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Jeff Beck on his microtonal guitar approach and how he set up his Fender Stratocaster for precision pitch bending
The late guitarist shared insights into his influences and techniques in an interviewer for our May 1999 issue
"My solos happen so fast that I don't really know what I'm doing. It's like trying to tell somebody about a car crash: It's all over in two-fifths of a second, and then you talk about it for ten hours afterward": A revealing chat with Jeff Beck
In 1999, Jeff Beck sat down with Guitar Player for one of his most revealing interviews. Topics covered: why younger players are "crap", the genius of Eric Clapton, and why "the Marshall sound is the balls"
"I took a screwdriver and stuck it under the strings at the nut…" Gary Rossington on how he came up with his sound on Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington died in March, 2023. Back in 1999, he told us the weird trick he used for the slide part on Freebird…
"For slide, I've always used a glass Coricidin bottle, like Duane Allman. He told me that a bottle sounds different than a steel slide, so I copied him": Gary Rossington on the gear – and unlikely household tool – that inspired Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird
It's now the all-time bar band song request, but this classic rock epic was going nowhere until the late Skynyrd guitarist did some wallet-friendly modding...
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