Guitar CONTRIBUTORS

DARRAN CHARLES

HANDY MAN

hough it was Richie Sambora that made Darran pick up the guitar, it was Steve Vai’s exotic style that ensured he’d keep at it. For this issue, Darran got to grips with a pair of Corts. “In principle, active pickups are a tonal anathema,” he says. “In practice, they continue to neutralise my prejudices. That in the early 1990s I was hooked.”