Guitare Xtreme Magazine numéro 111

We won't learn it to anyone, history is just an eternal restart and  music is no exception to that rule, at a time when we could have the impression of a jump back of about thirty years. Even if we would like to make only music and not war, the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict will soon be felt. Mike Matthews of Electro Harmonix, owner of the Sovtek factories, which supply no less than 7 different brands, has just announced that, following the restrictions imposed by Vladimir Putin in response to the various international sanctions, the tubes are now prohibited from export. Bad times for manufacturers who also have to deal with a shortage of components, especially since the city of Xi'An, capital of semiconductors, is in quarantine, which will worsen the situation of factories dependent on Chinese exports. The prices of second-hand pedals also begin to explode as soon as a new model is out of stock. Speculator friends...
Even if it means going back in time, we're going to go all out, and this issue will allow you to reconnect with our friends from the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties: Joe Satriani, Andy Timmons, Scorpions, Dave Mustaine (whose model Gibson signature has just landed in France) are part of it and celebrate a music that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall and which today has become marginal in the face of the hip-hop surge, whatever one may say. This is no reason to give up rock'n'roll and this 111th issue will give you the opportunity to buy a good slice of it. Julien Bitoun, meanwhile, decided to explore the world of signature gear, and in our Classic Gear section, we found one of the star amps of the “rack” period. That's enough to travel in time and try to understand where our time will take us which, between plug-ins, modeling and Tik Tok, seems to want us to believe that we live in a virtual world when everything reminds us that we live on a finite planet, which may not support our antics for very long at the rate we are going.