Chairman of the ’board

IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

WHEN BILL FINNEGAN first offered the Klon Centaur to the general public in the mid-Nineties, the price was $239 (which was considered expensive back when most high-end and boutique pedals sold for $10

“OOH-WAH-AH-AH-AH-AH!” SHOUTED DISTURBED singer David Draiman in the intro of his band’s signature tune, “Down with the Sickness,” back in 2000. Weird though it sounded at the time, millennial headban

WHEN I AM composing and arranging music, I like to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, I try to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, k

WHILE THE GUITAR sonics heard on Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band were the goal with Aclam’s Dr. Robert and The Mocker pedals, the Spanish company has now moved deeper into the Beatl

LAST MONTH, I talked about how I devised the primary riffs in the title track to my 2023 album Hard Wired, which is played in drop D tuning (low to high: D, A, D, G, B, E). I’d now like to share some