead Boys planted was rude and crude, and when the NE Ohio streets gave birth to its first true American punk rock band, music would never be the same again. The Cleveland band’s young guitarist, Gene O’Connor who went by the moniker “Cheetah Chrome”, blazed a pioneering punk trail that had never before been seen or heard, if only for a moment in time. The Dead Boys came about at a time when the music world was aching for a new sound separate from the comfortable tedium of the bland sound of 1970s rock and roll. Steve “Stiv” Bators’ Midwest snarl and gra...
