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Guitar World
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Andrew Daly

“I knew the guitar was valuable, but this was before Slash blew up, so nobody really wanted Les Pauls. They all wanted Charvels”: Billy Duffy on his greatest guitar deals – and the one he regrets selling to Bob Rock

Billy Duffy performs onstage with the Cult.

This month in Bought & Sold, the Cult’s Billy Duffy swoops in on the back of his Falcon to discuss all things guitar, from first electric guitars to the rig that gets him through a show – and why getting through the show is really the only thing he can be thinking about when it comes to pedals.

He tells us about Johnny Marr’s kind gift, winces in pain as he tells of a Les Paul loved and lost, and answers one of the greatest philosophical questions of our time: which combo is better, the cheap guitar/high-end amp or high-end guitar/cheap guitar?

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