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THE FINEST GUITAR LESSONS ON THE PLANET ! 254 APRIL 2016 style studies classic tracK! MICHAEL SCHENKER Dream One of rock’s finest ever soloists JOSÉ FELICIANO Theater Lightning fast acoustic picker GARY CLARK JR Learn The Looking Glass Undersung Texas blues man with full tab and backing FRANK ZAPPA Rock legend OZ NOY Fusion master your guide to the... of GENIuS CLAPTON Nine pages of solos, riffs and licks detailing each era in his extraordinary career! classical tab HANDEL Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music suite Video musical tribute Lessons daV i d Allen Hinds masterclass and Creative Acoustic b oW i e with Chris Woods Discover his personal guitar style plus those of his stellar line-up of six-string sidekicks! ISSUE 254 } April 2016 ReadY To SUBSCRiBe? www.myfavourite magazines.co.uk WElcoME Just some of your regular GT technique experts... rIchard barrEtt Of all the people I’ve ever wanted to and barrage him, so we talked about a One of the best players around, Richard is adept at most styles but truly excels in interview, eric Clapton and George few of the guitars and that was about it. the bluesier side of rock. He currently harrison are equal at number one. I got to chat to George that day too. plays with Spandau’s Tony Hadley. George, of course, can never happen he’d actually seen me play with Marty ShaUN baxtEr now and eric’s looking pretty unlikely. Wilde and came up to say hello – to Me! One of the UK’s most respected music But back in 1999 Clapton sold 100 he went off and came back several educators, Shaun has taught many who guitars to raise money for his rehab times, finishing off by showing me a are now top tutors themselves. His Jazz Metal album is considered a milestone. centre, Crossroads. I was Guitarist ‘Rutles’ guitar that Rob armstrong had editor and we did a big feature on the made him, with a cut-out of the band in joN bIShop Jon is one of those great all-rounders event. I helped select photos of him the soundhole. they say don’t meet your who can turn his hand to almost any playing the actual guitars so they would heroes, but I’m glad I met mine. style. No ‘Jack of all trades and master of be accurately depicted in the brochure. finally, if I may, a quick commercial. none’, he nails every one with ease! eric loved our coverage, so I was invited Of course, I hope you love Gt, but have lES davIdSoN to the sale preview in london, where he you thought of subscribing – or Les has worked with Mick Taylor, Rumer, asked to thank me in person. re-subscribing should yours be lapsed? Jon Anderson, Pete Townshend, Tina Turner & more. He also runs a recording at the prescribed moment his We have some great offers on at the studio and teaches at BIMM London. assistant escorted me to him in the moment: in print and for our charlIE grIffIthS middle of the crowd of guests, excellent digital version. Why not Guitar Institute tutor Charlie first came which included George harrison. nip over to our website (see the to fame in Total Guitar’s Challenge It’s weird, because you’d think flash above) where you can get a Charlie series. He’s also one of the UK’s top rock, metal and fusion guitarists. I’d have so much to say to year’s subscription for eric. and yet, after his, the cost of a couple of phIl hIlborNE “thank you” and, “It guitar lessons! Go on, The UK’s original magazine guitar tutor, Phil’s something of a legend. A great came out really well,” I you know you want to! player, he’s currently touring Europe struggled to make with the Champions Of Rock show. easy conversation. pat hEath I remember thinking BIMM Brighton lecturer, ESP product I mustn’t slip into demonstrator and all-round busy Neville Marten, Editor musician, Pat brings you six cool licks ‘interview mode’ [email protected] each month in 30-Minute Lickbag. brIdgEt MErMIkIdES Don’t miss our AmAzing diGiTal ediTion Guildhall and Royal Academy trained, Bridget is a Royal College of Music, examiner, a respected classical player Guitar Techniques’ digital edition is now even better! and award-winning blues guitarist. MIltoN MErMIkIdES One of the country’s most respected music professors Milton’s list of credits is embarrassingly long. Go to www. miltononline to learn all about him. StUart ryaN Head of Guitar at BIMM Bristol, Stu is an acoustic guitar virtuoso who performs throughout the UK. His latest book/CD The Tradition is available now. IaIN Scott For over 25 years Iain has taught in the UK’s top schools and academies, as well as a stint at GIT in LA. He can also boast Tap the links animated tab & audio Play the videos playing with the legend Brian Wilson! Finding your way around the Songs and lessons have the Certain articles have magazine is easy. Tapping the audio built in, with a moving accompanying videos full of johN WhEatcroft A phenomenal guitarist, John is a feature titles on the cover or cursor showing you exactly useful insight and additional master at all styles but a legend in Gypsy the contents page, takes you where you are in the music. information. Once again, tap Jazz. His new album Ensemble Futur is straight to the relevant articles. Simply tap the ‘play’ button the play buttons to enjoy out now on iTunes and Amazon. Any web and email links in the then you can fast-forward or video masterclasses on your text are tappable too! scroll back at will. iPad or smartphone. chrIS WoodS You can hear Chris’s brand of modern, jazzy, percussive acoustic guitar on his plUS! Get a FREE iPad/iPhone sample of GT. For full details and how to receive our digital edition latest CD , Stories For Solo Guitar. Check regularly, go to bit.ly/guitartechniques (if you live in the UK) or bit.ly/guitartechus (overseas). him out at chriswoodsgroove.co.uk You can also find us on www.zinio.com (Please note: Zinio editions do not have interactive tab or audio). April 2016 03 CONTENTS TURN TO PAGE 28 NOW FOR THE LATEST • CONTENTS • APRIL 2016 • SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS Find out what lEaRNiNG zONE makes Clapton a god-like genius lESSONS iNTROduCTiON 45 Jason Sidwell gives you the lowdown on this month’s action-packed Lessons section. 30-MiNuTE liCkBaG 46 BIMM’s Pat Heath has six more great licks at easy, intermediate and advanced levels. BluES 48 Les Davidson looks at the style of ‘young gun’ and Clapton favourite, Gary Clark Jr. ROCk 52 Martin Cooper examines what made Frank Zappa such a unique guitarist and a bona fide Mother Of Invention. CREaTiVE ROCk 62 Shaun Baxter ups the ante in this exploration of the Mixolydian and the minor Blues scale. ChORd CaMP 68 Iain Scott provides another in-depth look at what makes chords tick. This month: 11ths. haRd ROCk 72 Charlie Griffiths masters the riff style and soloing techniques of UFO’s Michael Schenker. jazz 78 Israeli-born guitarist and fusion wizard Oz COVER FEaTuRE Noy gets the John Wheatcroft treatment. aCOuSTiC 90 ERiC ClaPTON Fusing jazz, pop, Latin and flamenco – acoustic Guitar genius of Eric Clapton 18 whiz José Feliciano appeals across the genres. Richard Barrett goes to the heart of what makes MuSiC REadiNG 94 Clapton a blues and rock god with an in-depth In the last of the series, Charlie Griffiths tests look at his composition and playing style. your skills with a jazzy fusion piece. FEaTuRES rEGULar FEatUrEs VidEO ClaSSES WElCOME 3 allEN hiNdS MaSTERClaSS spEciaL FEatUrE Nev tips his hat to Clapton and Harrison. Chilled Vanilla 56 Allen is your guide to soloing over a tricky pop daVid BOWiE TalkBaCk 6 rock backing track and helps you to navigate Tribute 12 Your comments and communications... some unorthodox chord changes. Jon Bishop pays homage to the extraordinary iNTRO 8 CREaTiVE aCOuSTiC 84 career of one the UK’s greatest musicians and 60 Seconds, Session Shenanigans, One-Minute cultural icons by celebrating the diverse styles Acoustic virtuoso Chris Woods freshens up Lick, That Was The Year, Jam Tracks and more. of Bowie and his guitar-toting sidemen. your modern acoustic toolbox with a look at SuBSCRiPTiONS 28 playing in DADGAD tuning. Save time and money – get GT delivered! transcription #1 BaCk iSSuES 44 Chris Woods: dREaM ThEaTER Missed a copy of GT in the last six months? part 2 of his TAsh wee l aowoaikt iDnrega mG lTahsesat er’s new release, 30 SaeleB huowM ySo u can get it here! 96 acoustic series NEW VIDEO Charlie Griffiths looks back at a track from Roger Newell reviews this month’s best LESSON! 2013 that boasts a rather tasty solo. releases: from Runrig to Andy Summers. uSER GuidE 97 transcription #2 Get more from GT by understanding our easy-to-follow musical terms and signs. GEORGE FRidERiC haNdEl alla hornpipe 40 NExT MONTh 98 Bridget Mermikides arranges and transcribes Tribute to the great Glenn Frey; Allen Hinds a fabulous piece taken from Handel’s triple- solos over a rock style backing track; Pantera’s movement suite, Water Music. Cemetery Gates, plus more Allen Hinds! April 2016 5 TalkBack Post Guitar Techniques, Future Publishing, Ivo Peters Road, Bath, BA2 3QS. Email [email protected] using the header ‘Talkback’. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON Thanks, Mark. We love it when we before printing? Two thirds of the I’ve been a GT reader since 1997. I receive letters like this from around answers are useless and don’t love the magazine and I always the world and it’s great to know that answer the question. If you agree learn a lot from each issue. I was our brilliant writers and players are that the interview is lame, maybe wondering if a transcription of the so appreciated. We’ll keep doing our give the artist some guidance and Brian Setzer version of Blue Moon best to bring you great stuff, just as 60 more seconds or just don’t Of Kentucky would be possible for long as there are people out there print it. If you disagree with my future transcription? Either the like you, loving what we do. assessment of the interview, live or studio version. Both have please let me know and I will just great chord and lead work. MORE RORY PLEASE! consider it a difference of Nelson Kerr Congratulations on your excellent opinion. Sorry to dump on your Chord Company magazine. It helps us amateur otherwise good issue but I was so Cream guitar cable We’ve tabbed several Setzer tunes guitarists around the globe a lot. annoyed about it that I had to over the years. We often do an My question: could you please write (it’s really late here and amalgamation of studio and live consider doing a transcription of maybe I am just over tired), but I versions, so that might be the best the brilliant songs by Mr Rory do assume that you would want idea here. I’ll have a listen to Blue Gallagher (underestimated feedback. I will look out for the THE LOST CORD? Moon... and see if it’s something we songwriter, performer, lyrist in next issue. I’ve noticed the question: ‘Do WE SEND THE SAME Q&A QUESTIONS Mike Quatrale, Canada cables make a difference...?’ BY EMAIL TO EvERYONE AND THEY cropping up in the Q&A article The 60 Seconds With... interviews you have with star guitar players ANSWER AS THEY SEE fIT are conducted by email – we send in Guitar Techniques. The cables the same questions to everyone and I have used for the last few years might schedule in the future. We did my opinion), especially his slide they answer as they see fit. We do are the Chord Company Cream Rock This Town by The Stray Cats work (In Your Town, Sinnerboy, say at the top of our list of questions: Instrument cables and they back in issue 228, so it’s probably Laundromat, etc). I know that in ‘Please answer in a sentence or two; certainly make a difference to me time to start looking at Brian again. the recent past the magazine we don’t mind serious, intellectual, as my sound is clearer. There is featured an article on some of his funny or flippant.’ Some artists really hardly any interference to speak LONE STAR acoustic playing, but I think that’s get into it; think about what readers of, plus they are also very durable. APPRECIATION all. Thank you, and please forgive might want to gain from them as Unlike many cables, which are of I wanted to thank you for me for my poor English. players and answer the questions a co-axial design (similar to an continuing to be the premiere Takis Rigopoulos, Athens quite deeply. 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Your point, who only recently started playing perhaps a look at one of your track of course, is that the flippant ones I haven’t tried Chord Company’s five years ago at the age of 54, you suggestions might be in order in the don’t make for the greatest read, so Cream Cables but they sound might well imagine that I am near future. It’s great to have some we will take that onboard in future. interesting. Funnily enough, in our trying to make up for lost time. Greek readers too, so welcome! Q&A each month we get opposing Your lessons and feature articles views about this – some say quality are well written and geared MORE QUESTIONS is vital and swear by certain brands, toward learning, all skill levels, THAN ANSWERS? while others pretty much dismiss and improvement in various I purchased Guitar Techniques the whole thing. What I never types of music. Recently, a few magazine for the first time understand is the cables that boast choice words in your magazine recently – December 2015 issue. I ‘more top end’ – that’s exactly what I gave me the nerve to start playing have gone over a bunch of it and don’t want: I want warmth and to your backing tracks, which are find it very good. I am looking smoothness. My main guitar cable is by the way, excellent. I have forward to reading the rest. A lot a Providence one that I’ve had for started to feel more fluid in my of content. But I am writing about over 20 years. I can honestly hear playing and am able to leave my the very lame 60 Seconds With... OT the difference between that and comfort zone and try new things. I won’t mention names but I can’t OSH other guitar cords – whether or not Yes, your magazine rocks here believe that you would bother to HOT iAvti’nse y‘wbosen taetbe ooru’u itst t schiamebrpleel gys? oa t m paatrtteicru olfa tra ste. atMoc radoorsk sw tRhhaoet s pyeoonnubd de!o rP gsleo, a Twseeex lcla.osntinue poedfr iaintnitns sgwu tecerhas ma. D u aisdcet lauenasysll,oy bn roeer aiinnd gtiht b eu nch sRtoirlly o Gnael loafg GhTe r: PETER MAZEL / P readers’ faves 06 April 2016 Intro instrumental inQuisition! Instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative and exciting moments. We asked some top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month: guitarist with Toto and sessioneer supreme, Steve Lukather. GT: What is it about guitar of scales either. It’s all about instrumentals that appeals to you? chords and substitutions over a SL: As a guitar player how can I simple melody that sparks ideas. not enjoy this music? To me it all That’s where I come from. starts with the melody and how GT: And what about modulations that is played. I am touched by this into new keys? and, of course, as guitar players SL: It’s always fun to, say, end on a we all love a little flash. But it nice long, sustained note that can needs both. One cannot enjoy flow into a key change – so long as dessert without a main course! it’s a surprise and not obvious. GT: What can an instrumental This is when knowing harmony provide that a vocal song can’t? and theory become really helpful. SL: The melody and the way it is GT: Do you view the backing band played is the ‘voice’ and many of in a different way than you would the greats make the guitar sing on a vocal? like a vocal. That is the point of SL: Not really... with a singer you guitar instrumental music. don’t have anyone to complain. GT: Anything to embrace or avoid? [laughs]. But since I do both I SL: One of the great things about complain to myself! instrumental music is that there GT: What are your views on are no range issues, as long as the harmonising melodies? notes are on the guitar. So many SL: No one does it better than young great players are breaking Brian May! I think he created the the rules and we have a huge template for harmony guitar in amount of greatness out there. rock music. But I will give Tom It’s really humbling to an old Scholz a little good vibe for putting guy like me. his own spin on it. I sort of stole GT: Do you like to retain a typical that from those guys for the end of song structure? the Hold The Line solo when I was SL: If you look at someone like 19 and doing our first record. Joe Satriani – who I love – he has GT: What guitar instrumentals a great sense of this structuring would you consider iconic or have and such a distinctive voice as inspired you? well as a great awareness of a Luke playing one SL: Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers beautiful melody that he can then of his Music Man and all of Jeff Beck’s music. John improvise over. It is incredible. I signature guitars McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu just heard a new piece by Steve Orchestra’s music. Al Di Meola Vai and orchestra, that is the how other instruments make with other musicians that play and Return To Forever, too. most insane composing and melodies is helpful and inspiring. other instruments. I have no Much of the music I loved when I playing I have ever heard. He has GT: How do you start writing one; single process. was growing up was Yes, the early rewritten the concept of guitar is there a typical approach? GT: What type of guitar tone do Genesis stuff with Steve Hackett, instrumental music. Then there is SL: There’s no typical way to you prefer for instrumentals? David Gilmour in Floyd. These Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Al make music. Sometimes it’s just a SL: It varies. I always like a little amazing bands would have vocal Di Meola, Guthrie and The spark of an idea that flows easy. sustain or distortion that’s sections but would have the most Aristocrats... Mike Landau is Other times it’s collaborations controlled by a volume pedal, or a amazing instrumental passages. I someone that needs to be looked pot on the guitar itself. Perhaps a could keep writing forever on all into hard; he has a different as guitarists little long delay and ’verb. But it this. So much great stuff. Jethro approach, as does Wayne Krantz we love a bit of all depends – a nice clean, Tull as well – 70s melodic prog who I really dig. God, someone, compressed tone makes for rock – I love it all. flash. but one stop me! other ideas to flow as well. GT: Is studying vocalists useful? cannot enjoy GT: Do you have any favourite For more of what Steve is up to N NAHA SL: The old jazz guys did this with dessert without modes when composing? with Toto and his solo projects HA phrasing and all. But I also think, SL: I forgot all the names of the please visit www.stevelukather. OB S for guitar players, checking out a main course modes and I don’t think in terms com and www.totoofficial.com R 8 April 2016 Intro N ew Year greetings to guitar’ Dale And The Deltones. you all, despite the fact You may have heard it as featured that by the time you music on Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. read this, the first final The long and (mercifully) short of tax demands of the year will be it is that it’s based on a traditional upon us; no doubt accompanied by Middle Eastern tune that employs the now traditional March an Arabic minor scale (E-F-G#-A- drought. Or earthquake. Or, in a B-C-D#) which Mr Dale plays at chance in a million, spring. about 300mph, depending on All of which set me to prevailing wind speed. And Mr contemplation as The Strictly Arch has transcribed every Circus rolled out of town this very semiquaver in his customary day and on to well... another town. meticulous style and seems to be Birmingham, to be precise. So enthusiastic about the idea of my good they named it once. I refer, of reading it at sight. In front of the course, to the ninth iteration of band. Who are not unamused by Strictly Come Dancing – The Live my predicament. Still, David puts Arena Tour. And therein lies all me at my ease. “Mitch, it’s just you you need to know about the Mitch Dalton’s leading this one. Try not to screw it perilous odyssey that is the up.” There’s a twinkle in his eye. plucker’s lot. You work hard. You session But there is also fear in my heart. I practice. You sweat. You gig. You blunder through it. The trick is screw up. You learn. Eventually, that it’s all played on one string. If shenanigans with a generous serving from Lady only I knew which one! Luck’s takeaway, you get it And so the day wears on as I together. You think. And at the The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and contemplate the challenge of very moment when you start to playing the little blighter 31 times personal fulfilment. M is for Misirlou. And believe you’ve nailed this pro without messing up. At this point, Malmaison hotel. And Metaphor. Possibly. guitar malarkey – Blammo! the odds seem low. I console Every year it’s the same story. myself with my previous All that changes is the location and rehearsed under the watchful ear Motown, a smidgeon of Chuck convictions. I have form. The nature of the trap that lies in wait. I and caustic tongue (on occasion) Berry, some jokey calypso and cod E-bow Misfiring Incident Of 2010. arrive, bright of eye and empty of of our leader: genius and flamenco on Spanish guitar. But The Broken String Disaster On pocket, into the bleakness of early perfectionist, David Arch. I’m not fooled. I’ve been this way Hallelujah, 2012. And there are January at John Henry’s Studios, Every guitar part is analysed in before. And it’s merely a matter of others, too embarrassing to for the week. That’s me, six guitars, order to identify exactly the right ‘when’ and not ‘if’. mention. But. I’m still here. Maybe two amps, the contents of a sound and correct instrument. I wait, patiently. And. Yep. there is hope. As I said. Life is medium-sized guitar effects shop While pretty much sight reading There it is. ‘Misirlou’. Oh. Dear. Misirlou or Malmaison. Only the and a bacon sarnie. The riddem the music first time out (most of Only not quite in those exact proportions vary. section sets up. And we’re off. the time the music hasn’t been words. For those of you unfamiliar Fourteen dance tunes. Four group copied early enough to have it in with this magnum opus, it’s a Mitch Dalton & The Studio Kings showpieces. Some play-ons. advance). Of course, it all seems cheery little instrumental ditty CD is out now. For more info go to: Etcetera. Each and every song is straightforward enough. Some made famous by Dick ‘king of surf www.mitchdalton.co.uk Phil hilborne’s one-minute licK Lydian Dominant Pattern Lick I recall a conversation with Frank Gambale when he told me he used to result is this angular but fun lick. It can be played fingerstyle, with a pick, have neck diagrams of scales pinned on the wall so he could study them fingers or sweep picking. The tricky thing is that it isn’t played as three- to find interesting patterns and shapes for navigating them. This ‘visual note groupings; it’s in ‘swung eighth notes’. This makes it trickier to play reference’ is a good way of seeing the geographical possibilities, especially but sounds better for it. a lydian Dominant is mode 4 of e Melodic minor for techniques such as tapping or, in Frank’s case, sweep picking. In this and contains the following notes: a-B-c#-D#-e-F#-G. In our lick the notes B month’s lick I looked at a diagram of the a lydian Dominant (2) and F# (6) have been omitted. as usual, try to come up with variations scale and noticed the abundance of root- 5 patterns; the of your own using the same process on both this and other scales. b – qq=qce ©»#¡#ª™4 A7add#11 œ #œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ #œ w~~~~~ & 4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ F ~~~~~ E 11 B 8 10 10 10 G 6 8 6 8 9 D 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 A 6 4 6 4 6 E ≥5 ≥3 5 m a m a etc April 2016 9 Intro 60 seconds with… A minute’s all it takes to find out what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the airport we grabbed a quick chat with UK blues phenomenon and frontman of The LiMiTs, Big Boy Bloater GT: Do you have a up and got a ’63 Nashville, which I type of pick that you loved. I gigged it for years, even can’t live without? getting that Ike Turner sound from BBB: I use those the Bigsby, but it couldn’t quite go huge picks about where I wanted so that’s how I 1mm thick and I get them custom ended up with the Bloatocaster. printed with my logo. I find I get a GT: What’s the most important better grip on those and end up musical lesson you ever learnt? dropping them a lot less. BBB: Listen and play what you GT: If you had to give up all your hear, not what you think you pedals but three...? should play. Just feel it. BBB: I actually spent years just GT: Do you still practise? plugging straight into my amp so I BBB: Not as much as I should. I would be fine with even less than was once doing a support at the three. My current amp is a ’63 Roundhouse and Jeff Beck was Fender Vibroverb reissue and I part of the main show and in the love using the reverb and the dressing room next to me. He vibrato on there so that probably played his guitar the whole time counts as two. I don’t like to be we were in there – the whole time without a tuner so that’d be my – and it made me realise that you third – a TC Electronic Polytune. can never be complacent. GT: Do you play anything else well GT: What’s the solo or song of your enough to do so in a band? own of which you’re most proud? BBB: I have depped in bands on BBB: I’m really proud of all the drums, piano and double bass. I songs on my new album, Luxury regretted the double bass gig Hobo. I like to be economical with though. A friend’s band were in my playing and not outstay my need of a bass player at very short welcome. But I love the solo on I notice so I jumped in. I was okay Got The Feeling Someone’s for about three numbers, then I Watching Me. There’s atmosphere started to get blisters on my right Big Boy Bloater in there and plenty of air, then at hand. Two more songs and they and his 2005 the end I managed to get this huge Japanese Strat exploded and what seemed to be whammy drop in that just keeps pints of blood covered both me going down. Producer Adam and the bass. Which was bad two more songs and my fingers Whalley widened it as well, as it enough but it wasn’t my bass! drops, so it just seems bottomless. exPloded, and what seemed liKe GT: If a music chart were put in GT: What are you currently up to ? Pints of blood covered me! front of you, could you read it? BBB: My new album with The BBB: Not really, but I don’t think LiMiTs, Luxury Hobo, comes out that’s important unless you’re surprised that I’m not a collector of and what Ike Turner was doing on 26th February on Provogue. looking to be a member of an guitars, but I am a working guy then. He was an early adopter of We’re planning a promotional orchestra or a professional session and I have bills to pay; stacking up the Strat and is the reason I play album tour in May in the UK, with guy. I can work most of a chart out guitars is a luxury I can’t afford. one today. Ike’s playing in the 50s some festivals in the summer and, given time but I’m certainly not a GT: What strings do you use? is so distinct. When I tell people hopefully, some European shows. sight reader. When you’re on stage BBB: I use Rotosound 11-48. Ike is my main man they instantly I’m already starting to think about playing and singing, who’s got They’re the only strings I’ve found think Ike & Tina but that’s not the next album, at the same time time to look down at a chart? that stay in tune when I’m giving what I am talking about; dig back as promoting this one. I know GT: Your house is burning down: the whammy bar some abuse. All to his early instrumentals to hear people think there’s nothing much which guitar do you salvage? the other brands seemed to snap what I mean. to do between gigs and recording BBB: I only use one guitar, a 2005 on me. I generally get about three GT: What was the first guitar you but that’s really when the hard Japanese Strat. It’s been modded gigs out of a set of strings then I really lusted after? work happens. It could be worse – new pickups, trem block, tone change them. BBB: When I was a kid a friend of though, I could be working my ass and single volume. I call it the GT: Who was your first influence to my older brother had an old 6120 off for something I hate! Bloatocaster! It’s a great guitar, play the guitar? Grestch that he taught me some takes a lot of abuse and never lets BBB: I have always loved that songs on and I really wanted one. For more info on BBB and The me down. People are often really 50s-60s R&B and blues sound, As soon as I had a job at 16 I saved LiMiTs go to bigboybloater.com 10 April 2016

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