 I first got into music from the skateboarding scene. I grew up, I didn't play music much early as a child or anything. I just super into skateboarding and then later in life, Nirvana was the first band that made me want to play guitar. I saved up in the lawns all summer about a guitar and learned like every song off of Nirvana's everyone and never looked back. I came from a small town, played sports that was kind of a job but nobody really played guitar or anything like that in my area so I didn't have anything to like kind of learn on or anything like that but the second that I got to college I realized man this is kind of hard. If I wasn't a musician I would probably be a carpenter. My father's a contractor and my uncle's a contractor and growing up as soon as I was old enough that I could have got a job at McDonald's or something like that. My father immediately said okay you want money for school players you're coming to work with me in the summer. I was never a big fan of like learning covers or learning other people's songs. I like to just grab a guitar and figure out what's sounding good to me so my advice would be if you want to be a songwriter and you want to be in your own band don't worry about what other people are doing. Don't be afraid to take a great piece of gear like this and just try every knob and play around with it and make your own sound and do your own thing. I think some of the greatest bands of our generation or ever weren't trying to copy other things at the time they were just trying to come up with the sounds in their head and make it reality. I've been playing the HT 50 Mark II all throughout Warp Tour. I've been playing it for a while, sounds great. I've been playing the HT Stage 100 Mark II and I love it. I've played a lot of amps over the years in the studio and live and in particular live. We use a lot of high-gain live but I'm not a fan of kind of that over saturated scooped high-gain sound and these heads have really shown me that you don't have to settle. You can get tone and still like good kind of classic rock and tone but in a high-gain version and I'm really really really impressed with the ISF switch and the way they have it set up is it takes your tone from my British setting to the American setting so for me I'm a big fan of the British sound but I like a little bit of that kind of like modern American hard rock and punch to it so I can kind of scoop that in a little bit sounds awesome. Depending on what the set is I'll kind of definitely dive into a couple songs in particular if there's some songs that haven't played in a while. We try not to keep it too stiff and you know treat it too professionally I guess and you know getting these new amps could be a good and common a better tone so it's great to have a new piece of gear to toy with always creates a new inspiration for you and we're ready to try and finish up our new folder. That's what we'll be working on the entire rest of the year.