first off thank you for taking this interview and i have a couple
of questions from your supporters okay
all right fire away! the first question is from ppk what strings do you like the most
my favorite strings are d'addario i've just always used them i use tens on the electric
12s on the acoustic i'll put them up on the screen so that you can see which ones they are but yeah
d'addario's strings another question i have is from daniel mk and he says why did you leave
the uk? oh that's a good question i always tell people i left the uk because of work but that's
not really true i worked for a uk company then i traveled over to the US to the same company
and i actually met my current wife so i left the uk to be with her
and now i've settled in here for the last three years good question cheers daniel great answer
thank you i have um another question um from ppk says how many years have you been playing guitar
uh yep that's another good question so i picked up a guitar when i was 18 um and i don't know why
i bought the guitar but i didn't do much with it learn open chords learn barre chords and then put
it away and probably and then i spent 10 years in a band as a singer and the only real time i
picked it up was probably five years ago i had another little go but i've only really
been passionate about the guitar and been serious about it for the last three years so i suppose
three years great answer why thank you i have another one from black mirror black
mirror yeah and says most suitable amp you have for recording and or gigging i've got two amps
two amps and two modelers and if i was gonna go out gigging with a guitar uh the amp i
would take i would say the hot rod because it's a fantastic amp and it's gonna sound great on stage
but it's just too loud so i'd have to bring the captor x um and a whole load of other gear but
i've just got the new fender champ v2 and it's a tube amp with some digital modeling effects
it's definitely loud enough to do a gig it definitely sounds fantastic so
i can only recommend what i've tried defender super champ go for it he also has a bonus
question and you said would you get a boss contanya mk2 and why a boss catania? katana!
um i've tried one once my nephew's got one he invited me around said i've got this great new amp
check it out have a look at it and it was the boss katana played through it and i'm a big clean sound
guy i'm not much on high gain so unfortunately the boss katana for me was disappointing and i
didn't like it much but as i say i'm a big tube clean sound fender person so for high
gain stuff i've seen a few videos on youtube and they look amazing so the high gain stuff
is probably going to be your thing for me not so much another one from ppk ppk is ... start
over can you cut that okay another one from ppk is two questions how did you learn to play guitar
and did you have a teacher and the other one is which one do you like more acoustic or electric
i learned to play guitar online never really had a teacher unless you count my mate in the uk Al
how you doing buddy? he taught me my first riffs and chords and little runs and those sorts of
things so um other than that for the three years let's say three years i've been really seriously
trying to play guitar it's all been online watching people like chris paroxy chris barocci
rabea massad um jamie harrison chris buck the list goes on and on but you get the idea so yeah i'm
i've learned entirely online and never had a teacher and which do i prefer acoustic or electric
i really do like them both um i love the sound of a an amp being slightly overdriven with an
electric guitar especially a strat as i said i'm not much of a high gain player not much of
a shredder so a strat for me would sound fantastic um but the acoustic guitar i get a feeling i play
guitar better on an acoustic guitar for some reason and i don't know what that reason is so
if i had to pick one over the other if you if you were gonna press me for it then i would say
um i'll pick a fender strap electric guitar i'd have to agree with you that i think you sound
better on that as well okay thank you just so you're learning okay that's good good to see you
he also wants to know can you do more acoustic gear videos because he's waiting
absolutely though oh okay i'll just let you know that yeah absolutely of course
i absolutely can do more acoustic uh guitar videos acoustic videos um because that's
something i want to get into as well and um i'm looking trying to sort of get a taylor guitar
as well my wife's down there she doesn't know so yeah of course i need another one yeah of course
um and then we have one from atb good old atb he comments on almost every video great guy he
with the said symbol he also said congrats on the new home and he loves your guitar room um
his question would be what guitars influence your playing and what genre is your favorite
as i said before guitarists that influence my playing of course like your typical answer is
going to be people like joe satriani john petrucci steve vi eric clapton john mayer
et cetera but for me it's none of those guys really i do admire them and i do love listening
to them of course but guys that influence my playing and guys that play with phil guys like
um rabea massad when he plays the clean stuff on his strap
unbelievable dynamics chris buck outstanding player chris barocci guys like paul davids as well
basically i watch a lot of youtube guitar videos and there are some amazing up-and-coming guitar
players just too many to list including guys like jamie harrison so they're the guys that really
influenced my guitar playing when i see them when i'm sitting there i'm watching youtube and
i see them i say i've got to pick up my guitar and play it or pick up my guitar and learn what
they've just played so yeah online guys and then you have another one from steve guitar on youtube
steve guitar he said why are puppies so cute well yeah but that's that's thought provoking and maybe
too deep for this type of video um but puppies are pretty cute yeah yeah thanks steve he also said
what is your dream guitar and why uh probably the offender strap probably a fender strat from the
one of the original ones from the 50s and 60s and why i don't know i just love that whole
road worn relic thing it's not for everyone people prefer the newer style of guitars
but i prefer something that's i don't know been used got a bit of a story to it so yeah yeah
one of those old fender strats definitely great answer thanks steve and then your last question
is from anonymous anonymous and they would like to know if you had to choose between all your guitars
and your equipment or your wife and the cat who would you choose and that's come from anonymous
anonymous right interesting well i've got a feeling anonymous is here in the room so
of course my answer would be my wife and my cat tippy atb tippy um well thank you
for this time that you spent with us taking the time out of your busy day double busy day
double busy day and hopefully we can do this again fantastic thanks to everyone that sent
questions in from instagram and youtube um maybe we'll do it again cheers bye guys you