On the album you can tell it was the Soldano, for sure. “But, live, my favourite rig was the SLO 100, two Marshall cabs, and, I want to say, a Quadraverb, some sort of reverb that’s, like, not even in the loop it sounds like it’s just straight in. ![]() So the sound was indelibly linked to his hands. I’ve seen him play through Twins on video and it sounds like Gary Moore. I’ve seen him play with a DSL 2000 and it sounds like Gary Moore. “Well, I’ve seen him play through anything. How much do you think the gear he chose is a crucial part of the equation? I can’t play Sloe Gin without owing it all to Gary Gary was more rock than blues, just from an approach standpoint.” I mean, Stevie was more blues than rock in my opinion. But for him to go, 'I want to make a blues record now,' and to do it so well and really thread the needle between rock and blues in the most perfect way, it created a genre. And yeah, his rock stuff, the stuff with Thin Lizzy and his solo albums in the ’80s hinted at it. There was everything that comes before and then everything that came after. What do you think has been the lasting impact of the Still Got The Blues album on the guitar community? ’Cause he would do those runs all the way down the fingerboard with his index and middle finger and you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s pretty unhumanlike.’ It was just groundbreaking and it still sounds as fresh as it did 30 years ago.” “Yeah, and that could explain the middle finger being so fast. I suppose that puts his strongest hand on the fretboard rather than picking. There’s something about the attack that changes when people do that.” ![]() ![]() King played right-handed he was left-handed. And I think also part of the sound was the fact that he was left-handed and he played right-handed. “But when he put on a guitar it was like this other animal would be created. Even when he was playing the quiet stuff. Those were some deep demons that were trying to exorcise themselves. “Well, first of all, that incendiary thing that he had, I mean, that’s all in his soul. When playing live, Gary had an incendiary attack to his sound.
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