By Marc Schneider Industry News Editor Just two years shy of its 60th birthday, Guitar Player magazine will cease publication ... focused magazines like Bass Player and Keyboard, as well as ...

Did he use a distortion pedal like the rest of us? Not likely, as he told Bass Guitar magazine a few years back. “I’ll tell you the controls, left to right. Presence is at three o’clock. Bass is off.

The preeminent magazine ... and guitar virtuosity. What founder Bud Eastman began laid the first stone of an empire that would go on to launch many other magazines — including Bass Player ...