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I couldn’t even touch a guitar string because the pain was so bad… I had to re-establish the connection between my brain and my fingertips.” The Blasters' Dave Alvin on the highspots and the horrors of his career in five songs The amps onstage were an early ’70s Fender Champ and an Ampeg VT-40. I believe the Champ was only used as a driver for his Kustom “The Bag” talk box, and the Ampeg was his main guitar amp. Cause We've Ended as Lovers" is a very beautiful song. He had his moments with the Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) but I'd still take his solo stuff over them. I've been waiting for someone to do this album forever! Amazing album from one of the greatest guitar players ever! Good review too. This Message Edited On 12.26.05I mean, you can make it better with chocolate sauce, but it’s not right when you try to put another flavor in. Yeah, well that’s not necessarily a good thing. It’s like taking a bit of vanilla ice cream and pouring something else over it to cover up the vanilla. You either like vanilla or you don’t. Sometimes bad gear can give you a good idea! I’ll go with whatever’s around. There are no rules”: Code Orange’s Reba Meyers on writing “pure evil” riffs and why she’d rather play a guitar that “sounds a little sh**tier” than a studio classic

During their double-headlining Fire Meets the Fury Tour, Guitar Player got a chance to sit down and catch up with the man himself. The live album that he did with the Jan Hammer Group is kind of boring, even though it does have "Freeway Jam" on it. As an all-instrumental album it was a surprising commercial success, with a jazz fusion-like approach seldom seen on best-selling lists at the time. It was certified Gold in 1976.The guitars have a vagueness and messiness – there’s a certain cloudiness that creates our perfect environment. That's our sound”: Blonde Redhead might not be the best of friends, but their otherworldly guitar textures are a match made in heaven One of the best albums of the best guiratist alive IMO. This guy just turns any genre he touches in some outstanding performance. His latest electronic work is exceptional too. John Lee Hooker: "Out of the Younger Generation of the Blues Singers, Who Was My Pride and Joy? Stevie Ray Vaughan... He Could Do Anybody – Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson – Anybody's Thing. I'd Sit Down and Watch Him Do That" Buchanan pioneered expressive playing techniques like creating tone and volume swells by manipulating his guitar’s control knobs.