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Artist Interview
Animals as Leaders: A Different Breed
by Joe Charupakorn
Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes—Animals as Leaders’ jaw-dropping dualguitar
team—live up to their name and create a new progressive-rock
beast by cross-breeding jazz, classical, and metal techniques in a way
that simultaneously blows your mind and defies the genre’s stereotypes.
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Artist Interview
Brent Mason: A Chameleon in Tune Town
by Joe Charupakorn
nashville session ace Brent mason
discusses his new recording how-to dvd,
his heavily modified ’68 Tele workhorse,
and how sight-reading can sometimes
make him “sweat blood.”
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Builder Profile
Builder Profile: Top Hat Amps
by Sean Weaver
Founder and designer Brian Gerhard discusses how being a player and paying attention to such minutia as speaker glue, transformer size, and filtering has made his amps go-to choices for everyone from Los Lobos to My Morning Jacket and studio aces like Michael Landau.
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Esoterica Electrica
Building Blocks of Sound
by Jol Dantzig
Compared to choosing a guitar for its
color, commissioning a custom instrument
can be a labyrinth of unknowns for the
average guitarist.
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Builder Profile
Eight Decades of Rickenbacker
by Charles Saufley
There is no denying Rickenbacker’s status as one of the four or five most important electric guitar companies of all time.
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Artist Interview
Mark Evans: Power Load
by Rich Osweiler
Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans discusses his new
tell-all book—Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside AC/DC—
and gives us the lowdown on what it was like to take over
4-string duties from Malcolm Young and lay down the low
end on some of the most raging rock tunes ever recorded.
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Style Guide
Style Guide: Acoustic Blues Guitar web exclusive
by Mike Cramer
Today we’ll look at three types of bass lines that help define the sound of three sub-styles of fingerstyle blues: monotone bass, alternating bass, and boogie-woogie bass.
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