Meet Xander & the Peace Pirates, the triple-guitar band discovered by an ex-Gibson CEO

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The thread title is the magazine's headline at https://www.guitarworld.com/features/xander-and-the-peace-pirates - an excerpt below, and some videos, including one about the band. Whom I'd first heard of in late 2023, because Silveroller's last gig of the year was opening for them in London. But I didn't check out their music until recently.

Since being discovered on YouTube by former Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, guitarist brothers Keith and Stuart Xander haven’t looked back – and neither have their fellow ‘Peace Pirates’, Mike Gay (guitar), Joel Goldberg (bass) and Adam Goldberg (drums).

Keith, who was born without a lower right arm and plays with a prosthesis and hook that has a plectrum on its end, has been touted as Liverpool’s answer to Stevie Ray Vaughan, and his band collectively play soulful blues-rock, with their second album, Order Out Of Chaos, gaining traction.

“We all have different styles of playing,” says slide guitarist Mike, “which people could see as a negative. But it’s great because we couldn’t possibly sound like one person’s influences and go down that road.”

Xander & The Peace Pirates join the likes of Radiohead, Iron Maiden and the Eagles with a three-guitar line-up, and Stuart, Keith and Mike make this dynamic work by giving each other space and voicing their own characters.

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Much more at the link.