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January 2021

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January 31
- Spotlight: Maddy Jane
January 29
- Tony Iommi pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen: “He created his own guitar world – and what a world it was“
- Nile Rodgers: “To me, the less information I throw at you at once, the funkier something sounds“
- Allman Betts Band: “We're totally focused on marching forward and continuing our own body of work just like our fathers did“
January 28
- Carmen Vandenberg: “I want to be the kind of guitarist who can do a show with nothing – just an amp and a guitar. But I'm a geek, and I love pedals!”
January 27
- Powderfinger - Unreleased (1998-2010) album review
- Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold: "I've always started every song on guitar, but I'm comfortable to let it be a songwriting tool and remove it, if necessary"
- Cliff Williams: “AC/DC’s songs are very guitar-driven, so I don’t need to be noodling around underneath. I just need to be driving it“
January 26
- Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia: “I wanted to go as Slayer as I possibly could...”
- Steven Wilson: “I wanted to make an album that was more reflective of the electronic world we live in – the guitar is there, but it’s used in a different way”
- The 25 greatest Eddie Van Halen deep cuts
January 25
- Passenger: “It’s just the sensible thing to do to be a good guy and give back a little bit”
- Thurston Moore: “Writing music is about stepping away from the ego and creating something that's selfless”
- Adam Jones pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen: “100 years from now, when people talk about the history of music, they will talk about Van Halen“
- Kirk Fletcher: ”Some players neglect the history. The most iconic players of all time – Hendrix, Clapton and Page – all had that foundation”
January 24
- Spotlight: Jarryd James
January 22
- Goat Girl: "We're all drawn to gray sonics that don't quite sound right"
- Joe Bonamassa: ”Writing this record in London has done its job. It really does sound inherently British”
- Classic gear: Gibson CF-100E
January 21
- The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: "I’m a firm believer that the distortion signatures of a guitar need to be organic"
- The Struts' Adam Slack: “I’ve always listened to old records, where you can hear the skin touching the strings. I found it cooler the sloppier it is“
January 20
- 7 used guitar amps that are perfect for home practice
- Shavo Odadjian: "After 30-something years, my playing has just become its own thing. I never said I wanted to play like anyone else"
- Passive vs active bass guitars: bass electronics explained
January 19
- How to build a pedalboard on a budget
- Frank Hannon tells the story behind his signature Gibson Love Dove acoustic
January 18
- Gene Simmons pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen: “Not since Hendrix did anyone change the game like Edward“
- Tyler Bryant and Rebecca Lovell: ”Setting up gear and making music with someone I love so deeply but also respect is such a joy”
January 15
- The history of the Fender Musicmaster, Duo-Sonic and Mustang
January 14
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 341
- Best acoustic bass guitars: Unplug and play with our pick of top acoustic basses
- Brothers Osborne: “We try to stay true to the music we hear in our heads. That’s how you establish your own identity“
- The life and times of Quicksilver Messenger Service's John Cipollina
- Australian Guitar's Fresh Frets: Vol. 6
January 13
- Best 12-string guitars: our pick of 12-string acoustic and electric guitars
- How Fender recreated Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein so accurately that he mistook it for the original
January 12
- JD Simo on the best (and worst) guitars he's bought over the years
- Elliot Easton: “People think I use a chorus pedal because of the sounds I recorded with the Cars. That’s actually the last thing I’d want on my pedalboard!“
- Colin Bass: “It’s an unknown future for musicians and crew. But hopefully we will all rise like phoenixes from the ashes“
January 11
- Steve Morse: ”I do have the ability to take a good solo and screw it up – sometimes I’ll need 20 takes, by which time Bob Ezrin runs out of the room screaming!”
- Martin Schmidt walks us through the Surf Guitar Book, a deep dive into the scene's tones, techniques and greatest players
January 8
- The secrets behind Pete Anderson's tone on Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs
- Timothy B. Schmit: “I didn’t peak in my 20s or 30s, like a lot of songwriters do. I’m starting to get it now, which keeps me feeling hopeful“
January 7
- Eddie Van Halen goes deep on his approach to tone, technique and guitar design in this classic 1993 Guitarist interview
- Evanescence: “Guitarists need to be honest. Use your voice. We don’t need fake – we need humanity and real people”
- John Petrucci: ”The guitar melody takes the place of the vocals. If it was all soloing and noodling, it would get really boring”
January 6
- JC Curleigh, Cesar Gueikian and Randy Smith on Gibson's monumental acquisition of Mesa/Boogie – and what it means for the iconic brands
January 5
- How Fender reimagined its flagship guitar line with the American Professional II series
January 4
- Steve Hackett: ”The wounds never healed from my dad’s guitar. He said, ‘You’ll get calluses’… but I just had fingers that were bleeding!”
- Rookie: “Sometimes you just need to let the song breathe... your part will be more powerful through the negative space“