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Gallery: Riot Fest 2018

We cherry-picked the essential guitar-centric happenings from Chicago’s three-day celebration, including performances from Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Incubus, Weezer, Bad Religion, Jesus Lizard, and more!

Dan Root

The Adolescents’ Dan Root

Sometimes you just don’t need much more than a hot bridge pickup and some attitude—both shown here with Adolescents’ guitarist Dan Root digging into his SG Jr. with a single Lace ’bucker.

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