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“It ’s a dream !”
WHY YUNGBLUD INVITES FANS TO JAM ON STAGE AND KEEP THE EPIPHONE GUITAR THEY PLAY
“I ’ve handed out about nine guitars so far,” he says. “The first time happened by accident. We’d been sent some cool prototypes to tour with. I wanted to try them out and switch between my main ’60s Gibson and the Epiphones. I started to mix and match on stage. We were headlining a festival in Prague and I asked the crowd, ‘Does anyone want to come up and play this next song with us? Does anyone actually know how to play it?’ Everyone went a bit mad and it was crazy looking at 60,000 people screaming, ‘Yeah!’ I remember looking out and a moshpit opened up. There was one kid in the middle screaming, ‘Me!’ I got him up, his name was Simon, and it was like we’d been playing with him our entire lives.