There's a particular kind of silence that follows a great guitar solo. Not the silence of an ending, but the silence of a listener trying to process something that moved faster than words. Some solos ...

For most guitarists, playing a Jimi Hendrix Strat is the stuff of fantasy. For Ray Toro, it became a year-long reality — even if the Fender Stratocaster itself was, in his words, “beat to s*.” Toro ...