Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens dazzles fans every night with a nylon-string guitar solo that ever-so-slightly teases bits of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven” and Van Halen‘s ...

When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of the band Big Thief perform to a sold-out crowd of 1,200 people in London, her acoustic guitar solo was an emotional high point. Her ...

His playing also recalls Lenny Breau. Hancoff manages to avoid the clinks and clunks often heard on acoustic guitar solos, even from the best of players. In addition to his extraordinary skill with ...

"Oddly enough, the way that I ended up doing a nylon [string] guitar solo was that I was in Vince Neil 's band, and we did about six weeks opening for Van Halen [in 1993]," Stevens recently told UCR.