00:00 Hello, I'm Miles Kane and this is My Guitars and Me.
00:02 (guitar music)
00:05 I've always loved vintage guitars.
00:16 I can't play new guitars.
00:17 So I got this when I was like 20, something like that.
00:21 I think it's 1969.
00:23 And I couldn't find one, like a 60s one with a Bigsby,
00:26 so we put this old Bigsby on it.
00:28 We found an old one.
00:29 So I completely devalued it, but it's it's me baby.
00:33 It's like, it just feels like me.
00:35 I've tried other guitars.
00:37 I've got other vintage guitars and stuff like that,
00:39 but this is me core for sure.
00:41 (guitar music)
00:44 It's like putting on your favorite top
00:53 or something that makes you feel good.
00:55 When I hold it, I feel good, you know?
00:57 And it's like, I've may have ventured off it
00:59 for a moment, but I've always come back to it.
01:01 Does that make sense?
01:02 I'd especially even more so lately with this new album,
01:05 we've like, we made basically the whole record
01:08 on this album, you know, it was like,
01:10 let's make this the forefront of this,
01:12 of where I'm at in my life and this record.
01:14 And for me, it's like.
01:15 (guitar music)
01:18 You know, I love that like surf sound and you know, like.
01:21 (guitar music)
01:22 Like Batman and stuff like that.
01:24 And you know, Link Wray and.
01:26 (guitar music)
01:29 You know, all that stuff that's kind of like
01:32 that sort of spy sound tracking stuff.
01:34 That's always been my thing that's inspired me.
01:37 And like, you know, that's my sort of style, I guess.
01:40 (guitar music)
01:42 I'm not a technically good guitarist for a start,
01:58 but I've got my own little weird style, I think.
02:02 And I think if you could hear me play,
02:03 you know, it's probably me playing.
02:05 The only thing I can think of now is,
02:07 I think I've probably used it the most,
02:10 most recently on what we're doing.
02:12 And it's kind of a conscious effort.
02:13 And I don't know, it's kind of like,
02:15 I feel like it's got at least a life
02:17 and all my riffs and stuff are like written on it.
02:20 Do you know what I mean?
02:21 Like.
02:22 (guitar music)
02:24 (guitar music)
02:27 You know what I mean?
02:33 And all like, you go like more fuzzy.
02:35 (guitar music)
02:38 (guitar music)
02:40 You know what I mean?
03:02 I don't know.
03:03 It's just like, yeah, it's kind of,
03:05 I can do anything I want in it, aren't I?
03:07 (guitar music)
03:09 I got this, this is in 1965, I think it is.
03:19 And I got this in Los Angeles
03:21 when we were making "Coup de Grace" album,
03:23 which is my third solo album
03:25 after we'd done the second "Puppets" album.
03:27 And the album was super punky.
03:31 And I was looking for a,
03:33 (guitar music)
03:34 it was more like for them chords,
03:36 you know, like the punkier stuff.
03:38 (guitar music)
03:41 Don't know, yeah.
03:47 (guitar music)
03:50 It's just like you can dig in on it,
03:58 it sounds pretty cool on the chords.
04:00 And all them punky records,
04:02 like all them bands like the Damned and stuff like that,
04:04 they sort of use these guitars.
04:06 So I guess like, yeah, them,
04:08 they're like, you know, when you crank up an amp and that,
04:10 it's like a guitar like this,
04:11 when you're doing chords,
04:12 you don't really need pedals, you know?
04:14 I quite like that pure,
04:16 if you've got the boss guitar, the boss pickups,
04:18 you can sort of avoid that.
04:20 I do quite like to avoid that as much as possible, really.
04:24 This is gonna come on the row with me now.
04:25 I'm just gonna take these two.
04:27 (guitar music)
04:29 (guitar music)
04:32 This is a guitar that my manager bought me
04:40 for my 30th birthday.
04:42 Certain guitars, you sort of give you a certain mood
04:45 or you're in the head space for it,
04:48 if that sounds so over the top.
04:50 But it sort of does,
04:52 or if you don't play it for a bit,
04:53 it's like you feel sort of new again
04:55 and you get like a buzz
04:56 or you'll start playing it different.
04:57 But it's right good for like strumming,
04:59 doing all that shit.
05:00 (guitar music)
05:03 Yeah, so like load of tunes
05:11 have just been written like this.
05:13 I mean, the first acoustic I had,
05:15 the first guitar I've got is what me auntie got me
05:18 and that's upstairs,
05:19 it's a three quarter length Spanish guitar when I was 15.
05:23 Do you wanna see it?
05:24 I'll just show you.
05:25 You can't play it 'cause it's that,
05:26 it's like an Argos guitar.
05:29 But I thought like I was kinda gonna get it set up
05:31 'cause I thought it'd kinda look cool.
05:33 It's a bit Ed Sheeran now,
05:34 but it's, I do buzz off Ed Sheeran actually,
05:38 but it's a cool guitar.
05:39 That was what me auntie got me when I was 13.
05:41 So I sort of started learning on the Spanish guitar.
05:45 It's cool though, and it's kind of like,
05:47 and if you can't play it,
05:48 it just goes out of tune so much, but.
05:51 (guitar music)
05:53 But you could, you know what I mean?
05:56 You could do, kinda wanna get it looked at
05:58 and maybe use it 'cause it'd be kinda,
06:00 it's got a cool story, you know what I mean?
06:02 When you have a little play for a bit,
06:04 like I'm learning like the tunes
06:05 for this acoustic tour I'm doing now,
06:07 hence the set up in the house.
06:08 But yeah, it's like I get like a,
06:11 I get a buzz, do you know what I mean?
06:13 It gives me a buzz, it still does now.
06:16 Even playing my songs, you know,
06:17 even sat here doing this practice
06:19 and it gives me a buzz, you know.
06:21 (guitar music)
06:23 (drilling)
06:26 I'm a very limited player.
06:42 (laughing)
06:44 I think I just know what I like
06:49 and I know what I'm into
06:50 and I guess it's a clear identity of who I am.
06:53 (guitar music)
06:56 That's been my guitars and me.
07:09 I hope you've enjoyed it.
07:10 I've enjoyed having you in my living room,
07:12 playing you a few riffs.
07:14 Hope I didn't fuck 'em up too much
07:15 and hopefully see you soon.
07:17 (guitar music)
07:19 (cheering)
07:22 (car engine revving)
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