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It’s based changes tour by tour and it happens or all the TV shows with the RAI heavy part of the culture of that on my Valley Art Custom Pro: 24 that I don’t play on some tunes or Italian television orchestra, or when time, way better than now! frets, Gibson scale and smaller Strat VXLWHV VR LW GHSHQGV VRPH WRXUV , I play my own music. So to answer GT: Your house or studio is burning type body, and you can switch from have the guitar in my hands for all your question, if I cannot bring my down: which guitar do you salvage? Gibson to Strat type tones. It’s a WKH FRQFHUW RWKHUV WKH JXLWDUV DUH Kemper I would take my G3N. Terrifying question. Well, I own great, versatile guitar. I also use a on the stands for a long time. GT: Do you play another instrument some beautiful vintage guitars, so I nylon-string acoustic electric, GT:What is the trickiest piece to well enough to do so in a band? would save the ’56 Strat, the ’53 generally Godin Multiac. I’ve been play with Ennio Morricone? 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For rehearsal or know that melody perfectly and OLYHDQGRQP\¿UVWUHFRUG/\QGRQ electric and acoustic, and Galli emergency I use Zoom G5N or G3N, want to listen to it exactly as the in 1997. I also play mandolin, PDGHLQ,WDO\ IRURXGÀDWZRXQG not comparable with Kemper, but original. I love this challenge but I bouzouki and other stringed jazz and some nylon. For the great tone for a great value. feel more comfortable playing jazz. instruments, all tuned like the Agostin, Strat and Les Paul GT: How do you achieve the famous VRPHWLPHVIRU guitar sounds for Ennio’s Western THROUGH THE BEATLES I DISCOVERED Teles, because Ernie Balls have movie scores? CLAPTON, BECK, PAGE, ALLMAN, FINALLY more tension compared to other The famous western movies were companies. For jazz guitars I use a produced from ‘64 to ’71. 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