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YUNGBLUD ON THE GUITAR THAT DEFINED THE SOUND OF PUNK ROCK
At a recent gig in Paris, Yungblud played Steve Jones’ 1974 Les Paul Custom, the guitar which made history on Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. As he recalls: “I was literally sat backstage playing it through a Twin Reverb and it sounded exactly like [Sex Pistols classic] Pretty Vacant. My favourite old-school punk bands are the Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. Hearing Johnny Rotten with Steve Jones, Joe Strummer and Captain Sensible was mind-blowing for me. I remember being hit in the face by their music around the age of seven. So being able to shut my eyes and play Pistols riffs, and have it sound exactly like the record without three hours of fine-tuning on pedals or a laptop was f*cking mental! Straight in, boom, go! And that guitar is heavy as f*ck, too heavy for me to play, to be honest. It’s a proper ’70s Les Paul in that sense.