Guitare Sèche Le Mag numéro 52

We live in strange times. The main event of 2020 will have been so huge that all other information has taken a back seat. The virus has forced us to put the present in brackets throwing projects into an unpredictable future, and the past as the only source of comfort, virtual substitutes looking more like a sad joke than a viable solution.
Our thoughts go especially to the professionals, musicians in the first place, technicians, but also restaurateurs, event workers and more generally, all those who are prevented from practicing their profession. They are prevented from practicing their profession for public health reasons, but it is hard to understand why entertainment, culture and leisure, which are so essential to give meaning to our lives, would be more dangerous than crowded transport or overcrowded classes. In these reasons which push to operate an incomprehensible and deadly distinction, it is more and more difficult not to see the trace of a possible and unjust dogmatism. Musical instrument dealers are also subject to unbearable working hours, when the majority of their customers are struggling to run to the local supermarket after work. It would be a bad choice to rely only on online sales in these times when we accept to make efforts to eat organic, but when we are reluctant to buy our instruments at the corner store. When the latter closes, it will be too late to regret the time when we could always find a set of strings in emergency or an amp to help us out when ours failed before the concert.
We live in a strange time. We ourselves have been forced to suspend the publication, the time to face the bankruptcy of our main distributor and to wipe the resulting slate. It is therefore a renewed magazine that you hold in your hands, but, as you have noticed, we have kept a large part of the sections you like, expanded the pedago, added a section in which we will talk about everyday guitars and not only about vintage guitars that are unaffordable for the average person. Tests with more room for pictures, because reading a magazine on paper (or on a tablet) is also a moment of pleasure, out of time. No doubt a simple way to hang up on the present and contemplate the new creations of manufacturers or beautiful pieces of wood that have lived well. Our instrument, irremediably anchored in its classical, blues and folk roots, does not turn only to the past and you will notice that from Larkin Poe to The White Buffalo, artists renew the genre by keeping the guitar in the center of the debates. The manufacturers are not to be outdone, with Taylor renewing its manufacturing methods with the 816Ce, Yamaha finally testing the Silent Guitar, or Kala making a change towards truly renewable essences.
You'll find your magazine, but your magazine also wants to find you. Contact us and we'll answer your questions or concerns. Show your love for your guitar and we'll publish the most beautiful statements.
It's a strange time, but stuck between the bygone past and the uncertain future, it's just the right time to settle down and open your magazine to treat yourself to a good slice of the present.
The editors

Period
March / April / May 2021

Interviews
On the cover:
PAUL McCARTNEY - SOLO III
LARKIN POE - LITTLE SISTERS
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SUZANNE VEGA
THE WHITE BUFFALO
THOMAS PITIOT

Pedagogy & Scores
COURSES & PARTOS
BLUES : Thomas Hammje
IRISH: Dylan Malidor
DEBUTANT: Régis Savigny
JAZZ MANOUCHE: François Hégron
Benjamin Guillet

Find all the videos of the scores on our Youtube channel on:
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/GUITARESECHETV

Files & Features
NEWS
HOMORAGE TO RUPERT NEVE
ALBUM COLLECTOR: TERRY CALLIER THE NEW FOLK SOUND OF TERRY CALLIER
STORY: NEIL YOUNG'S 50 YEARS OF AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
WITHIN THE BACS
PLAYER GUITAR : GUILD D40 1989
READERS' EMAIL

Matos & Software
GUITAR COLLECTOR : MARTIN 00-42 1939
TAYLOR 816CE BUILDER'S EDITION
KALA BMB-C
ORANGE CRUSH ACOUSTIC 30
YAMAHA SLG200S
LR BAGGS ALIGN PEDALS
IK MULTIMEDIA Z-TONE DI & BOOST-BUFFER 76/ GUILD OM-260CE