EXPLAINED: 8 | Vintage Vibes

Eric Johnson is experimenting with Neural DSP's Quad Cortex but explains why he's not going down a rig 'rabbit hole' anymore: "The gear's really secondary – I wish I could say I always ascribed to that belief"

"I would say to anyone chasing that; don't go so deep in the rabbit hole that you just analyse too much"

MusicRadar · Jun 26, 2023

Eric Gales on his jam with Stevie Ray Vaughan: “Right at the end I asked him to sign an autograph for me – and he said, ‘Only if you sign one for me first!’”

Eric Gales looks back on the time when he was just 15 years old, a young blues-rocker with talent to burn, and had the chance to jam with his hero

Guitar World · Jun 5, 2023

‘We need help.’ Bucktown pub owner held at gunpoint, first of 9 armed robberies in an hour on North, Northwest sides

Eric Johnson’s pub had already been hit by robbers three times in the last several weeks when a car pulled up early Sunday and four people with guns jumped out.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 24, 2023

Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio mayors easily win reelection

The three big-city mayors faced little opposition in their reelection bids.

The Texas Tribune · May 6, 2023

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.

The Texas Tribune · May 6, 2023

How to use chords in a blues guitar solo

We all think of the blues solo in terms of which notes sit atop which chords, but reversing that proposition – and building chords into the solo itself – generates some tasty new phrasing ideas

Guitar World · May 1, 2023

Slash on his love of Les Pauls: “That Kris Derrig Les Paul came in the 11th hour when we were doing Appetite. It just sounded f**kin’ perfect – like a gift from on high”

The Guns N' Roses guitarist and rock icon talks about the guitars he treasures most – including buying and returning Joe Perry's Dark Burst LP – and reveals how his love for Les Pauls has inspired and shaped him as a player...

Guitar World · Apr 12, 2023

Joe Bonamassa names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The king of modern-day blues-rock on "the greatest rock guitar player that ever was", who he considers "the Frank Sinatra of the blues" and "Immaculate Conception as a guitar player" – and why he regularly apologizes to Eric Johnson

Guitar World · Mar 23, 2023

1 week, 13 dead: Dallas gun violence leaves trail of grief

DALLAS — The life of the party, a sleeping child, a single mother and a father of five. All killed. All gun violence. All in a single week.

Tribune News Service · Mar 17, 2023

Colts sign DT Taven Bryan: How Twitter reacted

Here's how Twitter reacted to the Colts signing DT Taven Bryan.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 15, 2023