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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GUITAR WORLD

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Global Warning • TEN YEARS AFTER IMPRESSING METALLICA WITH THEIR VIRAL COVER OF “ENTER SANDMAN,” THE VILLARREAL VÉLEZ SISTERS ARE ON TRACK TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM

MY PEDALBOARD SERENA CHERRY • WHAT SVALBARD’S RESIDENT SHREDDER SEES WHEN SHE LOOKS DOWN

Seth Lee Jones • BUILDING AND RESTORING GUITARS HAS CAUSED THE TULSA BLUES-TWANGER TO FIND SOME IMPRESSIVE NEW WAYS TO PLAY

John Mayall: Blues Crusader • THE GODFATHER OF BRITISH BLUES LEFT US IN JULY AT AGE 90. HERE’S A LOOK AT HIS MANY ACHIEVEMENTS, TRIUMPHS AND ESSENTIAL RELEASES

In the Studio with Anthrax • SCOTT IAN AND JONATHAN DONAIS: “WE WANT THIS NEW RECORD TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE”

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE! • In the Seventies, the guitar didn’t just come of age — it took over the music world. Welcome to the creation of heavy metal, Southern rock, glam, punk, funk, AOR, prog and a million, billion other genres!

BEST ’70S SOLOS, RIFFS and FORGOTTEN HEROES • A horde of guitar stars — including Warren Haynes, Doug Aldrich, Sophie Lloyd, Frank Marino, Vernon Reid and Mike Campbell (not to mention Blackbyrd McKnight, Jared James Nichols, Steve Lukather, Steve Morse and Charlie Starr) — choose the best stuff from the ’70s

DAZED and CONFUSED • Providing more hits and misses than a vintage K-Tel Top 40 compilation, the guitar industry during the ’70s was anything but boring

JOE PERRY • The iconic guitarist looks back on Aerosmith in the Seventies, the decade that literally made and — at least temporarily — broke apart those Bad Boys from Boston

PAT TRAVERS • The Canadian-born virtuoso discusses the rise and fall of the Pat Travers Band, witnessing the U.K. punk revolution and the riotous roots of “Snortin’ Whiskey”

DEWAYNE “BLACKBYRD” McKNIGHT • The jazz/funk/fusion veteran on his smooth segue from Herbie Hancock sideman to full-on Funkdaledic member — plus his ’70s gear and what he learned from Shuggie Otis

FRANK MARINO • The Mahogany Rush frontman charts the band’s Seventies lows and highs, plus SG’s, pickups and how he was definitely not visited by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix

GEORGE TERRY • It turns out Eric Clapton’s Seventies guitarist (and co-writer of “Lay Down Sally”) also played on ABBA’s “Voulez-Vous.” Below, he looks back on a decade-plus of E.C., Bee Gees, Diana Ross and more

CARLOS ALOMAR • The former David Bowie guitarist talks Young Americans, Station to Station and the Berlin Trilogy, plus recording (and co-writing) “Fame” with John Lennon

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TC Electronic TC 2290P Dynamic Digital Delay

Vox V846 Vintage and Real McCoy Wah pedals

PICKIN’ ON THE RANGE • More bluegrass-style alternate picking for rock

CLAPTON: THE GIBSON YEARS • E.C.’s iconic playing in the Bluesbreakers and Cream

TRAIN OF THOUGHT • Laying down a country/blues-inspired “train beat” rhythm part

SOLO HOOK • Revisiting hooks from a...