The Wood Brothers’ Oliver Wood made an appearance on a recent episode of Gary Walkman’s “Let’s Hear It” web series, where musicians can share stories and play their favorite instruments.
For this episode, Wood decided to showcase his 1965 Guild T100D; a thin semi-hollow guitar with DeArmond single-coil pickups.
Wood explains that the guitar came into his ownership during the mid-1990s while working at a music shop. He owned a Fender Stratocaster at the time, which was hugely popular: “It seemed like everybody else had a strat too, and everybody was playing Stevie Ray Vaugh licks.”
Wood was yearning for something that would help set him apart and find some musical uniqueness at the time, and the dirty tone of the Guild T100D spoke to him. “I liked that it had the single coils, but I also liked that you could sort of hear the hollowness of it,” he adds.
The Wood Brothers were featured in Relix back in early April; they spoke about the writing and recording process for their latest album Kingdom In My Mind, as well as the story behind the band’s inception. The article can be read here.
Watch Wood’s appearance on Let’s Hear It below:
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