Skolnick shares what it’s been like to bond with a 1949 Excel, on loan from the Archtop Foundation. Plus, a transcription of his improvisation on the historic guitar.
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On a recent social media binge, I was surprised and delighted to come across an Instagram reel of Alex Skolnick, the giant of heavy metal guitar and decades-long member of the seminal thrash band Testament, improvising on a D’Angelico archtop with an impressive command of both the instrument and the jazz vernacular.
I was just as curious about the guitar…
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