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Though Pete Quaife gets credit for jumpstarting the Kinks bass chair, John Dalton and Jim Rodford pushed the band forward on many of their classic albums
From the powerful bass tone on You Really Got Me to 1979’s Low Budget, smart low-end was a key ingredient of the Kinks sound
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown pulled no punches when speaking about his fellow guitar heroes
In a 1992 sit-down with GW, the late blues guitar pioneer offered remarkably frank assessments of some of his sacrosanct peers – among them Chuck Berry, B.B. and Freddie King, and T-Bone Walker
“He said, ‘I've never heard it played that good’”: When Roy Clark met his guitar hero
Speaking to Guitar World in 1984, Clark painted a picture of a master musician who nonetheless remained incredibly humble despite his success, and the massive shadow he cast over country (not to mention folk and bluegrass) guitar playing
Having earned lofty status in bass-hero circles, Marcus Miller lent his vocal chops to Hadrien Feraud’s take on Chick Corea’s India Town
Hadrien Feraud offers a track-by-track guide to his 2015 solo album, Born in the ’80s
Bootsy Collins reflects on James Brown and George Clinton, and what he gets out of playing today
One of the world’s greatest bassists talks switching from guitar, how LSD helped him become a songwriter and why he’s finally embracing five-string bass
Remembering the life and times of Killing Joke’s Geordie Walker
He influenced Kurt Cobain, Metallica, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and counted Jimmy Page as a fan. We pay tribute to a true guitar original
An interview with the late, great Mark Sampson, the trailblazing amp designer behind Bad Cat and Matchless
Just before he died, guitar amp guru Mark Sampson sat down us to discuss his reunion with Bad Cat, and with the storied US amp company's John Thompson, he laid out a future vision for what boutique amps should be
“I’ve never bought a guitar and I’m quite proud of that! I always tell people when they’re learning: there’s a guitar not being played”: Meet Sacred Paws’ Ray Aggs, the dextrous Tele-wrangler inventing new chords and capturing Thurston Moore’s imagination
The self-taught songwriter on their singular six-string path, working with alt-tuning icons Glenn Branca and Thurston Moore, and the shift to big choruses on new album Jump Into Life
Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on befriending Hendrix, booking Chuck Berry and the birth of pedal culture
The EHX pioneer is one of the guitar world's most colorful characters. He tells us what happened when Hendrix bought one of the first Big Muffs, how the Rolling Stones got him started in the pedal biz, and why the "overdesigned" POG3 is an unlikely triumph
