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Standing Tall

Best known for his playing with the progressive rock act Jethro Tull, the late Glenn Cornick knew his way around a fretboard like few others...

Queen Of The Groove

In 1963, A-list studio guitarist Carol Kaye walked into a recording session and was asked to fill in for an absentee bass player. Little did she, or anyone else, know that they were about to create history...

MAYONES Federico Malaman Jabba Mala 5

Our pal Federico Malaman has a new signature bass out, courtesy of Mayones. Mike ‘The Hutt’ Brooks delivers a fully-featured assessment

Liverpool Lad

Unlike the question of drummers, there was never any question about who the best bass player in the Beatles was. We salute the Knight Of The Realm, the one and only Paul McCartney

His Master's Brew

Tim Bogert, the bassist’s bassist, has enjoyed a career like few others. No wonder he was such an influence on our Guest Editor...

FENDER American Ultra Jazz and Precision

Yet more Fender P and J variants, you say? Let’s see what Stuart Clayton has to say, in this in-depth first look at the new Ultra series

By The Yard

The best-dressed bass player of all time? We salute the sometime Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith

BASS OF TOMORROW

Blurring the line between artist and luthier, Parizad Hatcher brings creativeness and know-how to her stunning basses. Hywel Davies investigates

AUDIENT: Sono Amp Modelling Audio Interface

A ‘plug and play’ audio interface for recording and modelling that is simple to use. Interested? Brooksy is

THE WIZARD OF OZZY

How 29-year-old ANDREW WATT — Post Malone producer and former California Breed guitarist — got an ailing OZZY OSBOURNE off the couch and into the studio to make Ordinary Man, a “life-saving” new album that co-stars Tom Morello, Slash, Duff McKagan and Chad Smith

Still Noisy After All These Years

FORMER SONIC YOUTH BASSIST/VOCALIST/GUITARIST KIM WILSON BREAKS DOWN HER SOLO DEBUT, A TRULY WILD RIDE CALLED NO HOME RECORD

Salvaged Sweetness

TAYLOR GUITARS BUILDER’S EDITION 324CE

Olivia Jean

FROM GARAGE BATS TO NIGHT OWLS, THIS QUIRKY ROCK ’N’ ROLLER’S NEW ALBUM IS PACKED WITH ANIMAL MAGNETISM — NOT TO MENTION SOME DANGEROUSLY CATCHY RIFFS

HIGH WATTAGE

ANDREW WATT details his Ordinary Man gear — and that time he took some feedback-related feedback from Tony Iommi

Deeper Horizons

PRS SE HOLLOWBODY STANDARD

BIG GUNS

SLASH AND GIBSON’S CESAR GUEIKIAN TALK US THROUGH THE COMPANY’S UNPRECEDENTED NEW SLASH COLLECTION OF SIGNATURE GUITARS, FEATURING LES PAULS IN APPETITE BURST, NOVEMBER BURST, VERMILLION BURST AND ANACONDA BURST — PLUS (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER) TWO SLASH J-45 ACOUSTICS

BEHIND THERE'S ONE EVERY HELL OF A FAMOUS GUITAR TECH GUITARIST…

GUITAR TECHS WHOSE CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYERS INCLUDE METALLICA’S JAMES HETFIELD, MEGADETH’S DAVE MUSTAINE AND RUSH’S ALEX LIFESON — PLUS THE OFFSPRING, WHITESNAKE, ADELE, SLAYER, HOLE, JOURNEY, DEF LEPPARD, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA AND SCORES MORE — DISCUSS THE INS AND OUTS OF THE JOB, SURVIVAL ON THE ROAD AND LIFE 20 FEET AWAY FROM STARDOM

Andy Gill (1956-2020)

REMEMBERING GANG OF FOUR’S POST-PUNK GUITAR ICON

ADAM “NERGAL” DARSKI

When he’s not leading Polish extreme metallers Behemoth and agitating religious conservatives across the globe, he’s spinning eerie tales in his dark blues side project, Me and That Man. But what GW readers really want to know is... Interview by

TONGUE TWISTER

Three decades after its release, Steve Vai takes you inside the making of Whitesnake’s Slip of the Tongue, the album that sent the band into uncharted territory

Young Retro

I used to be the one that reached out to a radio station, now they reach out to me.

TUPAC

23 YEAR DEATH ANNIVERSARY

SONNA Rele

international Musical Artist

KAT TAT

Tattoo Artist /Owner of enigma Beverly Hills

ROCCSTAR

Life of a Rockstar

Micky MUNDAY

I’ve been really close; like really close to success. So it’s just kind of like the next step of that so I like my story shit.

DAPHNIQUE SPRINGS

Instagram celebrity

Amina Buddafly

The craziest thing was we planned one time when I was actually filming the show Love & Hip-Hop for her to go to work for me and act like she was me but we never did it.

AARON FRAZIER

I got paid doing a full feature movie for two weeks.

Sophie Allison – “Inside, I'm Still So Blue”

Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, is a little bit country and a little bit goth.