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Five aging axes exhumed by Paul Trynka

What Goes On

Paul Trynka, that's what, on why little amps are sometimes louder than big ones

Food fans flip out! Forget recording — what do Pop stars eat while they're working? Lovable liquid-luncher and hardened drinker Trynka tucks in. Bon appetit!

Breaking American, expensive recordings and living with your own history — Paul Trynka swaps top hats and tall tales with Furs guitarist John Ashton

KeyboardCheck

Tony Hastings and Paul Trynka assess the latest entrant into the increasingly competitive sampled piano stakes

GuitarCheck

Who knows how good a MIDI add-on for your guitar can be? The Shadow knows, as Paul Trynka finds out....

Angel Music

Trynka trucks up to Hull, and hears the sound of Angels. Odd boy.

Back on the master tape trail with tireless tracker Trynka. Stars watch out! You've been found out...

Mick Jagger at IM party? True! Fame, fortune and the low-down on what goes down.

The assembled masses of the IM review department wax lyrical over their selected favourites from this year's music fair.

Profound thinker Trynka is back with chewed pencil for another month's diary, and the strain's beginning to tell...

Paul Trynka trains a tearful eye on the handful of basses closest to his heart

Guitarcheck

An instrument to put the Shadow in the shade? Paul Trynka has his doubts

With The Housemartins

What a nice, ordinary, loveable bunch of geezers they are, Paul Trynka declares

Everything you didn't want to know and couldn't be bothered to ask

Rock 'n' Roll history made flesh, albeit somewhat decayed flesh, talks about clean living, composing, and the pursuit of happiness.

From Spandaus to Thompsons — and Richard is gunning for something more than cult recognition of his massively influential guitar style with a new album, Daring Adventures. Moving target: Paul Trynka

EffectsCheck

Paul Trynka puts his foot down on a pair of interesting pedals

In the same job for seven years and Sax man Brian Travis is still employed playing that sweet dole music for the DHSS's longest-running success story. Marking his card: Paul Trynka

AmpCheck

Sun, sea and sand-coloured sophistication... beach-bum Paul Trynka warms to Dean's latest valve amp

The good Fairy Trynkabell trips off to a Fantasyland where money doesn't matter, talent rarely counts, and you can't move for Robber Barons and Wicked Queens. Yes folks, it's the Diary. (Boo! Hiss!)

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