SCOTT HOLIDAY
The Rival Sons guitarist on “toothy”, “dirty” rock‘n’roll and the death of the guitar hero.
Interview: Henry Yates
ROB BLACKHAM
What were you doing in 1998?
I’d started to think: “Man, I’m not sure if guitar-based rock’n’roll is where it’s gonna happen.” After years of relentlessly playing rock’n’roll, I’d got really into acts like Portishead and the Bristol scene. But it goes in cycles, like anything. One day, I picked up the guitar again, put down the Massive Attack, put on Neil Young’s Harvest, and just said: “Yeah. That’s in my soul.”