Dec. 09, 2009 - Issue #738: Manraygun
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When I was around 13, I took guitar lessons out in Sherwood Park from a
guy named Merlin. I always thought that that was his real name—after
all, he had a decal on his neon pink Strat that would seem to indicate
such—but thinking back, perhaps it wasn't. Anyway, he was a cool
guy—exactly the kind of guy a 13-year-old would want to take lessons
from: instead of teaching me boring shit like scales and modes, he just
taught me how to play every song from Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as a few
Ramones ditties. Well, mostly: a week or two before Christmas, I walked in
and he put on this album. Listening back, it's easy to see what intrigued me
about it—this thing is about as mid-'90s guitar wankery as you can get
without actually being Joe Satriani. I thought it was amazing. Every year I
still terrorize my family with my version of Kenny Wayne Shepherd's "Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer." It wouldn't be Christmas without it.Various artists
Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas
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