Carl from The Shop Window has been running a series of videos on YouTube giving a behind-the-scenes peek at how he builds some of the lush guitar tones on the Daysdream album.
I loved contributing to this album, and I was never quite sure what the brief would be from one track to the next. Carl’s an amazing guitarist, so he would often just need something with a different flavour to help balance a track. On See Another Day, I think he asked for a solo that’s “a bit John Squirey” :)
For the guitar nerds: it’s played on my beloved 2004 Tokai UES-100 SR, which I’ve owned since 2005, plugged straight into a Marshall Origin 20.
As a baby, one of my darling daughters lifted the Tokai’s pickguard to see what was underneath and it snapped off in her hands. I played it sans-guard for a while until 2018, when I had Dr. Robert switch out the stock humbuckers for a set of Lindy Fralin HB-sized P90s. Robbie had a spare Epiphone pickguard lying around his workshop, so on it went.