You don’t want any barriers between what you’re dreaming and what you can create. That’s the important thing about your guitar and gear: You want these tools to be like a series of open doors. Getting that early generation DiMarzio pickup in the neck of my guitar really opened my ears to tone and what I could do with it. Somebody told me about this guy in New York who makes humbucking pickups and how they would make your guitar sound big, but you didn’t have to worry about unwanted noise. It’s got that thing.’ I started to think about how I could utilize the neck pickup, and that’s when I discovered Larry DiMarzio’s pickups (opens in new tab). Years later, when I was playing guitar, I got a ’68 Fender Telecaster that had a Bigsby on it, and I started to go, ‘Oh, this sounds just like what I’ve been hearing on these records. The DiMarzio PAF Joe neck pickup was developed for Joe Satriani.
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