2019 Digital Issue 04 April
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Premier Guitar April 2019: NAMM 2019 gear-show recap. Interviews with Sarah Longfield, Steve Gunn and Kurt Vile, Dream Theater’s John Petrucci and John Myung, Charlie Sexton, and Rush’s Geddy Lee. Thirteen gear reviews: Friedman, EHX, One Control, Adventure Audio, MXR, Schecter, IK Multimedia, Source Audio, Fender, Jext Telez, 3 Leaf, and Aguilar.
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$3.99$0.99This month the world-famous phenomenon that is PG’s annual Pedal Issue manifests itself with—count ’em!—33 in-depth and insightful stompbox reviews, ranging from simple boosts and overdrives to fuzzes, switchers, freakazoid machines, and, of course, boxes just for bassists. Covered brands include mainstays like Boss, Way Huge, MXR, TC Electronic, and Carl Martin, newer boutique standouts like EarthQuaker Devices, Chase Bliss, and JHS, and stomps from impressive overseas outfits like Stone Deaf, Tsakalis AudioWorks, Rainger Fx. Rounding out our gear section, we also take a look at Gibson Custom’s Modern Doublecut Standard, the Supro 1685RT Neptune Reverb, and Schecter’s CV-4 bass. Artist interviews this month include chats with Sonic Youth icon Thurston Moore, blues-rock vet Robin Trower, acoustic polymath Molly Tuttle, and Mike Watt and Nick Reinhart from Big Walnuts Yonder. We’ve also got a historic piece on post-punk trailblazers Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Keith Levene (the Clash, PiL), and Gareth Sager (the Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic, Head). Tablature transcriptions this month (print magazine only) are Ozzy Osbourne’s “Bark at the Moon,” Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Lenny (Live),” and Ryan Adams’ “New York, New York.”
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2018 Digital Issue 03 March
$3.99$0.99Premier Guitar March 2018: Our annual Pro Pedalboards issue features an up-close and personal look at 10 boards from a range of players including the Fall of Troy’s Thomas Erak, Warpaint’s Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman, Eric Gales, Nikki Monninger from Silversun Pickups, Mr. Big’s Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert, Larry LaLonde of Primus, and Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis. But that’s not all—we also take a look at a killer lineup of stomp stations from PG fans! On the interview front, this issue we chat with rockabilly legend Duane Eddy, blues-rock ripper Hannah Wicklund, and bass legend Lee Sklar. Gear-wise, we’ve got a cool DIY feature on simple guitar hacks that cost less than 12 bucks, and reviews of 13 guitar and bass gadgets, including Hagstrom’s new Fantomen 6-string, the Epiphone Embassy PRO bass, Electro-Harmonix’s Green Russian Big Muff, the Orange Fur Coat, Guild’s Jumbo Junior bass, the Fender Ed O’Brien Stratocaster, Nanolog Audio’s the WaveFunction, the Chellee Compy, Nolatone’s Club Master, the Lehle Mono Volume 90, Dunlop’s Geezer Butler Cry Baby wah, Seafoam Pedals’ Lighthouse, and Cloud Microphones’ Cloudlifter Zi DI. Lastly, we’ve also got transcriptions of three rad tunes (print edition only): Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover,” Deftones’ “My Own Summer (Shove It),” and jazz-great Jim Hall’s take on the classic Sonny Rollins tune “St. Thomas.”
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2018 Digital Issue 01 January
$3.99$0.99Premier Guitar January 2018: Our cover story this month is a true treat for longtime fans of Radiohead: After decades of avoiding guitar interviews, Ed O’Brien steps out of the shadows to gratefully ruminate with PG about his journey in one of modern rock’s most celebrated—and confounding—bands. We also talk to funk bassist extraordinaire Bootsy Collins, blues badass Samantha Fish, Bloodclot’s Todd Youth (formerly of Danzig) and Nick Oliveri (previously of Queens of the Stone Age), and—in a double-whammy treasure—avant-garde guitarist Elliott Sharp interviews storied producer Peter K. Siegel about his work recording with Doc Watson and Roy Buchanan. On the gear front, this issue we have a feature all about the ins and outs of guitar necks—materials, construction, profile shapes, etc.—as well as 13 guitar and bass reviews, including the Gretsch Players Edition Broadkaster, Wooly Coats’ Spanky MkII, the Mayones Hydra, Baroni Lab’s Mini Amp 50, Traveler’s LTD EC-1, the Grez Mendocino, KHDK’s Abyss, Old Blood Noise Endeavors’ Fault, the Serek Midwestern 2, Mid-Fi Electronics’ Magick i, the RainSong CH-WS, and Rocket Surgeon’s Boris. In our print edition only, we also have transcriptions of Van Halen’s “Mean Street,” Doc Watson’s “Blackberry Blossom,” and King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.”