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Total Guitar March 1996 (#16) contents:
Total Guitar December 1994 (#1) contents:
 Telecaster 90s deluxe – A brand new addition to the Telecaster
 Fripped Out And ‘Scaped Up – Frippertronics are out, soundscapes range, reviewed after our Telecaster feature
are in. So says guitar innovator Robert Fripp.
 Stone – A tailor-made stadium rock band featuring ex-band
 Parker Fly Deluxe – Electric Guitar members of Guns ‘N Roses, Bad Company, UFO and WASP. Hear
 Roland Jazz Chorus combos: JC-120E, JC-20E & JC-85E them on CD

 Status Eclipse – Active 4-string Bass Guitar  Napalm Death – Last month we gave Napalm Death’s Diatribes
album an excellent review. This month, we talk to the band and
 ZZZZT! Fuzz, distortion, overdrive, dirt, grunge, thrutch – Paul feature a track from the album
Thomason rounds up and rates sixteen stomp boxes that make your
guitar grunch.  Scheer – This powerful indie outfit from Northern Ireland are
producing some great music. Listen to a cut from their recent
 Going For A song? While some guitars never archive greatness, Schism FP on CD
other have greatness thrust upon them. So what exactly makes a
vintage instrument so special? Richard Riley picks up six old and  The Rolling Stones – Their guitar riffs are amongst the finest ever
new guitars to find out… written. Learn eight of them here and read the story behind some of
rock’s best songs
 The bluffer’s guide to Jimi Hendrix. Amaze your friends! Be a
wow at parties! Play your guitar upside-down and fell mountains  Fender Telecaster – The history of a legend, plus the 90s Tele
with the edge of your hand. Deluxe

 Beep Up Your Flange – Squish, squeeze and swoosh your guitar  Gibson Nighthawk – An impressive range of sounds; a future
and bass sound with flanging, or its close cousin, phasing. classic?

 Classic Track – little Wing: Jimi Hendrix  Nobels DT-XN & TR-X Pedals – New distortion and tremolo
pedals
 Bass Technique: Bass boogie.
 Fender DG-19 – The latest acoustic dreadnought
 Theory Technique – Theoretically speaking.
 Bonneville G50 – Not the Triumph, but the Trace Elliot
 Jazz Technique – Mastering modes
 Classic track – Hendrix’s Voodoo Child in tab
 Blues Technique – Phrasing
 Novice – Jimmy Page-style finger-picking
 Rock Technique – Sweep-picking
 Theory – More chord substitutions
 Acoustic Technique – Fingerpicking

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  Rhythm – Slow funk grooves  Novice – Delta blues fingerpicking for beginners
 Rock – Riff like a bastard!  Theory – The art of changing key
 Jazz – Play the Django Reinhardt classic, Minor Swing  Rhythm – Essential licks to fill out a rock rhythm part
 Blues – New blues progressions  Rock – Solo your face off in Dorian mode, a la Satch…
 Bass – Alternative bass notes to chords  Blues – Neat phrasing tricks to liven up your blues solos
 Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap’s track Country Bluff  Bass – Rock blues bass styles, with a full backing track
 Acoustic – A Dublin Day by Gordon Giltrap
Total Guitar April 1996 (#17) contents:
 Sepultura – Brazil’s finest export talk you through their exclusive Total Guitar October 1996 (#23) contents:
new album track on the TG CD
Free Stringwinder! It’s free, and it winds strings. A free string wander!
 Warren Cuccurullo – Zappa’s ex-guitarist, on CD and in TG
Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The 19 year-old master of SRV rockin’ blues
 Roomful of blues – They play blues, and they fill a room. ‘Nuff
The Levellers – Ace folk rockers with a great live sound
said
Keb’ Mo – Up and coming US bines artist talks to TG
 Chet Atkins – Nashville’s top dog talks about his new LP – hear
him play an exclusive track on the TG CD Dubstar – The new jangly guitar/dance sensation

 Queen’s ten greatest guitar solos – Brian May is the finest melodic Steve Vai – New-age guitar virtuoso and all-round flash git
rock guitarist around – learn to play his ten best solos The Beatles – The white album. Go on – you sum the Beatles up in one
 Layla – The making of a guitar classic. The full story behind line…
Clapton’s biggest track Zoom 505. Zoom’s amazing 99 pounds multi-FX processor
 Fuzz pedal round-up – Nine cool retro fuzz pedals rated and Laney LC50. The top dog in Laney’s new tube series
compared
Peavey Evh Wolfgang. Eddie Van Halen’s latest signature guitar on test
 Dean ACXL american series – The cheapest US rock machine?
Fender Telecaster limited edition. The 50th anniversary Fender classic
 Vantage DL-305/CS – A budget guitar with very familiar looks
indeed… Roger Mayer Voodoo-AXE. Fuzz from Roger Mayer, Hendrix’s FX guru

 Zoom 3030 – The latest multi-FX from Zoom gets the full TG Warwick Fortress one. A stylish bass at a surprisingly reasonable price
treatment Country Special – Jerry Donahue: Be a bender with the best of ’em
 Classic track – Complete tab for this 1970 epic, plus the full slide Novice – Rhythm & Blues. R&B analysis, plus solo tips
solo
Rhythm – Classic AC/DC. Cover You In Oil, and Back In Black

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Rock – Using the Lydian mode. Satch and Vai’s favourite mode explored Bass – Jazz Funk Styles. Up your funk factor – get into jazz!
Blues – Pink Floyd. Our Gilmour-style solo, Comfortably Dumb Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Gordon Giltrap’s beautiful A Jazz Waltz
Bass – Speed and Fluency. Fingers like lightning, strings like wool
Total Guitar December 1996 (#25) contents:
Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Hammer-on, pull-off, hammer-on, count
Fender’s 50th Anniversary. TG gatecrashes Fender’s LA party…
fingernails
Yes – The Return! Yes are back. Time to talk to Steve Howe…
Total Guitar November 1996 (#24) contents:
Magic Slim & Floodgate. Veteran blues guy and new metal act – on CD!
Little AXE. Ex-session star goes solo – hear it on CD!
The G3 Tour. Satch, Vai and Johnson hit die road
The EGG – Mighty dance/funk crossover combo
The Who – Greatest hits. Eight of the best from Pete Townshend
Kula Shaker: Indie’s rising stars – learn to play their two greatest hits,
The Who – John Entwistle. Who bassist invites us round for a chat…
Tattva and Hey Dude
Fender Hank Marvin Signature Strat – A hefty hunk of Hank
Rem’s new adventures in HI-FI. The history of the world’s most popular
band, with transcriptions of five of their greatest hits Zoom 506 bass multi-FX. See? Even bassists need FX…

Digitech RP12. New floor-mounted FX unit Washburn Red rocker RR100. Piezo/electric mayhem from Washburn

Orange Overdrive 120. 120 watt monster stack widi retro chic Boss GT-5 Multi-FX. A monstrous piece of Boss technology

Morris TF-100 acoustic. Stylish challenger in the acoustic stakes Peavey Studio PR0 112. Peavey’s new 65 Watt combo

Patrick Eggle Berlin legend. The latest super-axe from Eggle Classic track- Purple Rain. Prince’s 1984 guitar epic transcribed in full –
with all the tough bits played on CD
Yamaha Pacifica 303-12. The electric 12-string at a stupid price
Acoustic Master – Neil Young. Learn Neil Youngs 1972 classic track. The
Vantage 635TG. Great-looking budget Korean semi
Needle And The Damage Done…
Hughes & Kettner Triamp – Three great amps in one 2,000 pounds box
Novice – Hendrix (Made Simple). Sacrilege! Hendrix gets the novice
Classic track – Black Night. All of Purple’s top hit. With full backing track treatment…
Acoustic master – Wild Wood. Paul Weller’s mellow classic explained Rhythm – Manic Street Preachers. The mighty Design For Life transcribed
Novice – Smoke on the water. Oh Lord, give me strength… Rock – 300 Chords. Very interesting column about chords
Rhythm – Crowded House. Don’t Dream It’s Over transcribed Blues – SRV Soloing. Stevie Ray’s soloing techniques
Rock – Kiss. Paint that face, spit blood, and rock ‘n’ roll all nite! Bass – Chic’s Bernard Edwards. Disco fever – from the king of funk bass
Blues – Santana soloing. Carlos Santana’s soloing techniques Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Giltrap and Taylors Gb-T Blues

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The Who – Eight of Townshend’s best tracks for you to learn and play  Silverchair: Metal mayhem – from 16 year-olds…
 Glenn Tipton – Ex-Judas Priest guitarist in solo mode
 Beth Orton – Soulful acoustic balladry from a new voice
Total Guitar January 1997 (#26) contents:  Mike Henderson – Country’s finest session man turns to
 Midge Ure. Mr Ultravox gets all celtic for his new LP blues
 Tempest – Norse prog/folk meltdown. Hear it for yourself  Paul Rodgers – Free’s guitarist and singer returns with a
 Recording History – The story behind the greatest tracks new LP
ever!  John Lee Hooker – The growliest ever bluesman talks to TG
 Slash spills the beans on all his new projects, talking just  Zoom 8080 Multi-FX – The most powerful FX box around
before the final split with Guns N’ Roses  VOX AG15 TBR – Updated valve amp from a UK legend
 Gretsch 6131MYF – AC/DC signature axe  Guild Bluesbird – Guild’s new axe looks a lot like a Les…
 Westone WE1052 – New guitar from an old name  PRO Co Brat Fuzz Pedal. Pure fuzz – raw, brash and very
 Yamaha G50 Guitar-To-Midi converter – Synth power at loud
your fingertips  Laney HC25R Hardcore Combo. The bedroom amp that’s
 Crate Blue Voodoo BV-50H – Cool all-valve mini-stack big enough to gig with
 Lindert Victor-S – Bizarre new US guitar  Tanglewood S2500 Baretta Custom. A new slant on a
 Recording Round-Up. Four multitrackers under test classic design
 Classic Track – U2. U2s classic Where The Streets Have  Classic Track – Free. That riff, that voice. It’s All Right
No Name – from The Joshua Tree album Now…
 Acoustic Master – Bert Jansch. The folk fingerstyle  Acoustic Master – John Williams. The Deer Hunter theme,
masterpiece, Anji Cavatina
 Novice – Bon Jovi (Made Simple). Bon Jovi and Sambora’s  Novice – Barre Chords. Essential chord techniques
Wanted Dead Or Alive, transcribed for beginners  Rhythm – James Brown Grooves. How to get funky
 Rhythm – Oasis. The rockin’ Morning Glory, from their  Rock – Arpeggio Solos. Break like the wind, with Jimi’s
second multi-platinum-selling album masterclass
 Rock – Paul Gilbert. Techniques from Mr Big’s guitar  Bass – New Order’s Peter Hook. The riff-tastic bass
virtuoso machine behind New Order
 Blues-Car Keys Blues. Fast, Chuck-style blues licks  Blues – Pentatonic Twists. A new twist on pentatonic blues
 Bass – Stevie Wonder. Stevie’s cool Sir Duke, transcribed  Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Atmospheric acoustics, from the
for bass UK’s finest player
 Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Gordon’s toughest piece yet –
Celtic Jig
Total Guitar May 1997 (#30) contents:
Total Guitar February 1997 (#27) contents  Link Wray – The grandfather of grunge in a rare interview
Classic Track – Samba Pa Ti – Santana  Kip Winger – Former ’80s rock frontman returns to the fray
 Judge Nothing – US-based band destined for greatness
Total Guitar March 1997 (#28) contents:  Cast – Four lads from Liverpool (who aren’t the Beatles!)

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 Aerosmith – Take a limo ride with Messrs Tyler and Perry  The Charlatans – Guitarist Mark Collins talks about the
 James are back, and they’ve got a new guitarist latest album
 Peter Green – Total Guitar speaks to the reformed blues  Squier Venus – A Fender newcomer, based on Courtney
maestro Love’s axe
 Parker Nitefly – Affordable version of the modern classic  Washburn P2 – We test an all-new Nuno-designed six-
 Gibson Les Paul Studio Gem Series. A green Les. With P90 string electric
pickups  Martin DM – A genuine Martin for under 900 pounds. Are
 Yamaha FG411E Electro-Acouctic. Mid-price electro from they mad?
Yamaha  Zoom 507 – Under 100 pounds is cheap, but is this reverb a
 Boss XT-2 and PW-2. New versions of the all-time classic bargain?
stomp box  Amtech AGE-1 – A rack FX designed to simulate a ’60s
 Trace Elliot Super Tramp. Latest valved-up version of tape echo…
Trace’s combo  Gretsch Silver Jet 6129 – A mix of real ’50s character
 Classic Track – Fleetwood Mac. Albatross – in tab and on with ’90s performance
CD  Classic Track – Dire Straits. Sultans Of Swing – explained
 Acoustic Master – Bob Dylan. Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright in tab and on CD
 Novice – Pinball Wizard. Classic Townshend for beginners  Acoustic Master – Nick Drake. Man In A Shed – in open G5
 TV Themes – Rainbow. Cheesy TV theme nonsense, but (DGDGDG) tuning
we love it!  TV Themes – James Bond 007. Learn Vic Flick’s classic for
 Rock – Terorvision. Oblivion and Stop The Bus in tab a licence to thrill
 Bass – Mark King. Level 42’s old slapper in a jazzy moment  Novice – Jazzy Chords. Beatles-style sixths sevenths and
 Songsheet – American Pie. A new section, with a track you augmenteds
might just know…  Rock-Van Halen. Hot For Teacher – a break-down to the
 Special – The four Brothers. Learn that distinctive African tough bit
guitar technique  Blues – One step beyond. A fresh approach for some
 Blues – Essential Licks. When your baby’s done left you… straight blues scale licks
 Acoustic- Gordon Giltrap. Acoustic eem from the TG  Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. An instrumental from Gordon’s
maestro Visionary album
Total Guitar June 1997 (#31) contents:  TG Tab legend. The key to all those weird hieroglyphics…
 Will Ray – The full SP on The Hellecasters’ king of Country
 Joe Bennett meets some namesakes from Reading Total Guitar Summer 1997 (#32) contents:
 Tony Macalpine – Half-rock, half-classical, meet a man of  Gun – Get the lowdown with GUN guitar man, Joolz Gizzi
many talents  Joe Louis Walker – Meet the man with the Great Guitars
 Gretsch Story – Follow the history behind the marque  Machine Head – Scary heavy metal band with big tattoos
 Manic Street Preachers – From punk to pop, we chronicle  Greatest Hits of Psychedelia. Relive 1967, the ultimate
their rise Summer Of Love, with everyone from The Beatles to
Jefferson Airplane

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 Robert Cray – The king of contemporary blues talks to TG  Ibanez RG507. The return of Ibanez to the UK — full review
about his new record, his sound and his famous friends  G&L Asat. A hand-built reworking of a Thinline Tele
 Squier super-sonic. Another very cool Fender newcomer  Marshall JCM602. Marshall’s latest valve combo
 Burns NU-Sonic. Variation on the Telecaster theme by a UK  Encore W-260. Bargain basement budget guitar
maker  Matchless Chieftain Half-Stack. The most expensive thing
 Lowden 012. A stunning acoustic guitar from Ireland’s finest we’ve ever reviewed!
 Rivera R30. American all-valve combo from the Rivera  Dod Tec-8 Multi-FX. Dod’s latest gets the full TG treatment
stable  Classic Track – Oasis. Don’t Look Back In Anger – Noel’s
 Digitech 2112. Hi-tech rack-mount guitar processor finest hour
 Classic Track – Jimi Hendrix. Get that psychedelic feeling  Acoustic Master – Chet Atkins. Maybelle – A fingerpicking
with Jimi’s Purple Haze masterpiece from Chet
 Acoustic Master – Joni Mitchell. The Priest – in a peculiar  TV Themes – Inspector Morse. The serenely acoustic
Joni-type tuning Morse tune
 TV themes – Grange Hill. Back to school with this funky  Novice-Rock Picking. Essential plectrum techniques for rock
wah-wah fest lead
 Novice – Hammer-Ons & Pull-0ffs. Speed up your playing  Songsheet – Oasis. D’You Know What I Mean? – its them
with these nifty little tricks again!
 Rock – Natural Harmonics. Impress your friends with  Blues – Fast blues licks. Spice up your blues soloing
harmonic heavy soloing  Rock – Tapping Party Piece. Jimi Savage gives you a flash
 Songsheet – Space Oddity. The David Bowie song that tapping lesson
everyone needs to play  Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Gordon s own arrangement of
 Blues-Slide Guitar. Take the fear out of playing slide for the The Kerry Dancers
first time Total Guitar November 1997 (#37) contents:
 Acoustic – Takamine Competition. A competition for  Stevie Ray Vaughan – Live mastery from the late blues
younger guitarists legend
 TG Tab Legend. Complete guide to reading TG  China Drum – Idiosyncratic power-pop four-piece
transcriptions  Orange – The History. The story of the classic UK amp
Total Guitar September 1997 (#35) contents:  Dinosaur JR. Rock Genius J Mascis speaks!
 Shootyz Groove – Funked up, metal rap rockers  Radiohead – The best band around talk to TG
 Whatever – Newcastle power poppers come up trumps  The Wildhearts – Anarchy and mayhem with the noise
 Testament. Bay area thrash – back with a vengeance! terrorists
 The Beatles – The End. The Beatles final recorded work –  Squier Protone Fat Strat. Fender’s latest Black beauty
full transcription  Jackson AT-X. A new rock monster from Jackson
 Echo and the Bunnymen – Guitarist Will Sergeant talks to  Weird FX Round-up. Swollen Pickles and Gonkulators
TG ahoy!
 Steve Lukather – The session man to end all session men.  Orange 0TR80 Combo. A brand new amp from Orange
On CD!  Zoom 509. All sorts of harmonies – in a box…

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 Classic Track – Queen. Hammer To Fall – the 1985
masterpiece
 Novice – Chuck Berry. Master those primal rock ‘n’ roll riffs
 Songsheet – Alanis Morissette. Ironic, don’t you think?
 Acoustic Master – Simon & Garfunkel. The Boxer – limber
up those fingers!
 Rock – Bass Riffs. Improve relations with your bass player
 Blues – Melodic Blues. Arpeggios, and how to use them
 TV Themes – This Life. Just as they disappear from our
screens…
 Acoustic – Gordon Giltrap. Make a Daisy Chain with
resident florist Gordon
 TG Tab Legend. Make sense of our tablature system