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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24 Strings Blazing • INDIAN SLIDE GUITAR MASTER DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA HONORS HIS HERITAGE ON THE SOUND OF THE SOUL

INQUIRER PAUL DEAN • THE LONGTIME LOVERBOY GUITARIST ON THE PERILS OF BIKER BOOTS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SONGWRITING

Ayla Tesler-Mabé • ALTHOUGH SHE’S NOT OPPOSED TO COMPROMISING, THE LUDIC (AND EXCALPURNIA) GUITARIST IS LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF HER DEBUT SOLO EXPERIMENT

Jesus Piece • NOT EVEN A STUDIO FLOOD (AND OTHER MYSTERIOUS CHALLENGES) CAN STOP THIS PHILLY METALCORE QUINTET

Bruce Kulick goes Back to School • IN 1985, THE FUTURE KISS GUITARIST TEAMED UP WITH MICHAEL BOLTON — YES, THAT MICHAEL BOLTON — FOR SOME HARD-ROCKING TUNES, ONE OF WHICH WOUND UP IN RODNEY DANGERFIELD’S (AWESOME) 1986 COMEDY

Drain • TALK ABOUT LIVING PROOF THAT GUITAR IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE RUMBLING WORLD OF HARDCORE

The Classless of ’23 • CLASSLESS ACT GUITARIST DANE PIEPER CHRONICLES THE RISE OF A ROCK ’N’ ROLL JUGGERNAUT

Ally Venable • BESIDES A NEW STUDIO, NEW BAND AND NEW MINDSET, THIS YOUNG TEXAN’S LATEST ALBUM BENEFITS FROM SOME PRETTY INCREDIBLE GUEST APPEARANCES BY BUDDY GUY AND JOE BONAMASSA

Chris Duarte • THE TEXAS BLUES PRO’S LATEST EFFORT IS A STUDY IN RAW, IN-THE-MOMENT FIREWORKS. “THERE WAS NO OVERTHINKING,” HE SAYS

Liturgy • RAVENNA HUNT-HENDRIX PUTS IT BEST: “I THINK OF LITURGY AS ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CREATED WITH THE TOOLS OF A METAL BAND”

MY PEDALBOARD GRAYSON STEWART • WHAT THE NORMA JEAN GUITARIST SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

NEWS + NOTES

NEIL GIRALDO • Pat Benatar’s right-hand man (and husband) on how he wound up with Jeff Beck’s pickups, his approach to singable guitar solos — and why being listed among the generally unsung greats ain’t so bad after all

“WE HAVE A SICKNESS — IT’S CALLED ‘GUITAR PEDALS’!” • How the ambient music of Hammock is created — a “guitar symphony” with tons of effects but no rules

HOT FUZZ • 10 recent-vintage fuzz pedals — in pretty much every price range — that’ll help you nail everything from George Harrison’s buzz-saw “What Is Life” tone to stoner metal bliss à la Electric Wizard and Fu Manchu

AMERICANA’S GUITAR GODFATHER • THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ZAL YANOVSKY OF THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL

PANTERA GOES WYLDE • Celebrated Texas metallers PANTERA are back for a gangbuster world tour — with Black Label Society’s ZAKK WYLDE filling in for the late ’n’ legendary Dimebag DarrellIs it a reunion or a tribute? Who cares! If you ask Zakk, it’s simply a celebration of the music, spirit and legacy of his fallen brother. Behold the fiery return of the Cowboys from Hell!

FAR BEYOND DRIVEN • THE INIMITABLE ZAKK WYLDE DISCUSSES HIS THOUGHTS, HIS APPROACH AND HIS GEAR AS HE HONORS HIS MUCH-MISSED FRIEND WITH REVERENCE AND RESPECT

BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME SOLO? • WHEN ZAKK WYLDE NEEDED A HAND WITH SOME OF DIMEBAG’S GUITAR PARTS, WHERE DID HE TURN? TO OLA ENGLUND’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL, OF COURSE

DIMEBAG’S CHAMPION • GRADY CHAMPION, DIME’S FRIEND AND GUITAR TECH, TALKS ABOUT THE PANTERA CELEBRATION SHOWS — AND HIS ROLE IN THE MAELSTROM

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