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THIN LIZZY RYAN ADAMS HOWTOGETA THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN WILDEST DREAMS GREATLIVE SOUND… FAST PLAYBETTER NOW! #280 JUNE2016 + RECORD BLAGGIN’ THE BLUES! 5 YOUR GUITAR EASYWAYS TOMAKEYOUR 12-BARBRILLIANT Capturing your tracks made easy! Essentialgear&techniquesexplained Getproresultsathome Electric&acoustic LEARNTOPLAY... FULLTAB WOLF ALICE ACOUSTIC RIG TOUR froMTmhEraelTte-ArmNoLucLIksRI'tsC-VlgAeAoalrNdneArnifafsge!* MTAhRSeH UALKL aCOmDpE giant enters a REDHOTCHILI PEPPERS new era *video riffs online EDITOR’S LETTER Welcome… FUTURE PUBLISHING QUAY HOUSE, THE AMBURY, BATH, BA1 1UA Tel: 01225 442244 Fax: 01225 822763 Email: [email protected] Website: www.totalguitar.co.uk EDITORIAL Editor Stuart Williams Content Editor Rob Laing Reviews Editor Dave Burrluck Production Editor Josh Gardner Art Editor Leanne O’Hara Recording your guitar used to cost a lot Senior Music Editor Jason Sidwell Music Editor Chris Bird of money. First, you’d either have to shell Content Editor, Musicradar.com Michael Astley- Brown Music Co-ordinator Polly Beauchamp Editor At Large Neville Marten out loads of cash on boxes and wires, then CONTRIBUTORS try and figure out how to get a sound out of Steve Alsworth, Sarah Clark, Richard Chamberlain, Darran Charles, Trevor Curwen, Thea de Gallier, Charlie Griffiths, Nick Guppy, David Hands, Jonathan Horsley, Jamie Hunt, Andy McGregor, it, never mind making it sound good! If you Ed Mitchell, Matthew Parker, James Uings, Henry Yates Music Engraver Simon Troup went the other way, you’d end up paying Audio Mastering Duncan Jordan Video Production Martin Holmes to hire a studio, and dealing with the Photography Joe Branston, Adam Gasson, Neil Godwin, Olly Curtis, Gavin Roberts, Joby Sessions, Jesse Wild, Will Ireland, George Fairbairn pressures that come with an unfamiliar ADVERTISING Phone: 01225 442244 Fax: 01225 732285 person, in an unfamiliar environment. 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We are not responsible for their contents or any changes or updates to them. If you submit unsolicited material to us, you automatically grant Future a licence to publish your submission CHRIShasbeen ALL this talk of ROB’S been in whole or in part in all editions of the magazine, including licensed editions worldwide and in any physical or digital format throughout the world. Any material you submit is sent at your risk and, although every jammingalong recording had drawing on care is taken, neither Future nor its employees, agents or subcontractors shall be liable for loss or damage. with The Boys Are Back In Town. Josh cringing about his first time in his own live experience – past We are committed to only using magazine paper Tying in with our cover feature, a pro studio. After dozens of failed mistakes included – to look at which is derived from well managed, certified Chris’ top tip is to record yourself takes and a minor breakdown all some simple ways to get a better forestry and chlorine-free manufacture. Future Publishing and its paper suppliers have been playing the harmony lines. because his guitar just wouldn’t live sound on p64, and once independently certified in accordance with the “Listening back to yourself will stay in tune, he realised he was you’ve done that how about rules of the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). help you fine tune details like pushing it out by resting his hand getting a group of musicians vibrato and note length”, says on the floating trem of a loaner together and recording live with the big man. Sage advice! guitar. Always know your gear! the help of our tips on p52? JUNE 2016 3 CONTENTS MONITOR 006 FirstLookErnieBallMusicManStVincent................ 008 RiffoftheMonth BiffyClyro–WolvesOfWinter.... 010 OnTheUpNothing,Can’tSwim,O’Brother.................. 012 OnTheRoadRobbenFord................................................. 014 InTheStudioVolbeat........................................................ 016 FiveMinutesAlone…KennyWayneShepherd....... 018 MeAndMyGuitarAndyWilliams............................... 020 ScaleOfTheMonthHarmonicMinor(Linear)........ 021 FeedbackYourletters.......................................................... 022 AlbumsThismonth’sbestguitarreleases................... y ett 025 G RigTourWolfAlice............................................................. er/ d el FEATURES nf e os M m Ti BoyceAvenueThey’rethemostsuccessfulcoversband y intheworld,whoturnedbillionsofYouTubeviewsinto Gett globalsuccess–theytellushowtheydidit...................... 032 erts/ b o COVERFEATURE:RecordYourGuitar! et R WhetherdoingaliveEPorrecordingyourband’smagnum Eb opus,ourcoverfeaturewilltellyoueverythingyouneed etty toknowaboutrecordingyourguitar,fromgearto G mic’ing,softwareandeverythinginbetween.................. 036 erns/ df e ROUNDTABLE:CarnivalOfMadnessTour R n/ Wesatdownwiththecombinedguitarpowersof utso BlackstoneCherry,ShinedownandHalestormtotalk H worstgigs,embarrassinggearandmore.......................... 054 Mick PierceTheVeilTheUSpost-hardcorebanddiscuss ees thepainful,sometimesliterallyso,journeytotheir on L 060 m 036 RECORDYOURGUITAR! fourthstudioalbum,Misadventures................................... Si n GetGigReady!Can’thearyourselfonstage?Neverfear, dwi OURJARGON-FREEGUIDETOGREATSOUND oursimpleguidewillshowyouhowtosetupyour Go gearsoyou’llalwayscutthroughclearly........................... 064 urtis Neil y Con ns Ollm Gass dferAda berts/Reessions oS win Ebet Rnston Joby da 032 BOYCE 054 CARNIVAL 060 PIERCE ver & CD: Neil Gontents: Joseph Br AVENUE OF MADNESS THE VEIL CoCo 4 JUNE 2016 ISSUE 280 JUNE 2016 006 MUSIC MAN ST VINCENT GEAR 074 MarshallCOODE50................................................................ 078 WashburnPX-Solar160...................................................... 079 FaithVenusBloodMoon.................................................... 080 Round-up HöfnerVerythinRange................................. MARSHALL 074 VIDEO RIFFS: 070 DigiTechTrio+........................................................................ 086 CODE50 ALT-ROCK ’91 087 JacksonXSeriesMonarkhSCX6.................................... 088 Round-upToneCityPedals............................................... 094 QuickTestsBlackstarFly3Bass,JimDunlop THIN LIZZY 090 JohnPetrucciCryBaby.......................................................... ‘THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN’ 091 Accessories........................................................................... TECHNIQUES 066 FiveWaysToPlayTheBlues......................................... Alt-Rock’91LearntheriffsfromNirvana–ComeAs YouAre,RHCP–FunkyMonksandMetallica– 070 WhereverIMayRoamwithourvideolessons.............. 094 ClassicTrackThinLizzy–TheBoysAreBackInTown RYAN ADAMS Open-MicSongbook 104 104 ‘WILDEST DREAMS’ RyanAdams–WildestDreams......................................... 108 Get Your Grades! RGT ...................................................... SUBSCRIBE NOW & SAVE! Choose from print, digital or bundled subscriptions on p110! JUNE2016 5 FIRSTLOOK… ’Ball 1 BODY CLARK designed her signature model from the Saint ground up, so while there’s some inspiration from 60s pawn shop guitars, her main requirement was that it was comfortable for female players, as well as male Ernie Ball Music Man releases its unconventional 2 PICKUPS St Vincent signature model A TRIO of custom DiMarzio mini-humbuckers provide the O tones here, and in conjunction ne listen to her off-kilter pop with the five-way selector, offer a bevy of tones, stylings will tell you that Annie including neck and bridge in Clark – better known as St Vincent parallel, all three parallel, plus each individually – has never been a guitarist to play by the rules, and accordingly, her signature model with Ernie Ball Music Man comes at the guitar from an entirely new angle. A long time in the making, the custom 3 NECK FUHDWLRQLVÀQDOO\KLWWLQJVKHOYHVZLWKD BESIDES the St Vincent price tag of £1,999. Here’s what makes inlays and headstock St Vincent’s sig tick… details, the guitar’s neck and fingerboard are notable for being crafted entirely out of rosewood, which is then hand-rubbed for slick playability Photography: Neil Godwin 6 JUNE 2016 FIRSTLOOK MONITOR “StVincenthasnever beenaguitaristto playbytherules,and hersignaturemodel comes attheguitarfrom anentirelynewangle” JUNE2016 7 !#" 0**)#% .0""&'#).* !"".)#)2* #2.)#2 "%#2)#) #". #2*..)#%"*.)"*( ")#%.*3.*.)"*.0" #0)).* #2)."*.")" .#.)*).2#).* #2)( )#!!"0*"*.#1) 0*.)"*.## ..0"" '" " " &5(5$$0#)3!% '( $"'" $ $"$" " )".)*)#0".#%" "$" 2%!"#.2 %##.)22".##*#).)#().2"#*.1))"0**!!+%.2.)##)".#"%*"# (..#*4**%.. .))14.) "$$ """ "" "'"$ ""$$" "'$"$ &"$ '"""' * .%)"."..#!2"*0*""0%*.)#*( "'" " " "" " *#!0)*#%2"*.)#*.**.2##0 . 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Earthquaker Devices sent us some pedals “When I was sent home from prison, and we even had fans sending us vintage a good friend of mine that I always had stuff. It was fucking awesome.” written music with, we had some plans At it’s core the tried and tested mix of to do some stuff,” explains Domenic. “He Fender Strats and Jazzmasters through built a little studio up and we went to work, Twin Reverbs remains, but the blissed-out but within a year of me being home, he got Stone Roses and MBV tones on the likes of killed in a motorcycle accident, so it was Everyone Is Happy are hitting a higher like, ‘Damn… right back to it again.’” plane. Are we seeing a lighter side of Nicky Eventually, he ended up living in a begin to emerge? ´FRIÀQµURRPZLWKMXVWDODSWRSJXLWDU “I’m actually a pretty happy-go-lucky and a mattress to his name… and the guy,” protests Nicky. “There’s things that songs started pouring out. “I just kind of linger on forever and there’s things that went to work, got fucked up in the night you move past, but there’s always new and then I’d just wake up in a panic and things to dwell on. I have a feeling that in w Parker jbuusltl sshtaitr tt hwarti twinogu aldn dn erveecro rsdeein tgh ea llli gohf tth is mof yin lisfpeitriamtieo, nth, feorre ’bse ntetevre or rg woionrgs eto.” be a lack ds: Matthe odfe Wdspaheye,r abntu hioti nsI wm atau tssh wiac rtr ipetiaoncignh toe.d”u tt hoef priugrhet ears FROosRe sF,A DNeSft OonFe: sM HyE BAloRo: dVye rVtiagloe nFtloinwee, rSstone or W and an offer was put forward to release 10 JUNE 2016

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