Review: Neunaber Iconoclast Speaker Emulator
GOLD AWARD When Neunaber audio effects named their new speaker emulator “Iconoclast,” they knew that they had produced a truly game-changing product that expanded notions of exactly what a speaker…
Read more »Review: Gretsch Guitars G6128T-53 Vintage Select ’53 Duo Jet
Some of the most highly regarded Gretsch guitar models were the ones released during the Fifties and Sixties, a time many guitar aficionados consider the company’s golden age. Models like…
Read more »Review: Boss Katana-Mini Amp
I used to have a girlfriend who carried her small dog everywhere in her purse. And man, that dog had a bark that would make larger dogs scatter. Come to…
Read more »Live’s Ed Kowalzyk and Chad Taylor Discuss Remastered ‘Mental Jewelry’ Package, Reunion and Band’s Future
The recently reunited, original line-up of Live: Ed Kowalczyk (vocals, guitar), Chad Taylor (guitar, backing vocals), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass) and Chad Gracey (drums, percussion) have recently announced they’ll mark the 25th anniversary of their 1991 debut album, Mental Jewelry, with a deluxe…
Read more »The War on Drugs Gain ‘A Deeper Understanding’ of Their Craft
It’s been three years since Philadelphia-based rock act the War on Drugs released their breakthrough album, Lost in the Dream, though singer, guitarist and songwriter Adam Granduciel has hardly been…
Read more »Chris Robinson and Neal Casal Talk New Brotherhood Album, ‘Barefoot in the Head’
“The real inspiration for this band is what I think of as roots music—which is everything: jazz, bluegrass, rock and roll, funk/soul/R&B, pop, country, blues, Appalachian folk. As a band,…
Read more »A Simple Trick to Creating More Tasty Rhythms
I’ve never understood why one would skin a cat, I just know there’s more than one to do it. The same holds true for playing any chord on guitar. There…
Read more »Wheely Guitars Unveils Guitar for Wheelchair-Bound Players
The Wheely is the world’s first and only guitar specifically designed and built to be played in a wheelchair. The USA-made Wheely (currently, $1,200 direct) offers a patent-pending design enabling…
Read more »Expanding Blues-Scale Licks with the Major Third
In our previous two lessons, we investigated a variety of ways in which to include the major third as an additional note within the structure of the E blues scale…
Read more »Chris Holmes Talks W.A.S.P., Eddie Van Halen, Touring with Metallica and More
He’s best known as the guitarist from Eighties metal mavericks W.A.S.P. and for one particularly iconic drunk-as-a-skunk movie scene, but what Guitar World readers really want to know is… I…
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