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'''Gary Green''' was the lead guitarist for the band. A self-taught musician, Gary had his musical roots in the blues, and his sound lent a more direct edge to the music. But of course he could play as progressively as the rest of the band! | '''Gary Green''' was the lead guitarist for the band. A self-taught musician, Gary had his musical roots in the blues, and his sound lent a more direct edge to the music. But of course he could play as progressively as the rest of the band! | ||
== Guitar equipment == | |||
Alan Kinsman reports: | |||
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Gary's guitar of choice throughout his time with GG was a 1960 Les Paul Standard, which he played on just about everything. However, for live performances of 'The Runaway/Experience' he played a 1970s Telecaster, but I can't confirm whether he used it for the studio recordings of those numbers. On live versions of 'Turning Around' and 'Mountain Time', he played a 1960's Stratocaster, which was [[Ray]]'s. | |||
The Telecaster was also played by John on 'Memories Of Old Days'. [[Kerry]] played the Stratocaster on 'Plain Truth', 'Why Not?' and 'Memories Of Old Days', and [[Ray]] played it on 'Nothing At All'. | |||
... we talked about amps and pedals. In the early days of the band, he used a Laney 100 amp with two 4x12? Laney cabs. These were inherited from the Simon Dupree days. Later on, he had an H&H solid state 100w head with a 1x15 W cab, and in the final days of the band he used a Fender Dual Showman Reverb 100w head, initially with an Earth 4x12? JBL cab, and finally with a Marshall 4x12 model 1960B. (Note that I am not a guitar aficionado, so I've copied this from notes Gary passed to me, and I can't answer any technical queries!) | |||
As for pedals, Gary had a Cry Baby Wah Wah, Dunlop Volume, Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger, MXR Phase, MXR Micro Amp, and, late in the game, a ?shitty no-name fuzz box bought and used solely for the chorus in 'I'm Turning Around' (Gary's description). | |||
He used a mid-1970s Yamaha FG150 on the acoustic guitar duet, and a 12-string on "Funny Ways" and "Memories Of Old Days" — the exact instrument changed over the years. It was Ray's Hagstrom (from the Simon Dupree days) early on, but that was stolen at a gig, and towards the end it was an unspecified Fender — there may have been another along the way. | |||
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== After Gentle Giant == | == After Gentle Giant == | ||