![]() ![]() How or when do you decide it’s time to go guitar shopping? And Taylor I’ve used for ages, since 1990. I don’t have any on this tour, but I do like Yamaha. Yamaha have got some really good little acoustics. I like that they’re pretty robust, the tremolo arm doesn’t often lose the tuning. Mine’s a real new one, and they seem to do production-line Strats pretty right. After that, I started playing the B-Bender, and I did that for 10 years or so. I’ve gone back to playing Strats, which is what I used to play in Squeeze for the first five years. What’s your main electric guitar these days? He had two different neck benders and two palm benders. He’s the guy who really inspired me to do that, but just with one string. He was a session guitarist who got tired of touring, tired of all that, he just wanted to play. I saw a guy in Las Vegas once who had D- and E- and G- and B-benders. He used to have that guitar I just thought it was the coolest thing. I came upon it because there was a guy called Ross McGeeney, a guitarist in a band called Starry Eyed and Laughing. It’s actually a very “Honky Tonk Women” approach to the chorus, sort of a tip of the hat to the Stones. It’s also on “Hourglass” at the end, going into the chorus. I know you used a B-bender on “The Truth” from Play. I can’t remember the specific name-bollocks! It’ll come to me. Or I’d use one of those wobbly Hendrix-type effects. So I guess I’d use those if I were to use pedals. I used to have two compressors at different levels, so I’d have a solo one and one for just a general "even-ing" out. And that’s a conscious decision I’ve enjoyed using the volume control on my guitar more. I guess you’d have a Telecaster with a B-bender, and I’ve stopped using pedals except for the one that comes with my amp. If I were to start a Squeeze cover band, what one guitar and handful of effect pedals should I have in order to cover all the bases pretty well? We discussed gear, guitar solos, the band's success with smaller labels and their plans for future releases. I sat down with Tilbrook after Squeeze's soundcheck at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.
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