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“With an SG, I can let out my visceral, animalistic side as a player. That’s difficult for me to attain with anything else”: How Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka is embracing primal guitar and blues heroes
Greta Van Fleet’s blockbuster new album, Starcatcher, finds Kiszka paying his dues to Robert Johnson and Albert King, all while searching for new ways to wrestle thunder and lightning from his trademark Gibson ’61 Les Paul SG
Here's what you voted the best guitar solo of the 21st century
The winner was recorded more recently than you might think...
Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka cut off the tip of his brother Sam's thumb when they were kids – now it's perfect for bass playing
Jake lopped off the end of one of Sam's digits with a jack-knife while they played in the backyard, but as it turns out, he did him an unlikely favor
Greta Van Fleet postpone US tour following Jake Kiszka's battle with pneumonia
Shows on March 23 through April 2 will be rescheduled, while the band's set in Madison, WI – scheduled for March 22 – has been canceled entirely due to venue renovations later this year
Greta Van Fleet extend their Dreams in Gold Tour with over 40 US dates for fall 2022
The classic-rock revivalists will join Metallica on August 11 and 14, before hitting 9 cities in Canada and 30 in North America
Metallica announce two U.S. stadium shows with Greta Van Fleet, Ice Nine Kills
Fresh off their 40th anniversary celebrations in December, the thrash titans said that the August shows – in Buffalo and Pittsburgh – will be their only U.S. stadium gigs this summer
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The 20 best guitar albums of 2021
Records that stoked creative fires and set the guitar world alight this year, as voted for by you
The 10 best guitar solos of 2021
The leads that captured your imagination over the past 12 months, as voted for by you
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Joe Duplantier says Greta Van Fleet's latest album gave him “more faith in humanity”
The Gojira frontman explains why The Battle at Garden's Gate blew his mind, and says it “doesn't matter” to him that people compare GVF to Led Zeppelin
Sam Kiszka: “The P-Bass has been proven to be the best bass, perhaps of all time. Leo Fender was one of the greatest revolutionaries of our time“
As retro rockers Greta Van Fleet return with The Battle at Garden’s Gate, bassist Kiszka discusses his bass journey, GVF's influences and his essential gear
