WELCOME TO THAT ONE GUITAR!
That One Guitar is a brand new podcast about renowned, legendary and modern players’ favourite guitars. We ask guests to choose that one guitar they cannot do without, and all about why. We celebrate the guitar as objet d'art as well as the ultimate musical instrument. Hans Zimmer described the electric guitar as “the closest thing to true magic created by a human being that I can think of”. Who can say it better than that. Welcome then, to That One Guitar!
EPISODE 1: GALE PARIDJANIAN, TURIN BRAKES
Gale's choice of guitar is a Charvel electric-acoustic model from his days working in the acoustic department of one of the music shops in London’s famous Denmark Street, for which he paid something like £469 (roughly £1,200 in today’s money).
“It’s got my sound in it. If you plug it in it just sounds like The Optimist and that’s our sound. It’s a battle to play but there’s something about how it sounds when it’s recorded. It sounds like me”.
EPISODE 2: STUART BRAITHWAITE, MOGWAI
With his band Mogwai, Stuart Braithwaite creates music of an ethereal, almost mystical nature. Stuart’s tricks of the trade are use of open strings, multiple effects and deploying that trance-inducing trademark of post-rock: the drone. Somehow, despite his musical heroes Robert Smith & J Mascis employing the Fender Jazzmaster, Stuart has only recently taken to it.
“It’s the sound. They are a really full sounding guitar. Fender sent me one. That was my gateway into the world of Jazzmasters”.
NEXT UP ON THAT ONE GUITAR…rock legend Scott Gorham talks metal art, the Les Paul ‘57, those guys on the right hand side of the stage and Thin Lizzy past: present and future…