Keith Urban says this is the best way to tell if you should buy a guitar: “I get very excited about that particularly”
What makes you want to buy a guitar? It could be a visual aspect like shape or colour, or maybe it’s the electronics or wood. For Keith Urban, it needs to pull an unusual riff out of him.
Urban, who has just launched his first ever live album, High And A(live), has been sharing his best tips for buying guitars, including what is most important to him. It doesn’t matter if a guitar is expensive or cheap, if he manages to play something entirely brand new on it, he’ll likely buy it.
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He tells Guitarist in its new print issue, “I think maybe it’s about bonding with something. That’s all it is for me. l usually base it on if I pick it up and play it, and a riff or something comes out of the guitar that I’ve never played before, I get very excited about that particularly.
“It happens on really cheap guitars, too. I’ve walked into stores and found fairly cheap guitars, you know, for a couple hundred bucks, and kind of gone, ‘Wow, l’ve never played that riff before.’ Then maybe another riff comes out of it, and I go, ‘This guitar’s got some stuff in it.’ So l’ve bought guitars based on that,” he explains.
Asked if he’d rather buy a cheap guitar and an expensive amp, or vice versa, Urban responds, “The guitar comes first, but… Man, that’s a great question. I was going to try to give an answer, and I was like, ‘You don’t believe that, Keith’ [laughs]. Because, really, either one works.
“To me, ‘good’ is something that pulls something out of me that feels and sounds really good. Regardless of how much it is, what brand it is or anything about it, to me, that’s a good guitar. That beats tone,” he concludes. “Because the tone could be shitty and that’s actually part of the character of the guitar you just played.”
Keith Urban will go on tour in 2026. You can find out more via his official website.
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