Gilby Clarke

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Gilby Clarke performed a satisfying, emotionally stirring, and often rockingly intimate acoustic set at the Universal Bar and Grill Saturday night. Friend and musical partner Teddy “Zig Zag” Andreadis provided melodic accompaniment to Clarke on keyboards, harmonica, and backing vocals to the delight of the devoted fans on hand.

Journeyman axe-slinger Gilby Clarke has toured and recorded with artists as diverse as Guns N’ Roses, Heart, MC5 and Nancy Sinatra. He’s just released his first solo album in 20 years, The Gospel Truth, a collection of hard-rocking, instant rock ’n’ roll classics. Your last solo album, Swag, came out...

Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke took to the stage with Night Ranger on Monday night (August 9) for the band’s concert at Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, South Dakota. The electric guitar guru was filling in for Night Ranger member Keri Kelli, who was forced to pull out of the event due to a knee injury.

Clarke says he had three lawyers on retainer just "to play guitar" during his stressful early-'90s tenure in GNR.

Gilby Clarke said he had to have three lawyers on retainer while he was in Guns N’ Roses, noting that these days he prefers to avoid the “responsibility” of being a band member. The guitarist replaced Izzy Stradlin in 1991 and spent three years as part of Axl Rose’s group....

Gilby Clark joins Anne Erickson to discuss his new solo album, “The Gospel Truth,” his time in Guns N’ Roses and more in this in-depth interview. Gilby Clarke needs no introduction. The longstanding guitarist has toured the world as the rhythm guitarist for Guns N’ Roses during the band’s famed “Use Your Illusion” tour, plus performed with a plethora of projects and bands, from Slash’s Snakepit to Heart to MC5.

As far as rock gigs go, it doesn't get much bigger than Guns N' Roses in the early-'90s. Gilby Clarke joined GNR in 1992 following the departure of co-founder Izzy Stradlin. At the time, there might have been no higher-pressure job in live music. GNR was at the top of its proverbial game — as beloved as it was controversial; the band's records were going multiple times platinum; it was filling stadiums all over the world; and Clarke had mere days to get up to speed of the music before the first show.

Smack-dab in the middle of Gilby Clarke’s first solo album since 2002’s Swag is a song called “Wise Old Timer,” a sluggish riff rocker that might as well be self-referential. The 58-year-old singer and guitarist’s musical history dates back to the mid-’80s and includes gigging with everyone from Nancy Sinatra to The MC5. But he’s best known for his three-year stint in Guns N’ Roses, replacing original guitarist Izzy Stradlin in the middle of 1991’s Use Your Illusion Tour. On The Gospel Truth, Clarke sounds like a true believer, swaggering his way through 10 catchy songs with bluesy licks, fat riffs and soulful grooves.

A trove of stage-played and road-worn guitars and guitar amplifiers played by Slash, Gilby Clarke and Richard Fortus is being sold by Denmark Street Guitars as part of its Guns N' Roses Private Collection. There are a number of incredible instruments to sate anyone's appetite for destruction, such as a...