![]() I cleaned them, polished them, did string changes. It was probably one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in my life it was so emotionally difficult packing those guitars up. I’m auctioning off the bulk of my guitar collection for charity. It was one thing after another.īut my wife and I, we’re at a stage in our life where we just feel like we have too much stuff and we’re trying to get a little leaner. I was heartbroken that it was done but, as time progressed and we learnt of Neil’s illness and dealt with that over the course of three-and-a-half years, it was a lot, you know? Then we were confronted with this pandemic. I have to say that after the last tour in 2015, I didn’t mind having a little bit of breathing space afterwards. That, to me, is success.ĭo you feel more creative freedom at this point in your career? Almost every project that I’ve done, they’ve come back and said, ‘I never in a million years would have thought of that piece in that song but now I can’t hear it any other way’. When I set out to play on somebody else’s music I always try to do something that they’re not expecting, and I’ve done well in that capacity. You’ve contributed guitar to many songs and albums over the years. I have lots of options: one of my Lerxst heads a Matchless a Bogner and I have one of my Marshalls in my closet. So with all the analogue front end that I have, I can get a nice deep, full sound. I love it! It has a lot of different settings for different cab sounds and filters, and it sounds really good. I did get a Cab Clone from Mesa/Boogie recently. The plugins all sound amazing but they sound like they’re just pasted onto the screen, you know? They don’t have that depth and it’s hard to get them to sit in a track, where they’re inside the track rather than just on top of the track. I would set up a small cabinet with a single Celestion 12-inch and would mic that with maybe a Shure SM57 or a Sennheiser 421. I used Nashville tuning a lot – that’s an effective tuning that I’ve used a lot over the years.ĭid you just mic up cabs or were you using digital modellers as well? I think I used a baritone in a couple of spots as well, and my original Epiphone Dove from 1976. I used my PRS Angelus a lot, that’s a real go-to. He bought that for me on my 65th birthday because he’s such a good pal. ![]() I have a 1953 J-50 that was a gift from Geddy. What kind of acoustic guitars were you using for the album? To target those sort of elements and follow through and not have to worry about, you know, playing ‘guitar parts’. So that was a great challenge that was really rewarding for me. The great thing for me is it just allowed me the freedom to work around everything that was there and create soundscape elements that don’t sound like guitar. I thought they were all effective and were the proper part for the proper spot. ![]() ![]() Alfio played some great guitar parts and I never once wanted to redo anything that he did. Throughout the album, your guitar is understated, rarely taking centre stage ![]()
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