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Volume 17 Issue 5 May 2012
lESSonS
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kick out the Jams
Donna Grantis
Fingerstyle Workout
Doug Wamble
Beyond Blues
Corey Christiansen
Shred your Enthusiasm
Paul Gilbert
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Vintage Vault
19Opening Notes
Photo by Jim Summaria
colUMnS
dEPARTMEnTS
gIggIng & REcoRdIng
48 Ask Amp Man
Resuscitating a Sound City
Concord Combo
50 Mod garage
Fender Esquire Basics
52 The Bass Bench
Cheap and Easy Bass Mods
VIn TAgE & UPkEEP
54 Bottom Feeder
SX Hawk MN P90
56 Vintage Vault
1962 Fiesta Red Fender Jaguar
58 Trash or Treasure
Supro Brentwood
60 Restoring an original
Restoring a 1963 Gibson EB-OF
Fuzztone Bass
on ThE coVER Music Man Steve Morse Signature model (photo by Mike Murray
Studios), and DragonForce (photo by Jukka O. Kauppinen).
opening notes
letters
news
Staff Picks
PG editors and Middle Class Rut’s Zack
Lopez give advice for summer gigging.
30 Media Reviews
The Cult: Choice of Weapon Plus:
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ned Evett,
The Mars Volta, and Prester John
166 new Products
168 gear of the Month
1966 Fender Mustang, 1961 Fender
Princeton, and Vintage Gibson Maestro
Fuzz-Tone FZ-1A
170 Modern Builder Vault
Xylem Handmade Basses and Guitars
176 last call
When is a Song Finished?
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