As the Total Guitar magazine team return blistered and weary from Download 2009, here's a few choice video highlights to whet your appetites for all things RAWK!
Not content with grabbing former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell for a chat about songwriting and persuading him to throw his best rock shapes for the magazine covershoot, we caught up with a star-studded cast of artists, many of whom took the time to get their fattest riffs out for a series of guest lessons.
Over the next couple of days we'll be posting more exclusive videos featuring members of Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Billy Talent, Clutch and numerous other acts fresh from rocking the Download stage. Here's a taster:
Check out Total Guitar issue 192, onsale 12 August for exclusive Download interviews. Follow Total Guitar on Twitter here.
“This golden gain machine covers the entire spectrum from gritty boost through to full-on fuzz”: Great Eastern FX’s Focus Fuzz Deluxe has got boost, drive, octave, fuzz... everything going on
“The mini humbucker fits into the same sized pickup cavity as a P-90 and delivers low-noise humbucking pickup performance and a slightly brighter and more open tone”: Gibson remixes the Les Paul Special with mini humbuckers
