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 ...

To celebrate the release of Joe Satriani's live-concert film Satchurated: Live in Montreal, Classic Rock magazine is giving away a personal guitar lesson with the legend himself. Satchurated was ...

Before Alex Skolnick was known to the world as the lead guitarist for Testament, a featured played in Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the leader of the strangely named Alex Skolnick Trio, he was a Bay ...

Last year, Joe Satriani assembled the original G3 trio and hit the road with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson for what turned out to be one of 2024’s most notable guitar tours. The tour saw the three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Joe Satriani introduced the G3 concept a generation ago, it was a tour which featured the guitar virtuoso and two other axe heroes. Satriani, 67, has amped it up on the G3 jaunt, which will stop ...