February 2024

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The Guitar Player's Bible

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My Generation
Future Publishing Limited, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath, BA1 1UA Telephone 01225 442244 Email [email protected] Online www.guitarist.co.uk I think my first introduction to The Who was way back in 1970 when a school friend played me the Live At
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Editor’s Highlights
Epiphone’s latest collaboration with Joe Bonamassa is another stunner with the tones and playability to match p18 Joe Pass was an amazing performer and soloist whose albums are masterclasses in the fine art of playing jazz guitar p76 Mark Knopfler be
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EDITORIAL ART EDITOR Darren Phillips [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Lucy Rice [email protected] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jamie Dickson [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR David Mead [email protected] CONTENT DIRECTOR, MUS
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Latest Flame
We loved the all-American version of the Maroon 5 guitarist’s signature model on first meeting it back in 2016. The more affordable Indonesian-built Sterling By Music Man JV60 followed two years later and was pretty much a Southeast Asian take on tha
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One More Time…
Introduced back in 2010 at that year’s winter NAMM Show, Blackstar’s HT Venue series of mid-priced combos and heads quickly established the company as the go-to brand for working players at all levels. Seven years later in 2017, we were among the fir
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Red Devil
The first decent guitar that this reviewer put his pennies away each week for was a white SG Custom, inspired by Alice Cooper’s original guitarist Glen Buxton on the band’s rendition of Under My Wheels on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The SG never mater
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Rack ’Em Up
Tuned by Jeorge Tripps to deliver the sort of iconic soundscapes created by vintage rack-style processing, so says MXR, the Joshua Ambient Echo features rhythmic delays with an optional second echo, modulation, octave voicing on the repeats and tap t
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Digital Vintage
While the digital revolution continues to advance, it’s also true that not every guitarist wants to give up their prized valve amp. Fortunately, there are ways of giving even the most vintage and basic valve circuits a new digital lease – and a very
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Vintage V52 ProShop Unique Black Icon with Bigsby £1,199
CONTACT JHS PHONE 0113 286 5381 WEB www.vintageguitarsrus.com This Wishlist section is usually reserved for high-end guitars that few (aside from the very well heeled) can afford. So, what are we doing writing about a Vintage lookalike? Well, a coupl
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Double Dose
If you asked us to describe Beetronics’ range of pedals thus far, the overarching theme would be ‘quirky’. The pedals are not just visually and sometimes physically adrift of the norm, but they can be a little niche in the sonics that they provide, t
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Gas Supply
CONTACT Various WEB See below It’s that time of year again, where we start feeling all festive. Taking time to be with our loved ones, unwrapping all the surprises… No, we don’t mean Christmas (that will have passed, hopefully without incident, by th
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Fretbuzz
Album: Noon (Keeled Scales) Virginia-born Mat Davidson, who goes by the name Twain for his solo work, has a long history of playing with acts such as Big Thief, The Low Anthem and The Deslondes, among others. For Noon – his most recent solo album – h
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Albums
Kscope (available now) 8/10 Earth’s favourite space rockers return with another helping of psychedelia Psychedelic rock has seen many forms over the decades with variety and colour being a driving factor. And within this rich landscape, folk-rock –
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Tones Behind The Tracks
Album: Reasons Why (Independent Release) Many would agree that seeing Ariel Posen live is an unforgettable experience. His understanding of all the elements that go towards creating great guitar tone – whether it be in standard tuning or dropped to t
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A Country Boy At Heart?
Back in the late 90s and early Noughties I was pals with country band Hogan’s Heroes, having booked them for various Guitarist Shows around the UK. Their bassist, the late Brian Hodgson, was already a mate since we’d worked together in country artist
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Pain In The Neck
If you are the owner of an acoustic guitar, the words you never want to hear your luthier utter are ‘neck reset’. These days innovative bolt-on neck designs have become commonplace, but most decades-old handmade acoustics are likely to have tradition
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Change Your Tune
Years ago, I was offered the opportunity to have a Buzz Feiten conversion performed on my acoustic guitar. The process involves installing a new nut with a ‘shelf’ that lips over the end of the fretboard and shortens the distance between the take-off
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Finding Triads
Though various scales and the CAGED chord approach are the broadest overview of the possibilities that exist all over the fretboard, one of the most common issues players face is how to apply this information in a musical context. These patterns can
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Feedback
I’ve been a long time user of Fender guitars, but, as you can see from the enclosed picture [right], things have changed – and it’s all thanks to Guitarist. In edition 504 you published details of the new for 2024 PRS SE guitars. I couldn’t believe h
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Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker 1958 – 2023
KEVIN ‘GEORDIE’ WALKER 18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023 Perhaps Killing Joke’s frontman Jaz Coleman said it best. The guitar playing of his lifelong foil Geordie Walker – who died in November after a stroke at the age of 64 – was “like a fire fr
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Greta Van Fleet
Back in 2018, when Robert Plant was asked which of modern rock’s hot tips he rated, the former Led Zeppelin frontman paid the ultimate backhanded compliment. “There’s a band in Detroit called Greta Van Fleet. Beautiful little singer – and he borrowed
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Joe Pass
Joe Pass was born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua to Sicilian immigrants in New Jersey on 13 January 1929. He acquired his first guitar at the age of nine after being captivated by country legend Gene Autry’s appearance in the 1940 movie Ride, Tend
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Rising Star
CONTACT Cream T Custom Shop PHONE 01695 570023 WEB www.creamtcustomshop.com 1 Cream T guitars, not pickups? Cream T is primarily known as a pickup maker here in the UK, but the company began making guitars, too, initially the Aurora and Crossfire, w
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Modern Moves
CONTACT Gibson WEB www.gibson.com 1 Blimey, Gibson seems to be launching a lot of guitars recently. Are these really new? Yes and no. Since the new regime started in 2019, Gibson has clearly separated its USA guitars into Original and Modern Collect
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Star Trek
For a guitar design that evolved from the late 70s and was a very big part of the 80s, the super-S never really went away, although it does seem to be enjoying quite a revival with its typically HSS or HSH pickup configuration. Alongside brands that
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Kick Like A Mule
Resonator guitars occupy an unusual place in guitar mythology. Nearly all players find them attractive as iconic designs – and it’s hardly a surprise as they not only conjure up the world of pre-war Delta Blues but also troubadours of the rock era su
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Focused FX
CONTACT Universal Audio WEB www.uaudio.com 1 What’s this – more UAFX pedals but smaller? Yes, that’s about the size of it. These are the first in a new compact series that each sport an individual selected effect type taken from their larger-footpri
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Neville Marten
What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money? “In 1970 I worked in a corrugated-cardboard factory in Chelmsford as a machine setter/operator. I didn’t smoke, drink or take drugs and, since I earned good money, I saved up every we
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Huw Price’s Nitty Gritty
In very simple terms, compressors are like automatic volume controls that kick in when the input signal exceeds a preset level. Then, once the input level has fallen back below that threshold level, the compressor resets itself and ceases to have any
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Time Warp Tales
As we’ve documented before in The Mod Squad, building a guitar today is pretty simple. Buy a kit from StewMac and, with a few basic tools and some of that modding knowledge you’ve accrued, you can build your own T, S or J-style on your living-room ta
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Rock Of Ages
As with many things these days, head to YouTube and you’ll find a reactionary video about almost any topic – and this is especially true when it comes to guitar speakers. You’ll hear stories about how a certain speaker from 1997 sounds best if it was
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Blues Headlines
Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Haynes Inflection & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty | 15 mins per example IN THIS ISSUE, I hope to demonstrate just a few of the different skills used by Jimi Hendrix that made his playing so fascinating and impossible to cat

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