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contents APRIL 2011 ISSUE 97


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INTRO 3 Editorial


P.50


Get your Unsigned Awards entries in... 4 Shopping List Lick Library, Way Huge, Native instruments… and SpongeBob! 8 Dr Demo Eileen Daly, Winter in Eden, Drex!, Magazine Gap. 10 News


Esben and the Witch


Meet Paul Reed Smith on his UK tour... 12 Competitions Win a Boss PS-6 Harmonist pedal and the new Haynes Acoustic Guitar Manual. 16 Win a Vintage Guitar This month’s winners are Cherry Picasso.


REVIEWED 14 PRS SE Santana


P.14 PRS SE Santana


18 Hands on Marshall: Slash & his Marshall AFD 20 Hands on Boss: RC-3 Loop Station 26 Jet City JCA100HDM 28 Takamine EG Mini 30 Tascam US-1800 36 Toontrack Classic EZX drummer software


ARTISTS 44 Thursday


The influential post hardcore legends are back... 48 Joe Bonamassa


The guitarist blows in to chat with Playmusic… 50 Esben and the Witch Brighton art rockers on resisting the pull towards the mainstream... 52 Chris Woods


Meet the young British acoustic guitar virtuoso... P.36


Toontrack EZX Classic


RIFFS 24 Methwold Arts Programme


A bold new initiative using music to boost community spirit. 25 Playmusic Unsigned Awards Get those tracks ready to send in to us... 32 Books & DVDs Learn To Play Muse and Haynes Acoustic Guitar Manual. 34 Playmusic Studio Legendary producer John Leckie. 40 Hot Mod your Guitar


Showing you how to make your electric guitar perform at its best...


P.48 6 3pickup


42 Garageland The best sounds from the UK underground. 54 Outside the Box


Whammy bar techniques...boing...wooo...wooo! Joe Bonamassa


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