Recent content by Jas O

Here's Stevie Ray Vaughan talking about how Jimi Hendrix influenced him and played the blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan: A 1989 Interview About Jimi Hendrix #jimihendrix #stevierayvaughan #jimihendrixexperience #redhouse

Conducted in a San Francisco hotel room on September 3, 1996, this in-depth interview features Luther Allison talking about his life in the blues. In addition to answering questions about his career, recordings, guitar playing, gear, musical inspirations, and other topics, Luther brilliantly...

In celebration of a great band and Sammy Hagar's 76th birthday today, here's the world debut of the audio from our 1987 interview: #vanhalen #sammyhagar #eddievanhalen #edwardvanhalen

This special "Talking Guitar" podcast features Part 1 of Joe Satriani’s first nationally published interview. (A transcription featuring portions of our conversation ran as the cover story of Guitar Player’s February 1988 issue.) This interview, it turned out, had a major impact on Joe’s...

Today's Talking Guitar post features a complete transcription of my 1996 interview with one of my favorite guitarists ever, Jorma Kaukonen. Portions of it were used for my February 1997 "Psychedelia" Guitar Player cover story. The conversation delves into early Jefferson Airplane history and...

In 2012 I journeyed down to Austin, Texas, to meet with Eric Johnson in his studio. We spent the afternoon doing a wide-ranging interview, the first hour of which was devoted to talking about why 1950s Strats are so good, the backstory of the creation of Fender's Eric Johnson Signature...

Something for AC/DC fans! This was done in a San Francisco hotel room during the 1983 Flick of the Switch Tour:

During my decades as an editor for Guitar Player magazine, I made it my mission to not only cover up-and-coming players, but to also seek out and interview the pioneers and innovators. In 1983, I proposed a cover story called “Women In Rock” and began assembling an overview of female guitarists...

I've taught college every semester since 2001. I love it, as it keeps me intellectually engaged and constantly aware of what young people are experiencing. The best advice I can offer you is this: As often as you can, let the students know that what you are about to teach them can benefit their...

My just-posted Talking Guitar podcast features Gregg Allman speaking exclusively about his brother Duane, the founder of the Allman Brothers Band. A transcription of this interview was a centerpiece of Guitar Player magazine's October 1981 "Duane Allman Special Issue." With so many magazine...

This just-posted "Talking Guitar" podcast features Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who worked with everyone from Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan and SRV, discussing one of his greatest finds, jazz guitar pioneer Charlie Christian. During this 1981 interview originally done...

Today's post in my Talking Guitar online magazine is a highly detailed account of the creation of Jimi Hendrix's blues masterpiece, "Red House." This includes song-specific quotes gathered during my interviews with Al Hendrix, Billy Cox, Joe Satriani, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others, as well as...

One of the perks of being an editor for Guitar Player magazine in the 1970s and '80s is that up-and-coming players were anxious to do interviews with us. This was clearly the case in January 1984, when 20-year-old Yngwie Malmsteen, who'd recently moved to the U.S. and had just begun touring with...

Just posted: The good folks at Line 6's Model Citizens blog commissioned me to write a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of the recording session for Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood. Recorded in about two hours at Jackson Browne's rehearsal studio, the album brought the blues roaring back...

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