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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Matt Parker

“I was bullied for my technique. I just used that as motivation… keep playing until you smoke the haters”: Meet Snõõper, the Jack White-signed Nashville indie punks making art from 100mph fretwork

Snõõper guitarists Ian Teeple and Connor Cummins

‘Speed’ can be a dirty word for some guitarists. Invoke the term and you risk triggering a lengthy rant about shred, mocking comments about spandex before it all simmers to a mumble about “David Gilmour” and “finger tone”. 

Nashville’s Snõõper are an exception, in being both cool enough to be signed by Jack White’s Third Man Records and fast enough to leave you panting between licks.

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