The New York Dolls on Working With Todd Rundgren

Oct 1,2009
YOU COULD CALL IT A HOMECOMING OF sorts, as Todd Rundgren had produced the New York Dolls gritty debut album in 1973. But ’Cause I Sez So [Atco]—the second release by the reconstituted Dolls, as led by original vocalist More...

Green Power Billie Joe Armstrong Drives Green Day in New Directions on 21st Century Breakdown

Nov 1,2009
GREEN DAY’S ASCENDENCY FROM THE PUNK SCENE at Berkeley, California’s, small but notorious 924 Gilman Street Project to becoming the mega-selling rock act they are today, somehow implies that the three members— drummer Tré More...

Gary Moore Remembered

May 1,2011
SINCE GARY MOORE’S TRAGIC PASSING ON FEBRUARY 6, 2011, most news items have run some variation on the following: Moore was a guitarist from Belfast who was best known for playing in Thin Lizzy before gaining notoriety as a More...

The Mermen39s Jim Thomas on Heavenly and Heavy Tones

Jun 1,2010
“I PLAY A ’90S STRATOCASTER WITH TWO JAZZMASTER PICKUPS and a P-90 between them, strung up with set of GHS strings, gauged .013 to .060. The two output jacks on the guitar send the Jazzmaster pickups to the preamp of a More...

Lamb of God

Jan 10,2007
ASK ANY MUSICIAN, and they’ll tell you flat out that genre labels are a drag—useless idioms that limit something (namely, musical creativity) that should otherwise be boundless. Ask most music journalists, however, and they’ll More...

Geoff Pesche on Abbey Road Online Mastering with mp3 audio

Feb 27,2010
We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track, More...

Stone Sour

Feb 1,2011
‘‘For this album I wanted to push us in a bit of a different direction than we had been going,” explains Stone Sour guitarist Jim Root. “We spent so much time trying to do the opposite of Slipknot, we started losing sight of what More...

101 Forgotten Greats & Unsung Heroes

Feb 1,2007
It’s no secret that the talent, technique, and creative force of magnificent and awe-inspiring guitarists runs deep. And going deep doesn’t mean studying only the obvious guitar heroes. You have to get out on the fringes, and More...

Nigel Bennett

Aug 1,2009
TRUE PUNKS DO NOT AGE GRACEFULLY. THE snotty little tossers of Britain’s class of 1976 are middle-aged men now, but they still play raw, loud, and fast, and with such intensity that the barrage screeches at the edge of More...

Editor Boy39s Big Eight April 2010

Apr 1,2010
GUITAR PLAYER INVITES all D.I.Y. artists and bands to share their guitar skills with our reader community. This opportunity is open to any player/band with a Web site or MySpace page that has their music posted. All you More...