INQUIRER TROY MCLAWHORN

NOT JUST THE BILLIE JOE SHOW

VOL. 45 | NO. 3 | MARCH 2024

SOUNDING BOARD

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Serious Art Rock

HOW TOOL’S ADAM JONES CHANNELS HIS PASSION FOR VISUAL ART INTO THE ADAM JONES LES PAUL CUSTOM ART COLLECTION

Cannibal Corpse

ERIK RUTAN AND ROB BARRETT DELIVER PLENTY OF HELLISH SHRED AND HARMONIC TENSION ON CHAOS HORRIFIC

One Bad M.F.

“I HOPE THE TRADITIONAL GUITAR SOLO DIES A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH.” GW CATCHES UP WITH MIGHTY MARTY FRIEDMAN

George Harrison and the Hamburguitar

GRETSCH, RICKENBACKER, FENDER … HAMBURGUITAR? IN THE BEATLES’ MID-NINETIES ANTHOLOGY ERA, GEORGE HARRISON'S GUITARS OF CHOICE WERE BUILT BY A MAN NAMED BERNIE HAMBURGER

Phantom SG Junior

PHANTOM PLANET FRONTMAN ALEX GREENWALD SHARES THE BIZARRE TALE OF HOW HE RECONNECTED WITH HIS LONG-LOST EPIPHONE

Helmet

PAGE HAMILTON BRINGS STACCATO STABS OF FEEDBACK, AVANT-GARDE SHOEGAZE AND TWISTED BLUES TO THE NYC ALT-METALERS’ LATEST

Mary Timony

THE FORMER HELIUM AND WILD FLAG D.C. ROCKER CAN STILL UNLEASH SOME DECIDEDLY UNTAME SOUNDS

Denny Laine (1944-2023)

THE GUITARIST WHO CO-WROTE McCARTNEY’S BIGGEST ’70S HIT

SOUND CHECK

UAFX Lion ’68 Super Lead Amp pedal

Ernie Ball Music Man Luke 4 SSS

MUSIC MAN RELEASED its first Steve Lukather signature

Stage Right by Monoprice SB100 100-Watt All-Tube Two-Channel Guitar Amplifier with Reverb

CHEAT SHEET STREET PRICE: $487.49 MANUFACTURER: Stage Right

Buzz Bin Revv Amplification Tilt Boost

NOT ALL BOOST pedals are created equal. Of

Squier Paranormal Custom Nashville Stratocaster

TEMPTATION, THY NAME is Squier. Over the last

SING THE SONG, PART 3

More on mimicking vocal melodies

SHOUT OUT

Tools of the Trade, Part 12, and how to play “I Want to Shout About It”

NEXT LEVEL

Building a powerful arrangement, and how to play “Ghost of You,” part 2

CUFF’EM

Applying “handcuffs” as a soloing device

Performance Notes

HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS

C. 1958-PRESENT GIBSON ES -335

CATEGORY: SEMI-HOLLOW ELECTRIC GUITAR

EDDIE MARTINEZ

The NYC session great recalls his time with Run-DMC, Blondie, David Lee Roth and Robert Palmer. He also sets the record straight about exactly who played the “Addicted to Love” guitar solo (Hint: It was Eddie Martinez!)

Citizens of Planet Marr

In a new book, SMITHS great Johnny Marr traces his entire career through the prism of his amazing collection of guitars. Why don’t all our guitar heroes do this?

WHISPERS IN THE ECHO CHAMBER

CHELSEA WOLFE and BRYAN TULAO break down the dark, swirling masterpiece that is SHE REACHES OUTTO SHE REACHES OUTTO SHE

FIRST KISS

EX-KISS LEGEND ACE FREHLEY TAKES A STRUT DOWN MEMORY LANE

pure ORANGE extract

CODE ORANGE’S REBA MEYERS AND DOM LANDOLINA SHIFT LANES WITH THE ABOVE (WHILE STEVE ALBINI AND SMASHING PUMPKINS’ BILLY CORGAN COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE)

PUNK TO THE RESCUE!

GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG REVEALS THE ORIGIN STORY BEHIND SAVIORS, THE PUNK SUPERHEROES’ FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS, AND LOOKS BACK ON THE MAKING OF 1994’S DOOKIE

BURST ONTO THE SCENE

— or, at least, the mainstream scene — 30 years ago with Dookie, the multi-platinum monster of a record that was largely responsible for dragging punk rock out of cramped clubs and dingy DIY venues and into the world of sold-out arenas, glossy magazine covers and nearconstant radio and MTV rotation. And while the trio — singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool — remain by far the most commercially successful punk band in history, they’ve also spent the last three decades taking a torch to any conventional ideas of what punk actually is.

PUNK ROCK OPERA

BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG RECALLS THE MAKING OF GREEN DAY’S MONUMENTAL COMEBACK ALBUM, 2004’S AMERICAN IDIOT

THE BYRD THAT SOARED

How TED NUGENT accidentally destroyed — and later gave away — his first GIBSON BYRDLAND

LAND O’ PLENTY

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE GIBSON BYRDLAND

“DON’T BACK DOWN”

Mammoth WVH

“DON’T THINK TWICE , IT’S ALL RIGHT”

Eric Clapton

“FOLSOM PRISON BLUES” (LIVE , 1968)

Johnny Cash