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October 2020

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October 31
- Producer Profile: Kiah Gossner
October 30
- Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell look back at America's remarkable 50-year career
- Mini-humbuckers: exploring the tonal magic of Seth Lover's 'other PAF' humbucker
October 29
- Fantastic Negrito: "I try to keep some of that ugliness in there – it’s very organic"
- Jon Gomm: “It's inevitable that when I write a new song I'm going to have some ridiculously complex way of playing it“
- IDLES: "We always dreamed of having such huge setups… we get giddy every time we look at our guitar rigs!"
October 28
- Guitar World has a long history of uniting guitar legends – as evidenced in these classic covers
- Cory Wong on 10 key tracks from his extraordinary run of funk guitar albums
- Zach Myers: “Brent told an audience of 2,500 people that we were making a double album… it was the first I'd heard about it!”
October 27
- Nile Rodgers: “Bernard Edwards hated my sound with a big fat jazzy guitar… he talked me into buying a Strat!”
- Why Canada is home to some of the world's most exciting hard-rock guitar players
October 26
- Steve Morse: ”I don’t plan out my solos. It’s not really a solo if you do!”
October 23
- Gibson Flying V: the futuristic electric guitar that was ahead of its time
- Deep Sea Diver: "I wanted the guitar to be more natural on this record, because what I was saying was truer and lyrically stated”
October 22
- Firewind: "This is the most complete Firewind record to date"
- Paul Kossoff's 'Stripped Top' 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard up close and personal
- Jah Wobble on his 5 essential bass albums
October 21
- L.A. Witch's Sade Sanchez: ”People can’t go out, so this is a perfect time for everybody to learn how to play the guitar”
- Australian Guitar's Fresh Frets: Vol. 5
October 20
- Robby Krieger: "I always like to be really near the amp, to keep the dynamics going between guitar and amp"
- Diesel: "I’ve been fascinated with the whole idea of suburbia since we moved from the place I grew up in..."
- 15 of the greatest all-star guitar teachers
October 19
- Brad Gillis on his modified Strat, working with Gary Moon and that time he bought a wig for Ozzy Osbourne
- Larkin Poe: “Be tenacious. If you really want to learn how to write good songs, you gotta do it and do it again“
October 18
- Asking Alexandria: "We were all very much under the impression that this record was going to be a step in a positive direction"
October 16
- The secrets behind Buddy Guy's tone on Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
October 15
- Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant album review
- Producer Sterling Winfield on the making of Pantera's final album, Reinventing the Steel
- Fender CEO Andy Mooney: “When that article came out with the headline ‘Guitar is dead’, that was the definition of fake news”
- Kirk Hammett reflects on Peter Green's legacy: "You could put Oh Well or Green Manalishi up against the first two Sabbath albums"
October 14
- How Barefaced Audio revolutionized the guitar cab
- Eric Johnson: “Prioritizing perfectionism is not how you make emotionally meaningful music“
- Chic bassist Jerry Barnes: “I use Bernard's chucking, but not like him… I’m trying to keep from bleeding!“
October 13
- Make Them Suffer: "We’re capable of doing any kind of sound we want"
October 12
- The greatest guitar songs of the 21st century
- 7 electric guitars that can also handle acoustic sounds
October 11
- Enter Shikari: "We did the whole second half of the recording with one guitar and one amp sim, because the sound we got from them was just so good"
October 9
- Alex Edkins: "You come up with your own guitar chord palette. There are five or six shapes that shaped the sound of Metz"
- Fender American Acoustasonic Stratocaster vs PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo
- What were Guitar World's first-ever tab transcriptions?
October 8
- Spotlight: Oli Leimbach of Lime Cordiale
- The story of Paul Kossoff's 'Stripped Top' 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard
- Kramer Original Collection 2020 review round-up
- Michael Manring: “I’ve come to believe the bass may have more capacity for altered tuning than any other instrument“
October 7
- Everything you need to know about Gibson Non-Reverse Firebirds
- Eddie Van Halen discusses his early influences and groundbreaking technique in his first Guitar World interview from 1981
October 6
- Eddie Van Halen goes deep on the playing and tone secrets behind 10 iconic Van Halen tracks
- CD Review: Ocean Alley - Lonely Diamond
- Troy Van Leeuwen: "People think you need all this extra distortion – if your amp’s loud and you get the speakers to move, that’s how you sound huge"
- Bright Eyes: "Getting guitar sounds is about how you employ gear, how you hear it and react, all of the little micro things"
October 5
- 8 things to expect when you start learning the guitar
- Al Joseph: "It’s easy to learn techniques – it’s harder to make the guitar sing"
- Jessica Elalouf: “Being fancy is fun, but timing, technique, and grooving is most important to me“
October 4
- Custard: Fresh ’N’ Funky
October 2
- The history of Martin's earliest acoustic guitar designs, from the 1800s to the early 1900s
October 1
- Megan Washington: The Most Bountiful Harvest
- Dion DiMucci: "Blues is a tradition. But it’s a living tradition. It’s not dead. It’s a handing-down and passing-on"
- Geoff Tyson on the big gear questions, 20-kilo guitars and his Frankenstein “hodge-podge“ Strat