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    The Lickerish Quartet, or Joining a Threesome With My Friends

    The Lickerish Quartet, Threesome Vol. 1 Genre: Pop, Alt Rock Musicianship: Songwriting: Production & Engineering: Vibe: Overall Rating: Get ready to celebrate the much-needed antidote ...
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    2019 Year In Review

    Music Picks for 2019 Musical Instruments and Recording Gear Picks for 2019 (below) Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year As 2019 comes to an end ...
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    Eric Gillette: The Neal Morse Band's 7-String Guitar Hero

    Eric Gillette plays the guitar with surgical authority, and on the surface, it’s easy to draw parallels to his most obvious influence, John Petrucci. He ...
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    Pete Thorn: In His Own Words

    We’re breaking form for this one. Typically, this is where you’d read a detailed intro about our subject. A bit of background. A bit of ...
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    Pete on Pete Thorn II: A Track-by-Track Breakdown

    “Combining superior technical skills with an ear for gorgeous tone and the gift of superb songwriting, Pete Thorn II sets the bar astonishingly high for ...
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    Nita Strauss: In the Eye of the Storm

    Passion, joy, and great love for the guitar vie for attention every time Nita Strauss takes the stage. At first glance she looms larger-than-life, then ...
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    The Phil X Factor

    Photos by: Ceól Photography, Linda Wake-Garza Photography, Heather Donovan Photography, and Alice Kordsmeier For Phil X, it started like any typical day would at Henson Studios in Los ...
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    Paul Gilbert: Defying Gravity

    It's hard to be guitar player into hard rock and not have at least some passing familiarity with Paul Gilbert's playing and lineage. At the ...
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    The Top 40 Under-appreciated Guitarists of the 1980s ...who didn't receive the press recognition they ...

    Every musician’s magazine routinely publishes a list of the greatest guitarists known to mankind. Some are reader polls where you vote on names from a ...
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    Dweezil Zappa: Dweezil Zappa (solo), Zappa Plays Zappa

    Why You Should Know Him Son of legendary rock guitarist Frank Zappa, guitarist Dweezil Zappa grew up in close proximity to the spotlight, however over ...
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