Featuring Dream Theater and their Lord of the Strings, John Petrucci, who raises the bar for six-string (and sometimes even seven-string) fretboard wizardry on the bands new self-titled album. Petrucci also gives us an in-depth look at his new Music Man JP13 signature ax.
In this issue, we also have the undisputed leader of the jam-band world, Warren Haynes, who performs Grateful Dead live with a symphony orchestra and regroups Gov't Mule for their new star-studded album package, Shout! We even take a look back at the making of the Grateful Dead's breakthrough album from 1970, Workingman's Dead, on which the San Fran hippies transformed themselves from an uncommercial jam band into one of the most popular acts America has ever seen.