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NOT JUST THE BILLIE JOE SHOW
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SOUNDING BOARD • Got something you want to say? EMAIL US AT: GWSoundingBoard@futurenet.com
Serious Art Rock • HOW TOOL’S ADAM JONES CHANNELS HIS PASSION FOR VISUAL ART INTO THE ADAM JONES LES PAUL CUSTOM ART COLLECTION
INQUIRER TROY MCLAWHORN • THE EVANESCENCE GUITARIST TALKS KILLER TRENCH COATS AND THE AMP THAT GOT AWAY
Cannibal Corpse • ERIK RUTAN AND ROB BARRETT DELIVER PLENTY OF HELLISH SHRED AND HARMONIC TENSION ON CHAOS HORRIFIC
One Bad M.F. • “I HOPE THE TRADITIONAL GUITAR SOLO DIES A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH.” GWCATCHES UP WITH MIGHTY MARTY FRIEDMAN
George Harrison and the Hamburguitar • GRETSCH, RICKENBACKER, FENDER … HAMBURGUITAR? IN THE BEATLES’ MID-NINETIES ANTHOLOGY ERA, GEORGE HARRISON'S GUITARS OF CHOICE WERE BUILT BY A MAN NAMED BERNIE HAMBURGER
Phantom SG Junior • PHANTOM PLANET FRONTMAN ALEX GREENWALD SHARES THE BIZARRE TALE OF HOW HE RECONNECTED WITH HIS LONG-LOST EPIPHONE
Helmet • PAGE HAMILTON BRINGS STACCATO STABS OF FEEDBACK, AVANT-GARDE SHOEGAZE AND TWISTED BLUES TO THE NYC ALT-METALERS’ LATEST
Mary Timony • THE FORMER HELIUM AND WILD FLAG D.C. ROCKER CAN STILL UNLEASH SOME DECIDEDLY UNTAME SOUNDS
10 ESSENTIAL DENNY LAINE SONGS
Denny Laine (1944-2023) • THE GUITARIST WHO CO-WROTE McCARTNEY’S BIGGEST ’70S HIT
EDDIE MARTINEZ • The NYC session great recalls his time with Run-DMC, Blondie, David Lee Roth and Robert Palmer. He also sets the record straight about exactly who played the “Addicted to Love” guitar solo (Hint: It was Eddie Martinez!)
Citizens of Planet Marr • In a new book, SMITHS great Johnny Marr traces his entire career through the prism of his amazing collection of guitars. Why don’t all our guitar heroes do this?
WHISPERS IN THE ECHO CHAMBER • CHELSEA WOLFE and BRYAN TULAO break down the dark, swirling masterpiece that is SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE
“IF I KNEW I WAS GONNA INFLUENCE THOUSANDS OF GUITAR PLAYERS, I WOULDA PRACTICED MORE!” FIRST KISS • EX-KISS LEGEND ACE FREHLEY TAKES A STRUT DOWN MEMORY LANE
PURE ORANGE EXTRACT “I JUST WANTED TO HEAR MORE HONESTY IN MY GUITAR PARTS" • CODE ORANGE’S REBA MEYERSAND DOM LANDOLINA SHIFT LANES WITH THE ABOVE(WHILE STEVE ALBINI AND SMASHING PUMPKINS’ BILLY CORGAN COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE)
PUNK TO THE RESCUE! • GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG REVEALS THE ORIGIN STORY BEHIND SAVIORS , THE PUNK SUPERHEROES’ FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS, AND LOOKS BACK ON THE MAKING OF 1994’S DOOKIE
PUNK ROCK OPERA • BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG RECALLS THE MAKING OF GREEN DAY’S MONUMENTAL COMEBACK ALBUM, 2004’S AMERICAN IDIOT
THE BYRD THAT SOARED • How TED NUGENT accidentally destroyed — and later gave away — his first GIBSON BYRDLAND
LAND O’ PLENTY • A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE GIBSON BYRDLAND
UAFX Lion ’68 Super Lead Amp pedal
Ernie Ball Music Man Luke 4 SSS
Stage Right by Monoprice SB100 100-Watt All-Tube Two-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Reverb
Buzz Bin Revv Amplification Tilt Boost
Squier Paranormal Custom Nashville Stratocaster
SING THE SONG, PART 3 • More on mimicking vocal...