Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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The Doobie Brothers are still What’s Happening!!

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Is Baxty the Future? • The 26-year-old YouTuber is tipped as the next evolutionary leap for alternate picking. But can his Satch-bolstered debut album turn “likes” into real-world domination?

Deth Jam • Boasting 36 star players — including a fistful of his fellow Megadeth alumni — Chris Poland’s debut fusion album as Nuclear Messiah has the songs to match the payroll

COVER MODELS

From Dusk Till Dawn • Kurt Vile’s 10th album, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me, was written by night — but the prince of indie-psych tells us these songs chart his journey out of darkness

Commander In Mischief • Co-written with an ex-president and AI, Paul Gilbert’s WROC is the renegade shred concept album that “made it impossible for me to go to the same old places…”

King Tuff • The Vermont rocker talks embarrassing Uber rides and broken headstocks

Amani Burnham • Channeling the old masters but burning down the fingerstyle playbook, this Connecticut bluesman has traded the socials for the studio

Friko • Pairing one-off pedals with lunchbox amps “set to explode,” the indie-rockers’ second album is a masterclass in atmosphere

Jethro Tull • Martin Barre discusses the making of the U.K. prog-folk-rock legends’ transitional third album, 1970’s Benefit

LONG TRAIN RUNNIN’ • On the eve of their summer tour with Carlos Santana, longtime Doobie Brothers guitarists Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons and John McFee discuss their classic songs, working on harmonies — and that nautical term

DOOBIE OR NOT DOOBIE? • Patrick Simmons on why some Doobies weren’t originally gung-go about appearing in those classic 1978 episodes of What’s Happening!!

THE AGELESS WONDER • The Fender Telecaster is 75 years old this year. But, unlike other living legends who lie about their age, the Tele doesn’t look a day over 18

TELEVISION • The Telecaster remained a work in progress throughout the vintage era. We kick off our 75th-anniversary festivities by charting big-bang moments in the model’s construction, controls and electronics

TELE TALK: MIKE CAMPBELL

TELE TALK: GINA GLEASON

TELE TALK: CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM

TELE TALK: GRAHAM COXON

TWICE-TOLD TELES • How a humble 1959 Fender Telecaster became an everlasting icon in the hands of legends Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

FIVE FOR FINDING • The whys and whereabouts of famous Teles (and Esquires) played by Muddy Waters, Syd Barrett, Roy Buchanan, George Harrison and Danny Gatton

JOHN 5'S TOP 5 • The player whose name has become synonymous with Telecasters chooses five favorites from his personal stash

HIGHWAY COMPANION • Mike Campbell chooses his top five Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tracks recorded with his Fender Broadcaster

TOOL OF THE TRADE • John Osborne’s ’68 saved him from a life of grind. Now, the country-rock star salutes it with his maverick new signature model — and reveals why...