RAISING THE TONE
If anyone deserves the title ‘session legend’ it’s Michael Landau. He’s recorded with everyone from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. He’s admired as the quintessential taste-and-chops player by fellow guitarists, such as his friend and fellow LA session ace Steve Lukather, and he also enjoys a reputation as a bit of a tone-guru too. Based on this association, the many mods Landau made to what was, for many years, his number-one guitar – the infamous 1959 ‘Coma Strat’ – are inevitably of interest. And even more so now that Fender has launched a new signature model based on the Coma Strat, which forms part of its Stories Collection of guitars based on real-life instruments with a rich backstory. Before we get into the details, however, I ask
