B
rian Fallon doesn’ t romanticize guitars the way collectors tend to. He uses them. He drops them, breaks them, replaces parts, drags them through the back seats of rental cars and the bathrooms of bars in Germany. The Telecaster with which he wrote the Gaslight Anthem’ s early catalog on went through everything with him, and when the money ran out, he sold it. To a working musician, instruments are tools.“ Everyone needs a hammer,” he says.
That unsentimental logic is precisely what makes the Limited Edition Brian Fallon‘ 59 Telecaster Custom such an in-
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