Guitar World: June 2012 Videos

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These videos are bonus content related to the June 2012 issue of Guitar World. Check out this month's issue for full tabs, transcriptions and lessons.

Column Videos

• Loud & Proud: A New Approach to the Blues Scale
• Metal For Life: Killer Runs to Sharpen Your Pick-Hand and Fret-Hand Skills
• Talkin' Blues: New Orleans, Part 2
• Hole Notes: The Bossa Nova Rhythms of Antonio Carlos Jobim
• In Deep: Dickey Betts
• Last Licks: Open-Chord Riffs

Gear Review Videos

• DV Mark Triple 6
• Jackson Chris Broderick Soloist 6
• Morley Buffer Boost

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Ozzy Osbourne (left) and Randy Rhoads perform onstage in 1980
Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band has long been a proving ground for metal’s most outstanding players. From Randy Rhoads to Zakk Wylde, via Brad Gillis and Gus G, here are all the players – and nearly players – in the Osbourne saga
Muireann Bradley wears black and plays her custom-built sunburst acoustic as she is photographed against a dark brown background.
“I just learned them from the records. I don’t read tabs or anything, I don’t read music – I learned by ear”: How a teenage Muireann Bradley put a cover of Blind Blake’s Police Dog Blues on YouTube and became a standard bearer for country blues
Prince and Dez Dickerson get into the jam onstage in this close-shot black and white pic from 1979.
“He got that from me. I used to throw my guitar as high as I could, like, 20 feet, and my guitar tech would catch it”: Dez Dickerson on Prince, his iconic Little Red Corvette solo, and why he left the Revolution
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“I’d always seen the guitar as a thing for really accomplished people like Jimi Hendrix – watching Nirvana on MTV Unplugged exploded my brain”: Studio nerd Corinne Bailey Rae broke through after moving on from her punk roots. Then she went back
Davey Johnstone (left) and Elton John perform at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia on July 10, 2012
“Elton said, ‘I'd better buy that guitar just to have in my house.’ I played it and said, ‘Yeah, you'd better buy it, so I can play it when I come by’”: One of Davey Johnstone's favorite guitars was once a piece of upscale decor for his superstar bandmate
Dick Dale, wielding a Fender Stratocaster, performs onstage
“Leo said, ‘Here, try this guitar.’ I grabbed it, turned it around, held it upside-down backwards and started playing ukulele chords. He almost fell off his chair laughing”: How Dick Dale made the Stratocaster the ultimate surf-rock weapon
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“When I first heard his voice in my headphones, there was that moment of, ‘My God! I’m recording with David Bowie!’” Bassist Tim Lefebvre on the making of David Bowie's Lazarus
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Jaco Pastorius on 11/15/78 in Chicago, Il. Joni Mitchell performs at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco - September 7, 1979.
“One of the guys said, ‘Joni, there’s this weird bass player in Florida, you’d probably like him’”: How Joni Mitchell formed an unlikely partnership with Jaco Pastorius