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    Author: guitarworld

    “There are better players, better lyricists, better songwriters – but there’s an energy to their combined powers that is hard to rival at the moment”: The best guitar albums of 2024

    There is something for everyone in Guitar World’s albums of the year, but especially surprise. While there are chops across the board, virtuosity at all…

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    guitarworld December 23, 2024
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    “This bridge is a work of art”: Tim Commerford’s new Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay is a love letter to the pawnshop bass that shaped the first Rage record – and it’s uniquely primed for his playing style

    Ernie Ball Music Man has unveiled a new signature guitar for Tim Commerford, which serves as an ode to the bassist’s beloved pawnshop StingRay that…

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    guitarworld December 23, 2024
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    “The door burst open. It was James, who was late and had come into the wrong room. He started listening and said, ’No, no, that's not the way you do it,’ and grabbed my EB-3”: Jack Bruce on his chance meeting with Motown hit-maker James Jamerson

    Ask any bass-playing great of the last 50 years who their heroes are, and you can bet that James Jamerson will feature high up the…

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    guitarworld December 22, 2024
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    “I have a hair tie around the nut of my bass, and I pull it up to the 17th fret”: Just when we thought he’d settled into his routine as a bass superhero, Victor Wooten pulls out another surprise: a 25-cent hair tie?

    Record company owner, songwriter, producer, book author, magician, acrobat, naturalist… oh, and a wonderful bassist, too. Victor Lemonte Wooten has certainly packed in the adventures…

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    guitarworld December 22, 2024
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    “He stuck his head out and said, ‘Can you give me a ride home?’ Next thing I know, I’m driving Frank Zappa to Laurel Canyon”: When cult guitar hero Rob Fetters went to pick Adrian Belew up from a Zappa rehearsal – and ended up giving his idol a lift

    Through various stints with power pop outfits The Raisins, The Bears and psychodots, Rob Fetters – who has also navigated a successful solo career –…

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    guitarworld December 21, 2024
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    “There’s not a bad note on Rio. Everything just came together for that album”: Duran Duran’s John Taylor breaks down the group’s landmark album and how it inspired his signature bass

    Whether you liked it or not, in 1982 the British pop world was in thrall to the New Romantics. Perhaps the musicians were just too…

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    guitarworld December 21, 2024
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    “Ron played bass like John Entwistle – he was definitely into that kind of rhythmic gallop”: When Ron Asheton switched from guitar to bass, Iggy and the Stooges recorded their most influential record

    If the feel-good grooves of Detroit’s Motown Records in the swinging ’60s had the world dancing in the street, the raw power of the Motor…

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    guitarworld December 21, 2024
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    "With a unit this affordable, are the effects any good? Yes! They really are": Zoom MS-50G+ Multistomp review

    What is it? (Image credit: Olly Curtis / Future) The Zoom MS-50G+ is a compact pedal offering guitarists 100 different effects, including overdrives, reverbs, fuzzes,…

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    guitarworld December 20, 2024
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    Guitar modes lesson 1: The Ionian mode is the same as the major scale – here’s what makes it work

    Guitar modes lesson 1: The Ionian mode is the same as the major scale – here’s what makes it work – YouTube Watch On The…

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    guitarworld December 20, 2024
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    “One of our best-selling pedals for over a decade with an updated feature set”: Electro-Harmonix responds to sky-rocketing looper competition with the Pico 360+ – can this mini looper take the crown?

    In case recent releases haven’t made the current state of the looper pedal market competitive enough, Electro-Harmonix has now dropped a teeny version of its…

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    guitarworld December 20, 2024
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