Six-String Heroes
Photographs of Great Guitarists
Chronicle Books
Available: 10/15/09
9.17 x 12.16 · 256 pages
9780811870276
CDN $43.00
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In a career spanning more than 40 years, legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower has documented an amazing who's-who of the most influential and dynamic guitarists from the late 1960s to today. Six-String Heroes collects live, candid, and studio shots of 150 of the greatest guitar players in rock, metal, punk, blues, and beyond, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Slash, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello, Carlos Santana, Les Paul, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Edward Van Halen, Angus Young, and many more. Also featuring a foreword by Steve Vai, and including text from unpublished interviews with the guitarists throughout by music journalist Steven Rosen, Six-String Heroes is a celebration of the music, the players, and the instrument.
Neil Zlozower is the author of M÷tley Crne: A Visual History: 1983-2005 and Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978-1984. He is also the author of Fnck Y÷u: Rock and Roll Portraits. Neil lives in Los Angeles.
Steven Rosen has worked as a music journalist for more than 34 years and has interviewed many of the world's greatest guitarists. He lives in West Hollywood.
Steve Vai has recorded more than a dozen solo albums and worked with Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, Alice Cooper, and many other artists.
