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.

THE KING OF MANHATTAN

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SOUNDING BOARD • Got something you want to say? EMAIL US AT: GWSoundingBoard@futurenet.com

The Dandy Warhols • “SMELLY BOY ROCK” RULES THE DAY ON THE PORTLAND ALT-ROCKERS’ RIFF-DRIVEN NEW RELEASE

COVER MODELS

Larissa Liveir • A BUDDING ENGINEER, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, A GUITAR… STRANGE WHERE LIFE CAN TAKE YOU

The Pineapple Thief • THE BAND FROM THE RURAL BACKWOODS OF SOUTH-WEST U.K. WHO TOOK THE PROG-ROCK WORLD BY STORM

MY PEDALBOARD VINNIE MOORE • WHAT UFO’S SHREDDING INSTRUMENTAL VIRTUOSO SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

LOST CLASSICS: The Gun Club • GUITARIST KID CONGO POWERS DISCUSSES THE MAKING OF THE POST-PUNK MAVENS’ THIRD ALBUM, 1984’S THE LAS VEGAS STORY

Manuel Gardner Fernandes • THE MASTERMIND OF UNPROCESSED ON THE HEAVINESS OF THEIR LATEST RELEASE, WHY HE SWITCHED FROM DIGITAL TO ANALOG AND HOW GETTING OUT OF THE BEDROOM AND ONTO THE STAGE SAVED HIS CAREER

Sometime in February • TRISTAN AUMAN INJECTS HIS BAND’S WILDLY ADDICTIVE PROGRESSIVE METAL WITH CLEVER HOOKS, GONZO SHRED AND ARRESTING MOMENTS OF AMBIENT BEAUTY

Martin Miller • THE IBANEZ SIGNATURE ARTIST ON FORSAKING HIS SHRED ROOTS, HOW TO APPROACH CHORD CHANGES AND THOSE WORLD-CLASS LIVE SESSIONS WITH PAUL GILBERT AND ANDY TIMMONS

CREAM GUITARS • How a doctor (who also sidelined in designing suits for firefighters) ended up creating Cream Guitars, one of the most groundbreaking new brands in our industry

SECOND COMING • CEDRIC BURNSIDE, GRANDSON OF MISSISSIPPI BLUESMAN R.L. BURNSIDE, PROFESSES HIS HILL COUNTRY LOVE

KEITH SCOTT • From “Cuts Like a Knife” to “Summer of ’69,” the Canadian guitar great discusses the gear and solos that have fueled Bryan Adams’ music for more than 40 years

SONG OF MYSELF “MILES DAVIS ONCE SAID, ‘SOMETIMES IT TAKES A WHILE TO SOUND LIKE YOURSELF’” • ANNIE CLARK — AKA ST. VINCENT — DISCUSSES HER SINGLE-MINDED PURSUIT OF RAW EMOTIONS AND SONIC PERFECTION, AND HOW SHE SERVED AS “JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER” ON HER NEW, SELF-PRODUCED ALBUM

THE 30 GREATEST GARDEN STATE GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME • New Jersey derives much of its water from New York’s Catskill Mountains. Low in calcium and magnesium, it’s a naturally soft water that’s ideally suited for bread flour. And, of course, that means it’s also a crucial component in the making of New Jersey pizza, which everybody knows is the best in the United States. (Oh, you wanna argue about it? How about this? Fuggedaboudit!)

RETURN OF THE KING • SLAYER CO-FOUNDER KERRY KING RETURNS FROM THE ASHES WITH FROM HELL I RISE, THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM FROM HIS EPONYMOUS NEW ALL-STAR BAND. HE ALSO ADDRESSES THE END OF SLAYER, THIS YEAR’S SURPRISE REUNION SHOWS AND HIS CHEMISTRY WITH GUITARIST PHIL DEMMEL

DEMMEL-ITION MAN • HOW FATE (AND PERSISTENCE) LED FORMER MACHINE HEAD GUITARIST PHIL DEMMEL TO A TREASURED SPOT IN KERRY KING’S BAND

THE AXES OF A KING • KERRY KING’S JOURNEY FROM B.C. RICH TO ESP TO DEAN

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MXR Joshua Ambient Echo

Line 6 HX One

Buzz Bin Danelectro Nichols 1966

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