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This article series is about the tools of popular guitarists. What are their favorite guitars and how is it related to them? This time with Jan Åkesson (Infinite & Divine, StoneLake)
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When you start guitar playing and do you remember your first guitar?
Hi, Thanks a lot for inviting me. I start playing guitar when I was 13 and the first guitar was an nylon string Bjärton after a while a got an Sigma Stratocaster.
What are your influences and which guitar players are your faves?
There are many great guitar players, when I started I was into Thin Lizzy, Sweet, Deep Purple. Then Van Halen, John Sykes, Yngwie etc.
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How many guitars do you own and what are your favorite models?
Peavey Wolfgang USA Standard, Gibson SG Junior, ESP EX Explorer 2005 Standard Series, Fender Stratocaster MIJ, Fender Stratocaster Yngwie. I like them all and they are very different from each other.
What do you think makes the perfect guitar and amp?
It has to feel good to play on and has a sound I like, it’s same with amp’s, I have had a lot of amp’s Tube’s, plug in’s from UAD, but for some year’s ago I play through a old POD XT.
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How do you feel about the question of modeler or tube amp?
I like both, but with modeler you can always go back to re-record with the same sound, which I really like..
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Which guitars and amps were used on the new album or for recordings?
ESP for rhythm and most of the lead is the Wolfgang. I Used an old POD XT which I think sounds great.
When you only can choose one guitar, which one will you take?
The Wolfgang always work’s!
