VOL 1, ISSUE 1, JANU DEBUT ISSUE ARY 2018 #GuitarGirl guitargirlmag.com GUITAR MonaLisa PLAYERS AND GEAR Twins ACQUISITION SynDROME GUITAR GIRL MAGAZINE COVER ARTISTS TISH CiravoloSMASHES THE MI GLASS CEILI NG GEAR WITH DaISY ROCK GUITARS REVIEWS TARA Talk GUITARGIRLMAG.COM VOL 1, ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2018 Welcome to Guitar Girl Magazine and our debut of the digital/print magazine version of our popular music blog featuring girls that love to rock, interviews Founder/Editor: Tara Low with inspiring singer-song writers, gear reviews, and so much more! Our followers know that I started the Contributors: Guitar Gabby Lisa Lim music blog geared toward female guitarists over five Caroline Paone years ago with the vision of providing women a forum Alison Richter to not only be seen and heard, but to help them gain Sasha Vallely insights from other female musicians on how they Ché Zuro overcame the many challenges a new artist faces in the competitive landscape of popular music. 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I am so ready for this to begin…and if you are +Guitargirlmag ready to join me, let’s go!! Front cover: MonaLisa Twins ~ Tara Low Photo credit: Rudolf Wagner 2 Guitar Girl Magazine guitargirlmag.com CONTENTS Features » First Annual Guitar Girl Magazine Calendar for 2018 05 » Guitar Players and Gear Acquisition Syndrome - Do you have G.A.S.? 07 07 Interviews » “Not Bad For A Girl”: Tish Ciravolo smashes the MI glass ceiling with Daisy Rock Guitars 10 10 » Inside the Industry with The WiMN Founder Laura B. Whitmore 18 Gear » Gear: New 24 » Gear: Reviews 25 » BOSS Acoustic Singer Live 25 » Orange Fur Coat Fuzz/Octave Pedal 27 » Fender Duo Sonic HS Electric Guitar 28 » Yamaha AC3R Acoustic Electric Guitar 29 18 GGM COMMUNITY HEALTH/WELLNESS (Coming soon) We want to hear from you! Questions, comments, Lessons suggestions, road stories, and, » Girls Got Rhythm: Constant Flow 31 ...well, anything else you may » Sheet Music (Coming soon) have on your mind! Send them directly to: TIPS [email protected] » Handpick the Perfect Pick: Serve your Playing 37 GuitarGirlMagazine » #GuitarGirl 30 @GuitarGirlMag » Mind Game and Trivia 33-34 @guitargirlmag » Music Releases 35 guitargirlmag » What We’re Reading NOW! 40 +Guitargirlmag » Fun Stuff 42 » Mind Game and Trivia answers 43 guitargirlmag.com Guitar Girl Magazine 3 MEET THE TEAM Tara Low, Editor Guitar Gabby Lisa Lim Caroline Paone Alison Richter Sasha Vallely Ché Zuro 4 Guitar Girl Magazine guitargirlmag.com FEATURES First Annual Guitar Girl Magazine Calendar for 2018 We are proud to release our first annual Guitar Girl the sounds from that era has influenced them as Magazine 2018 Official Calendar featuring some very musicians with an emphasis on rhythm, lead guitar, talented women that we have had the pleasure to and a great back beat from the drums. Their sound showcase throughout the years. is unique in today’s music landscape, but bears a striking resemblance to the sounds of perhaps the Gracing the cover are the extremely talented twin most influential decade of our past- the 1960s. sisters from the United Kingdom, Mona and Lisa Their recent album Orange was released last Fall to Wagner. The MonaLisa Twins’ love for the ‘60s and rave reviews. www.monalisa-twins.com The next twelve months feature artists across all genres from blues, rock, soul, pop to Latin pop/reggae. Meet the women of Guitar Girl Magazine’s 2018 Calendar. guitargirlmag.com Guitar Girl Magazine 5 FEATURES JANUARY March WILDWOOD Daria Musk WILDWOOD is an American Daria Musk describes herself as indie/pop artist based in Nash- FEBRUARY a Musician, a Millennial, and an ville, a multi-instrumentalist, Artistpreneur. She discovered it and a third generation Car- Malina Moye was much easier to sing to an ter. She’s chosen the moniker audience on social media rather WILDWOOD as an homage With a blend of rock, funk and soul, Malina than lugging her equipment from to her family’s 1927 song. She Moye has been named by Guitar World venue to venue, so she started recently released a remake of Magazine as one of “10 Female Guitarists live interactive online concerts “Ring of Fire” which she says: You Should Know.” A lefty and inspired by and became an overnight success “Recording my cousin June’s Jimi Hendrix, she learned to play the guitar singing to global audiences. She has song “Ring of Fire” live in the upside down. She’s played with legendary taken that success and translated studio gave me chills. I felt her blues rock guitarists Pinetop Perkins, it into speaking engagements, TED spirit in the room and could David “Honeyboy” Edwards and Hubert talks, and a consulting business to imagine her huge smile look- Sumlin, as well as performed on the tech and entertainment companies. ing down on me. I only knew Experience Hendrix Tours at the Rock Daria’s an “Artispreneur” to watch her when I was a kid, but the and Roll Hall of Fame’s tribute concert for as she will be launching a new album short time I spent with her left Chuck Berry and honored the Queen of and online video series to inspire a a lasting impression, and every England. Her 2014 record Rock & Roll Baby whole new generation of people to time I sing her song, I feel her garnered three Billboard charting singles on make what they love what they do! presence.” Prior to embarking various charts in the Top 40, so we’re excited www.dariamusk.com on her musical career, WILD- to hear her new album Bad As I Want To Be WOOD graduated from Har- due out in March. www.malinamoye.com vard, was a diplomat at the US February’s inspirational quote is from an Embassy in Paris, worked with interview we had with Tish Ciravolo back Governor Haslam creating the in 2012 when we first started our ven- Tennessee Promise program, ture. “You just have to practice. You’ve got to and founded a non-profit or- find your sound. You’ve got to find out who ganization in Nashville that you are. You have to practice, and just prac- serves refugee youth. www. tice, practice, practice. It’s the only way, and sheiswildwood.com it’s such a simple answer. I wish it was a para- graph, but it just isn’t. It just comes down to finding what’s inside of you that needs to get out. And you can only do that if you’re prac- ticing.” ~Tish Ciravolo, Also included inside are inspiring quotes and advice from female guitarists Nancy Wilson, Lisa Loeb, Lita Ford and Jennifer Batten, as well as from women business owners Tish Ciravolo of Daisy Rock Guitars and Laura Whitmore of the Women’s International Music Network taken from interviews with Guitar Girl Magazine. The calendar is 8.5″ x 11″, stapled binding, pre-hole punched for hanging, with a UV high gloss cover. All major U.S. holidays are noted, as well as religious holidays. The calendar can be purchased on our website and on Amazon. Stay tuned for our next issue showcasing the artists for April, May and June. GGM 6 Guitar Girl Magazine guitargirlmag.com FEATURES GUITAR PLAYERS AND GEAR ACQUISITION SYNDROME Do you have G.A.S.? My Journey Dealing with the Syndrome! By Lisa Lim known as NAMM to us musicians) friend, who also plays guitar, and showcases the latest and greatest halfway into the conversation she said, music equipment all under one roof in “You have G.A.S.!” I said, “Excuse me?” t’s that time of the year, well, for the Anaheim Convention Center. This She said, “Yes, you suffer from Gear the music industry that is, where year, it all begins on January 25th. Acquisition Syndrome!” Really! the biggest trade show on earth, IWinter NAMM, is held this month And that just happens to bring this She explained the definition- “G.A.S.” in Anaheim, California! The National thought to mind.