Articles by Jonathan Graham

About Jonathan Graham (246 Articles)

Editor in chief of Thinking About Guitar — Former Editor in chief of Guitar Interactive (2017 - 2025), Jonathan has written online articles for Guitar World, Guitar Player and Guitar Aficionado over the last decade. He has interviewed hundreds of music's finest, including Slash, Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai, to name a few. Jonathan's not a bad player either, occasionally doing gear reviews, session work and online lessons for Lick Library.

Rickenbacker advertisement from 1965

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Rickenbacker advertisement from 1965 “The Beatle Backer”. Featuring John Lennon. Click on the image below to ...

Remembering John Lennon, 35 Years on: “Johnny B. Goode” Live with Chuck Berry — Video

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From February of 1972, backed by the Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band which consisted of Wayne “Tex” Gabriel on guitar, Gary Van Scyoc on bass, Richard Frank ...

Remembering Dimebag: Amazing Live Guitar Solo at 18 — Video

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Remembering Dimebag Darrell who died on this day, tragically in 2004. Let’s take a look back at video shot during the early days of his amazing career. Filmed during ...

Design Patents For The Gibson Flying V, Explorer and Moderne from 1958

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From 1958, Gibson president Ted McCarty’s design patents for the Flying V, Explorer/Futura and Moderne models. Early prototypes of the guitars were constructed in ...

The Earliest Known Live Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience — Video

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In February 1967, three months before the release of their debut studio album, Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience took to the stage in a small club around 30 ...

Happy Birthday Randy Rhoads.

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Happy Birthday to Randy Rhoads, who would have been 59 years old today. Let’s take a look at some classic performances from him back in the early 1980’s; ...