TABLE OF CONTENTS > LESSONS & DEPARTMENTS
LESSONS
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Digging Deeper
By Ben Allison
Groove is in the Heart
The Rumble Seat
By Janek Gwizdala
Five Essential Techniques
for Bass
Beyond Blues
By Bruce Saunders
Major Chords, Minor Blues
Shred Your
Enthusiasm
By Paul Gilbert
Reticulated Python Eats Bear
Rhythm & Grooves
By Andy Ellis
Running in Circles
DEPARTMENTS
Opening Notes
News
Letters
Staff Picks
PG editors and Guest Picker Audley Freed
discuss instruments they’d like to learn to play.
34 Media Reviews
DVDS: Deep Purple’s Phoenix Rising
ALBUMS: Tony MacAlpine’s Tony MacAlpine,
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman World Wide
Rebel Songs, and David Bromberg’s Use Me
BOOKS: Tony Bacon’s Flying V, Explorer, Firebird
212 Gear Search Gallery
2010 Jackson PC1 Phil Collen Signature
214 Guitar of the Month
Late-’70s “Blade II” Les Paul Copy
216 Modern Builder Vault
Alexander James Guitars
224 Last Call
By John Bohlinger
You’re Out of Tune (But That’s Okay)
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ToneNation Heartland Standard review
204
Ampeg Portaflex review
189
By Dave Rogers, Laun Braithwaite,
and Tim Mullally
1952 Gibson L- 5
62 Trash or Treasure
By Zachary R. Fjestad
Heritage Super Eagle
64 Restoring an Original
By John Brown
Evaluating a ’ 72 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe
66 The Low End
By Kevin Borden
Gibson Basses—A primer in EB
(That’s Electric Bass to You)
