WORSHIP GUITAR TALK
[ WITH HILLSONG’S MICHAEL GUY CHISLETT, PART 2 | Doug Doppler ]
Over the past decade MGC here to have a studio career!” How
has grown from being one of did it all come together?
the most recognized worship
guitarists on the planet to one of [MGC] A band called Paper
the most successful producers in Radio asked if I would play guitar
Praise and Worship. While he’s for them. They said that they were
experienced tremendous success going to move to England, so I was
it did not come without hard work excited about that because I was
and dedication… going to be a professional guitar
player in England. When we got
[WM] What advice do you have there, they all got regular jobs, and
for the young guitar players and because I’m Dyslexic I couldn’t get
producers out there who have a job. So I took the return ticket
been inspired by you? that they paid for back to L.A. and
stayed on a friend’s couch. One of
[MGC] I read an article when I my best friends was playing guitar
was about 14 years old. I was in Steriogram, and their singer was
really into Queen back then, and giving Dan McCarroll (head of EMI
I still am. Brian May said that he publishing at the time) a haircut.
practiced six hours a day, so I He asked me, “What do you want
would come home from school to do?” and I said, “I just wanna
and practice until 9 or 10 o’clock at play guitar, tour, and record.” I had
night. I went through the Van Halen a DVD with me, because that’s
phase, and Nuno Bettencourt what you had at the time, and he
was another guitar player that I watched a couple of things that I
really got into. I was a really fast had done, and he told me that he
guitar player at one point. Once
could put me in a band tomorrow
I hit fifteen, I started to realize that Radiohead It’s either now, or never. That was my thought if that was what I wanted. I said, “Yeah! That
or Oasis weren’t necessarily technically gifted, process that made me think that I should go to would be awesome!” From that point on, life in
they just had more emotional songs. It kind of L.A. and try and do it professionally. L.A. was way easier than England or Sydney.
if Foo Fighters called me tomorrow and needed [WM] I’ve heard a lot of Hollywood success Dan was Butch Walker’s publisher, but I didn’t
me to play, if I couldn’t do it then, I should never stories, but they tend not to start with, “I’m a meet Butch until a couple of months after
expect myself to be a professional guitar player. guitarist from a big church in Australia and I’m that. I played in a band called Limousine, who
shifted my guitar playing. I started thinking that
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