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September 2020

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September 30
- Lamb of God's John Campbell: "People ask how I play so fast - I don’t really know because I made it up as I went along!"
- The story of the Fender Splatocaster, the surreal Custom Shop creation born from a Guitar World competition
September 29
- Mark Seymour: On The Dawn Of Greatness
- John Petrucci on his lifelong love of Rush: "I still use Alex Lifeson licks that I learned in high school!"
September 28
- Randy Rhoads: "I started tuning up and Ozzy said, 'You've got the gig.' I didn't even get to play!"
- Find the right pedalboard solution for you on eBay
- Mike Campbell: "The Dirty Knobs are all about having fun. At least 95% of the solos were recorded live on the floor"
September 27
- CD Review: In Hearts Wake - Kaliyuga
September 25
- #GuitarWorld40: celebrating 40 years of the world's biggest guitar magazine
- Best mini pedals for guitarists: our pick of space-saving effects for your pedalboard
- Classic gear: the enduring legacy of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
September 24
- Neck Deep: Diving Deeper
- 10 used guitar amp bargains
- Bernie Marsden looks back on his final encounters with Peter Green
September 23
- The greatest Guitar World magazine covers of all time… revealed!
- Shooter Jennings: "Marilyn Manson's miraculous poetic ability doesn’t grow cold, like a lot of people’s songwriting"
- Sparta's Jim Ward: "The way I play guitar is so influenced by ability - or lack of ability - to play barre chords!"
- Bibi McGill: “Every night before I went on stage with Beyoncé, I meditated until it was just me and the guitar“
September 22
- Hockey Dad: Sweet Riffs For Smart Kids
- H.E.R.: "I play melodies that feel closer to what a singer would do, as opposed to a guitar player"
September 21
- Sin Shake Sin: "People on social media are calling this album the soundtrack to the pandemic"
- The coolest guitars you can buy on eBay for under $1,000
- Olivia Anna Livki: “Keep your fingers working the strings regularly – that’s the best way to evolve in the long term“
- Sammy Boller: ”If you go to take a solo and you’re thinking about theory, you’re immediately not playing from the heart”
September 20
- DMA’s: Glowing Somewhere New
September 18
- Classic gear: Boss DM-2
- Jimi Hendrix: paying tribute to the ultimate guitar hero, 50 years on
- Guitar tutorial + Q&A: Grenade Jumper amp up the adrenaline with new punk gem "The Power You Flaunted"
September 17
- CD Review: Georgia Marley - Yearning
- Roger Glover: "I'm a simple bassist. I’m not the virtuoso bass player that some people expect"
- Rob Caggiano waxes lyrical on his new Jackson signature, the Shadowcaster
September 16
- Robby Krieger: “In the Doors’ music there are a lot of silences. We weren’t the type of band that had to fill up every little gap“
- Is it worth modding a cheap guitar?
- Guitar playthrough + Q&A: Make Way For Man go balls-to-the-wall with the ripping "Rites"
September 15
- Spotlight: Running Touch
- El Ten Eleven's Kristian Dunn: "I'm not even a guitar player, I'm a bass player. I'm faking my way through it!"
- The 4 artists who have appeared on Guitar World's cover more than any other
- Joe Bonamassa: ”It’s amazing how many sounds you can pull out of a guitar if you mess around with the volume and tone knobs”
September 14
- 25 acoustic guitar songs that will take your unplugged skills to the next level
- Best pickups for metal: our guide to upgrading for high gain heaven
- Jason Isbell: “As I get older, I tend to play fewer notes to try and make my point“
September 13
- Khruangbin: New Horizons
September 11
- Margaret LaBombard: "If a song makes you feel something, you can thank the bass player"
September 10
- Dream Wife: A Bold Leap Forward
- The birth of Guitar World: looking back at the very first issue
- Guns N' Roses' under-appreciated The Spaghetti Incident and Live Era '87 - '93 re-examined
- The secrets behind Trevor Rabin's guitar tone on Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart
- Death Valley High's Reyka Osburn: “It’s hard for a guitar player to be a great frontman and really work the audience“
September 9
- How are cheap guitars priced so low?
- Hits, misses and major labels: Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Local H’s Scott Lucas on surviving the '90s alt-rock boom
September 8
- Jeff Rosenstock: Living The Dream
- Four Year Strong's Dan O'Connor: "You don’t have to have the most expensive gear to get the best tone"
- How Grey Daze's Cristin Davis and an all-star line-up honored Chester Bennington's legacy with Amends
September 7
- 6 ways to improve the performance of your pedalboard
- Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: “Profiling amps keep you from killing the music by spending hours trying to get the definitive guitar sound“
September 6
- CD Review: Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death
September 4
- How Bill & Ted Face the Music became the most triumphant celebration of the electric guitar's past, present and future
- The history and mythology behind Fender's rare Blackguard Telecasters
September 3
- Phoebe Bridgers: Crossing Bridgers
- Behind the scenes of Fender Custom Shop's bass creations
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: ”I like my Strat to sound like someone losing their mind and clawing at the door”
- Mike Landau: "Some people drive fancy cars - I went with a cheap Ford and bought a Dumble instead"
September 2
- Justin Hawkins on AC/DC: "There’s no left turn that leaves you disappointed. Every crescendo satisfies"
- Tom Morello: "Guitar playing has a different emphasis now – young people want to be producers before musicians"
September 1
- Alex The Astronaut: A True Shooting Star
- Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto: "I haven’t used a cab live in years. Bass was ahead of the curve when it came to DI"