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.
“These things work for me and I am finding out a lot of other guitar players like ‘em too”: Paul Reed Smith loved his Charcoal Phoenix so much that PRS has released this rare bird in strictly limited numbers
“You would get suspended for even having a guitar”: Brian May says it was “illegal” to have a guitar at his school – but he and his friends played during lunch hour anyway
