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Milestones Around Our Necks

Guitar Player • Vol. 54 No. 11 NOVEMBER 2020

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Are You the Guitarist of the Year? • Enter 2020’s biggest guitar-based talent search and let our star judges — including John Petrucci and Kaki King — decide!

My Life in Five Riffs • Sadler Vaden reveals the source of his classic-rock-influenced riffage.

Beauty and the Buzz • On Mind Hive, Wire make a glorious noise.

All-Terrain Guitar Hero • Stunt guitarist to the stars, Vernon Ice Black reflects on what it takes to be both a solo artist and a genre-hopping studio pro.

My Career in Five Songs • Bach transcriptions, power chords and grasshoppers. Steve Morse reflects on inspired tracks from his long career.

Gold Rush • Once dismissed for their budget-guitar origins, Rowe/DeArmond gold-foil pickups are now coveted for their tone.

Better Compression • Keep your guitar signal lively with frequency-selective compression.

Green Energy • Fleetwood Mac closed out the Peter Green era with an album for the ages.

PLAY WITH FIRE • The Rolling Stones’ 1969 American tour was a showcase for the group’s new guitar tandem of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor. It made rock and roll shows bigger, louder and more spectacular than ever. But success came with a body count.

THE KEEF ’BURST • Owned by both Richards and Taylor, this LP Standard is legendary.

THE ‘YA-YA’S’ GUITAR • Mick Taylor’s 1958 Les Paul ’Burst got a cover spot on the Stones’ 1969 U.S. tour album.

The SUPER NATURAL • A singer, songwriter and leading guitarist in Britain’s 1960s blues boom, Peter Green possessed otherworldly tone and talent. In this previously unpublished 2003 interview, he discusses his life and music, and the demons that short-circuited his promising career.

MR. WONDERFUL • The stars pay tribute to Peter Green.

DOUBLE IMPACT • Two legendary players. Two near-mythical Les Pauls. Two all-time-great blues albums. Between 1965 and 1967, Eric Clapton and Peter Green blew through John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and lit the fuse of the British boom. This is the true story of the greatest handover in blues history.

Daring Adventures • STEPHEN MALKMUS CHALLENGED HIMSELF TO UNPLUG. THE RESULT IS TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES, AS URPRISING MIX OF A COUSTIC FOLK AND MUTED PSYCH-ROCK.

INDIE JONES • Stephen Malkmus picks five fab discs from his alt-rock canon.

TOGETHER ALONE • Molly Tuttle turns the loneliness of lockdown into a rewarding home-recording experience on…But I’d Rather Be With You.

Chord Soloing, Jazz Style, Part 1 • Master the beautifully musical style of soloing with chords, just like the jazz greats.

Marr’s Attacks • Blur the lines between lead and rhythm playing with arpeggiated chords, open-string licks and unusual chord progressions in the style of Johnny Marr.

Path to Finger Freedom • Part 3: How to pluck without a pick.

Fender • LEAD II AND LEAD III

Ernie Ball Music Man • LIII HH

Charvel • PRO-MOD DK22 SSS 2PT CM

Mesa/Boogie • CLEO, DYNAPLEX AND GOLD MINE

Fender • FULLERTON JAZZMASTER UKE

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“Runaway Boys” • Brian Setzer riffs on the Stray Cats’ hit debut single.