00:00Hey, I'm Sam Palladio, and this is My Guitars and Me.
00:21There was always instruments and always music in the house, and it all came from my dad.
00:24My mum, great music taste, you know, couldn't sing a note, bless her.
00:28But dad was always, yeah, guiding me, guiding me down the road.
00:36So this is the CF-100E.
00:38When they were manufactured, it was one of the first sort of electro-acoustics, really.
00:43There was a really cool old vintage one that we'd used on Nashville,
00:47and our props master, Danny Rowe, had gone out into town to like,
00:50see if there's any of these kicking around, because they're kind of rare.
00:53And he found, at Gibson, this, which was number 100 of a 100 run.
00:58And so, yeah, this just became my guitar for a long, long time.
01:06Because I loved the small body, I think it was based originally on an LG-2, that kind of shape.
01:13And I sort of fell in love with it.
01:14I just fell in love with the look and the curves.
01:16And obviously, I'll talk about the slight changes I made, but,
01:20you know, it has the rock and roll look that's pretty unique.
01:25I'm not a lead guitar player.
01:26Like, I would love to be.
01:27I'm sitting in this room of electrics, and I wish I could shred.
01:30But I think I did write this song called Wet Me Up in Nashville on this thing.
01:34Just kind of like a little moment like this.
01:37And this was like Colin Linden teaching me the sort of finger-picking style that,
01:44you know, which I'd never been able to do before.
01:47And never thought, never knew how to do.
01:51It's learning those little tweaks and those little...
02:00Anyway, a dear friend, Chris Plank, who is Casey Musgraves' guitar tech,
02:05and he has been for years.
02:06I'd said to Chris a couple of years ago, you know,
02:08I'm about to start working on this record,
02:10and I'd love to have a couple of, like, your beautiful faceplates, scratchplates.
02:15What could we do?
02:16So I had a series of three guitars,
02:17and we came up with this idea of the diagonal scratchplate.
02:22So you'll see on the next guitar as well, it's got the identical angle.
02:26It's got two outputs.
02:29So the original was this, I believe, P90,
02:34which gives the guitar a bit more of an electric sort of sound.
02:39So that actually you can have one guitar with sort of two outputs if you want.
02:44So you can have this into your pedalboard and play it like an electric,
02:47which can rip it.
02:49And then you just, you know, switch over,
02:51and you're in here with your much warmer, acoustic, more traditional sound.
02:54So it's quite versatile in that way.
02:57There was a season in Nashville, it was season four,
02:59and I got to sing with Elton John.
03:03So that was kind of one of the best days ever on set, as you can imagine.
03:07And I did get him to sign this afterwards.
03:09So I realized that I just sweat, my pit sweat just goes here.
03:13I should have put it on the front or something,
03:14but I don't know if you can even pick any of this up.
03:18But we'd love to Scott, because it was Gunner Scott.
03:21And my last name is actually Scott, Sam Scott.
03:23Palladio is my middle name.
03:24So we'd love to Scott and the Elton John squiggle in there.
03:28And so I'd remembered that when I was thinking about
03:30what I should bring over to talk about.
03:33So extra special, you know.
03:36This is a little passage of Fade Into You from Nashville.
03:41It was one of my first sort of songs I got to play on Nashville.
03:58Actually, this has been with a friend, so hopefully she didn't wreck it.
04:04Okay, still got a neck, that's good.
04:07That is a good start.
04:11Oh, not bad.
04:17It's like Big Daddy.
04:20It's the little family.
04:21Now I just need like a little ukulele.
04:30So this is a 2017 Gibson Custom Shop.
04:35Oh, actually, it says, I've just noticed as I've said that,
04:382018, because I see it stamped on the back of the neck, the headstock.
04:43So this is a 2018 Custom Shop.
04:47This is a guitar that I actually played on the full record.
04:53So any bit of acoustic guitar on my album is this girl.
04:59And I think someone named, I think on the guitar case,
05:02actually, it was just like nicknamed Tiger.
05:03So I was like, oh, I quite like that.
05:04This is Tiger.
05:06There's a song, Wake Me Up in Nashville, that's kind of my...
05:12It's like the first song I wrote when I moved to Tennessee in 2012.
05:21And it's the most sort of acoustic, songwriter-driven track on the record.
05:26And it's all this kind of stuff, you know.
05:30So we just found that it really like shone in a recording studio.
05:41I love the little body guitars too.
05:44But yeah, sometimes you just need to, yeah, round it out a bit.
05:48Chris Plank, again, with his great, great work.
05:50And I think they're pretty much the same angle.
05:52And I think if we, yeah, you know, it's nice to have the trio.
05:55And I also have a hummingbird, a red hummingbird.
05:59I'm just realizing that.
06:00I think I probably wrote all the record on this guitar.
06:04Because it was 2019 when I realized that I need to go back to London,
06:08back to my roots, to kind of figure out my journey as an artist.
06:12Because I'd lived in Nashville for a decade and written lots of stuff that felt...
06:18It was fun and it was interesting.
06:20It was very Americana leaning.
06:22And I felt that, you know, a bit of sort of Britpop was kind of missing from my journey.
06:32And like, I needed to go back to Cornwall and write all these songs.
06:38And so they all came out of this, actually.
06:41And I was able to end up on a body of work that felt kind of unique
06:45and felt like the British guy that had been living in Nashville for a decade,
06:49but was missing Cornwall and, you know, and missing home.
06:53And I lost my mum like five years ago.
06:55And so the whole record was dedicated to her.
06:57The record was called The Perfect Summer's Day Before We Lost The Light.
07:01And that comes from a song called Something On My Mind, which is this...
07:05Something on my mind, you know, it's all around here.
07:10And yeah, so I suppose actually this guitar has probably been
07:15more instrumental than I thought.
07:20There was a phase where I was, you know, as a teenager, it was all emo music
07:27and it was Linkin Park and it was, you know, just angsty,
07:29Incubus and bands like that, that I still adore.
07:33And then it was like, oh, Neil Young and Simon Garfunkel,
07:35Crosby, Stills and Nash and fingerpicking.
07:37Oh, this is cool.
07:39So yeah, you know, I ended up meeting and writing a bunch of songs with Ben Taylor,
07:44James Taylor's son, early into living in Nashville.
07:48And so that was weird because, you know, two years prior,
07:52I'd been like, well, I auditioned for this show with your dad
07:54and now I'm staying with you at your mum's house, who is Carly Simon.
07:59I'm staying in Carly's guest house and we're just making music on Martha's Vineyard.
08:03You know, it was, yeah, I've been lucky.
08:07But yeah, that was one that started this journey.
08:10Yeah.
08:29Thank you for joining me today,
08:31listening to some stories about these lovely guitars.
08:34Thanks again.
08:35Take care.
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