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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Andrew Daly

“He’d already set everything up... The guitar was radically out of tune and the strings were virtually hanging off it”: Leo Abrahams on his Strat-wrestling initiation with Brian Eno, why he didn’t want to be famous, and what he learned from Paul Simon

Leo Abrahams.

A close working relationship with Brian Eno, along with appearances on records by Suede’s Brett Anderson, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor and others, keeps Leo Abrahams’ mind open. “My influences are really varied,” he tells Guitar World. “But the one constant has been searching for unusual sounds.”

He continues: “One very important thing on a session is the ability to get the right sound pretty much immediately, and for that sound to be convincing. You have to know your gear really well.”

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