 What first got me into music? It must have been some of the records that my dad was playing at home When I was a young kid, even though my dad primarily had vinyls with group music I wasn't really into that so much, but he had a few rock vinyls Among them it was the Eagles Hotel, California and Peter Frampton Frampton comes alive legendary live album and Actually that record is what made me want to eventually start playing guitar Hearing Frampton do the talk box and making his guitar talk If I wasn't a musician and I wasn't playing guitar for a living I think I would probably still be involved with music somehow I always had an interest in the business side of it as well apart from playing and writing music So I probably would be involved more in that My main go-to amp is my own signature Head, which is this one right here. It's the serious one 200 blackfire head But if that one isn't available for some reason if I turn up at a gig anywhere in the world or for a one-off festival I'll easily play any of the serious one amps The reason for the switch to black so was the quality of the sound of the amp the tone of the amp I remember we were in LA recording with Ozzy in the Scream album some seven years ago And I kept hearing the hype about this new amp company called Blackstar and I said well You know if the guys can get us an amp down in the studio and we'll try it out and give you feedback And it went from that to basically ending up recording all the rhythm parts on that album With a serious one 200 watt head. I Was sold right there and then and obviously the next step would be for me to take it out on the road See how it reacts on stage or in various stages That out was a real good dog The advice to a beginner I would probably tell them to Play music because they love it That's the main reason why you should be playing music and have a lot of patience a lot of younger musicians So don't have patience enough and I know that because I've been there. I was like that in my late teens or early 20s You wanted things to happen very fast building a career is something that takes at least a decade or two decades So you need to have patience and just keep working at it But if you love it enough if you love the music you'll stick with it because that's well That's all that will matter to you. I think Blackstar amps are Perfect for any style really There's an array of different amps Depending on your style me being heavy metal guitar player and talking about heavy metal I mean for me like that one of the secrets of my tone is actually this amp the Blackfire 200 and especially the KT88 tunes and there's this big thick tone To me this amp was a it was a revelation when I first heard it hearing my tone So big and so open like having great amount of distortion that you can control And it doesn't get muddy or doesn't get lost. You don't lose all the frequencies the whole sound spectrum of it It's just so well balanced