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GT: Do you have a type of pick that you can’t live without?
SMcQ: I use a Dunlop thumbpick all the time.
GT: If you had to give up all your pedals but three, what would they be?
SMcQ: I only have four. Two of them are stage tuners - one for the acoustic and the other for the electric. And then I have a tremolo pedal and a Donner Yellow Fall delay pedal that I use for an instrumental piece I wrote called The Day Of Wrath, That Day.
GT: Do you play another instrument well enough to be in a band, and if so have you ever done it?
SMcQ: Well, hilariously, when I was a teenager and living in Washington, DC, I played a Fender Rhodes in a prog-jazz outfit called The Rhinos. I also play keyboard (or preferably
