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March 2021
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- March 26
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- Sanguisugabogg: “A lot of people will call us a caveman band because we don’t have solos or leads. I don’t think we ever will!”
- Larkin Poe talk gear, tone, telepathy and take a deep dive into their new covers album, Kindred Spirits
- Plini: ”The biggest thing is writing music I think is interesting... Once I’ve done that, I find room to put guitar on it”
- The history of the Sola Sound Tone Bender
- March 25
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- Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos album review
- Dave Grohl: ”We were doing the things we’re not supposed to do. The galloping flange guitar... the Abba beat!”
- Jesse Cash on ERRA's brutal new self-titled album: “We kept things technical while making it easy to follow”
- Steel Panther’s Satchel names his 5 favorite Eddie Van Halen solos
- March 24
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- Evanescence’s Jen Majura and Troy McLawhorn: “I think it’s a very beautiful, very meaningful, very REAL album”
- The life and times of Alexi Laiho, the Wildchild who revolutionized demonic shred
- Marcin Patrzalek: “My goal is to show the world that percussive acoustic guitar should be the next big thing”
- March 22
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- Birds Of Tokyo fill us in on their favourite summer jams
- Bartees Strange: "I'm very into showing that things from different genres work really well within each other"
- Richard Williams: “Not to sound pompous, but Kansas pretty much gave birth to American prog bands”
- Jimmy Haslip: “I know I don’t play the instrument correctly! I've just tried to find my own way of expressing myself“
- March 21
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- Spotlight: Kai Cult
- How Jimmy Page was reunited with his beloved 1960 Les Paul Custom – nearly 50 years after it was stolen
- Ben Harper: “There’s a devotion that comes with a lifetime commitment to the instrument, and I hope you can hear that in the melodies”
- Erik Rutan on joining death-metal titans Cannibal Corpse: “It’s still kinda surreal... I never foresaw this happening!“
- Duane Denison: ”I think a solo should break away from the song itself and bring something improvised… almost like comic relief”
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- Khruangbin’s Mark Speer: “I was always into tones that I didn’t hear so much in Western music“
- Ron Carter: “Miles Davis was great. He never told me what not to play. We’d never talk about changes or tempo“
- Lonely the Brave: ”We don’t try to fill every space. Atmospherics are key to what we do as a band”
- March 14
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- Slash, Mick Mars, Steve Vai, Nuno Bettencourt and many more look back at the '80s hard-rock guitar scene
- How Joanna Connor built a guitar rig that keeps her blues sound raw and real
- The history of the Fender 'Tweed' Deluxe – the definitive tweed amp beloved by Neil Young, Scotty Moore and Don Felder
- Damian Erskine: “Don’t distract yourself with getting gear to solve all your problems. Make what you have work”
- March 11
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- Jess Locke: “The world is insane at the moment – I feel like I couldn’t help but just absorb everything!”
- Tash Neal: “After my accident, I was playing guitar like every day was my last”
- What do the greatest solos of all time have in common? We investigate
- The secrets behind Brad Gillis’s guitar tone on Night Ranger’s Sister Christian
- Leanne Bowes: “I want my deep inner connection with the beat to come across, and that leaves no room for nerves”
- March 10
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- Stumps - All Our Friends album review
- Ruben Wan: “I didn’t particularly want to become a guitar player – I was more focused on being a singer-songwriter, but the guitar was a very happy mistake”
- How bass amps work: everything you need to know
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: “For years we’ve been trying to replicate the neck from my ’61 Strat... And this one comes the closest“
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets’ Jack McEwan: “It’s the clean tone that really defines what a great guitar sounds like”
- March 9
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- U2's The Edge discusses his approach to gear, songwriting and solos on The Joshua Tree in this classic 1987 Guitar World interview
- How peak demand and Covid-19 caused an electric guitar shortage
- Mark Tremonti discusses how Jerry Cantrell inspired Alter Bridge's riff-rammed Last Rites
- How Gibson rescued Epiphone in the late-1950s
- March 8
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- The six-string origins of DZ Deathrays
- 12 guitarists who changed the game over the past 12 months
- Nili Brosh: "I try to be diverse because I want to feel challenged – I don't want to feel like I'm doing the same thing all the time"
- Susan Santos: “The wonderful thing about music is that there are always new things to learn... we are the eternal students”
- Bonnie Whitmore: ”I’m one of those bassists who never changes their strings, and when I do, I rub bacon fat on them to deaden them!”
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- Nova Twins - Who Are The Girls? album review
- Adult Mom: "We looked at the songs as buildings and where we could put certain structures"
- Brian May goes deep on Bohemian Rhapsody: the gear, the solo and the magic of Freddie Mercury’s finest hour
- The secrets behind Eddie Van Halen's live rig at Van Halen's final shows
- March 2
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- Buck Dharma decodes the myriad styles behind Blue Öyster Cult's first new album in almost 20 years, The Symbol Remains
- Best pedal amps: including the top amp simulator pedals
- Musical director and bassist Adam Blackstone reveals how the spectacular Super Bowl 60 half-time show came together
- Architects: “Some of the most fun we had on this record was without guitars… although guitarists might not want to hear that!”
- March 1
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- Plini: "I’m really happy with everything on this record, which I don’t think has ever happened before"
- Tony Iommi names his top 5 Dio-era Black Sabbath riffs
- Sophie Lloyd: “Trolls got me down, so I made a ‘shredding to Justin Bieber‘ video as a retort. You can shred over anything you want!”
- Gargoyl's Dave Davidson: "I like to have some technicality to my solos, but for me it’s more of a storytelling element now"
- 4 online-only guitar companies you need to check out
- Charvel Henrik Danhage Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 and EVH Limited Edition Wolfgang Special Sassafras review
