“I thought, ‘I’m going to get this guitar, make a few videos then sell it.’ But I found my place as a guitarist”: Rob Scallon on the eight-string that changed his life – and how it helped him become one of YouTube’s OG guitar stars

Rob Scallon.

Rob Scallon has been a YouTuber for 17 years. For the last 12 of those he’s been paying rent by building the world’s largest pedalboard, exploring unusual stringed instruments and more.

He says with a wry smile that it’s taken a game to bag him his first-ever Guitar World interview. But Fretless – The Wrath of Riffson isn’t any old game; it’s a role-playing product that puts music, and more pertinently, the guitar, at its heart.