Michael Dolce,Levi Clay: Live4Guitar in depth interview


I’m still trying to digest the beauty of the first one! So let’s talk guitars and gear, you’re holding a Mustang on the cover of the album, but you’re rarely seen without one of your teles – how long have you been a tele man?

The tele was never my thing, I was always into Strats and I have some PRS style guitars. I never thought I would play them, but I have a friend who built this tele, he called me up and said “you have to try this one out!” and I was like “no, I don’t like teles at all, no chance..” but he kept at it and eventually I took it home to play for a few days and that was it. It has a beautiful maple neck that just brings out this whole percussive nature to the sound. It sounds like I’m hybrid picking when I’m not, so acoustically this guitar is just the way forward for me. Now I struggle to play any guitar with a middle pickup, I had one on another tele so I could get the strat tones, but it’s coming out!

Plus the tele isn’t all that common in fusion!

Yeah, I love that I play a tele because everyone seems to play the strat style guitars, teles are so understated. People see it and expect me to be a country player, but I’m not! (laughs) more

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