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- January 31
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- Venom Prison: “The whole ‘aggressive, nonstop assault of riffs’ approach isn’t really a thing on Erebos – this album is about the songs”
- How Fender's Precision Bass set the template for electric bass guitars in 1951
- The Smile just played their first-ever public gigs – here are six things we learned about the Radiohead offshoot
- January 28
- January 27
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- Best short-scale basses 2024: the ultimate guide to the greatest pint-sized bass guitars at all price points
- Los Bitchos’ Serra Petale: “Eddie Van Halen could make me feel just by playing the guitar. That's what we go for”
- How one man unearthed the first-ever Washburn N4 production model – and ended up selling it to Nuno Bettencourt
- Marcus Miller: “I try to play from my ears and not from my fingers”
- January 26
- January 25
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- Dope Lemon: “I thought of ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ as a way that I could give back”
- Spotlight: Will Wright of Choosing Sides
- Best guitar cleaning kits and tools: keep your guitar looking and sounding sweet
- Altered Five Blues Band’s Jeff Schroedl: “With slow blues, take your time. Don’t empty your magazine too soon”
- Volbeat's Michael Poulsen: “I’ve been asked if I want to have any guitar lessons, and I say, ‘No f**king way,’ because it might ruin what I’ve got”
- January 24
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- IDLES: “The ability level of what we do is not out of reach of anyone. That’s the best thing. It’s just the use of pedals, the sonics and the timing”
- Brian Baker: “This whole journey is based on right place, right time and luck – I didn’t realize I was a professional musician until I’d been one for 20 years”
- January 21
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- Eric Clapton, George Harrison and the Beatles: a guide to nearly 50 years' worth of studio collaborations
- Rufus Philpot: “The first time I heard Level 42's The Chinese Way on the radio, I couldn’t believe someone could play bass that fast in a pop song”
- Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen: “I’m not a virtuoso. I’m a songwriter that plays rhythm guitar – and once in a while I have to play lead”
- January 20
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- Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons rate Kiss's lead guitarists and reflect on the band's history in this classic 2014 GW interview
- The Maestro Fuzz-Tone is back! Here are 5 other vintage-voiced fuzz pedals you need to try
- Mike McCready on reissuing The Rockfords' debut LP: "It brings me back to the excitement of what guitar was like when I first discovered it"
- Meet Kayla Kent, the YouTuber channeling the spirit of Dimebag Darrell with her eerily accurate Pantera covers
- Steve Howe: “Sometimes I’ll play something and it’s over the top, so I’ll pull it back. There’s a certain kind of order and sensibility I like to bring to my guitar”
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- January 13
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- Seattle production legend Jack Endino on his new solo album, recording Nirvana and Soundgarden, and his endless search for riffs he's never heard before
- Epiphone vs Gibson: what's the difference?
- Best pitch shifter pedals: an essential tool for channeling Tom Morello, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
- The history of Paul McCartney and the Höfner 500/1 bass guitar
- January 12
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- January 7
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- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 354
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 331
- Black Label Society: “When you rehearse too much before recording, you take away all the spontaneity, all the magic, all the fire. You suck the life out of the thing”
- Death From Above 1979's Jesse Keeler: "When I first tried a Dan Armstrong bass, I was like, 'Wow, this neck is so small, and I’ve got all these extra frets. This is awesome!'"
- January 6
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- AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young: "Most of our early tracks speed up toward the end. After the guitar solo we’d start to take off!"
- Mastodon: “We write our guitar parts separately then show them to each other. We’re not a jam band – we’re more like choreographed acrobatics”
- Tim Commerford: "I’ve always shied away from having basses made for me, but with Music Man I’m really happy to say that this is a bass I’m part of"
- January 5
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- Mike Rutherford: “The Strat can be anybody – it covers all kinds of moods. Other guitars like Gibsons have a sort of one-sound thing, I think”
- Spotlight: Ben Speight of Future Haunts
- Ian Moss and Troy Cassar-Daley: “It’s really good for us to have someone else to bounce off of”
- Wet Leg: "We didn’t set ourselves any boundaries. We’d just hit our guitars sometimes – actually hit them!"
- Live Review: Knight & Day Festival, Ballarat 31/12/21
- January 4
