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August 2021

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August 31
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Tex Perkins
- Yngwie Malmsteen: "I got all the Strats. Gibsons, too. But I just keep going back to the signature gear because that’s the sound I’m looking for"
August 30
- Robben Ford discusses the tones behind the tracks on his first instrumental album in over 20 years
- Mary Spender on how she ended up writing a John Mayer song (sort of)
- How to prepare your guitar gear for 5 different kinds of live show
August 27
- Tony Hall's best (and worst) bass albums
- Ty Segall: "I don’t like to spin out and rabbit hole on sonics. I have a rule that if you can’t make something sound good in five minutes, then you should move on"
- The making of Pearl Jam's Ten: from the depths of despair to a bold and defiant debut
- Celestion guitar amp speakers explained
- Orla Gartland: “I did all of my years in the garage online. There's this trail, for better or worse, of me improving at singing and playing”
August 26
- Children Collide’s Johnny Mackay: “We were using old, shitty, tiny Fender amps”
- George Harrison's 24 greatest guitar moments – as chosen by his guitar hero fans
- Ayron Jones: "I can’t say the guitar provided me with a direction – the guitar became an obsession, and that’s what provided the direction"
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 349
August 25
- The best acoustic guitarists in the world right now
- How to get killer guitar tones from the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
- Wolves in the Throne Room: "We try to skirt the line sonically between brutal and beautiful"
- Genghis Tron's Hamilton Gordon wants to put a spell on you with the experimental metallers' new album, Dream Weapon
August 24
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Jeff Lang
- Max Cavalera on Marc Rizzo's departure from Soulfly and the possibility of Dino Cazares appearing on the band's next album
- Justin Hawkins: "A note played with supreme conﬁdence, no matter how wrong it is, will always be the right one"
August 23
- Ida Mae's Chris Turpin walks you through stellar new album Click Click Domino track-by-track
- Putter Smith: "At 15 I got real serious about it, and at 16 I realized that my life’s work was to be a jazz bass player"
August 22
- The Jungle Giants’ Sam Hales: “Lockdown was sad and weird, but it was definitely productive”
August 20
- Blackberry Smoke's Richard Turner: “I love loopers, delays, envelope filters, but I’ve never taken them on tour. I don’t want to dilute anything when I play live“
- Cedric Burnside: “Hill country blues hardly ever uses the I-IV-V. It’s off the beaten path, it’s unorthodox, it’s unpredictable“
August 19
- Tropical Fuck Storm’s Gareth Liddiard: “I don’t know what the f*** other bands are even thinking about”
- James Dean Bradfield: “I have smashed a few Gibsons in my life. I know, it’s disgusting. I was young and f**kin’ mental“
August 18
- Frank Zappa: ”I think my playing is probably more derived from folk music – Middle Eastern music, Indian music, stuff like that”
August 17
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Ross Wilson
- Avishai Cohen: “The bass is my closest musical partner. I’ve explored and developed my own way of playing and performing with it over the years”
- Billy Gibbons: “I was fearless when I started playing, but learning that agonizing F chord was miserable!”
August 16
- Gwenifer Raymond on American primitive fingerstyle, spooky tunings and the morbid potential of the acoustic guitar
- Australian Guitar’s Fresh Frets: Vol. 9
August 13
- Between the Buried and Me: "We took everything we do, and we notched it up a bit. It’s everything that everyone either loves or hates about BTBAM!"
- Dave Hause on stripping back his sound and paying tribute to the Dillinger Four
- Classic gear: 1960s Fender Stratocasters
August 12
- The Screaming Jets’ Scott Kingman: “I love this whole ‘build your own’ situation that we seem to have been forced into”
- Gilby Clarke: "I’m a big believer in doubling guitar parts with a different amp and guitar. It’s not just a bigger sound – it gives so much more separation"
- Tracii Gunns and Michael Sweet on the unlikely story behind their black metal-inspired side-project, Sunbomb
August 11
- Scott McKeon on shaping a modern blues tone par excellence and how Joe Bonamassa persuaded him to release the SM Fuzz
- Quicksand's Walter Schreifels: "I love playing expensive things, but I'm also totally down for street-level garbage!"
- Rodrigo y Gabriela: "With any kind of cover we play, we make it our own just by the fact that we play it with two guitars"
- Everything you need to know about bass amp watts, power and efficiency
- Investigating Gibson’s ‘lost’ Jimi Hendrix model – the electric guitar based on what Hendrix would have played in 2009 had he been alive
August 10
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Hussy Hicks
- Deafheaven's Shiv Mehra and Kerry McCoy on embracing new gear and sonic approaches for Infinite Granite: “We replaced heaviness with intensity”
- The 50 greatest guitar riffs of all time
- Prince's bass players over the years: in their own words
- How to sound like Royal Blood's Mike Kerr on a budget
August 9
- Tigercub's Jamie Hall: "The lower the tuning, the bigger the riff!"
August 8
- Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath: “The world keeps creating an audience for our music”
August 6
- Umphrey’s McGee's Jake Cinninger: "I was trying to get that live feel, so it was nice to be able to cut loose on the album guitar-solo wise"
- The secrets behind Noel Gallagher's guitar tone on Oasis's Supersonic
August 5
- We need to talk about mental health in the music industry – and how you can get help if you need it
- Guthrie Govan: "Make sure you explore the whole range of your guitar – not only will you become a better player, but also a more informed buyer"
- Jeff Berlin: "If you add academic music to your day, there will be almost no music or style anywhere that you can’t figure out on your own"
August 4
- Steve Vai reflects on working with Frank Zappa: "If you didn’t have the goods, you didn’t last. Frank expected everybody to rise to the occasion"
August 3
- Kim McAuliffe on the riotous story of Girlschool: “I got electrocuted onstage, nearly died, and the rest of them went back and had a massive party!”
- Tony Iommi and James Hetfield discuss their guitar journeys with Black Sabbath and Metallica in this classic 1992 Guitar World interview
August 2
- Lunachicks' Gina Volpe: "Most bands aren't getting signed by a couple of very prominent indie-rockers within their first year. That was a huge coup for us"
- The Who bassist Jon Button talks stepping into the shoes of John Entwistle and Pino Palladino