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GW LESSON LICKS OF THE BLUES GIANTS GROOVE MASTER

A brief, insightful tribute to GARY CLARK JR.’s multifaceted lead and rhythm-playing approaches and ways in which the guitarist tastefully combines elements of blues, rock, funk and soul

BIG-TIME RUSH FAN

Dream Theater maestro JOHN PETRUCCI geeks out on Permanent Waves, Alex Lifeson’s “How is that even possible?” solos and the undeniable majesty of Rush

Better Off Live

Five times a live version was better than the original studio recording

Spider Bites, Busted Axles and Personal Space

TOURING TIPS FROM FOUR YEAR STRONG GUITARIST/VOCALIST DAN O’CONNOR

KEEPIN' IT COPACETIC

Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Local H’s Scott Lucas — veterans of the Nineties alternative-rock signing spree — discuss life after major labels

Mythical Creatures

MEET INTRONAUT GUITARIST SACHA DUNABLE, THE MAN BEHIND DUNABLE GUITARS, MAKERS OF THE YETI, THE CYCLOPS AND OTHER OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD AXES

LORDS OF CREATION

TESTAMENT bring the metal to the masses with Titans of Creation, the 13th chapter in their canon of symphonic savagery. Guitar World checks in with guitarists ERIC PETERSON and ALEX SKOLNICK and gets a glimpse inside the making of the legendary group’s latest thrashterpiece.

The Dirt on Dirty Shirley

GEORGE LYNCH DISCUSSES THE FATE OF HIS CLASSIC-ERA GUITARS, HIS NEVER-ENDING LED ZEP LOVE AND DIRTY SHIRLEY, HIS NEW ALBUM (AND PROJECT) WITH CROATIAN-BORN SINGER DINO JELUSIC

GUNS N' ROSES

WHY HAVEN'T THE SPAGHETTI INCIDENT? AND LIVE ERA ‘87 - ‘93 CONNECTED WITH GN'R FANS LIKE APPETITE? GW CHECKS IN WITH GUITARIST GILBY CLARKE, VOCALIST ROBERTA FREEMAN, ENGINEER JIM MITCHELL, HANOI ROCKS' MICHAEL MONROE AND THE DAMNED'S BRIAN JAMES.

5 Questions with Death Valley High's Reyka Osburn

SAN FRANCISCO’S DEATH Valley High recently unleashed “Raise Hell,” the first of a planned series of singles to drop throughout 2020. Describing their music as “aggressive, skronk-disco light fantastic, like Saturday Night Fever on Thorazine,” singer/ guitarist Reyka Osburn isn’t really doing justice to the fact that, basically, DVH are a great rock ’n’ roll band.

Built to Spill

FRONTMAN DOUG MARTSCH REFLECTS ON KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET AT 20

Eight Arms to Hold You

PERENNIAL BRITISH PROG-ROCK HEROES WISHBONE ASH RETURN TO THE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE MUSICAL LANDSCAPE OF 2020 WITH COAT OF ARMS, THEIR FIRST NEW ALBUM OF STUDIO MATERIAL IN SIX YEARS. GUITARIST ANDY POWELL GIVES GW THE LOWDOWN ON HIS BAND’S 23RD OFFERING

Bigger Brothers

John and TJ Osborne – Aka Brothers Osborne – offer up an exclusive preview of their upcoming "bigger, louder and more exciting" new album

Air Guitar

BOSS WAZA-AIR

Lyrics? We Don't Need No Lyrics!

From the shadows to the surrealist: a history of instrumental rock

THUNDERBYRD

SOME GUITAR HEROES ARE ESTEEMED FOR THEIR TECHNICAL FLASH. BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHOSE GUITAR WORK IS UPSTAGED BY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AS SONGWRITERS, SINGERS, TRENDSETTERS AND TASTEMAKERS — GUITARISTS WHOSE SOUND IS SO INEXTRICABLY WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF ROCK THAT THE WHOLE THING WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE WITHOUT THEM. THAT’S THE KIND OF GUITAR HERO ROGER McGUINN IS.

CROWN JEWELS

MASSIVE GUITARS, SLIDE FOR DAYS, LED ZEP SWAGGER AND SABBATH-SIZED RIFFS. GUITARIST KEVIN COMEAU TAKES YOU INSIDE CROWN LANDS’ DARK, NORTH-OF-THE-BORDER BLUES ROCK

Out of the Silent Planet

HOW RADIOHEAD GUITARIST ED O’BRIEN GATHERED THE COURAGE TO STEP OUT ON HIS OWN — VOCALS AND ALL — ON HIS AMBIENT AND ACCESSIBLE DEBUT, EARTH

THE ARTIST'S WAY

IN CELEBRATION OF THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRS GUITARS 35 PLAYERS — FROM ALEX LIFESON TO JOHN MAYER TO DAVE NAVARRO TO CARLOS SANTANA — EXPLAIN HOW PRS INSTRUMENTS LED THEM ON A PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY

Refused

SWEDISH POST-HARDCORE MASTERS FIND THE FUNK, THE PUNK AND THEIR VERY ESSENCE ON THEIR LATEST RELEASE, WAR MUSIC

Life of Agony

GUITARIST JOEY ZAMPELLA TALKS MELODIC SOLOS, HIS UNUSUAL APPROACH TO RECORDING AND THE SOUND OF SCARS, THE VENERABLE ALT-METALLERS’ COMPELLING SEQUEL TO THEIR 1993 DEBUT, RIVER RUNS RED

Emmanuel's Labors

ON THE BEST OF TOMMYSONGS, ACOUSTIC WIZARD TOMMY EMMANUEL REVISITS — AND REINTERPRETS — SOME OF HIS FAVORITE COMPOSITIONS (AND THROWS IN A HANDFUL OF FUTURE CLASSICS)

5 Questions with Konvent Guitarist Sara Nørregaard

FANS AND CRITICS have called Konvent’s Puritan Masochism the doom metal highlight of 2020, an instant classic and/or pretty much everything in between.

100 Things every Guitarist Should Know

Lean back, get comfy and soak up 18 pages' worth of sound advice from GW's editors and columnists, not to mention Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Misha Mansoor, Joe Bonamassa, Tom Morello, Mark Tremonti, John 5, Jim Root, Ben Harper, Eddie Van Halen and more.

LEADER OF THE MAC

Among the many stars of London’s mid-Sixties blues scene, one guitarist outshone and outplayed them all — PETER GREEN. Here, in interviews with John Mayall, Mike Vernon, Green’s former bandmates and the “Man of the World” himself, WE TELL THE STORY OF HOW FLEETWOOD MAC WERE BORN

GREEN MACHINE

The fascinating connection between Kirk Hammett, Peter Green, Gary Moore, Fleetwood Mac and a singular 1959 GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD CALLED GREENY

God Couple

With their prodigious performances on LAMB OF GOD’s new self-titled full-length, Mark Morton and Willie Adler remind us all why they are ranked among the most formidable guitar tandems in metal history

On the Hunt with the Black Pumas

MEET THE BLACK PUMAS’ ADRIAN QUESADA AND ERIC BURTON — AN UNLIKELY PAIRING THAT WORKED OUT UNBELIEVABLY WELL

Mass Effect

LINE 6 POD GO

Rock Brigade

IN HONOR OF DEF LEPPARD’S IMPRESSIVE NEW BOX SET, THE EARLY YEARS 79-81, JOE ELLIOTT AND PHIL COLLEN DISCUSS THE BAND’S FIRST TWO ALBUMS — ON THROUGH THE NIGHT AND HIGH ‘N’ DRY — AND EARLY GUITARISTS PETE WILLIS AND STEVE CLARK