Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers and Joni Mitchell to Gene Simmons and James Brown. It’s not surprising that his advice errs to eclecticism. “The more you have to call from your encyclopaedia of music, the better it gets,” he says.
With his wide range of credits and a mad-scientist inclination to Frankenstein every guitar he touches, one might think Baxter has a scattered approach. But he reflects: “I’m a fairly well-rounded player. I’ve been in a studio position for 60 years. I know a little bit about playing the guitar, I guess.”
