“We got about an hour in, and I was like, ‘I haven’t even pulled the slide out of my pocket yet!’” Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide guitar players of all time but sometimes forgets he even has one – here’s how he decides when to use it

Derek Trucks takes a slide solo on his Gibson SG as Tedeschi Trucks Band performs live at Madison Square Garden.

You could be forgiven for forgetting sometimes that Derek Trucks is a smoking-hot guitar player even when he isn’t wearing that trademark glass slide on his ring finger.

All of the highlights reels – understandably – focus on his work with the slide, turning his Artist Series Dickey Betts SG into an auxiliary member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band vocals division.