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AMPLIFIERS EXPLAINED

Dan signs off this issue with a dig inside your amp

YAMAHA SLB300 Silent Bass

An electric upright that assembles in 30 seconds? Jon Thorne sets his stopwatch...

Nashville Bound

Producer, author, and bassist Norbert Putnam looks back half a century at a session with a difference—the near‑mythical Nashville Cats recordings with Elvis Presley

FENDER – 60th Anniversary Jazz

Now a sexagenarian, is the Jazz Bass still sexy? Chris Gill takes this Sixties-inspired model for a swing

COLLECTING CHRISTMAS!

GOLDMINE WRITER TIM NEELY TAKES YOU THROUGH THE STEPS OF BUILDING A CHRISTMAS ALBUM COLLECTION IN A COST-EFFECTIVE WAY.

ELTON'S COLLECTION OF JEWELS

AN EXCLUSIVE CHAT WITH ELTON JOHN ABOUT HIS RECENTLY RELEASED ELTON: JEWEL BOX — AMONG OTHER THINGS.

WILCO's TEETH

THE MAKING OF WILCO’S SUMMERTEETH: LOOKING TO THE PAST POINTED THE WAY TO THE FUTURE.

XMAS ROUNDUP

2020 CHRISTMAS RELEASES REVIEWED

HENDRIX'S Hawaii

OVER THE RAINBOW: JIMI HENDRIX TAKES A HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY.

Talking Winos: A Chat with Keith Richards

ICONIC ROLLING STONES GUITARIST KEITH RICHARDS TAKES A FEW MINUTES TO CHAT WITH GOLDMINE ABOUT THE LATEST RELEASE OF X-PENSIVE WINOS MATERIAL, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, IN VARIOUS FORMATS.

STILL AS FEISTY AS EVER!

DIONNE WARWICK STILL FEISTY WHILE APPROACHING 80TH BIRTHDAY

All The Pretty Things

DICK TAYLOR, GUITARIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE PRETTY THINGS, DEPARTED THE BAND AFTER THEIR CONCEPT ALBUM S.F. SORROW, BUT RETURNED IN 1979 FOR THE LONG HAUL, UNTIL THE RECENTLY RELEASED (AND LAST) ALBUM, BARE AS BONE, BRIGHT AS BLOOD.

THIS MONTH - BASS ELECTRONICS EXPLAINED

Dan Veall closes this issue with a guide to on-board electronics

TAKING FLIGHT

Bassist Timothy B Schmit looks back on being asked to join the Eagles in 1977, just as they hit the big time.

STILL LIVES

In times of darkness we all need light, and that’s just what Camel bassist Colin Bass is hoping to bring with his meditative new album, Still...

Q THE MUSIC

Kicking down boundaries like there was no tomorrow, Suzi Quatro owned the Seventies, with 50 million album sales, a primetime TV slot, and bass mastery that put most of her contemporaries to shame. But the decade wasn’t all about ‘Can The Can’, she warns: there was a whole lot of ‘Can’t’, too...

Introducing

New, cool, and otherwise attention-grabbing bassists whose playing you need to hear, in their own words.

FRANCIS ‘ROCCO' PRESTIA

The great Tower Of Power bassist, whose muted playing style made him one of the funkiest musicians of all time, leaves us.

The 70's In Bass

“The Seventies were all about lead bass!” says the mighty Suzi Q. Let’s take a 148-bassist look back and figure out what really went on back then...

All That Jazz

Fender’s beloved Jazz Bass hits 60 years old this year. We meet Allen Abbassi, Senior Product Development Manager, for a look back—and forward—on the subject of the mighty J...

New Jimi Hendrix film and album feature bassist Billy Cox

I was there! A historic moment in bass world—recalled by those who were there to see it

Tony Visconti

This month’s forward-thinking bass player: David Bowie’s longtime collaborator Tony Visconti.

ROLL THEM BONES

ON SKELETONS, BROTHERS OSBORNE’S BIGGEST AND LOUDEST ALBUM, AMPS RAGE AND SEETHE, HELL IS RAISED — AND THERE’S DAMN NEAR TOO MANY WALLOPING GUITAR SOLOS TO KEEP TRACK OF. BELOW, JOHN AND TJ OSBORNE LET THE SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET

This Wretched Underworld

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’S BRANDON ELLIS AND BRIAN ESCHBACH TALK TONE HUNTING, SONGCRAFT AND OPERATING ON THE ODDER END OF THE SPECTRUM

POWER PLAY

Regardless of what fate throws at ’em, you just can’t keep a great band down. In this worldwide exclusive interview, intrepid AC/DC icon Angus Young discusses life after Malcolm and the band’s positively charged new album, POWER UP

Surf Guitar's Next Chapter

SURF-ROCKER MARTIN SCHMIDT TALKS GW THROUGH THE SURF GUITAR BOOK, AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE TONES AND TEXTURES BEHIND THE REVERB-DRENCHED GENRE’S MOST FAMOUS RECORDINGS, GEAR AND GUITAR HEROES

Rookie

PUT ON YOUR JUMPSUITS, HOP IN THE ’79 EL CAMINO AND LET THIS CHICAGO SIX-PIECE WHISK YOU AWAY TO A LAND RULED BY BIG STAR, THE EAGLES, CHEAP TRICK AND TOM PETTY

LOCAL COLOR

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE’S JOHN CIPOLLINA, A BOLD, ORIGINAL AND UNHERALDED STYLIST WHOSE PLAYING ANTICIPATED THE FUTURE OF ROCK

JOHN PETRUCCI REACHES TERMINAL VELOCITY

Dream Theater’s resident lord of the strings uses the lockdown as an opportunity to record some sick instrumentals — with a little help from former bandmate Mike Portnoy

HEARTBEAT

CARS SIX-STRING INNOVATOR ELLIOT EASTON TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO THE GEAR AND GUITAR SOLOS THAT DRIVE THE EMPTY HEARTS’ PERSONALITYPACKED SECOND ALBUM.