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-LARRY MILLER Foreve Touring and releasing his own albums since 1997, Larry Miller is following in the footsteps of Rory Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix while keeping his brand of blues-rock unique. Interview by Michael Heatley o what's in a name' Larry Miller could be ones that people pick up on are often the ones that you the moniker of your local plumber, butcher thought were throwaways.' or car mechanic. Such is the lot of a home­ One of the album's more personal compositions is Guitars grown guitar hero that, though latest album the standout The Wrong'Name, a classic jilted-at-the­ Gibson Les Paul, sOn The Edge is the seventh of his career, Larry remains altar ballad that has already won Larry a nomination Fender Strat, Martin D-35 acoustic under the radar as far as much of the media goes. It's for the UK's best blues writer, courtesy of an impressed asituation rather like that of his all-time hero, Rory radio producer. However, he's aware of the pitfalls of Amps Gallagher, and who knows... things might change. straying from the familiar blues-rock highway. Marshall Vintage 'It's fascinating, really,' he smiles. 'There are so many 'This type of music is all quite derivative, it's all been Modern, Marshall DSL bands out there that have so much more press than done before, and if you step outside those boundaries Effeds me. We do so many gigs - obviously I make a living out then people don't like it. So it's finding the right Ibanez Tube Screamer, ofit - but a lot of bands that get far more press aren't balance; don't get too clever... but at the same time it Cry Baby wah-wah pulling in anywhere near the numbers we do, which is has to come from the heart.' 'and maybe just a clean boost' quite nice. I put it down to word of mouth; people come Larry tries to have an acoustic number on each of his to see me, get what I'm doing, and come back.' albums, and this time The Devil's In The Detail- played Of course, he could take a shortcut, add some in a Jimmy Page-approved DADGAD tuning - was American exoticism and become, say, Larry Lee Miller, the last number to be cut. 'That song is really weird but that's not his way. Besides, even the man who first because I originally had those sets oflyrics to a different got his creative juices ------__-e _ type of song completely, flowing, musically but in the end it just came speaking, was born plain "When 'ltory died 1 thought so easily.' The result is Eric Clapp... enjoyably 'authentic' and 'I lived in Merrow, "There's nobody doing this appropriately precedes which was just down When The Blues Man the road from Ripley a11Y more. 'Why don't 1 do it?' Walked The Earth, his ------__-e _ in Surrey. I remember homage to the greats. .~ seeing Eric in 1977 when he played the Cranleigh Village Hall, when he started doing a series of smaller gigs. Takin CareOf BUSINESS 'My brother, who's three years older than me, introduced me to all this sort of stuff- I was really ahead of all my friends. It seemed like every time I'd come down in the morning before going off to school there'd be a new album by Black Sabbath, Quintessence or the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I remember watching my brother and his friends jumping around the room to the Who's Live At Leeds. I was only a little boy but 1 remember thinking "This is fun!" Ofcourse, then they all went off and got normal jobs!' Larry took significantly longer in creating On The Edge than previous albums: 'I've spent the last year and a half totally indulging myself.' But, as he explains, the songs he knocked out relatively quickly, and the ones that give him the least satisfaction, are sometimes the ones people like the most. 'There's a song called Road Runner which I just threw down in the studio, but Paul Jones plays it on his radio show! You're trying to stretch the boundaries, but the JUL Y2012 Guitar & Bass 33 LARRY MILLER Larry's always been a Strat player - his '70S Larryocaster, played live LARRY MILLER Fearless since 1985, is the stuff of legend. So (2005) it comes as a surprise to find that Album four, his first in On The Edge was created solely with four years, contained the classic 'Beano' combination of Rory, larry's tribute a Les Paul and Marshall amps. to his personal friend, 'I didn't use any Strats - Rory hero and influence will be turning in his gravel He would say things like "The Gibson has a very lush sound, that big sound, but the Fender would hit the wall at the back." But sometimes the Fender sound is just a bit too thin and weedy. If LARRY MILLER you can play the Les Paul and use Unfinished the tones and the volume - and Business (2010) get some sort of clarity on your The follow-up to amp as well, so it's not one big Outlaw Blues was even mush - then, because you've got more impressive. 'Why the humbuckers, especially on the isn't he a superstar?' single notes for the solos, they do was Classic Rock mag's verdict sing a bit more than single coils.' Larry's had his Les Paul for a LARRY MILLER decade now - 'It's a 2002, though I'd love to say it was a '59" - and has not been afraid to tinker with it to obtain the result he desired. 'I put Seymour Duncan UNFlNISHED BUSINESS Antiquity pickups in it, which LARRY MILLER have less volume but more tone On The Edge going on. But just after I finished (2012) the album I picked up a 1960 On sale this May, this is larry's deepest and reissue Les Paul, and the pickups most satisfying effort on that are Burstbuckers. yet. Full-tilt opener When I went back to the When Trouble Comes is Antiquity pickups there speakers really make just one of many ---------.--------­ such a difference.' standout tracks was a noticeable drop in volume, so I've put the '1've got a really great band The recently added original pickups back in and 1 love it more than ever. keyboards of Ian my 2002 now; it's still a Salisbury have given a warm and lovely sound.' 1couldn't askfor atry more' new sheen to Larry's Amp-wise, Marshall ---------.'--------­ output. 'I think it's made endorsee Larry uses a it far more presentable combination of a IOOW Vintage Modern, with KT66 to the audience, far more listenable. It's all part of that tubes that give it 'a bassy, midrangy sound', with a earlY-'7oS rock sound. You've got the Hammond organ, IOOW DSL. '[ tend to use both amps on, with the the Marshall, the Les Paul, tight arrangements, it's such Marshall speakers designed for the Vintage Modern. a classic sound. I think a whole evening of me playing It's a 4X12" with the 25W Celestions designed for with my three-piece and a Strat can be hard work for the Jimi Hendrix tribute amp - old-school sounding the listener, perhaps.' Larry's ultimate aim is not stardom but longevity. And another 'There is always going to be omebody who's been thing... around two minutes and all the doors open for them, While many bluesmen and there are certain people that play all their lives and are ageless, larry never get anywhere, great players out there that never won't reveal how old get a look-in. he Is. 'It never used to 'I've got a really, really great band, I love it more than bother me, but I now know why everyone ever and I'm getting better and better - and I couldn't wants to know that,' ask for anything more than that. You're going out on he sighs. 'They will the road with these great guys, and people are turning think "Ah, he's over up to hear you play and they're loving it and getting there so we can put what you're doing.' He may not be a household name, L1i!;;;I_h_im=in_t_hl_'S_b_OX_"_'==;;!I but Larry Miller's happy to be a local hero. <B 34 (;"it~r /I, R~~~ lilLY 2012 .
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