“I was playing in the living room, he walked past and shot me this look of ‘Do that again.’ So I bent the string up and he gave me this nod of approval”: Jack Moore on lessons learned from his father, Gary

Jack Moore & Gary Moore.

Having a world renowned guitar hero for a father has its pros and cons. While Jack Moore, the son of late Irish blues virtuoso Gary Moore, acknowledges that “there's not many better teachers,” than the former Thin Lizzy man, there came with it a sense of strictness and expectation.

“He used to send me to my room to practice my vibrato,” Moore. recalls in a new chat with Guitar Player. “He identified that as a weakness in me at first. So he was like, ‘Get to your room, practice.’