“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.
“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
“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind
“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
“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
Cline was about to look at alternative income streams before Tweedy came out of the blue and asked him to join Wilco
“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
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