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Different Shades of Blue

BLUES ACE KIRK FLETCHER TAKES US DEEP INTO THE HEART OF HIS NEWEST RELEASE, THE APTLY TITLED MY BLUES PATHWAY

BLACK and WHITE and ED ALL OVER

EDDIE VAN HALEN WAS DOWN-TO-EARTH AND AS COOL AS F*@K — BUT HE WAS ALSO A GENIUS. THIS IS WHY.

Eddie Van Halen – A Farewell To The King

Chris Gill, who interviewed - Eddie Van Halen 15 times between 1995 and 2016, offers a heartfelt tribute to one of the greatest guitarists the world has ever known

Allman Betts Band

The proud inheritors of the Allman Brothers’ Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley prove to be more than chips off the old block

THREE'S A CHARM

Sir Paul McCartney returns with his third self-titled album

SCHOOL'S IN...

...says bassist extraordinaire Damian Erskine as he launches his new bass education portal

WILL POWER

Austin-based Bonnie Whitmore returns with a bass-packed new album—and some serious food for thought...

RAW POWER

There is no band like AC/DC. There is also no bassist like Cliff Williams. “Jazz makes me feel kinda twitchy,” he confesses to Joel McIver

JACKSON Minion JS1X and SQUIER Mini Precision

Small but perfectly formed, these affordable bass guitars bring a touch of fun-sized charm to the table—but can they compete with their full-grown siblings, asks Joel McIver

GOING SUPERNOVA

Nova Twins bassist Georgia South brings a huge tone—and attitude—to modern rock music. We find out (partly) how it’s done

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...