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Guitar: Gibson
Model: Explorer
Serial Number: 98636725

The Flying V is almost certainly the personification of Heavy Metal, BUT, it was Heavy Metal’s second guitar icon, the Explorer that I was most attracted to. Ever since I saw Matthias Jabs playing in Scorpions at the tender age of 12 I needed an Explorer.

I eventually achieved my dream of owning one 25 years later. In the UK, Gibson guitars were and are inconceivably expensive, but in the US they are half the price and a further half that price second-hand.

My Explorer was bought from Craigslist in San Francisco. I was there playing with NWW, so myself and Colin Potter jumped on a train to a place I don’t recall just outside SF and I got hold of this second or maybe third-hand battle scarred slab of wood and wire.

It sounds great and looks great now I’ve added a mirrored pickguard and well, it’s an Explorer. Perfection.

Notable live excursions with Nurse With Wound, Art Errorist and Liles/Maniac/Stokes.

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from DISCHORDIANISM 3135, released March 11, 2024

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Andrew Liles UK

Andrew Liles is a prolific solo artist, producer, remixer and sometime member of Nurse With Wound and Current 93.

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Green Border: Liles Solo Releases.

Green Image: Monster Releases.

Green Circles: Monochromatic Releases.

Grey with Liles Black Metal Logo: Moral Nihilist Releases.

Green Dots: Live Recordings

White Border: Collaborations and Remixes.
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