88 - Thomas Blug

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

German Strat master, solo artist, and amp designer THOMAS BLUG never backs down from a challenge. As a teenager, Blug taught himself to both play guitar and build guitar amps. Later in life, Blug’s killer playing skills caught the attention of renowned amplifier manufacturer Hughes & Kettner, who immediately hired Blug as a clinician. Soon, they discovered Blug — who would be crowned “Strat King of Europe” by Fender in 2004 — wasn’t just a great guitarist, but also a crafty amp designer, so they hired him in that capacity as well. Blug went on to create or co-create many of the company’s most successful products. Now, Thomas has launched his own company — BluGuitar and its flagship product is a ferocious 100-watt pedalboard amp called Amp1. I was thrilled to plug in with Blug at the home studio of Gunnar Larsson (laguitarteacher.com) in Los Angeles. PRESENTED BY Guitar Player magazine and guitarplayer.com. -- JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

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0:00.0	Episode 88 of No Guitar is Safe featuring virtuoso Strapmaster and genius amp builder, Thomas
0:06.9	Blugue, is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com.
0:11.2	Guitar player, play better, sound better. No, guitar is safe.
0:23.6	So you know what, on the day of this interview with Thomas Blugge, man, thunderstorm, lightning, everywhere, rain, sideways.
0:59.0	L.A. doesn't usually get that kind of stuff, man.
1:00.8	The whole place was shutting down, man.
1:01.7	Stoplights were out.
1:03.1	But you know what?
1:04.4	It didn't stop the copter. No. I still made it across town.
1:17.8	Nothing stops the copter, folks, because I had to go over to Gunner Larson's home studio,
1:24.7	where he teaches guitar and has lots of cool gear and his website is la guitarteacher.com
1:31.7	by the way. Gunner was our host for my interview with the great Thomas Blugue who's in town
1:38.2	from Germany.
1:50.8	Yeah. You're listening to Thomas right now, man. This is a song called Strat King and wow, he is a king of the Strat.
1:55.2	I learned that the second I first saw him, which was 2009.
1:58.9	I'm walking down the main aisle of the NAM show and the big room,
2:01.6	come up to the Hughes and Ketner booth, and this guy's playing this vintage Stratocaster, just making it soar.
2:08.6	I was so impressed I actually took a couple videos. Check out the No Guitar Is Safe Facebook page,
2:14.6	and you'll see one of those videos I took 10 years ago. Since then, I've
2:19.2	vowed and promised to myself that I would interview Thomas Blugge. And I really, really appreciate
2:25.1	Gunner Larson for having us over to his pad on this crazy rainy day where Gunner hooked me up
2:31.8	with a pristine vintage Fender Deluxe
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