27 - Pete Thorn

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Pete Thorn has played lead guitar for Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge, Chris Cornell, Courtney Love, and other star singers. He has also created one of the most successful guitar gear demo channels on the Web. Presented by Line 6 and Helix, this episode finds Thorn conversing and jamming with host Jude Gold, who is determined to find out exactly how Thorn forged his sound and developed his career.

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Hey everybody, welcome to No Guitar is Safe, Episode 27.
0:11.0	Thanks for listening. I hope you're doing great.
0:13.0	Hope the guitar's been treating you well and vice versa.
0:16.0	My name is Jude Gold and I'm super excited because I'm about to plug in with Pete Thorn.
0:37.8	People have been asking for Pete to be on the show. Finally he's here. He's such an inspiring cat. He really inspires professional guitarists and also inspires people who are hoping to become professional guitarist because he does it so well.
0:39.3	Yes, we're going to jam, but of course I'm also going to hear his story.
0:43.3	I love this.
0:44.3	Like, how does it happen?
0:45.3	You know, all those years ago, a kid from Edmonton, Canada sitting there, neighbor comes over
0:50.3	or whatever shows him a couple power chords on the guitar.
0:53.3	Fast forward to the present, and man,
0:55.2	he's played lead guitar for Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge, Chris Cornell, and now he's on tour
1:01.6	with Michel Polnaref in France, hitting like every city in that great country. This singer's huge.
1:05.9	This guy sold millions of records. Pete's also played with Mylene Farmer out there. She's sold 30 million records.
1:13.6	It's all crazy. So I'm excited to sit down with him. Right off the bat, he shows us his
1:18.4	incredible new pedal board, the centerpiece of which, the center of his whole rig, really,
1:23.3	is this helix system from Line 6, who sponsored today's episode.
1:34.2	And it was very cool because they let us come over to Line 6 headquarters into their secret room.
1:36.0	Man, this is like going into Aladdin's Cave.
1:37.2	You go over into this room.
1:39.9	It's up here, it's up just north of L.A.
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