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NEWS
28 2 Guitar Building
Courses, iPhone Apps
On The
Cover:
Cover Illustration by: Ben Otis
Featured guitar: Artist’s rendering,
Gibson Moderne concept guitar
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DEPARTMENTS
16 Opening Notes
Tal Wilkenfeld and Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Rory
Gallagher, Eric Johnson, Alex Skolnick
26 Reader Feedback
35 Mesa/Boogie
Electra-Dyne
Total Simplicity Meets Tonal Firepower
Gigging + Recording
42 Tone Tips From the Road
Peter Stroud
Effects Loops
44 Shifting Gear
Rich Eckhardt
Let’s Jump into the Fire
46 On Track
Rich Tozzoli
It’s Baffling!
48 On Bass
Steve Cook
The Best $20 Ever Spent
72 Guitar Tracks
Mitch Gallagher
Stellar Guitar Recordings
Tech Tips
50 Acoustic Soundboard
Bob Taylor
Guitar Tasting Tips
52 Mod Garage
Dirk Wacker
Stratocaster Tone Split Mod
54 Ask Amp Man
Jeff Bober
Speaker Loads and Overheating Amps
56 Stomp School
Tom Hughes
Getting Your Gear Fix in a Down Economy
58 Speaker Tone Center
Tony Pasko
Speakers: 40% of Your Tone
36 June Media Preview
Pickin’ Like Chet, From the Basement,
King’s X, Jazz Chord-Melody, The Black Keys
40 Hot Links
178 Contest Winners
180 Highlights from
The Gear Page
Vintage + Upkeep
60 Trash or Treasure
Zachary Fjestad
Gibson ES-295: To Refinish or Not to Refinish?
62 Restoring an Original
John Brown
Black Lighting a ’ 59 Fender
64 The Low End
Kevin Borden
Meet the Neighbors
66 Vintage Vault
Tim Mullally
Spring Cleaning
And Don’t Miss ...
68 Jazz Guitar Hardball
Jim Bastian
Forward Steps in Melodic Soloing: Part 1
70 Fierce Guitar
Greg Howe
As The Notes Burn
192 Last Call
John Bohlinger
A Race to the Bottom
Eye Candy
176 New Products
182 Guitar of the Month
Specimen Products Maxwell Custom
184 Gear Search Gallery
Grosh Guitars ’ 59 Spec Set Neck Model
186 Modern Builder Vault
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