Johnny Winter graces the cover of the first issue of Guitar World magazine, which was published back in July of 1980. Also featured inside were George Thorogood and Merle Travis.
jonboy4life Need cover with Batio, Satch/G3. But especially Batio, please. :: April 29th 2008 11:04:26 AM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- deid How 'bout a cover with John Petrucci? Need more covers of Satch, Vai, Rhoads, Gilbert, and Schon :: April 22nd 2008 03:02:40 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- deid Love your magazine. Many great covers. I'm sure many would agree with me that Brian Setzer is not the best, but his fans have manipulated this contest and therefore the true ratings of these covers are incorrect. :: April 22nd 2008 02:54:46 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atticus Steve Howe - coming soon!!! :: April 03rd 2008 08:31:38 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Hey Guitar World, another milestone acomplished! And you guys just keep jammin' on! You don't let anything hold you back! :: March 30th 2008 10:43:39 AM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Jermyn Hi Guitar World! Great magazine and great web site. I was wondering if you could do another interview with Steve Howe. Maybe some tablature would be nice also. Keep up the good work. :: March 28th 2008 02:33:51 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atticus No Mike - we'll never learn, but we'll just crank another 300 issues. :: March 14th 2008 11:43:49 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Julio Hi All,
Congratulations to Guitar World, the world's greatest guitar magazine, for their 300th issue. Thank you for delivering great insights and lessons to the guitar aficionados. I would love to see Dave Mustaine and Hearltess Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom together on your cover sometime.
Wishing you 3000 issues more,
Julio :: March 14th 2008 12:35:55 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Paul we have tried to get interviews with chuck 100 times.. tried and failed... He won't talk. :: March 11th 2008 10:42:28 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike 300 covers and Chuck Berry never made it on one of them. I wonder if the guys from Guitar World ever learn from there mistakes. For example, they wait for George Harrison to die before they give him any recognition (Feb. 02). Chuck won't be with us forever, (he's the one that started it all and influnced and contiues to influnce some of the greatest guitar players ever...i could go on and on). If you don't get it then you don't get it. Put Chuck on your cover! :: March 11th 2008 10:09:57 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- maddmaxx08 hey guitar world i own all the first 5 or 6 years of your magazine. and still to this day look at them and i have this very first one this is one of three mag i still buy today.my favorite one is still the pretenders with the center fold a 59` es 335 blond dot neck . the only problem is that it wasn`t in the center of the mag . :: March 08th 2008 02:18:17 AM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SXSW Johnny Winter was a real influence on the music scene, even before 1980. He had some really great songs and current guitar players should revisit some of his great ones to play for themselves...then they'll love them too like we did. :: March 07th 2008 10:57:24 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Talor I have every one! Original magazines and I am as excited about looking at them as when I first saw them on the newstand! :: March 07th 2008 10:41:43 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Beck An albino axe slinger and Rex Trailer on the cover. Welcome to Boomtown wheres cowboy Billy?? :: March 07th 2008 07:03:47 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous Two legendary guitarists on the cover of a legendary magazine. How can you not rate this cover as a "5"? Given, it doesn't have the flash and glitz of later covers, but its damn good for the first one. Those of you who disagree can fire away, but like the movies, and Pearl Jam albums, sequels are never as good as the original. :: March 07th 2008 03:27:52 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ski $1.50....how times have changed!!! :: March 07th 2008 03:18:50 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jwhitney Just watched the DVD of Crossroads Festival 2007 with Johnny jamming with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, et. al. My favorite is his version of Highway 61 on the the 30th Anniversary Concert for Bob Dylan. Johnny's slide work and tone were just smokin'!!! :: March 07th 2008 02:59:03 PM -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------