making this month’s mag

Chris Bird

Chris and contributor Richard Barrett prove they’ve still got the blues in this month’ s huge 14- page feature on 50 years of blues-rock. When asked his favourite guitarist of the genre the big man says, “Gary Moore or Jeff Healey, but don’t ask me to choose… it’ll be someone else next week .”

Josh-Gardner

Josh last spoke to Minus The Bear guitarist Dave Knudson for TG way back in 2012, but with the Seattle band finally back with their first new album in five years, the time seemed right to talk to the effects whiz about Botch, Boogies and Baseball. Read his Five Minutes Alone o np 10

Rob Laing

Players can get a lot of guitar for their money these days. But as Rob became smitten testing Taylor’s new entry-level Academy Series on p 96 he started to think about the subjective concept of value – is it worth spending more money on something you absolutely love over something you really like?