![]() ![]() ![]() Cesar at Gibson took me to his place and let me play through his Gibson collection. “That actually happened to me last night. ![]() Those moments can come unannounced and take you by surprise. “All the right-brain tactic and techniques are important – that I have the correct posture, that I am in the right position when playing – but it is also important to abandon all of that to put in the work and truly create, and that is when Trivium makes the best songs, when Ibaraki makes the best songs.” “When I do, and I come to out of that moment where I capture that lightning bolt, I try to record that riff immediately, or try to memorise that feeling, or try to write down what piece of gear I just played, what food I just ate. If inspiration was always there it would be too easy. Of course, writing and creative ideas are often about fishing around for the inspiration. I went back to real heads and real cabs because that brings you back to a place of being a teenager and playing for the first time That is what I strive for, and I don’t always find it.” I forget where I was for a moment.’ You almost float above yourself for a moment. “It’s those moments where you come out of them and you go, ‘Wow! I lost track of time. “But part of it is also left-side brain, being able to improvise, to play, and not worry about ‘Am I getting better? Is this the right way to practise this? Is this in key? Is this sticking to traditions of musical theory? Am I as good as anyone else?’ It is just playing. It is so subjective and there are so many pieces that are involved with tone.” “I do want people going into it, trying my guitar, and if it is for them, awesome, and if it’s not then they might have to go elsewhere and find something that is correct for them. ![]() If it is some really expensive boutique guitar that they got from selling their car and they love this guitar, and it makes them feel like the best guitar player in the world, then that’s the correct answer as well. “If it is a 200 dollar plastic guitar that’s terrible but they feel really good on, that they feel good to make music on, they should absolutely do it. There is never a right or wrong answer with gear I feel that so much of the music world, people – myself included – will strive to find the best tone, the best thing, the best everything, but whatever works for musicians is correct. There is never a right or wrong answer with gear. Ultimately, it is just how the instrument speaks to you. We’ve played Epiphones that play and sound better than some Gibsons. There is also purely materialist reason to go with Epiphone the quality is great. With the guitar, with the concept of the Origins, I have always for some reason gravitated towards the Les Paul Custom, but I wanted these subtle changes.” I made that record entirely for myself, the music I wanted to hear, the music that I wanted to make that maybe did or didn’t exist, and that’s all that mattered. They are creating something in order to appease what they think a focus group says, whereas everything that we do, and always have done with Trivium, is make the kind of music that – not to sound selfish – we want to hear first and foremost, not thinking about whether people are going to like it. “Absolutely, I feel like people, maybe in the creative fields, in music, they are going too hard trying to make something that they think is what people want. To navigate a complex world, you have to embrace the paradoxical. We were talking about the contrast between the classic design of the Les Paul Custom and the modernisation on your signature models. They are not so far aesthetically removed from the originals. Now, in his third artist collaboration with Epiphone, the Matt Heafy Les Paul Custom Origins Collection, Heafy augments the classic design further, deploying a pair of Fishman Fluence Modern, a custom neck profile with a sculpted heel, and indeed offering this artist spec on both six and seven-string models, with left-handers available.Īnd yet, for all this is shreddable “made for metal” update, the guitars themselves – finished in Ebony or Bone White – retain that old-world charm. When it came to spec’ing up a signature guitar with Epiphone, it could only be a Les Paul Custom. I was a champion of listening to satanic black metal but also listening to christian metalcore at the same time, or being into death metal and at the same time emo, things that shouldn’t go “I played it on most of our records, and it was always my favourite.” He gave me a Les Paul Custom, which is an absurd thing for an 11 year old to get for their first guitar,” he said. “My favourite guitar was one my dad gave me when I was 11 years old. Speaking to MusicRadar in 2017, he explained how the Les Paul Custom was his first love, and would soon underpin Trivium’s sound, becoming his go-to in the studio. ![]()
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