Elliott Randall

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The Zexcoil Elliott Randall Sessions

Dr. Lawing recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Elliott at his home studio in London. In addition to cutting some demos, the Dr. conducted an extensive interview with Elliott covering his personal and professional music history as well as Elliott’s advice for guitarists and other musicians. Highlights include details on his work with Steely Dan and anecdotes from throughout his career including: Jimi Hendrix, The Band, Eddie Kramer and more.

This is Elliott Randall playing the opening bars of one of his most iconic guitar compositions on a Zexcoil Throaty Bucker.
Dr. Lawing sat down with Elliott Randall for an extensive interview. In this first episode, Elliott discusses his formative years on guitar and his early professional history including: The Druids of Stonehenge, Seatrain, Randall's Island and his first two solo albums and his early recording with Steely Dan.
In episode II of this series, Elliott elaborates on his career. While not as chronologically linear as Part I, there is a wealth of information in here to interest fans of not only guitar but rock music in general.

Elliott Randall’s illustrious career has encompassed a wide and varied cross-section of World Musical forms. These include: record production, composition, electronic research and development, lectures and teaching, and of course, a legendary contribution to popular guitar performance and recording.

His guitar solos on Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ In The Years” and “Fame” (the motion picture) have entered Rock history annals.

Elliott has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as The Doobie Brothers, Carly Simon, Seatrain, The Blues Brothers, Carl Wilson, Peter Wolf, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Richie Havens, The Rochester Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra, among many others. In addition, he is a favorite of esteemed songwriters Jimmy Webb, George David Weiss, Don Covay and Laura Nyro. Other credits include: music consultant for NBC Saturday Night Live and Oliver Stone, and projects with producers Jerry Wexler, Joel Dorn, Steve Lillywhite, Eddie Kramer, David Kershenbaum, Bill Szymcziyk, Eumir Deodato, Bob Crewe, Andrew Loog Oldham, Elliot Scheiner and Gary Katz among many others.

In His Own Words

"Strat #1 has had its first hardware change since the late '70s. It's a Zexcoil Guitar Pickups SV5O in the middle position. And what an addition to the tonality of my fave solid body! One word : WOW. Totally new and different voice to my fave guitar. You rock. How can one really describe "compelling new tone due to increased frequency response?”… an additional sparkle --- not treble, but an airiness that's hard to put into words, the SV5O is absolutely outta this world. It has a character like no other (and I have quite a few pickups). Totally magical, sounds amazing … Great work, Scott!”

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