From performance to recording and arranging, McCartney said the group found ways to make themselves a little different from ...

Rick Derringer, the guitarist and songwriter who scored hits with “Rock and Roll ... Starr & His All-Starr Band, and was also featured on Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus tour.

Carol Kaye, one of the most recorded bassists of all time, has declined the invitation to attend this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ... musician (soloing jazz guitar work) in the 1950s working ...

“But bass players aren't supposed to have ideas; they're supposed to be functionaries. If you're a bass player in a rock band, you are by definition a ... in-Chief of Electronic Musician, Guitarist, ...

Except that the ancient composition in question was the Velvets’ “Rock & Roll ... already a band with that name, the New York Dolls’ Johnny Thunders collection of motley guitar assassins.

Guitar hero ... guitar for the band for several years. Rick Derringer's connection to guitarist and singer Dickey Betts Rick Derringer's signature solo hit, "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo," was ...

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early ...

Born on March 15, 1943, in Denton, Texas, Sylvester Stewart came from a family of devout Christians who took their beliefs ...

By Ethan Millman Music Editor Rick Derringer, the classic rock guitarist-songwriter best known for performing the garage rock hit “Hang on Sloopy” and for writing “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie ...