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“There was no master plan apart from we didn’t want to do the Thin Lizzy/Status Quo blues bendy thing”: Bruce Watson on the birth of Big Country, Stuart Adamson’s legacy and the secret to bagpipe guitar

Bruce Watson shares the guitar story of the Scottish rock stalwarts, the "Itch and Itch" amps so crucial to his tone, and how “Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix” was the heart of Big Country's sound

Guitar World · May 24

“Any drug coming along, I’d take. It wasn’t a self-destruct thing. It either closed the door on my mind or opened one up”: The wild life and drunken times of cult rock’n’roll pirate king Tyla J Pallas

Musician, artist, poet – Tyla J Pallas is rock’n’roll’s answer to Charles Bukowski

Louder · Mar 15, 2025

“Far ahead of the 80s art-rock curve… forward-looking, new wave electronic music with trace elements of prog and glam”: Bill Nelson’s Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam Deluxe Box Set

Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s 1981 solo release is greatly expanded to impressive effect

Louder · Dec 13, 2024

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“I don’t go in with an idea of what guitar I want to use. One will call out to me, saying, ‘OK, it’s my turn.’ It leads to something that comes explicitly from that instrument”: Art rock icon Bill Nelson has 80 guitars, but he ditched amps a long time ago

The creative drive of Be Bop Deluxe’s avant-garde guitar hero cannot be stopped. Nelson releases multiple albums a year and still prizes his ’60s Gibson ES-345 – although he wanted a Gretsch at first, until his dad intervened…

Guitar World · Dec 24, 2023

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