Guitar World: June 2014 Gear and Lesson Videos

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These videos and audio files are bonus content related to the June 2014 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now or at the Guitar World Online Store.

Lesson Videos

• Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Taking Licks You’ve Learned from Others and Making Them Your Own
• Thrash Course with Revocation's Dave Davidson: The Advantages of Alternate Picking, and How I Play “The Hive,” Part 2
• Rockin' the Country with Joe Don Rooney: How to Turn a Stock Chord Progression Into a Unique Guitar Part
• String Theory with Jimmy Brown: A Pick-Friendly Way to Sound Like an Irish Folk Mandolinist
• Metal for Life with Metal Mike: How to Build Classic Three-Part Metal Guitar Harmonies
• In Deep with Andy Aledort: Transposing Open-G-Tuned Slide Licks to Open D Tuning

Audio Lesson Files

• Talkin' Blues with Keith Wyatt: Harmonizing the Drums
• Hole Notes with Dale Turner: The Signature Open-G-Tuned Rhythm Style of Don Everly

Gear Review Videos
• Review: Taylor T 5Z Pro Electric-Acoustic Hybrid Guitar
• Review: Cordoba C10 Crossover Guitar
• Review: Randall RG13 Guitar Pedal Amplifier
• Review: EVH Striped Series Guitar
• Review: Legator Helio DCH 300- Pro Guitar
• Review: Visual Sound VS- XO Premium Dual Overdrive Pedal
• Review: Dunlop Clyde McCoy Cry Baby Wah Wah

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown performs at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival at Aptos Village Park in Aptos, California on May 27, 2000
“Chuck Berry's not a very good guitar player. He's a clown. He runs all over the guitar, just like any one of these old rock players would do, and makes no sense”: Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown pulled no punches when speaking about his fellow guitar heroes
Roy Clark (left) and Merle Travis
“I said, ‘Merle, do you remember this?’ and I played him his song Sweet Bunch of Daisies. He said, ‘I remember it. I've never heard it played that good’”: When Roy Clark met his guitar hero
Bassist Hadrien Feraud
“I asked Marcus to sing on it. As amazing as he is on bass, I think he’s underrated as a vocalist”: Having earned lofty status in bass-hero circles, Marcus Miller lent his vocal chops to Hadrien Feraud’s solo album
Bootsy Collins
“I was playing stuff I don’t think James Brown understood. He told me, ‘You have to play the one – you’re playing too much’”: Six years after he quit touring, Bootsy Collins reflects on James Brown and George Clinton, and what he gets out of playing today
Geordie Walker of Killing Joke performs with his Gibson gold-top Gibson ES-295 with the Mary Kaye pickguard.
“This guy kept calling saying, ‘I’ve never been in a band before, but I’m the best guitarist ever.’ When I heard him play it was like a fire from heaven”: The life and times of Killing Joke visionary Geordie Walker – the guitar hero’s guitar hero
Bad Cat's late amp designer Mark Sampson on the shop floor: Sampson is widely credited as being one of the godfather's of the boutique amp movement.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Mark Sampson was the father of the boutique amp revolution”: An interview with the late, great Mark Sampson, the trailblazing amp designer behind Bad Cat and Matchless
Ray Aggs
“I’ve never bought a guitar and I’m quite proud of that! I always tell people when they’re learning: there’s a guitar not being played”: Meet Sacred Paws’ Ray Aggs, the dextrous Tele-wrangler inventing new chords and capturing Thurston Moore’s imagination
EHX founder Mike Matthews stands in a warehouse with his fists in the air. He wears a tan jacket and has a trademark cigar in his mouth.
“Jimi was staying at a hotel in Times Square. He had his hair set in pink curlers and we would just talk band drama”: Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on befriending Hendrix, booking Chuck Berry and the birth of pedal culture
Yves Jarvis
“I didn’t use any amps. The pedal that saved me was the Boss Super Overdrive”: How Yves Jarvis made 2025’s most exciting experimental record so far with a $50 Explorer knockoff and an unbelievably weird tuning