LOOK HOW CONFUSED I WAS IN THE SEVENTIES...

THERE WAS JUST too much going on, guitar-wise,

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!

In the Seventies, the guitar didn’t just come of age —it took over the music world. Welcome to the creation of heavy metal, Southern rock, glam, punk, funk, AOR, prog and a million, billion other genres!

BEST ’70S SOLOS, RIFFS and FORGOTTEN HEROES

A horde of guitar stars — including Warren Haynes, Doug Aldrich, Sophie Lloyd, Frank Marino, Vernon Reid and Mike Campbell (not to mention Blackbyrd McKnight, Jared James Nichols, Steve Lukather, Steve Morse and Charlie Starr) — choose the best stuff from the ’70s

DAZED and CONFUSED

Providing more hits and misses than a vintage K-Tel Top 40 compilation, the guitar industry during the ’70s was anything but boring

JOE PERRY

The iconic guitarist looks back on Aerosmith in the Seventies, the decade that literally made and — at least temporarily — broke apart those Bad Boys from Boston

PAT TRAVERS

The Canadian-born virtuoso discusses the rise and fall of the Pat Travers Band, witnessing the U.K. punk revolution and the riotous roots of “Snortin’ Whiskey”

DeWAYNE“ BLACKBYRD” McKNIGHT

The jazz/funk/fusion veteran on his smooth segue from Herbie Hancock sideman to full-on Funkdaledic member — plus his ’70s gear and what he learned from Shuggie Otis

FRANK MARINO

The Mahogany Rush frontman charts the band’s Seventies lows and highs, plus SG’s, pickups and how he was definitely not visited by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix

GEORGE TERRY

It turns out Eric Clapton’s Seventies guitarist (and co-writer of “Lay Down Sally”) also played on ABBA’s “Voulez-Vous.” Below, he looks back on a decade-plus of E.C., Bee Gees, Diana Ross and more

CARLOS ALOMAR

The former David Bowie guitarist talks Young Americans, Station to Station and the Berlin Trilogy, plus recording (and co-writing) “Fame” with John Lennon

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READER ART OF THE MONTH

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DEFENDERS of the Faith

Domenic Fusca AGE: 54 HOMETOWN: Pittsburgh,

Global Warning

TEN YEARS AFTER IMPRESSING METALLICA WITH THEIR VIRAL COVER OF “ENTER SANDMAN,” THE VILLARREAL VÉLEZ SISTERS ARE ON TRACK TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM

Seth Lee Jones

BUILDING AND RESTORING GUITARS HAS CAUSED THE TULSA BLUES-TWANGER TO FIND SOME IMPRESSIVE NEW WAYS TO PLAY

John Mayall: Blues Crusader

THE GODFATHER OF BRITISH BLUES LEFT US IN JULY AT AGE 90. HERE’S A LOOK AT HIS MANY ACHIEVEMENTS, TRIUMPHS AND ESSENTIAL RELEASES

In the Studio with Anthrax

SCOTT IAN AND JONATHAN DONAIS: “WE WANT THIS NEW RECORD TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE”

Suhr SL68 MkII amplifier head

ONE COULD SPEND a lifetime searching in

Danelectro Doubleneck

WHEN I THINK back to the Seventies, the

TC Electronic TC 2290P Dynamic Digital Delay

CHEAT SHEET STREET PRICE: $349 MANUFACTURER: TC

Buzz Bin Vox V846 Vintage and Real McCoy Wah pedals

THE MOST PIVOTAL guitar effect in 1967 was

PICKIN’ ON THE RANGE

More bluegrass-style alternate picking for rock

CLAPTON: THE GIBSON YEARS

E.C.’s iconic playing in the Bluesbreakers and Cream

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Laying down a country/blues-inspired “train beat” rhythm part

SOLO HOOK

Revisiting hooks from a song’s melody to create a memorable solo

Performance Notes

HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS

A/DA FLANGER

CATEGORY: FLANGER PEDAL

“CLOSER TO THE HEART”

As heard on A FAREWELL TO KINGS

“WHIP IT”

As heard on FREEDOM OF CHOICE

“BAD MAN”

As heard on DIVISIVE