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Leo Lyons on the bass that appeared at Woodstock, has been played by Hendrix, and is on three UFO classics
The Ten Years After bassist’s 1962 Fender Jazz Bass is one of the coolest four-strings you will ever see, with buckle rash on the back that any Fender Master Builder would kill to recreate
Boss takes on DigiTech with the XS-100 and XS-1 Poly Shifter – could it topple the Whammy?
With an eight-octave range, glitch-free performance, plus simultaneous shifting and dropping, Boss sees the XS-100 as the Swiss army pedal of pitch-shifters
From gigging in strip clubs to recording with John Martyn and Kate Bush, Danny Thompson walked a singular path in bass playing
Beginning with his early days amid London’s jazz and blues boom in the ’50s, to his famed partnership with singer-songwriter John Martyn, the late Danny Thompson excelled at everything he touched
Positive Grid embraces the age of AI with BIAS X – which responds to prompts and recreates the guitar tones of any reference song
Text-to-tone and music-to-tone functions head up the radical new amp and effects software
Matt Bissonette’s “dumb-guy” approach to bass has taken him round the world with pop and rock royalty
Still buzzed about his excessive ’80s rigs and five-string instruments, the session bass hero explains how to work with David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Jason Becker and others, his big-fun, big-paying Friends TV gig, and the discovery that’s making him a better player
As Musical Director for Kendrick Lamar, Tony Russell could be the greatest bass player you've never heard of
He’s played with Usher, Jamie Foxx, P. Diddy, and Jay-Z – is Tony ‘Chicago’ Russell the best-kept secret in bass?
The life (and tragically early death) of Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy’s legendary bass-playing frontman
Phil Lynott was a troubled genius who rose from a tough background to take his place in the pantheon of rock gods
How bassist Tony Butler helped relaunch The Pretenders with this 1982 rock classic
Having fired bassist Pete Farndon for his erratic drug-fuelled behaviour, The Pretenders tapped Rockpile guitarist Billy Bremner and bassist Tony Butler
Fender’s Road Worn guitars have become a dying breed – but now they're back as limited-edition Vintera II guitars
An all-new aging process that offers a subtle 'closet classic' vibe is paired with era-correct pickups and authentic neck shapes
Paul Mescal had to learn guitar left-handed to play Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopic – but also got to jam with him
Mescal is set to star alongside Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison in the highly-anticipated four-part Beatles biopic
