Issue 164 July 2007 on sale now!

FREE GIANT POSTER!
30 sizzlin' amp settings on one side, plus some bloke called Jimi on the other!

COVER STORY
Velvet Revolver
"Libertad pushed us to the limit"
Slash and Kush on the most anticipated guitar album of 2007
PLUS: learn to play She Builds Quick Machines with a Video Lesson on your FREE CD!

LEARN TO PLAY
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Doors - People Are Strange
Machine Head - Aesthetics of Hate
Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
REM - The One I Love

GUEST LESSONS
John 5
Malina Moye
Herman Li

FEATURES

These go up to 11!
From axes composed of rotting human flesh to banjo-bothering rednecks, TG reveals the guitar's funniest (and sickest) moments on screen

The Doors
Frizzy-haired guitar wizard Robbie Krieger on the band that tore 1960s America a new one

The Used
Personal demons, internal friction and why The Used's new album "takes a big sh*t on the first two!"

Annihilator
How thrash icon Jeff Waters got some of today's hottest shredders to tear up his latest album Metal

Dinosaur Jr
Last year an armed New York gang stole $35,000 worth of vintage guitars from J Mascis. TG demands justice!

String 'em up!
Lostprophets Mike and Lee answer your questions

GEAR
Dean Guitars HQ tour
AMT effects pedals
Ovation Celebrity guitars
Gretsch G5135 Electromatic Corvette
Randall amps