Tama Duo Birch and Dynamic Kapur Snare Drums

With both heads tuned down, the Duo Birch manages a pretty good impression of a floor tom but lacks the familiar rumble

I forgot how hard it is to come up with a solo that doesn’t sound meandering!

PST X cymbals are manufactured in Switzerland through a method that Paiste describes as hybrid technology

In a world of beta cymbals this is very much an alpha male - aggressive and dominating in any situation

The guitar line has to be as powerful as the lead vocal because that is your answer to whatever you’re saying

When life happens, this is the most incredible thing because these are the elements that really give you the art

Every single thing we do as an artist, we think is perfect and the truth of the matter is… it ain’t!

I don’t care if you’ve listened to something 100 f***in’ times - you don’t know it until you can physically play it

I’ve come to the decision that greatness absolutely exists in all of us, but you must earn the right for it to be liberated

It’s the one thing I envy about Bruce: he has this wonderful, wonderful ability to scare the hell out of everybody

Rock ’n’ roll brought down a government. Would it have inevitably fallen one day? Probably. But we certainly hurried up the process

This is a classy guitar, no question

Get used to taking instruments apart - it will provide invaluable experience

The touring circuit is competitive, and the more useful you can be, the more you will be valued

If you can keep this lot in order night after night, you've got what it takes

If you have go-to riffs that you are comfortable with, instead of trying to get rid of them, get creative and expand

How you hold your pick, even if it’s just for a moment, will affect how fast or precise you play

Simple should never be frowned upon, because it’s the way you play it and what you do to those notes that count

Your hands should simply do what you ask of them, they are like the mouth for the words you think in your head

Listen to the music in your head and hum it. Try to be there with that note, first inside and then let it out on the guitar

I’m kind of neither guitarist or bassist. I’m a punk bassist. I learned from Peter Hook

I’m really bad at grooving. That’s one of the things we were always looking for in the studio

The problem with modern marketing and promotion is you do it all on a computer... It’s like you’ve got a f**king office job

The Katana will make you and your audience think you’re hearing a ‘real’ valve amp with real effects

The key to improvisation is trust. You have to turn all the outside distractions off

Boil down bigger productions to just guitar with voice, you’ll either be like, ‘Wow, there really is a song in there’ or find not much at all

I know the difference between feeling music, letting it come through me instinctively, and not

I never look at the neck and think of Aeolian or whatever. Playing guitar is more about knowing the right note is only half a step up or down

When you’re in the studio, making a song, take advantage of being able to do whatever the f*** you want

It featured a twin Florentine cutaway - echoing the transformation the Les Paul was undergoing around the same time

I love Steinbergers because I can always get the sound out of them that I want

After so long on tour we’ve reduced the on-stage volume... I'm trying to protect my hearing

We Know What It Means... Dad wrote that pretty straight-forwardly about the way we grew up. The uniqueness of growing up on the road

We had cleared the decks with the Wrestle With Dad video. We really did go quite hard in that. Harder than a father should really go with his son...

The way he uses harmonies and melody is the real iconic thing of Dad’s songwriting. I was excited about getting to do that together

I rather flippantly asked Mick Fleetwood if he wanted to come and play some drums on this record and, surprisingly but wonderfully, he said, ‘Yeah, sure!

The idea of plugging in my PRSs and going into a high-gain amp was definitely not an option

Myles uses a Taylor 618e for open G tuning

A Gibson Southern Jumbo 1959 reissue – a limited edition with an LR Baggs Anthem pickup/microphone

I went down to the pawn shop and I remember playing just a handful of chords and it was probably the loudest acoustic guitar I’ve ever heard

In my opinion Brian Setzer’s one of the most underrated guitar players on the plane

I affectionately named it Bruce Lee, and it even has an old Bruce Lee sticker on the back. It’s been my go-to for every record

Rather than going for overall volume boosts for solos, try a midrange boost of about 4-6dB instead

Gibson didn’t hold back on its design for the ES-355, embellishing it with the hallmarks of its most upmarket guitars

Despite its prestige, the 355s popularity was surpassed by its more austere, minimal and straightforward relative, the 335

I play with a pick because of Cliff Burton - as soon as I saw that he played with his fingers I knew I could never play like that

To create better continuity between the two Lennon songs in the same key, McCartney’s ditty was deftly removed and spliced at the end of the side, where it surfaces as an off-the-wall hidden track.

I do play pretty loud - a lot of the front-of-house guys hate me for that - but I like to feel the air pushing from the speakers

My whole f***ing career has been full of Spinal Tap moments!

The bands that grew up as dance bands had that extra energy, like The E Street Band, like The Beatles, like the Stones

Touring is an artform in itself and you need to learn how to survive

If you can’t nail a sweep-picked A minor arpeggio on this, you never will

I think [Mike Campbell and I will] play well together. It’s early days and we’ve not started rehearsing properly yet, but something is happening

Myles' National NRP 14

Focus your attention. There is a hell of a lot to learn, and if you spread yourself too thin, you'll never get anywhere

Sound-wise we wanted the pedals to be musical, warm and full. It was about understanding the circuitry and how to wreak the most havoc with control

I think that that’s the beauty of the mandolin in particular. When you tuck that in it really brings out a nice texture