HIGH WATTAGE
Mar 24, 2020
4 minutes
BY RICHARD BIENSTOCK
DESCEND INTO ANDREW Watt’s subterranean home studio, tucked away in the basement of his L.A. home, and you’re greeted with the site of many, many guitars — according to Watt, his collection numbers in the hundreds.
But there are just a handful that he turned to when it came to making Ordinary Man. First on that list is a one-of-a-kind model that he received as a gift — a Les Paul previously owned and played by one of his biggest influences, Mick Ronson.
“It’s an early Seventies Les Paul Standard,” Watt says. “It was the backup to his [Les Paul]
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