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    “YOU CAN’T TAKE THE GUITAR PLAYING OUT OF ME”

    Jul 30, 2021 5 minutes
    Interviews Mick Taylor, Jamie Crompton, Brad Tolinksi

    Rule number one

    “I’ll tell you the number one rule about guitars for me. I’m so sorry you couldn’t get the colour that you wanted, but if you pick up a guitar at a store and it’s sunburst, and you hate sunburst, but it feels and plays great for you – lightning strikes – then that’s your guitar! As soon as you start getting greedy and you go, I want one like this sunburst, but can you make it blue? The blue one is going to sound and feel terrible. Never in my life has that ever succeeded. To be lucky enough to have lightning strike twice – it doesn’t happen.”

    SRV

    “The first guitar influence when I was about 13. The moment I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan I thought, ‘Wow – that’s the thing that’s not

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