Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…The Strat, yeah. American Strat. I said I would never do this, but I was in a guitar store. I live next to a guitar store in Cambridge, and one day… I would always stop by, I don’t know why. I just to look at the guitars, and I don’t really know why exactly, just to be in the aura of these great instruments. And they brought in this American Strat that had these different shades of… It was like a silver. And I just… I’ve never had this feeling. They talk about love at first sight. I just fell in love with the guitar. Can you just speak to the kinda guitars you have and you love? I pretty much have… Mainly old school guitars, right? So I have Gibsons, I have Fenders, I have PRS guitars. And then I have… I have two Gibson acoustics. I have a 1957 Country Western that I’ve had for probably 30 some odd years. It’s a great guitar. And I have a J-45 Gibson, and I have a Martin D-28. So I only have three nice acoustics. And I have a Guild 12-string, and I have a Guild Nashville-tuned guitar. The low strings are up the octave, so the E, A, D and G are up the octave. That’s Nashville tuning. Six-string though. Like, basically what David Gilmour plays on Comfortably Numb in my video. He plays a Nashville tune, but with one variation. The low E is up two octaves. So he demonstrates actually the… And this is how he wrote Comfortably Numb. The, the chorus- … part of it was with this particular guitar that he’s playing in the video.…

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