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Aretha's Son's War Over $80m Will Eating Up Cash!

Lawyers are BIG winners – for now

Bagaduce Chorale Presents Christmas Extravaganza

Just in time for Christmas, the Bagaduce Chorale will present a program of holiday music.

Doing Diplo

The DJ-mogul-cowboy-dad is all grown up and ready to party.

Punk In Theory

PUP’S STEFAN BABCOCK AND STEVE SLADKOWSKI TALK BIZARRE TIME SIGNATURES AND MORBID STUFF, ONE OF 2019’S BEST PUNK ALBUMS

Perpetual Motion Machine

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE REMAIN A FORCE FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED DESPITE A NEW DISGUISE

Orchestral Manoeuvres

While You’re Hanging Your Stockings By The Chimney With Care, Trans-Siberian Orchestra Are Criss-crossing The Country With Their Deluxe Yuletide-themed, Prog-rock Extravaganza. In This Exclusive Interview, Guitarists (And Musical Directors) Chris Caffery And Al Pitrelli Talk Tso And Touring Christmas Eve And Other Stories

Golden ‘Grams - The Rise (And Shine) Of Instagram Guitarists

Regardless of how you feel about the ever-increasing (and often distracting) role social media plays in modern life, Instagram has inarguably been a massive boon to guitar culture over its near-decade in existence.

Shifting Gear

FROM AVANT-GARDE ELECTRICS TO AFFORDABLE ACOUSTICS, MINI AMPS TO MIGHTY APPS, COATED STRINGS TO BRILLIANT BRACINGS AND BEYOND, GUITAR WORLD REVISITS A DECADE OF UNBRIDLED INNOVATION.

Sleater - Kinney

In the wake of drummer Janet Weiss’ surprise departure, guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein discuss gear, songwriting and their latest album, the St. Vincent produced The Center Won’t Hold.

Michael Schenker's Revelations

WHETHER HE’S TALKING ABOUT THE SCORPIONS, UFO, HIS NEW ALBUM OR THE “DISTORTION OF HIS IMAGE,” THE GERMAN GUITAR LEGEND IS AS CANDID AS EVER.

Instrumental Values

Fishman Tripleplay Connect

Class Acts

A Rundown Of The Explosive Playing Styles Of Our Top-four Cover Stars — Mark Tremonti, Tosin Abasi, Gary Clark Jr. And Nita Strauss.

10'll Getcha 20: The Guitarist Of The Decade

Guitar World’s Readers And Writers Band Together To Pinpoint Guitardom’s Most Vital Players Of The Past 10 Years.

TARPS ON THE FIELD

Used in various shapes, sizes, and colors, tarps help marching groups transform the football field into their own stage.

SPIRIT & SYNERGY

With formations of giant stick figures doing the “floss,”

THE DRUM MAJOR LIFECYCLE

From aspiring hopeful to drum major, from student to teacher, and from motivated to motivator, a drum major grows by leaps and bounds during her time on the podium with the University of Delaware and with the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The University of Southern California ( U S C )Trojan Marching Band (TMB) has many nicknames:

REVIEWING GAME DAY SECURITY

Safety first! Both host and visiting bands must join forces with administrators and security personnel to create a positive event experience.

Markbass Little Mark Vintage Amp

Italy’s kings of bass amplification serve up a new recipe, incorporating a valve preamp for added low-frequency goodness. Mike ‘Gordon Ramsay’ Brooks hooks up some cabinets, and prepares his taste buds

Yamaha Attitude 3

Round three for Billy Sheehan’s wondrous signature Yamaha. Stuart Clayton prepares his tapping fingers

Watt Prevails

Bassist for a generation of punk rockers, symbol of perseverance against the odds, winner of Bass Player ’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and pioneer of the less-is-more ethos—just take a look at his signature bass—Mike Watt is that rare bassist: one of a kind. We take a meeting with the sometime Minuteman

Low End Of Love

Joe Shooman signs off each issue by celebrating an iconic bass guitar This month: The Hagström Super Swede

Life Begins...

...at 40! We visit Chris May of Overwater Basses for a look back across four decades of low (and high) frequencies

High Score

Stanley Clarke is known for his work in many musical fields. We talk to him in this issue about his career as a composer for film and television… and where the bass fits in

Giving It Away

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary needs no introduction, thanks to his genuinely iconic status in our world—but you’ll read about another side of the great man in his new autobiography, Acid For The Children. Joel McIver goes deep with the spokesman for an entire generation of bass players

Bassist Of The Year 2019

At the London Bass Guitar Show UK back in September, we crowned the winner of this year’s Bassist Of The Year competition, in association with Orange Amplification. It was a close-run contest between our three finalists, who were chosen by Robert Trujillo, Stuart Hamm, Joe Dart, and Mark King—but in the end the victor was Leo De Santi, whose performance narrowly outdid the equally talented runners-up Marine Courtin, and Andreas Oxholm. All of them took home a much-deserved haul of Orange bass gear, but before they headed off to celebrate, we got interviews out of them!

A-Mazed

Claudia McKenzie of 4th Labyrinth ended up as a bass player by accident—but it yielded results, she tells us

NAJEE-Center Of The Heart

It’s almost as if he needs no introduction. He’s achieved the honor and reached the status of having a name that identifies him simply using two syllables, Najee.

MATTHEW WHITAKER-NOW HEAR THIS

“Here’s a fun fact, on the first day of recording the music in the studio, my manager and I were thinking about it, you know, and it just came. It’s like, “’m out the box now, what can I do? I want people to hear what I wanted to musically say."

MARCUS JOHNSON

Marcus Johnson, a resident of the District of Columbia, is an award-winning, Billboard chart-topping, NAACP Image Award-nominated jazz pianist, entrepreneur, and self-empowerment activist.