188 | BONUS: Darren Hurst's Tech Adventures with Night Ranger, Aerosmith and Peter Frampton

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

From PETER FRAMPTON to JOE PERRY (Aerosmith) to last week's tenth-anniversary guest, Night Ranger's BRAD GILLIS, guitar tech par excellence DARREN HURST has worked for several world-class guitar heroes, so we had go deep with the veteran guitar tech to find out his philosophies on rig design, guitar tone, and real-time gig survival — and the results are fascinating. How does Darren help Joe Perry achieve his "Dinosaurs eating cars" stage tone? Why does Brad Gillis make only one patch change per show, yet Darren makes 128?! How is Frampton's sprawling "guitar city" of rig "simple"? And we all know Night Ranger, but who the heck is "Day Ranger"? For the answers to these questions and more, just hit play. Thanks to Guitar Player and guitar player.com for making this happen. Enjoy! —JUDE GOLD, Host and Creator, No Guitar Is Safe

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:10.4	Okay, real quick, what do Peter Frampton, Joe Perry from Aerosmith, and Brad Gillis and Carrie Kelly from Night Ranger all have in common.
0:24.1	Well, it's the fact that they're all really tight with world-class guitar tech Darren Hurst.
0:31.3	And I'm very psyched to have a deep conversation with Darren coming right up.
0:36.3	Thanks to guitar player and guitar player.com.
0:39.0	Visit guitar player.com and you will play better and sound better.
0:43.4	Thank you guitar player.
0:44.9	And thank you Brad because on last week's episode with Brad Gillis, which was our
0:48.8	10th anniversary episode and which was actually Brad's second appearance, you can go back if you want and listen to episode two, which was also a great hang.
0:58.6	Brad suggested last week that we talked to Darren to get even more detail about his very cool,
1:06.0	fire breathing, sustaining molten lava volcano of a badass guitar sound that he has on stage and how do they
1:14.4	do it and we get into Darren's philosophies on tone and how to make a rig stand out very cool
1:21.4	stuff if you're new to the show normally I quote unquote land the copter at somebody's studio or their house
1:30.1	or whatever or they're backstage and we have guitars in hand and we jam and there's fingers on
1:35.6	strings. But today is just a Zoom call. So that's why it's not a normal full-fledged episode. So I call
1:43.1	it a bonus.
1:52.4	But you can go back and listen to all 187 other episodes, which are 99% in-person guitar hangs or something close to that.
1:54.9	Thank you for listening to No Guitar is Safe.
1:58.8	Let's jump right in with Darren. Keep it alive to your 95.
2:04.1	No guitar is safe.
2:10.2	I'm Jude Gold and I'm thrilled to have you here.
2:12.5	Darren, welcome to No Guitar is Safe.
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