MARK TREMONTI

Join Alter Bridge’s lead guitarist on his journey from buying his first guitar for $10 to hunting down Dumble amps costing considerably more…

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What was the first guitar you bought with your own money? “I bought a Les Paul imitation called a Tara and it cost me 10 bucks. I had a buddy in sixth or seventh grade who had the guitar and he was going to upgrade and so he said, ‘I will sell you this guitar for 10 bucks if you join my band and I’ll teach you to play.’ We started a band called Wit’s End. We did punk rock and heavy metal and Cheap Trick… lots of different things, whatever we could actually play. It wasn’t very complicated stuff. I got into the more Mötley Crüe kinda stuff later on and I wanted to play Metallica and Slayer, of course, but the band couldn’t handle that at the time.”…

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Guitarist (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2021

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