Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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Stone Free • HOP-HOP SESSION ACE STONE MECCA TALKS GEAR, WU-TANG CLAN, SNOOP DOGG AND THE MERITS OF BEING ENTIRELY SELF-TAUGHT

INTRODUCING

Logan Ledger • IT TURNS OUT THIS GOLDEN-THROATED NASHVILLE-VIACALIFORNIA SINGER-SONGWRITER PLAYS A MEAN B-BENDER

WHAT'S ON MY PLAYLIST

? INQUIRER ROBIN TROWER • THE GENIUS BEHIND BRIDGE OF SIGHS TALKS FLAMING AMPS, FAVORITE STRATS AND WHY HE STILL PRACTICES EVERY DAY

LOST CLASSICS Adam and the Ants • GUITARIST AND CO-WRITER MARCO PIRRONI DISCUSSES THE MAKING OF THE BAND’S ERA-DEFINING 1980 ALBUM, KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER

From Out of the Darkness • DAN HAWKINS REVISITS THE MURKY MUSICAL LANDSCAPE THAT SOMEHOW GAVE WAY TO THE DARKNESS’S 2003 BREAKTHROUGH RECORD, PERMISSION TO LAND

5 FIVE QUESTIONS ALENA CIERA • GWPEERS INTO THE MIND OF THE BUSY DAVID BYRNE AND CEELO GREEN GUITARIST

Ryujin • RYOJI SHINOMOTO RECENTLY RENAMED HIS LONGTIME BAND, BUT HE’S STICKING TO THE TENETS OF “SAMURAI METAL” WHILE SHREDDING ON A JACKSON… AND THE OCCASIONAL SHAMISEN

MY PEDALBOARD ALEX SKOLNICK • WHAT TESTAMENT’S GENRE-HOPPING AX-SLINGER SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Sue Foley • THE AUSTIN BLUSER ON HOW HER AUDIENCES PLAY A ROLE IN HER SHOWS, AND HER UPCOMING TRIBUTE TO PIONEERING WOMEN GUITAR PLAYERS

ROBBY KRIEGER

FRANK INFANTE • The former Blondie guitarist revisits his classic riffs and solos on “One Way or Another,” “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture” and more

DREAM JOB YARD ACT • HOW GUITARIST SAM SHIPSTONE’S SIDEWINDING RIFFS (AND G&L ASAT) KEEP YARD ACT’S DARK, DANCEY POST-PUNK-FUNK DELICIOUSLY OFF-KILTER

ALL HAIL THE TWANG BAR KING! ADRIAN BELEW’s 10 definitive guitar moments • The beauty — and irony — of Adrian Belew is that his sound is in constant flux, but few guitarists are so easily identifiable

THE Li WAY • THESE DAYS, SOMEWHERE AMID THE FIRE AND THE FLAMES OF DRAGONFORCE’S EXTREME POWER METAL, YOU’LL DETECT A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA IN HERMAN LI’S PLAYING: AN EMPHASIS ON MELODY AND DYNAMICS

DROPOUTS • IN 1992, BOSTON’S DROP NINETEENS BECAME UNLIKELY STARS OF THE OVERWHELMINGLY BRITISH SHOEGAZE ROCK SCENE. A YEAR LATER, THEY FELL OFF THE MAP — BUT THEIR LEGEND ONLY GREW. NOW, AFTER NEARLY THREE DECADES IN THE DARK, THE BAND HAS RETURNED WITH HARD LIGHT

MOVE OVER, ROVER, AND LET EDDIE TAKE OVER! • VETERAN ENGINEER/PRODUCER EDDIE KRAMER — THE CLOSEST THING JIMI HENDRIX HAD TO A SONIC WINGMAN — LOOKS BACK ON HIS SESSIONS WITH THE KINKS, LED ZEPPELIN, KISS AND (OF COURSE) MR. HENDRIX

THE MASTER’S TOUCH • 10 ESSENTIAL GUITAR ALBUMS THAT WERE ENGINEERED OR PRODUCED BY EDDIE KRAMER

MARS ATTACKS! • FORMER MÖTLEY CRÜE AX-SLINGER MICK MARS COMES OUT GUNS A-BLAZING ON HIS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM, THE OTHER SIDE OF MARS. BELOW, MARS TAKES US BEHIND THE MAKING OF THE LONG-AWAITED RECORD AND RIFLES THROUGH SOME TURBULENT CRÜE HISTORY — GOOD, BAD AND UGLY

Lost on MARS! • TEN STELLAR (AND LESSER-KNOWN) MICK MARS RIFFS YOU MIGHT VERY WELL BE MISSING OUT ON

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