92 - Billy Duffy

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Cult's BILLY DUFFY plugs in his live rig for you on a soundstage in Los Angeles where the band was rehearsing for their current tour, which celebrates 30 years since the release of their platinum fourth album, SONIC TEMPLE. The album is being remastered for an August re-issue that will feature bonus tracks, rare demos, and other sonic goodies. In 1989, the album catapulted the Cult to a new level of touring and radio airplay, and in this interview Duffy reflects on the glories and perils of such sudden success. Also on hand is Duffy's guitar tech MATT McKENNA. No Guitar Is Safe is hosted by JUDE GOLD. Thanks to Mitch Schneider of MSO for setting up the interview. Made possible by Guitar Player magazine and guitarplayer.com.

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0:00.0	Episode 92 of No Guitar is Safe featuring Billy Duffy from the cult is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine,
0:06.2	GuitarPlayer.com, and the 30th anniversary re-release of Sonic Temple, that great cult album,
0:13.3	which will be available for purchase in August of this year.
0:18.4	No guitar is safe.
0:25.9	It's funny the things you remember about a certain day.
0:28.4	Tell me if you had a day like this one.
0:29.9	You know you're a teenager, you've had your driver's license for a year or two, and your
0:33.7	friend is like, let's hang out.
0:35.2	It's a beautiful, wide open summer, sunny day, and you got nothing to do, and you're like, where should we go?
0:41.3	Well, in this case, my homie was Ari Gorman.
0:44.3	We're still great friends to this day. He's a monster bass player, and we had a band.
0:49.3	And anyhow, cool factor that day was that he had his dad's shiny black BMW.
0:55.4	Nothing too fancy, just a three series, but it was a cool car and it had a stereo in it
1:02.4	and it had a stick shift, which I'm not sure if Ari liked because he always let me drive
1:06.8	it, which was cool.
1:07.9	So he's like, yeah, man, why don't you drive?
1:09.1	And we're like, where should we go?
1:10.4	Let's go to Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, if you're not from the west coast. It's like
1:15.5	Coney Island West, a little prettier, a little more chill. Does have a killer ass roller coaster.
1:20.7	I love roller coasters. It's an old wooden machine called the Giant Dipper, got some great drops and thrashes you around and it's really loud.
1:28.5	But you know what? I know I rode that roller coaster that day, but I don't remember it.
1:33.2	The thing I remember from that day is the cult's Sonic Temple album.
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