“I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, and they gave me a guitar. It pissed me off”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/jeff-baxter-first-guitar

“I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting y’all”: Grace Bowers has quit YouTube over the number of “old ass creeps”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/grace-bowers-quits-youtube

Trying to trade for one of these Lichtlaerm Thorn distortion pedals. Excited to try a new-to-me heavy distortion circuit. I am also in the “distortion is distortion and listeners may not hear small differences” but I enjoy gear so this is just a little treat for myself.

https://youtu.be/LjLmQAtC4Yg

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LICHTLAERM AUDIO x AMENRA - Thorn Pedal | Evil Greed

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“Danny Gatton and Jimmy Bryant have the otherworldliness that I saw in Dimebag Darrell and Randy Rhoads”: Baroness shredder Gina Gleason on 75 years of the Fender Telecaster, the magic that binds its players, and why it works for metal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/gina-gleason-fender-telecaster-75th-anniversary

“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/nuno-bettencourt-new-favorite-player

“The neck is as thin as Gibson could go without the liability of it snapping”: Jake Kiszka talks us through his new Gibson SG signature, a devilishly thin-necked beast built to galvanize the next generation of rock kids

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/jake-kiszka-gibson-sg-standard-signature-model

“I said that if we’re gonna make another Lamb of God record, it’s really gotta be worthy of being in the catalog we’ve created. That sets the bar high”: Willie Adler and Mark Morton take us inside metal’s premier riff machine

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/lamb-of-god-into-oblivion

“I thought, ‘What am I going to do? I'm almost 50 years old … I thought, ‘Maybe Starbucks? They'll probably take somebody with no experience & I can just learn how to do it.’ And that's when Jeff called it” #NelsCline #Wilco #guitarists #GuitarSky #music #MusicSky www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...

“I was so poor. I was pushing ...
“I was so poor. I was pushing 50 years old. I thought, ‘I might have to get a job again’”: Guitar wizard Nels Cline was about to get a day job before Jeff Tweedy changed his life and asked him to join Wilco

Cline was about to look at alternative income streams before Tweedy came out of the blue and asked him to join Wilco

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“I talked my folks into buying me a plane ticket to London. I took my guitar and some songs, and I ran into some people…” How the Beatles launched the career of one of the all-time great songwriters

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/james-taylors-beatles-break

“I had a two-neck guitar, then Steve Vai came out with his three-neck guitar. My label wanted me to challenge Steve to a duel”: Michael Angelo Batio on the origin of his four-neck guitar

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/the-origins-of-michael-angelo-batios-quad-guitar