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 ...

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 you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Throughout Joe Satriani's storied career, he’s explored exotic scales and modes, and the unusual ...

There is nothing remotely common about the virtuoso musicianship of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, two of the world’s most acclaimed and in-demand rock-and-beyond guitarists of the past 40-plus years.

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 ...