“That’ll still smoke most rigs these days too, by the way”: Aaron Marshall of Intervals says the rig he played Blink-182 and Slipknot on as a teenager could more than hold its own today

Aaron Marshall of Intervals holds a peach-coloured S-style as he is photographed against a green and blue patterned wall.

The quest for whatever the ultimate electric guitar tone is in your head is a never-ending process for most guitar players. It’s that whole thing of ‘the destiny is the journey,’ or whatever quasi-Zen bromide you can think of to quieten the demons at the back of your head, forcing your hand to open up the Reverb app and start looking for the next thing.

But it isn’t always that way. It’s not everyone’s story, and it is not Aaron Marshall’s.