Have Guitar Will Travel

119 - Michael Lardie (Great White, Night Ranger) In episode 119 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with longtime guitarist, keyboardist and engineer for the band Great White, Michael Lardie. In their conversation they discussed: Great White’s tour schedule and the gear they’re using on the road. They discuss how Michael started as Great White’s engineer in the studio and ended in the band as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist as well as songwriter. They discuss Michael’s start in the music industry playing cocktail lounges across California and his start in the field engineering. They talk about Michael’s early recording sessions engineering for punk bands such as Black Flag, Husker Du as well as John Mayall and Eric Burdon and recently mixing Sheryl Crow’s live album. They discuss after years of working with Great White how he organically became a full member of the band and they talk about the gear in the early days ...

118 - Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz Band) In episode 118 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine host James Patrick Regan speaks with Craig Ross longtime guitarist from the Lenny Kravitz band. In their conversation they covered: The current Lenny Kravitz tour and Craig’s gear for that tour, he’s currently in Eastern Europe. They talk about the guitars Craig is using on the road and where he sells guitars when he’s slimming the herd. They discuss growing up in LA and Craig’s parents vinyl collection and his first band “the Broken Homes”. They discuss how Craig met Lenny and how he became Lenny’s musical collaborator. They talk about Craig’s passion for flamenco guitar and for audio engineering which led him to engineer the last couple Lenny Kravitz albums. . Craig is very active on instagram at Craig Ross Official and to find out where in the world Lenny Kravitz is playing you can check his website: https://lennykravitz.com . Please subscribe, like, comment, shar...

117 - Gene Parsons (Nashville West, the Byrds, Stringbender inventor) In episode 117 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist and pedal steel guitarist and inventor of the B-bender (string bender) the legendary Gene Parsons. He was lucky enough to be able to interview Gene in his shop on the Northern California coast. In their conversation they cover his childhood in the southern California desert and what brought him to the remote Northern California coast. They go through his musical history including playing drums for Nashville West, the Byrds. His friendship with guitarist Clarence White. They go into detail about his pedal steel guitar playing and how he invented the B-Bender (string bender) with Clarence White and his interactions with Leo Fender. They discuss building string benders for Jimmy Page’s Red Les Paul while in Led Zeppelin and Pete Townsend as well. They discuss all the instruments that Gene has...

116 - Gunnar Nelson In episode 116 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist and singer (and multi instrumentalist) Gunnar Nelson. With his twin brother Matthew they perform as Nelson (the band from the ‘80’s) and they are the sons of the late Ricky Nelson. In their conversation they cover: Moving from LA to Nashville 23 years ago… making him a Nashville local and the benefits of living in Nashville. They talk about Gunnar’s role in Nelson, as the principal songwriter and the guy who does the heavy lifting in the band. They discuss the three Nelson records they have in the can and how they’re going to go about releasing that material. Gunnar takes us through the iterations of the band, they’re solo acoustic show, the band Nelson, Ricky Nelson Remembered and others. They dive deep into Gunnar’s guitars and his relationship with the Telecaster, Grover Jackson and Uncle Norm from Norman’s Rare Guitars. They also dis...

115 - Andy Summers (the Police) In episode 115 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine! host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist Andy Summers, from the Police. In their conversation they cover: His photography and documenting his experiences and the Fender guitar covered in Andy’s photographs. They speak about Andy’s contemporaries while coming up, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Howe, Peter Green, David Gilmore Albert Lee to name a few. They discuss the EP that accompanies his book of photography… and how that relates to scoring film. They discuss Hank Marvin’s role in Andy’s life which will come full circle with a recording project with Andy and Hank. They discuss the Gibson Les Paul that Eric Clapton bought from Andy and they discuss gear in general including some new guitars Andy is excited about made by Andy Powers from Taylor guitars (Andy calls them Masters guitars, but they’re actually called Powers powerselectricguitars.com). Andy tells us a...

In episode 114 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with bassist extraordinaire Stu Hamm. In their conversation they cover What Stu is up to currently including a project in Oregon “Guitars Under the Stars”, a tour with Greg Howe and a bass camp in Estonia called “the Estonia Bass Oasis”. They discuss Stu’s family: his father, a well known composer and musicologist, Stu’s brother Bruce who plays the Sarod and ran the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California and Stu’s mom who was a voice teacher and an opera singer. Stu takes us through his love/hate relationship with guitar players. They discuss Stu’s musical relationship with guitarists Steve Vai and Joe Satriani as well as Alex Skolnick. They discuss Stu’s Fender signature Urge bass and his signature Markbass amp and gear in general. Stu has a website where you can find out more about everything Stu: dates, gear, recordings and how to go about getting lessons ...