Jasmine Star

STRANGE THINGS ARE AFOOT AT THE CIRCLE K

THERE’S A SEMI-CLASSIC Monty Python sketch about the Royal Society

ALL THE MADMEN

Fifty years after its release, DAVID BOWIE bassist TONY VISCONTI recounts the making of The Man Who Sold the World — and the rocking influence of guitarist MICK RONSON

40 GUITARISTS WHO CHANGED OUR WORLD SINCE 1980

EVER SINCE GUITAR WORLD BURST ONTO THE SCENE 40 YEARS AGO — WITH OUR JOHNNY WINTER-FRONTED JULY 1980 ISSUE — WE’VE KEPT READERS UP TO DATE ABOUT THE GUITAR COMMUNITY’S MANY TRENDS, FADS AND FLAVORS OF THE MONTH

STEVE HOWE TRACK BY TRACK

THE YES LEGEND UNCOUPLES FROM THE MOTHERSHIP TO DRIFT THROUGH EVER-SHIFTING LANDSCAPES, BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL, ON HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN NINE YEARS

KVELERTAK

ON THE UBER-DYNAMIC SPLID, NORWAY’S FINEST RETURN WITH THEIR THREE-GUITAR ATTACK, A NEW SINGER AND A NONSTOP ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ASSAULT. BJARTE LUND ROLLAND AND VIDAR LANDA TELL ALL!

GEORGIAN PEACHES AND CREAM

A tribute to Little Feat guitarist LOWELL GEORGE’s tastefully sublime slide guitar playing

SOUNDING BOARD

Just started reading the October 2020 issue featuring the 40-year

Right-Hand Man

FUNK RHYTHM MASTER CORY WONG GOES DEEP ON GEAR, PLAYING WITH VULFPECK AND THE FEARLESS FLYERS — AND HIS UNDYING FENDER STRAT LOVE

WHAT’S ON MY PLAYLIST

Just Slash being Slash, plus a bucket full of a

Swan Dive

CATCHING UP WITH DANCE GAVIN DANCE’S WILL SWAN: “I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE LIAM NEESON HERE, BUT I REALLY DO HAVE A SPECIFIC SET OF SKILLS!”

Onslaught

GUITARIST NIGE ROCKETT EXPLAINS WHY THE VETERAN BRITISH BAND’S LATEST RELEASE — GENERATION ANTICHRIST — IS SUCH A LEAN, MEAN THRASHING MACHINE

DevilDriver

GUITARISTS NEIL TIEMANN AND MIKE SPREITZER DISCUSS THEIR LESS ”SHREDDY” APPROACH TO THEIR NEW DOUBLE ALBUM — AND WHY YOU NEED A 5150 IN YOUR ARSENAL

A Steady Diet of Riffing

IAN MACKAYE OF FUGAZI — AND NOW CORIKY — TALKS HENDRIX AND HARNESSING WHAT YOU HAVE

Kathleen Edwards

AFTER A SIX-YEAR BREAK SERVING UP COFFEE, SANDWICHES AND MUFFINS IN ONTARIO, THIS RESILIENT CANADIAN ALT-ROCKER IS BACK WITH A FRESH NEW RELEASE, THE APTLY TITLED TOTAL FREEDOM

Steve Brown

THE VENERABLE TRIXTER AND (OCCASIONAL) DEF LEPPARD GUITARIST IS HARD AT WORK WITH TOKYO MOTOR FIST, AKA “EVERY MELODIC ROCK FAN’S DREAM, INCLUDING MINE”

Are You the Guitarist of the Year?

CALLING ALL GUITARISTS (AND BASSISTS)! IT’S TIME TO ENTER THE BIGGEST GUITAR-BASED TALENT SEARCH OF THE YEAR! OUR STAR JUDGES INCLUDE JOHN PETRUCCI, JOHN 5, NITA STRAUSS, MATT HEAFY, MOLLY TUTTLE, LZZY HALE AND MORE

Fire Starter

POSITIVE GRID SPARK AMP

Cool Hand Lukas

GIBSON USA LUKAS NELSON ’56 LES PAUL JUNIOR

Thrash Bridges

B.C. RICH SHREDZILLA PROPHECY ARCHTOP WITH EVERTUNE BRIDGE

I GOT RHYTHM, PART 10

Shifting 16th-note accents

FOUR OFF THE FLOOR

Playing 7th-chord arpeggios in four-note sequences

TAKE THE 5TH

Using 5th intervals with open strings

BACKWARD ROLLS

How to perform “backward” crosspicking

NOTATION GUIDE

PERFORMANCE NOTES

HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS

“TOUCH AND GO”

THE CARS | PANORAMA, 1980 | GUITARIST: ELLIOT EASTON | STORY BY CHRIS GILL