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 and Steve Vai perform at Fox Theater on April 4 in Oakland, Calif. The pair will play the Palace Theatre in ...

From a near-production role by Rush's frontman to Kirk Hammett's final lessons before thrash history was made, the road to Master Of Puppets was interesting. He also recalled seeing the band perform ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My youngest son is 10 years old now, and since November, he’s been taking guitar lessons. With a love of Metallica in his heart and a Squier Strat over his shoulder, I bring him to Blue Sky Studios in ...