Followers of Grand Funk Railroad will be aware that Bruce Kulick – who joined in 2000, four years after being jettisoned from Kiss – vacated his post in January 2024. “I will forever cherish my time ...

Serena Geroe is a 16-year-old Carlsbad jazz and funk guitarist. She is a student at San Diego’s Young Lions Jazz Academy and a junior at Canyon Crest Academy. In addition to her frequent Wednesday ...

As the bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and scion of a New Orleans funk family, Jonathan Batiste knows his way around an uptempo groove. So, too, does Cory Wong, a featured guitarist ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Garry Shider from Parliament and Funkadelic has died at age 56. The legendary guitarist known to fans as “Starchild” or “Diaperman” had been battling brain and ...

Joe Messina, one of the original guitarists for Motown Records' in-house backing band the Funk Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 93. Born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Detroit, Messina began playing ...

The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La ...

One of the great wah-wah pedal players in history also played on The Isley Brothers’ hit “It’s Your Thing.” By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Skip Pitts, a master of the wah-wah pedal guitar sound whose ...

Phelps “Catfish” Collins, a defining guitarist of ’70s funk via his work behind James Brown and in Parliament-Funkadelic, died Aug. 6 in Cincinnati of cancer. He was 66. Collins’ death follows by less ...

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Joe Messina, the original guitarist for legendary Motown Records studio band the Funk Brothers, has died. Billboard reports that Messina died yesterday in Detroit after a 12-year battle with kidney ...

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a.m.