CATEGORIES

GUITAR'S GREATEST LIVE MOMENTS!

From the iconic to the infamous to the (literally) incendiary, we’ve tracked down the absolute wildest on-stage antics in six-string history

Liquid Tension Experiment

SILENCING YEARS' WORTH OF REQUESTS, JOHN PETRUCCI & CO. UNLEASH THE FIRST LTE ALBUM IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES

THE PHANTOM ZONE

BLACK VEIL BRIDES RETURN WITH THE PHANTOM TOMORROW, THEIR FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM IN THREE YEARS. GUITARISTS JAKE PITTS AND JINXX BRING GUITAR WORLD INSIDE THEIR UNIVERSE FOR A CLOSE LOOK AT WHY THE NEW ALBUM MIGHT JUST BE THEIR “BEST WORK YET.”

Tamar Aphek

HOW A FORMER CONCERT PIANIST WAS LURED INTO ROCK — AND GUITARDOM — BY THE SIREN CALL OF DISTORTION

OPEN TO OPTIONS

How to put the open-string chord-voicing prowess of Wayne Krantz to work.

On The Road Again?

Paul Gilbert, the Eagles’ Vince Gill and Zepparella’s Gretchen Menn discuss a shift from boring to touring

Marty Friedman – Beast From The East

On the goosebumps-inducing Tokyo Jukebox 3, shred great Marty Friedman tackles the japanese pop charts: “it’s pretty much straight-up j-pop that I put on steroids”

Doja Cat – Catch Her If You Can

Doja Cat refuses to be dragged down to earth.

GUILD

BT-258E Deluxe 8-string Baritone

NEURAL DSP

Quad Cortex Floor Modeler

TECH EDUCATION

Once an analog man, Lloyd Baggs used digital know-how to revolutionize acoustic amplification with Voiceprint Acoustic D.I.

EARTHQUAKER DEVICES

Astral Destiny reverb

Eventide

MICROPITCH DELAY

Stageworthy Strategies, Pt. 2

Understanding acoustic preamps, D.I.s and digital enhancers.

D'ANGELICO

Excel 59

As Everything Unfolds

Rising UK metallers go for glory on their stunning debut album, within each lies the other

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