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Chris Spedding: Confessions Of a Top UK Session Guitarist

Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 29 March 1973

LONDON — Chris Spedding flicked his eyes anxiously down to his wrist-watch. It was coming up to 10 PM. The three-hour session, Chris' second of the day, was nearly over, and the producer was anxious to finish. Several of the musicians littered around the Advision Studios were taking an inordinate amount of trouble tuning up and asking obvious questions about repeat bars and codas. They were angling for overtime. Chris wasn't going to play along, though.

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