GUEST COLUMN – Duncan Black – Chin Up
Yeah it’s 2020 and I’m writing an article for link2wales – Let’s face it, there’s fuck all else to do right now. My much-loved band Rabo De Toro have split up, the festivals have been cancelled and it looks like Faith No More won’t come back to these shores in 2021 – It’s all fucked right? The irony is that a tidal wave of music is quietly building.Sales of guitars have gone through the roof – This is a reality. Fender sold more guitars in 2020 than in any other year in the company’s history. At the beginning of lockdown I ordered my dream guitar – I don’t know why, but if I’m stuck indoors I need a hobby. It’s a B.C Rich Perfect 10 designed by genius luthier Neal Moser and re-released as a sumptuous high end model in 2019 – A guitar so outrageously shaped even Dave Mustaine from Megadeth stopped using them, but by the gods it is the stuff of legend. I am far from alone – People are piling their time into learning guitar again.
