Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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Mercury Rising • IMAGINE DRAGONS GUITARIST WAYNE SERMON ADDRESSES THE RICK RUBIN-PRODUCED MERCURY – ACTS 1 AND 2, AND HOW HE STILL GETS HIS GUITAR-SLINGER KICKS WITHIN A TIGHT POP/ROCK SETTING

Eddie 9V • A BLUES TRAVELER GOES BACK TO 1969 AND RETURNS WITH A MODERN TAKE ON A CLASSIC SOUTHERN SOUND

John Primer • THIS SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO VETERAN — WHO HOLDS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING MUDDY WATERS’ LAST LEAD GUITARIST — STEPS OUT ON HARD TIMES

MY PEDALBOARD DOUG MARTSCH • WHAT THE BUILT TO SPILL MASTERMIND SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Kamelot • THOMAS YOUNGBLOOD ON THE MAKING OF THE AWAKENING — AND THE JOY OF HAVING SOME EXTRA FRETS TO BITE INTO

Narrow Head • THE HOUSTON-BASED ALT-METAL/SHOEGAZING PEDAL PUSHERS PUT ON AN IMMERSIVE TONE CLINIC ON THEIR LATEST RELEASE,MOMENTS OF CLARITY

Hannah Murphy • GREEN DAY, WEEZER AND BLINK-182 ARE GREAT AND ALL, BUT THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ, FREDERICO MORENO TORROBO AND MANUEL PONCE

TRAVELIN’ BAND • JOHN FOGERTY REFLECTS ON HIS CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL-ERA GEAR — AND THE LONG-AWAITED RELEASE OF THE BAND’S FAMED 1970 ROYAL ALBERT HALL SHOW

TRUTH BE TOLD • MEGADETH MAIN MAN DAVE MUSTAINE DISCUSSES HIS SIGNATURE GIBSON LES PAUL, HIS INFLUENCE ON METALLICA, THE LEGACY OF COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION — AND WHO GETS HIS VOTE FOR MEGADETH’S BEST-EVER GUITARIST

Farewell to the Guv’nor Jeff Beck 1944–2023

EMOTION & COMMOTION • A HORDE OF GUITAR STARS OFFER THEIR PERSONAL TRIBUTES TO A FALLEN HERO, JEFF BECK

Heart Full of Soul • IN THIS CANDID, TRUTHFUL AND PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW, JEFF BECK REVEALS THE BLUES BEHIND HIS 1999 COMEBACK ALBUM, WHO ELSE!

Guitar Shop • A CLOSER LOOK AT 10 OF JEFF BECK’S MOST HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT AND PERSONAL FAVORITE GUITARS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER

Deep Impact • A LOOK AT THE OFTEN-OVERLOOKED RECORDINGS THAT REVEAL JEFF BECK’S GENIUS AND VISION

Beck’s on Tap • JEFF BECK’S 12 GREATEST STUDIO COLLABORATIONS

Shapes of Things • Four guitar tricks you can learn from Jeff Beck’s blossoming late-Sixties-era style

Living Colors • HOLOGRAM MICROCOSM

Three Cheers • VICTORY AMPS V1 SERIES: V1 COPPER, V1 DUCHESS AND V1 SHERIFF

Maximum Overdrive • KERNOM RIDGE OVERDRIVE

Buzz Bin EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

OBLIQUE WORKOUT, PART 2 • More fun with oblique bends

TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 1 • The 1954 Les Paul goldtop with P90s

DYNAMIC EXPRESSIONS • How to play “One Last Time,” part 1

DEEP POCKET • Laying solo lines into the groove of “Pusher”

“LOVE BITES (SO DO I)” • Halestorm As heard on THE STRANGE CASE OF…

“BREATH” • Breaking Benjamin As heard on PHOBIA

“PIECE OF MY HEART” • Janis Joplin As heard on JANIS JOPLIN’S GREATEST HITS

1975-PRESENT ROLAND JC-120 • CATEGORY: COMBO AMPLIFIER