Billy Howerdel – "It Was a Happy Accident"

Billy Howerdel on his ‘Frankensteined' guitar and his debut solo album

- By Amit Sharma

Billy Howerdel found mainstream success as guitarist in A Perfect Circle alongside Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, after serving as a guitar tech for Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ Roses, and more. Billy’s debut solo album What Normal Was features the same guitar he’s used throughout his career – a 1991 Gibson Les Paul Custom Classic in Cinnamon Burst, gifted to him by one-time employer Trent Reznor...

Your main guitar was the first instrument you worked on for Nine Inch Nails, which you accidentally burned...