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Dave Stryker’s Plex-able Guitar Mods

or nearly 30 years, Dave Stryker has been pretty much inseparable from his Gibson ES-347s. “I saw Marvin Horne playing one at the Village Vanguard with Elvin Jones,” he explained while touring to promote his latest release, (Strikezone), on which he covers an assortment of ’70s pop tunes with the help of organist Jared Gold, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, and drummer McClenty Hunter. “I liked Marvin’s sound. Then I saw what would become my main guitar, a tobacco sunburst 1980 ES-347, hanging on the wall at a guitar

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