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Billy Howerdel – "It Was a Happy Accident"
Total Guitar
|August 2022
Billy Howerdel on his ‘Frankensteined' guitar and his debut solo album
Billy Howerdel found mainstream success as guitarist in A Perfect Circle alongside Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, after serving as a guitar tech for Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ Roses, and more. Billy’s debut solo album What Normal Was features the same guitar he’s used throughout his career – a 1991 Gibson Les Paul Custom Classic in Cinnamon Burst, gifted to him by one-time employer Trent Reznor...
Your main guitar was the first instrument you worked on for Nine Inch Nails, which you accidentally burned...
This story is from the August 2022 edition of Total Guitar.
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