Bradley Simpson: My Guitars & Me

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00:00Hello, I'm Bradley Simpson and this is My Guitars and Me.

00:13I think there was like two moments, I remember when I was like nine, I started guitar lessons

00:18and I think it was just because my mom's a huge music fan and I don't think I was quite ready

00:23at nine years old. I think I had like a little flamenco guitar that I didn't have the attention

00:28span to focus on, like I was like I want to play football or do this and then I got to like 10,

00:3311 and something just clicked. That vision of being in a band and getting to play music

00:40for that many people I was like right this is like all I want to do.

00:48There was a side in advance that was like much more pop than I was used to when I grew up and I loved

00:52that it exposed me to like so much new music and I think I learned a hell of a lot through it as

00:56well and still am and I think when we came into a live setting it was like how do we make it

01:00really feel like a band in a live setting so my answer to that was a Vox AC30 and roll the bass off

01:06and a dual rectifier and roll the top end off and just like a wall of noise.

01:10It's a Fender Coronado 2. I think it's 65 I should have definitely known exactly what it is before

01:27this interview I think it's 65. I feel like it's bad to be drawn in by the aesthetics of a guitar but I

01:32am I'm just going to be honest like I want a nice looking guitar as well as a nice sounding one and

01:38straight away I was like it's so beautiful to look at and then I played it and I was like oh

01:48it's very very bright and kind of spanky forgive me not having a better word to describe it but it

01:55is very kind of toppy but it's still got a load of lovely bottom end and warmth to it

02:02researched a bit and then learned that they were like discontinued and it was a started as like a

02:07jazz guitar in response to it kind of got like shunned as a guitar and that made me fall in love

02:13with it more I was like this is like a little problem child who's been sat in the corner for years

02:17if you put distortion on this guitar or you dig into it a bit more it breaks up at the top and

02:22you get all this lovely like reaction re-noise

02:33I'm still wrestling with if I can tour it or not like I've taken it on tour twice both times

02:39it's halfway through a gig gone see in a bit I'm out I love the vintage guitars because I think they've

02:45been in whoever's hands for like 50 60 years like oh like the back of this like the belt square like

02:51that's not me I love it man it's so so fun

02:57so this uh Gibson Holmenberg custom uh I think it's like 73 74 he couldn't tell me exactly the year

03:15we were touring in Japan at the time and we just stumbled on this place called Nico Nico

03:20I hadn't gone into the guitar shop planning to buy a guitar and obviously I was like this is the most

03:28beautiful thing ever and it just sounded gorgeous there's another one where I started playing it and

03:32then everyone in the room just disappeared and I was just like so and I think that's like part of

03:37the reason you get into playing guitar it's purely a songwriting guitar to be honest one of the songs

03:48on the album's a song called carpet burn and that was like that kind of became like the dna for the

03:52sound of the album and that was the first song that I wrote on this guitar

04:00I've sold one guitar the first thing I used to play on was an ikea flamenco guitar and it was like 70

04:08quid and it was like I've still got that somewhere and just because I think they're really pivotal moments

04:14and like chapters in my life the next one I am dreading to play

04:28this was like the first acoustic acoustic that I ever had and my parents bought me this when I was

04:33about 16 and yeah this was the guitar that like I started songwriting and gigging acoustically and doing

04:41like covers online with I went and picked this up from my parents house last week and it was like

04:52a blast from the past like the actions crazy high it's really hard to play to be honest it's just one

04:59of those very sentimental guitars for me that feel like really introduced me to songwriting

05:06and the first thing I noticed when I picked it back up I was like oh my god like how did I used

05:14to play this playing guitars that are slightly like harder to play or require a little bit more

05:20time and effort I think that's really good for you as a player because you're like

05:25finding your way and you're figuring it out

05:26I think the deadness is coming from the fact I haven't changed the strings in 10 years

05:36thank you very much for watching my guitars and me that was three of my guitars they're very important

05:42to me um I have an album out at the moment it's called the panic years feel free to go check it out

05:47and thank you so much for having me it's been lovely lots of love

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