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No Guitar Is Safe

2 - Brad Gillis

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

From playing with Ozzy Osbourne after Randy Rhoads' death to selling 16 million albums with Night Ranger, Brad Gillis has lived several amazing guitar adventures. Here, with a live guitar in his hands, Gillis recalls, in his own words and his own licks, every last one of them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, you hear that?

0:07.1

You hear that on the horizon?

0:08.8

It's the chopper, the guitar chopper.

0:11.3

That can mean only one thing.

0:13.5

That can only mean that.

0:16.3

No guitar is safe.

0:20.3

There it is. That's right. No guitar is safe. There it is, that's right, no guitar is safe.

0:22.9

Welcome to episode two of the guitar show where we drop you into the backyards of great

0:27.7

players so that they can invite you into their home studios, so they can play a few

0:31.5

licks for you so that they can tell you a few cool stories.

0:35.5

Speaking of cool stories, what's the coolest guitar story anyone ever told you?

0:39.2

For me, well, you know, I heard a lot of great guitar stories in my day, but one that stands out,

0:43.4

well, it was told to me kind of after a silly, embarrassing moment at Denver International Airport.

0:49.5

I had just played a gig the night before with a great singer in Boulder named Liza, Liza O.

0:53.4

And I'm by myself at the gate, headed back to California the next day when another guy shows up with a gig the night before with a great singer in Boulder named Liza Liza O. And I'm by myself at the

0:54.6

gate headed back to California the next day when another guy shows up with a gig bag on his back. And he's

0:59.2

friendly and he comes up to me. He's like, hey, what's you got in your bag? And I'm like, oh, you know, man,

1:02.6

it's just like a 2003 strat or something. What's in your bag? And he says, oh, it's a 1962 Stratocaster. I'm thinking, wow, who brings a 62 strat and a soft case to shove

1:13.8

in the overhead bin on an airplane? But as I'm thinking this, I sheepishly realize to my embarrassment,

1:20.0

oh my God, this is Brad Gillis. I'm like, dude, I mean, Brad Gillis, I saw when I was 12 years

1:26.2

old, he was playing with Ozzy Osbourne.

1:28.1

He had just taken over.

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