Guitar Week retains on jamming with a roundup of FINNEAS’ favourite guitarists of all time, taken from the Consequence Guitar Survey. See our listing of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and take a look at Kerry King of Slayer’s private high six guitar heroes.
As a songwriter and producer, FINNEAS has taken leaps into experimental territory, however usually gravitates proper again to the guitar. From the earliest Billie Eilish releases like “bellyache” and “idontwannabeyouanymore” to his newest indie pop solo LP, For Cryin’ Out Loud!, he’s executed clear, dreamy guitar work – whereas additionally providing some chaos when essential (see: the final 90 seconds of “Happier Than Ever”).
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So, it was becoming to see FINNEAS accomplice with Fender for his Signature Acoustasonic Telecaster guitar final yr, which he’s been bringing out on the highway each solo and with Eilish. The acoustic-electric instrument speaks to FINNEAS’ hybrid strategy, which itself takes inspiration from a few of his private favourite guitar gamers.
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However regardless of now having his personal line of guitars, FINNEAS remains to be humble about his expertise. “I don’t consider myself, nor does anybody else consider me, as a very extraordinary guitar participant,” he says in a chat with Consequence final yr about his Acoustasonic line. As an alternative, FINNEAS is reverent in the direction of the guitar gamers who impressed him to choose up the instrument within the first place, together with classics like Nile Rogers and George Harrison in addition to newer heroes like Leslie Feist and Annie Clark.
Learn on for FINNEAS’ picks, and see the place they landed on our listing of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. You too can enter to win a brand new Fender Participant II Modified Telecaster® so you can also rock like FINNEAS and his heroes by getting into right here.
In the meantime, FINNEAS is presently in Europe finishing a headlining tour, however he returns to the states in August to play Lollapalooza. Get tickets to see him right here.
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Nile Rodgers (Stylish)
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Nile Rogers, picture by Ben Kaye
Nile Rogers is a brilliant essential guitarist to me. That is demonstrating my age, or lack of age, however I used to be actually launched to Nile Rodgers by the use of Daft Punk when the Random Entry Reminiscences album got here out, after which retroactively discovered that he was a genius musician and a genius producer additionally. However what a guitarist.