Carmen Vandenberg
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How Carmen Vandenberg’s signature approaches can elevate your riffs and solos
By Jon Bishop published
The Bones UK guitarist is a specialist in baritone licks, pitch-shifted leads, heavy fuzz riffing and all sorts of unorthodox techniques, and we've got a handful of ideas to help you steal her style

Featuring a Joe Bonamassa wah and an overdrive gifted by Jeff Beck, Carmen Vandenberg’s pedalboard is a tour de force of tone
By Jenna Scaramanga published
The Bones UK and Morrissey guitarist is one of the most exacting tone connoisseurs in the game, with some quietly radical picks and some familiar favorites

Carmen Vandenberg and Rosie Bones explain the joy and challenge of playing with the late, great Jeff Beck
By Jonathan Horsley published
In 2019, Jeff Beck broke with tradition and looked for a vocal record to complement his peerless playing, and he looked to Bones UK for collaborators. Here, Vandenberg and Bones look back on a life-changing collab

Rosie Bones on her guitar chemistry with Carmen Vandenberg, Corgan co-writes – and why Bones UK doesn’t need a bassist
By Jenna Scaramanga published
Augmenting the rock with electronic elements, Bones UK are dragging it into the future, but as frontwoman Rosie explains, they have one foot in the past, with an old-school blues cat playing lead

Bones UK’s Carmen Vandenberg on going hard to make Soft – and the Jeff Beck pedal that won’t leave her ’board
By Jenna Scaramanga published
Vandenberg is making guitar sounds you’ve never heard before. In a brilliant new album from Bones UK, she’s also blues, Hendrix and her mentor Jeff Beck – all in the pursuit of authenticity…

Carmen Vandenberg joins Jerry Cantrell to put her own twist on the iconic Alice in Chains solo
By Janelle Borg published
Vandenberg wielded a Duesenberg Julia, while the Alice In Chains guitarist opted for his trusty 'Blue Dress' G&L at the North Carolina concert

Carmen Vandenburg recalls Jeff Beck’s ultimate tone test
By Janelle Borg published
Vandenberg discusses the invaluable lesson she learned from Beck about achieving your tone no matter what equipment you have at hand

Joe Bonamassa, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Carmen Vandenberg play an electrifying game of blues tag in this cover of B.B. King’s Ain’t Nobody Home
By Matt Parker published
The three players trade licks and smiles – all backed by Josh Smith – on this classic King cover, albeit seemingly unaware of the irony that they’ve crowded in a room to do so

Why Jeff Beck was the guitar hero's guitar hero: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Vince Gill, Steve Stevens and more pay tribute
By David Von Bader published
Some of guitar's greatest names share how Beck influenced their own playing, praising his mastery of the space between the notes and relentless pursuit of innovation
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