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Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Covers Throughout the Years — 1999

Posted 12/05/2011 at 1:28pm | by Tony Grassi

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Y2K bugs notwithstanding, 1999 was a payoff year for patient music fans. Several artists made comebacks -- perhaps fearful they only had a few months before computer systems would revert back to the year 1900, and CD players would explode.

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Readers' Poll Results: Top 10 Guitar Albums of 1997

Posted 12/03/2011 at 10:34am | by Tony Grassi

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For whatever grasp alternative, indie and even some remanents of grunge had on mainstream rock charts in 1997, let it be stated for the record: metal still ruled.

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Guitar World Girls: Nicole Starr

Posted 12/02/2011 at 11:48am | by Guitar World Staff

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Nicole Starr—guitarist for the Valentine Failures—models the Guitar World T-shirt!

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Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Covers Through the Years — 1998

Posted 11/28/2011 at 12:22pm | by Tony Grassi

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There's little doubt as to who owned the covers of Guitar World in 1998. With a new singer and a new album and a Number One song on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, Van Halen was once again standing on top of the world.

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Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Covers Through the Years — 1997

Posted 11/21/2011 at 7:39am | by Tony Grassi

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Had grunge become passe by 1997? Check out this gallery of GW covers to find out.

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Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience App Now on iPhone and iPad

Posted 11/17/2011 at 2:12pm | by Guitar World Staff

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The Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is available now -- for free -- at the App Store. The app, created by Sony Music Entertainment and Experience Hendrix LLC, comes just in time for Hendrix's 69th birthday on November 27.

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Photo Gallery: Gwar at The Glass House in Pomona, California, November 13

Posted 11/17/2011 at 12:36pm | by Charlie Steffens

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Despite the absence of departed brother Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, Gwar delivered the goods to the crowd at The Glass House in Pomona, California, this past Sunday night, November 13, with radical aplomb, pumping out a killer setlist at very high volume.

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Photo Gallery: Hot Girls and Guitars — Behind the Scenes at Holiday Review Guide 2012 Photo Shoot

Posted 11/16/2011 at 11:34am | by Damian Fanelli

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Here's a behind-the-scenes photo gallery from our Holiday Review Guide photo shoot, featuring models Jaime Edmondson, Olivia Paige, Heather Rae Young and Hiromi Oshima.

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Readers' Poll Results: Top 10 Guitar Albums of 1995

Posted 11/15/2011 at 3:58pm | by Tony Grassi

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There was a bevy of great guitar albums released in 1995; here are the top 10 that won your votes.

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Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Covers Through the Years — 1996

Posted 11/14/2011 at 11:32am | by Tony Grassi

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