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Zach Person
How a jaw-dropping Gary Clark Jr. cover on American Idol led to to sharing a stage with buddy Guy, sharing bills with Foo Fighters — and releasing a multi-faceted debut album
Fender Bassman – Big Bottom
Designed for bassists, the Fender Bassman became the favored tone machine of guitarists everywhere.
“Supersonic”
Oasis | Definitely Maybe, 1994 | Guitarist: Noel Gallagher
Audiophile Axe
With its tube-powered pickup, the Ruokangas Duke Valvebucker is a high-fidelity experience.
BASS CENTRE Ashbory
Time for something a little different, suggests our Editor...
MARCUS MILLER
In every issue, we bring you a noteworthy interview from the bass vaults, from far-off times when gigs were plentiful and a virus meant no more than a day in bed. This month: Marcus Miller, interviewed in 2012
FOUR of the BEST
It’s 50 years this year since Led Zeppelin released their immense fourth album, cementing their position in music history and inspiring the playing of a million guitar-shop visitors. The band’s Quiet One, bassist John Paul Jones, was on astounding form throughout Half a century since that high point, we revisit his bass parts and ask how it was that JPJ became the leading rock bassist of his generation...
INSPIRED NOTES
Bassist and songwriter Lena Morris on the catalyst that sent her into the low frequencies
MXR Effects
Spice up your bass tones, says Mike Brooks
PICKING LARGE INTERVALS
Welcome! To finish off our exploration of pick playing, we’re going to look at a couple of things related to playing bigger intervals. As we’ve noted before, every technique takes on a whole new level of difficulty when we start to move it across the strings, but it can get even harder when we want to be able to control how long each note lasts.
NEW ROSE
With his new album, Two Roses, Israeli upright bassist Avishai Cohen achieves a career high. We meet the master
PUTT IT THERE
We meet the veteran jazz bassist— and occasional James Bond adversary —Putter Smith.
TURNER PORTRAIT
The Atlanta-based rock quintet Blackberry Smoke return with a new album, You Hear Georgia. Bassist Richard Turner explains the thinking behind the big tones
Benny Rietveld – Smooth Operator
Carlos Santana’s long-time bassist Benny Rietveld reflects on a career at the front line of expression
Liz Phair – Back in the Game
Indie rock legend Liz Phair reemerges with Soberish new album in over a decade
Sleater-Kinney – ‘The Role of the Artist Is to Thrash Around'
Sleater-Kinney recommits.
The Group Portrait: The Audience Is a Little Quiet
An ensemble from the New York Philharmonic plays Green-Wood Cemetery.
THIS VAN'S A-ROCKIN' ON THE NEW VAN WEEZER.
WEEZER’S RIVERS CUOMO OPENS UP A “PANDORA’S BOX OF EVIL GUITAR TOOLS” AND GOES CRAZY. BELOW, HE DISCUSSES HIS POST-EDDIE VAN HALEN SHRED INFLUENCES, EIGHTIES HAIR METAL AND WHY OZZY OSBOURNE HAD TO APPROVE ONE OF WEEZER’S NEW SONGS
Ludic
WITH HER NEW BAND, FORMER CALPURNIA GUITARIST (AND WEEZER MUSIC VIDEO STAR) AYLA TESLER-MABE HEADS FOR UNDERSTATED, GROOVE-FORWARD WATERS
Evile
WITH LEAD GUITARIST OL DRAKE NOW MANNING THE MIC, ENGLAND’S EVILE RETURN TO UNLEASH VINTAGE THRASH METAL HELL WITH THEIR LATEST ALBUM
THE WILD TIMES, FINAL DAYS and LAST RECORDINGS of ALEXI LAIHO 1979-2020
FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH HIS BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT BANDMATES DANIEL FREYBERG AND MITJA TOIVONEN, PLUS FORMER CHILDREN OF BODOM GUITARIST ROOPE LATVALA.
The Ides Have It
MYLES KENNEDY — THE MAN WHO ONCE AUDITIONED FOR LED ZEPPELIN — TALKS US THROUGH THE BLISTERING PENTATONICS AND VINTAGE GEAR HEARD ON HIS SECOND SOLO ALBUM, THE IDES OF MARCH
INQUIRER GEORGE THOROGOOD
LONESOME GEORGE TALKS ROOTS, HIS FIRST GUITAR AND THE WONDERS OF THE ES-125
Jurassic Classic
On the 50th anniversary of Electric Warrior, producer Tony Visconti discusses the genius of T. Rex guitarist Marc Bolan
Ernest Ranglin – All Hall The King Of Ska Guitar
The life and times of jamaican guitar legend ernest ranglin
Peter Frampton
The talkbox-toting guitar legend talks new covers album, modded Marshalls and being reunited with his prized Les Paul custom after 30 years
Kirk Douglas
How The Roots guitarist and fallon veteran helped turn the “underrepresented” sg into a jack of all trades
GRETA VAN FLEET
BATTLE READY CAN ONE OF ROCK’S MOST POLARIZING YOUNG BANDS ONCE AGAIN SILENCE CRITICS WITH THEIR CINEMATIC NEW ALBUM, THE BATTLE AT GARDEN’S GATE? GUITARIST JAKE KISZKA AIMS TO FIND OUT
GLORY ROAD
IRON MAIDEN’S ADRIAN SMITH TEAMS UP WITH RICHIE KOTZEN TO TAKE A BLUESY, HARD-ROCKING SIDE TRIP
THE NEW WAVE OF CLASSIC ROCK
OUR GUIDE TO 15 “NEW WAVE OF CLASSIC ROCK” ACTS THAT ASPIRE TO THE GREAT GUITAR HEIGHTS OF THEIR FOREBEARS (OR SIMPLY, 15 KICKASS GUITAR BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT!)