CHAD TAYLOR (LIVE)
As you might expect from a man who owns a guitar shop, Chad Taylor has got more than a few beauties.
Before we get to his rig he shares the story behind some of his favourite guitars back home, such as his 1961 “Mary Lou” Fender Jazzmaster, named after his eldest daughter. He bought it from César Díaz, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s former tech, who applied the Mary Lou decal from the same pack of stickers that the famous SRV decal came from.
He tells us of the ’56 Les Paul he smashed on Saturday Night Live after too many green room martinis. “I would not do that now,” he says. “I want to make that clear!” His tech Matt Gracey recovered the guitar – it plays better than ever. “It’s a strange thing,” says Taylor, “Les Pauls only get better with road miles in them, and tonight’s have been refinished, repaired, and only now have found their voice after 20 years of touring.”
GUITARS
FENDER 1961 “SCARLETT” JAZZMASTER IN FIESTA RED
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