Chords for Myles Kennedy Plays His Favorite Riffs on 4 Different Instruments

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_ [F] I'm Miles Kennedy.
It's great to be here.
This is a 1954 Fender
lap steel and in case you don't know what this is, it's a wonderfully soulful and expressive
instrument.
Michael Basquiat, my producer and dear friend, said, hey man, for some of these songs,
what do you think about trying a lap steel?
And I was like, well, I love the lap steel and I'm
a big fan of a lot of guys who've used them along the way.
Sure, I'll give it a shot.
I've never
played it, but it should be interesting.
So I just kind of took to it.
I'm going to now take this and
rock it out a little bit.
I don't talk about this a lot because I always forget about it, but the
very first heavy riff I ever learned, and at this point I don't know how heavy it is compared to what
y'all probably grew up listening to, but for me a band like Deep Purple was one of the, you know,
they're one of the architects.
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_ [B] _ right, continuing on back to the electric guitar.
Now with that said,
this is a Telecaster.
It's an old Telecaster.
This is from 1952.
_ It's just got a special
something.
They call these Blackguards.
These are, you know, the first few years they made these.
They
just have a certain quality that you just don't find.
This was one of the primary guitars I wrote
the Ides of March record with and did all the demos.
And then when I got to Florida and started
working with the guys, [A] it ended up making, geez, a good majority of the record.
This is the guitar.
Let's do a song off that album that's a lot of fun.
It was inspired one night last year.
I was
sitting on the couch and like we were all trying to kind of medicate through the boredom, I think,
I had a few drinks and I wrote the song.
This is called Wake Me When It's Over.
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There it is.
[G] Now we're going to move to the _ Mando guitar.
I think I bought this in 99 and I used it all _
over the Second Skin record by the Mayfield Four.
And yeah, I mean, it's all over that record.
I was inspired, I think, to start using this, if I'm not mistaken, by my friend Ian Thornley,
who was in a magnificent band called Big Wreck and still is.
They're still making incredible music.
Let's play a Big Wreck song on this Mando guitar.
I'm going to try the Oath.
The Oath is on their
first record, came out in the late 90s, and I used to sit on the side of the stage when we
toured together.
We toured Canada together, we toured the US together, and I would watch
them play this song.
So I'm going to try and recreate it here on this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ It _ _ held up.
You know, it's been 20 years since I've played this.
I don't think I've changed the
strings in 20 years, actually, but it still sounds pretty good.
Pretty cool.
This will be my final
gear show and tell for Gear Factor.
Loudwire, thank you so much for asking me to do this.
_ I
love guitars.
I love gear.
So thanks for letting me do this.
_ This is one of the few guitars that
I used on the new record, The Ides of March, that wasn't built before _ 1960.
This is, I think this
was made just a few years ago by my friends at National.
It's called the NRP Steel.
I had them
put on, or I think we just ordered one of their pickups, put that on here, which is awesome.
And
then I just put it into an amp and put a little gain on it and we're off to the races. _ _ _ _
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