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March 2022

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March 31
- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: Justice For The Damned
- King Garbage's Zach Cooper details his tricked-out Coopercaster hybrid guitar setup: “The potential for the hybrid rig is such a deep well”
- AC/DC's Angus Young: "I liked the SGs because they were light. I tried Fenders but they were too heavy and they just didn't have the balls"
- Steve Vai on how Frank Zappa inspired him to design the Ibanez JEM – and why the Japanese guitar builder succeeded where others failed
- Yard Act's Sam Shipstone and James Smith trace the origins of their unconventional post-punk sound
- Michael Romeo: “There’s always some Randy Rhoads in what I do, but I throw in a little Van Halen, too”
- Luna Li: “When I got the J Mascis Squier Jazzmaster, it felt like the first time I fell in love with a guitar”
March 30
- Justus West on forging a successful career playing guitar with a producer’s perspective – and how it all started with a venomous spider bite
- PRS USA Silver Sky vs SE Silver Sky
- Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer: “I try to keep the chords as simple as possible and push things in the layering”
March 29
- Lost Symphony’s Benny Goodman and Nuno Bettencourt on the making of an all-star guitar hero album
- Zach Myers on Shinedown's new album, Planet Zero: “It's the sound of a band in a room playing rock 'n' roll – I think a lot of our fans missed that”
- Ibanez Tube Screamer vs Boss Blues Driver: which is better?
- Nova Twins’ Amy Love on recording Supernova, a synth-sounding riot of guitar, bass and drums
March 28
- Black Country, New Road’s Luke Mark on the time signature sleight of hand and ‘hacked’ Fender guitars behind the band's new album, Ants From Up There
- Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan: “I’m a perfectionist – I will rip a song apart until it is done”
- Midnight Oil: “There’s a generational shift that’s happening, and I can feel it in the water”
March 25
- Fender vs Squier: what’s the difference?
- 12 highlights from Ibanez’s remarkable 50th anniversary Custom Shop Collection
- Bradley Hall: “It's nice that people enjoy my playing as well as my comedy – my goal has always been to have a good mix of both”
- 11 crazy guitarist signature products that have nothing to do with guitar
- At the Gates on creating new nightmares, orchestral influences and the evolution of an iconic death metal sound
- How the Vox AC30 Twin found a voice of its own and became a British amp classic
- Camp Cope: “I really wanted to make something that I would like enjoy listening to”
March 24
- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: In Hearts Wake
- Glenn Tipton looks back at 50 years of triumph and tragedy in Judas Priest
- Cobra Kai star Billy Zabka on his love of ’80s rock, jamming with Robert Downey Jr. and the time Eddie Van Halen gave him a guitar lesson
- How Gibson unearthed a 1957 Ted McCarty sketch and turned it into a new guitar shape for 2022, the Theodore
March 23
- Steve Vai offers a guided tour of his favorite guitars
- Joey Santiago: “The non-traditional sounds I get are just the way I attack the guitar. When we play Vamos, I’ll hit my amps, bite my strings – I just go bananas”
- Curse of Lono’s Felix Bechtolsheimer: “Punk and Pink Floyd showed me there was so much more to say in a song than ‘I love you, baby’”
March 22
- Jazzmaster vs Jaguar: what's the difference between these iconic Fender offsets?
- Joshua Travis on his love of rhythm guitar: “I’ve always wanted to hit you hard. Lead playing doesn’t hit me like that – it doesn’t punch you in the face”
- Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux: “If I limited myself to Black music and black metal, I’d end up painting myself in a corner”
March 21
- Slash: “When I play fast, it really is an energy thing. I would actually like to tone it back sometimes, but I get so taken away!”
- Dianthus guitarist Jackie Parry on balancing soloing with songwriting and how classical piano informs her guitar approach
- The 30 heaviest guitar albums of all time
- Totally Unicorn: “Who doesn’t want to see a bunch of pasty white boys in their thirties trying to be sexy?”
March 18
- Cory Wong: “Most people know me as a rhythm player with a clean sound. But I’ve been playing lead guitar since I was a kid, too”
- The secrets behind B.B. King’s guitar tone on The Thrill Is Gone
- Bakers Eddy: “We’re trying to escape from the whole 'lad band' scene”
March 17
- "All we ever wanted to do in this band is kick people's ass": The Smashing Pumpkins on '80s Marshalls, epic guitar arrangements and their essential pedals
- Beach Goons’ Pablo Cervantez: “Jose Feliciano is untouchable for flamenco, but he’s an amazing rock guitarist, too”
March 16
- Star One’s Arjen Lucassen: “I really felt I needed to do a heavy, guitar-oriented album again. That’s in my blood”
- Thunder’s Chris Childs on his 5 best bass albums
- John Reis details his approach to guitar playing: “Rules are important – you need to know how to do something in order to know how to f**k with it”
March 15
- Slash: “I was always turned on by rock ’n’ roll bands that had that raw kind of spirit”
- Live Review: UNIFY Gathering, Gippsland 11/03/22
- How Jeff Loomis channeled charred earth to design his new Jackson signature 7-string – and why he's afraid of learning theory
- Buffalo Nichols: “As a teenager, I was more into metal and punk. Skip James always felt heavy and haunting, and I connected with metal in that same way”
March 14
- Puscifer's Mat Mitchell: “Songwriting is like playing a three-way game of chess. What you do next is based on what the other player does”
- The Darkness: “We just see how far we can get before the solos go flying off the edge of the cliff”
March 11
- Burnt Sugar’s Jared Michael Nickerson: “I’ve never been a two-fingers bass player... Most of my recording career is based on plucking with my thumb”
- How Gibson’s Byrdland took flight and bridged the gap between traditional jazz boxes and electric solidbodies
March 10
- Boston's Tom Scholz: “I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things... somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else"
- When Frank Zappa shut up ’n’ stopped playing guitar
- How Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson wrote the perfect score for Netflix blockbuster series Cobra Kai
March 9
- Warren Haynes: “I go into a project hoping to do no overdubs. It rarely works out like that, but I feel like all my best parts are when I’m playing live with the band”
- Geese’s Gus Green and Foster Hudson on turning dad rock influences into their urgent NY post-punk guitar sound
- Steve Gunn: “I’ve played Fenders from the '50s, pre-CBS, and there’s an energy in the wood. There’s a lot of magic in older guitars”
March 8
- Matty Took of PLANET: “We just tried different things out and had fun”
- Mélissa Laveaux talks luthiers, representation and her "Pretty Woman moment" with Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar
- Guitar pedal jargon buster: all the essential guitar effects terms explained
- Yvette Young: “I never really felt like I got good on guitar. The way I spend my time is still very much based around improving”
- Remembering Michael Nesmith (1942-2021)
- Ty Tabor: “I developed my entire sound and style around one type of guitar pick. If I use a different one, I can’t get the same tone”
- Malina Moye: “Your mindset is the most important thing on tour, starting from the plane ride to get to the bus“
March 7
- 50 guitars that changed the world
- Emily Wolfe: “Modern pop songs are immediately stuck in your head. To me, that’s the point. I would defend pop music to my grave”
- When Rivers Meet talk cigar-box electrics, playing blues on mandolin, and ditching Americana for gloves-off rock ’n’ roll
- Phil Thornalley recalls playing bass on The Cure's Love Cats: “I’m sure jazz players feel like crying whenever they hear that line!”
- Spotlight: Joe Mungovan
March 4
- "I try not to put pressure on myself and the instrument": John Frusciante talks soloing, theory and the benefits of home recording in 2009 GW interview
- "I like to approach every track and every solo I do with an open mind": David Gilmour discusses his blues influences, Steinbergers, his oft-imitated tone and more in 1988 GW interview
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 333
- Paul Pigat: “I took a little lesson from AC/DC on the solos for this record: to make the solo completely different from the rest of the song”
- The secrets behind East Bay Ray’s guitar tone on the Dead Kennedys’ Holiday in Cambodia
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 356
March 3
- Jim James: “I wanted to create a guitar where people could be like, ‘Who the f**k is Jim James? I don’t really care, I just love this guitar!’”
- Andy Summers: “One of the things I loved about playing in The Police was that it was all guitar all the time! But it needed someone like me to fill that out”
March 2
- The 25 greatest rock guitar albums of 1982
- Kira Roessler: “I don’t think I understood how physical an instrument the bass guitar is until I was in Black Flag”
March 1
- Cam Baines of Bodyjar: “We thought we had a good album, but we ended up scrapping about half of it”
- Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell: "I see my guitar playing as a blessing, after years of seeing it as a hindrance – the way I play is unlike anyone else"