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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Purple Pro • DEEP PURPLE GUITARIST SIMON McBRIDE ON THE BAND’S NEW ALBUM, TAKING THE REINS FROM STEVE MORSE AND HOW HE PLAYS “SMOKE ON THE WATER”

MY PEDALBOARD STEVE MORSE • WHAT THE DIXIE DREGS, KANSAS AND DEEP PURPLE VETERAN SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Jimi Hendrix, a Space Odyssey • IN A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL, THE GUITARIST IS REINVENTED AS A SPACE TRAVELER AND POLITICAL FIGURE WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE BIGGEST ROCK STAR IN THE GALAXY

LOST CLASSICS: Helmet • PAGE HAMILTON REVISITS THE MAKING OF THE NYC ALT-ROCKERS’ NOW-BELOVED 1994 CURVEBALL OF AN ALBUM, BETTY

The Last Dinner Party • LEAD GUITARIST EMILY ROBERTS ON THE ETHEREAL TONES SHE CONCOCTED FOR ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING DEBUTS YOU’LL HEAR THIS YEAR

McKinley James • WHY ALL YOU REALLY NEED IS A GUITAR, A DRUMMER AND SOME SERIOUS LOW-END SIX-STRING SKILLS

Absolution Blues • JIMMY PAGE’S 10 GREATEST NON-LED ZEPPELIN GUITAR SOLOS

Creatures of the Night • A BRIEF HISTORY OF KISS’S SESSION GUITARISTS

Kittie • GUITARISTS MORGAN LANDER AND TARA McLEOD DISCUSS THE CANADIAN METAL POWERHOUSE’S UNEXPECTED REBIRTH — BY FIRE!

Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse • HOW A CORNISH AXMAN AND A NEW ORLEANS CHANTEUSE ARE FORGING A FRESH BLEND OF BLUES

TUNE-UPS NEWS + NOTES

VICTORY AMPS • With notable users including Guthrie Govan, Richie Kotzen, Chris Buck and Bill and Brent from Mastodon, VICTORY has gone from strength to strength since launching just over a decade ago

ERIC BAZILIAN • The Hooters frontman/guitarist talks gear, massive Eighties success, his one-take “All You Zombies” guitar solo and forging hits with Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne and Mick Jagger

dc UNIVERSE • CARLOS O’CONNELL — half of the rapidly rising Irish rockers’ twin-guitar attack — discusses the importance of space in a mix, the finer points of his Fender Rory Gallagher Strat and why the band’s singer played what just might be the best guitar solo on their new album, Romance

FIRE STORM • MATT PIKE and JEFF MATZ discuss the lead-up to — and aftermath of — HIGH ON FIRE’s latest release, Cometh the Storm, an album that couldn’t have come at a better time for the Oakland metal masters

SAVING Savatage • In 1994, following the death of Criss Oliva, their brilliant young guitarist, reeling Tampa metallers Savatage enlisted then-ex-Testament man ALEX SKOLNICK for an album and tour.Although his time with the band was brief, it would have a lasting impact...

CONVERSATION PIECE • ALEX SKOLNICK remembers the late Criss Oliva’s favorite guitar, a custom ESP MIRAGE known as “the Gargoyle”

PHISH RENAISSANCE MAN • AS THEY CELEBRATE THEIR 41st YEAR TOGETHER, PHISH ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR RENAISSANCE — AND THE BAND IS JUST ONE OF FRONTMAN/GUITARIST TREY ANASTASIO’S MANY PROJECTS. IN THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND INTERVIEW, TREY DISCUSSES HIS MUSICAL REBIRTH, CREATIVE PROCESS, INTENSE PRACTICE REGIMEN AND SO MUCH MORE

A LIVE ONE • AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO TREY ANASTASIO’S LIVE RIG, COURTESY OF HIS TECH, JUSTIN STABLER

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