Latest articles by Joel McIver
Acoustic Guitar Innovation Parlour 13
Reluctant to trust baggage handlers with your precious acoustic? Check out this nifty solution to a perennial problem
Foo Fighters' Nate Mendel: “I’m nearly 50 years old, and seriously, I’m still thinking like a teenager”
What’s it like to play bass in one of the world’s biggest rock bands? Nate Mendel tells it like it is to Joel McIver
Andy Summers' 11 tips for guitarists
As former Police guitarist Andy Summers returns with a new solo album, he has plenty of playing insight to share from a career rich in versatility
Italia Maranello Cavo
Che chitarra bella! Pouring a glass of Chianti and straps on this retro italian beauty
Rocco Prestia: “If you attack everything like it’s the first time you ever played it, it’ll stay fresh and will lead to new ideas”
Legendary bassist Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia, the owner of the funkiest string-plucking hand on the planet, gives Joel McIver fair warning
PVRIS's Brian MacDonald: “People say ‘bass is just like guitar’. It’s a completely different style of playing”
The PVRISian on his new album and favoured four-strings
Deftones bassist Sergio Vega: "The whammy bar shouldn’t just be relegated to guitar"
Bass player talks making Gore and his love of Fender VIs
Freekbass talks: "Readers - don’t sell your first bass"
Chris ‘Freekbass’ Sherman is a man on a mission - to bring bass to the world. Are we going to help him along the way? Of course we are! Listen up as the great man talks the low notes
Sandberg California Ida Nielsen
Prince bassist gets her own, suitably fabulous, Sandberg
Mike Kerr talks Royal Blood's meteoric rise, his elusive bass rig and How Did We Get So Dark?
"You don’t get to decide whether you’re successful or not"
10 of the best high-end bass guitars at £1,500/$2,000 or more
Mouth-watering bass guitars that come at a price
10 of the best mid-range bass guitars from £750/$1,000 to £1,500/$2,000
Get the most bang for your buck
Spector Legend 4
Make like a squirrel and dig out this splendid walnut-finished Spector Legend
Stone Sour's Johny Chow on his almighty bass tone and health advice for headbangers
Talking tone and technique with the formidable bassist
Greg Graffin talks acoustic guitars, alternate tunings and Millport
Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin takes an unexpected left turn into acoustic country music... and it works! “I’ve had this music in my blood the whole time”, he tells Joel McIver
John Garcia, desert-rock legend, on the challenges of going unplugged
Sometime singer with Kyuss, Slo Burn and Hermano on his acoustic album
