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26 Gary Moore

What was the impact of still Got The Blues on you as a young guitarist ?

Ghe Kind of like [Stevie Ray Vaughan’s debut album] Texas Flood, it just floored you. Just the song Still Got The Blues… the tone, the playing! I would have been 13 years old. It was one of those things where you go, ‘Wow, is this just unbelievable!’ My dad told me, “That’s a Les Paul,” and I’m like, ‘I need to get one of those.’ But Still Got The Blues made a lot of it and turned the gain up. The two trailblazers in the kind of music that I play were Walter Trout and Gary Moore because they were the ones, especially over in Europe, that took a

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