It was during the gap between the band’s two albums that Joey found time to spread his own songwriting wings. On the recent Hindsight he joined forces with producer and multi-instrumentalist Roman Clarke, with his brother contributing to some of the writing duties, too. Listening to Hindsight again, our ears settle upon the deep growl of Joey’s drop-tuned guitar. “My main guitar, the goldtop, is tuned down to open C,” he tells us, “so not quite the full B that a baritone is, but I live in that tuning, CGCEGC. I use 19 to 65 gauge strings. Originally the set that I started with was 14 to 68, but the 14 was way too light. I just started working my way up. I’ve always liked heavy strings, so in standard tuning, for example, I use 13s. So the 19s are around that kind of weight.”
And so, with the essential ‘What strings do you use?’ question out of the way, it was time to dig a little deeper…
What exactly drew you to the instrument in the first place?
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QUICK CHANGE
As Gibson finally adds some Quick Connect pickups to its Pickup Shop line-up, Dave Burrluck revisits this simple no-solder method to mod your Modern guitar
Return Of The Rack
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