Five Minutes Alone - Chad Taylor
Total Guitar|September 2019

The Live guitarist talks six-string shocks, shops and an acoustic with its own security detail.

Matt Parker
Five Minutes Alone - Chad Taylor

It’s the guitar man…

“I started playing trumpet in elementary school, but one day there was a performance for the school and there were a group of young girls, my peers, all fascinated with the guitar player. I knew at that point, ‘I want to be that guy…’. No one was talking about the trumpet player. Then the physical form of the guitar looked like a fascinating thing to me. The curves, the shape of it, the build, and all these years later, I think I’m still obsessed with that.”

Selling the drama…

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