Jack Gardiner is one of today’s leading virtuosos. His dexterity on the instrument is jaw-dropping, refined over decades of graft and tuition at the hands of fusion masters Tom Quayle and Alex Hutchings.
It’s no wonder people want to play like him. But some guitarists can take their hero worship a little too far, as Gardiner discovered when he became the victim of serial lick thief Giacomo Turra.