But I wasn't, I was playing through this little cube thing! And that went on for a while until I could afford something. And it had a mic on it behind the stack, so it looked like I was playing through the stack. "I remember the first gig I put it behind the a Marshall stack that the headline band had. "So I had this 10-watt Ross practice amp with a built-in distortion switch. "So the guitar was really good but the amp I had, I couldn't afford an amp," admits Greg. I think it's mainly mould holding it together. And I've still got it upstairs but it's completely unplayable now because it was in a warehouse for a long time. It was made by Jaydee [UK luthier John Diggins, who also made guitars for Tony Iommi). We called them shark fins then but I guess they're called offset Vs now. It was a custom guitar because I'm left-handed. "It's embarrassing talking about this but the guitar was pretty good. But back in 1988, Greg's first gigging rig was a strange combination of custom guitar and extremely budget amp. Nick Holmes and Greg formed the band's songwriting core early on (Image credit: Paradise Lost)īy the time Paradise Lost released their classic Draconian Times record in 1995 the gigs had got bigger and the touring budgets followed. It was only around sort of the mid '90s where we were like, wow, this is there's a lot of stuff happening thick and fast here, that we kind of, not got carried away with it, but thought, Jesus, we didn't really expect to be doing this, you know?" So then if something good happens, you're kind of pleasantly surprised. "We've always been a 'don't believe it until you see it' group of people. "I never had any ambition at all at the start and then as it went on, I still didn't," reveals Greg. One of the secrets of such stability is that these Yorkshiremen have always kept an arid sense of humour and very grounded attitude that's helped them avoid the pitfalls of the industry for the most part. With the exception of a revolving door of drummers, that same PL lineup has stayed in place ever since, even as the band's sound forged ahead into rockier and electronic-tinged territory on the One Second and Host albums in the late nineties. So then if something good happens, you're kind of pleasantly surprised Paradise Lost's 2022 lineup (from left): Waltteri Väyrynen (drums), Aaron Aedy (rhythm guitar), Nick Holmes (vocals), Greg Mackintosh (lead guitar) and Steve Edmondson (bass) (Image credit: Paradise Lost)
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