OUT OF THE BLUES

Tweedy is really fucking funny.” We’re sat with Jeff Garlin in the living room of his Mullholland Drive home while the award-winning comedy actor and stand-up comedian is considering which of his many musician friends could make it as a professional comic. As well as revealing which other guitarists he finds funny, Garlin insists that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has the chops to make it in the cutthroat world of stand-up.

But first, down to business. In early 2020, Guitar Magazine visited Garlin to peruse his impressive collection. Like many of us, he’s spent the past year and a half buying, selling and trading gear to stave off the boredom of extended periods of inactivity during lockdown. However, with the assistance of Los Angeles retailer Imperial Vintage [imperialvintageguitars.com], Garlin recently decided to take the more drastic step of listing almost all his guitars for sale on Reverb.com – and all for charity.

“Here’s the]. It’s a charity that’s about prevention, and when somebody in your family comes down with cancer, we help you get all the right care, the right information. I’ve helped before. I’m a photographer also and, when I had my first show, the profits all went to Fuck Cancer. And so I thought, ‘I have a bunch of guitars, I’m gonna sell most of ’em to help people who are dealing with this’. That’s really it. I like doing that stuff. I make more than enough money being a comedian. I’m successful enough.”