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

[highplainsdem]

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.

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Very tasty, thanks for the turn on highplainsdem

The last couple minutes of the 1st tune especially, gave me Live ABB vibes

[highplainsdem]

2. Thanks, Sarge! I'm kicking myself for not having looked at them more closely earlier, instead of just

remembering their very cool name (which could also have been a great title for a children's book) from what I read about Silveroller supporting them for one gig over a year ago.

Not just beautiful music, but a truly impressive story there with Keith Xander, as that BBC feature story in their "Amazing Humans" series shows. So much admiration for him...

[Celerity]

3. a great Stavanger, Norway triple guitar melodic dark metal band, Kvelertak, they hit hard, I adore this song 🖤

Kvelertak - Krøterveg Te Helvete [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Kvelertak means Stranglehold in Bokmål (the main type of Norwegian used by 90 per cent or so of the country, as opposed to Nynorsk) Norwegian

Krøterveg Te Helvete means the winding road (literally a rocky cow path in the mountains) to hell

[highplainsdem]

4. They're good! Linking to the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvelertak