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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Matt Parker

“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender – the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics – and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer

Great Grandpa's Pat Goodwin and Dylan Hanwright.

Great Grandpa is a band full of surprises. They’re an indie rock group from Seattle, with a Berklee grad guitarist/producer in their midst, yet you’ll hear no ironed-out shred or impenetrable prog riffs. Their songs are full of lush left-turns, sliding transitions and melodic complexity, but their chief songwriter has had no formal training.

Even their return is a surprise: dropping their first album in six years – Patience, Moonbeam, the follow-up to 2019’s stellar Four of Arrows – after a period in which the band appeared to be on the rocks.

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