No guitar is safe.

Hey there, it's episode 144 of No Guitar is Safe, the guitar show where guitar heroes plug in.

And you know, I really don't think I toot my own horn, but if I step back a little bit and look at this show, one of the things I love about

it since its inception in 2015 is that you don't even have to know who the guest is to have a

great interview slash guitar hang experience. That's because on this show, the guests play their guitars.

Oftentimes they jam with me, as you'll hear today. They demonstrate

how they forge their style. They demonstrate the parts they put on records. They demonstrate the

licks that move them. So even if you don't know their music, well, you sure will by the time

you're halfway through the episode. Today's guest, Fernando Perdomo, I just met him recently. Seems

like months ago, but I think it's been a couple years,

finally hung out in person at his super vibey studio. Well, you know, Fernando came up in Miami.

Straight out of high school, he started gigging like crazy, and he told me that despite the fact that he ended up on some huge tours playing arenas and even stadiums and doing a couple of

huge records, the scene wasn't quite for him.

He'd walk into the studio and they'd have just like a computer and maybe one or two guitars on

the walls and, well, not the avalanche of gear that you see when you walk into a studio like

Fernando's over here in L.A. where he lives in this beautiful working class neighborhood.

He's got this room above

an auto shop, man. There's like engines being V8 engines being pushed around on carts and stuff.

And he's got this pad up there that actually in an earlier life produced hit records for Nipsey Hustle,

platinum records, I believe, two chains, T.I. That was when it was a

hip-hop room run by My Guy Mars. It also was Tommy Lee's room, apparently, for Motley Crew back in the

day. So it's got a lot of vibe and history and probably various substances in the walls there.

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