Guitarist Presents: Rock Guitar Heroes - The World's Greatest Rock Guitar Players Interviewed and Profiled

by Cliff Douse (Editor), Neville Marten (Associate Editor)

Rock Guitar Heroes is a unique collection of interviews and profiles from the makers of Guitarist magazine.

Featuring new material alongside classic interviews originally published in Guitarist, Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques, Rock Guitar Heroes traces the roots of rock music back to early amplified blues and highlights the most influential guitarists at the forefront of the genre.

Included is a mouth-watering gallery of the electric guitars that have helped to forge the sound of rock music over the years, plus the Top 50 Guitar Solos of All Time as originally voted by Guitarist readers.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2012

Reviews

[Lee Broderick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I used to subscribe to Guitarist in the early to mid nineties and I had read some of these interviews before but the compilation does make a lovely resource for any guitarist. Basically this book consists of eighty three interviews with, or features on, guitarists, culled from the last twenty years of the magazine back-catalogue (disappointingly they seem to have used the most recent one in each case rather than the most insightful or interesting). These interviews cover pretty much every major guitarist I can think of from the last sixty years (except Peter Green), covering a diverse range of styles.

Each interview consists of between two and six pages of photo's and text. To flesh it out a little an introduction covering the history of rock guitar is included and at the end photos of the most famous factory built guitars and the results of a reader survey for the greatest solos.