Prior to joining Metallica in 1983, Hammett played in Bay Area legends Exodus and was one of the band's founding members, starting up the group back in '79. After two years, he started taking lessons ...

Joe Satriani still remembers the first time he laid eyes on Steve Vai. It was 1972 in Carle Place, Long Island, and at the time, Satriani, then just a teenager, was already known around the ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and Newsweek Radio's Jesse Edwards. You can listen to the full, unedited conversation here: Jesse: ...

When a teenage Skolnick studied under Satch, he found a man who was “like the equivalent of studying with a classical piano ...

Guitar virtuoso and Epic recording artist Joe Satriani, 46, has just released his eighth studio album, "Strange Beautiful Music." A master of his instrument since age 14, he has instructed the likes ...

A blast of guitar power chord and a room-shaking drum beat assured those at the Fisher Theatre on Tuesday night, April 16, that they were not there for…oh, “Mama Mia.” Instead the usual home of ...

Remember the band Squares from the ’80s? No? Well, don’t feel too bad – neither does anyone else. The group never released an album. “We were the hardest-working, least successful band of the early ...

When guitarist Joe Satriani called his band together to begin recording his latest album, he knew what he wanted the other musicians to do. "I told them, 'What I'm going to ask you to create on this ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of his solo debut album, 1986’s aptly titled “Not of This Earth,” enduring rock guitar hero Joe Satriani launches a 45-city North American concert trek tonight that ...

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