God isn't Dave Gregory a National Treasure? Absolutely fabulous!

Brilliant show. Could listen to Dave Gregory all day. A true master of his craft.

XTC was a world-famous band - at least for me. Dave Gregory is a hero! What a video!!!

He’s such a Gentleman. Much respect for Dave.

third time watching this - Dave is a national treasure

One of my all-time favorite musician KZfaq videos! Unbelievably good! Thanks very much to all of you!

The people at Danelectro are blessing your names today for putting that guitar in his hands & his "that's pretty damn good" response.

Hands down, Dave is one of my favorite musicians ever. If ever there was an "in the pocket" player it is Dave. While I geek out over his guitar playing (and collecting and history buffness) I am equally enamoured by his keyboard work. Dan & Mick, thank you for supporting and promoting this international treasure!

So happy about this episode! The guitar interplay between Dave Gregory and Andy Partridge was absolutely fantastic. "Drums and Wires," "Black Sea," "English Settlement" - all great guitar records. Thanks, guys!!

It's a dream to see anything about the fabulous XTC on the net. Truly original guitaristic tunage by Mr Gregory and Mr Partridge. thank you so very much

Dave is not only my guitar hero, but such a dear friend.

Sitting beside Dave Gregory while he plays Senses Working Overtime on the original guitar would pretty much be the most thrilling event of my life.

TPS has officially ascended from one of the best guitar shows on KZfaq to THE BEST guitar show on KZfaq. Dave Gregory has been my hero for decades, and it was glorious to watch him on the show.

Dave Gregory is a lovely bloke

Todd Rundgren enthused about Dave on an interview about Skylarking . His playing is superb and his guitar /pedal journey is so good to hear . The rebuilding of the 63 Strat ♥️

Just listened to this for the second time. Been an XTC fan since their first album when I was 15 and I'm now....older. They are timeless and one the greatest British bands of all time.

Guys, can't thank you enough for this one. When Dave strapped on the black Rick and played the chorus from Senses, I thought my heart was going to pop out of my chest. My eyes teared up and I began laughing like a giddy school girl. And it all came flooding back; those memories of youth, the feelings therein, the intensity of discovery, and the sound of XTC.

An hour and a half with Dave Gregory - what a lovely man and great inspiration. Thanks for that. Cheers to the Swindon crew!

I can't claim to be a huge XTC fan, but "Dear God" has to be one of the best songs ever written. Really interesting interview.

The Rickenbacker 12 string was always my dream guitar. I finally got a 330/12 around 2002 and it's been my main guitar ever since. I'm not saying it's love, but I do have it tattooed on my arm.

How come I have only just found this in June 2023? Cuz I'm a flippin' eedjit that's why! 🙄 Dave Gregory = Deity status 😁 This is the best music based video I have ever seen, thanks guys!

Dave Gregory is a magician.He did things on a 6&12 string no other guitarist did to such effect,bloody genius

I am 57 years old and had never heard of XTC before. Because Dan kept mentioning the band, I looked for them on KZfaq. The first song I came across was “Dear God” and it immediately blew me away. Why have I never come across this band before? And Dave Gregory is really very likeable and his Rickenbacker 12-string sounds really great. Thanks for this interview! 🤗

thank you for the REM reference but just let me say as a person who was there during those Athens days of REM we loved XTC before Pete even started to play you were a huge influence on the Athens music scene

Wonderful gathering, a must watch! Dave Gregory is one of my favorite guitarist and writers ever!!!

One of my heroes!... Ten feet tall and the solo in that song still kills me....so many great memories listening to Drums and Wires..thank u guys...Dave is wonderful!

To me, TPS is about inspiration. I, like Dan, have always been a HUGE Dave Gregory fan! Having watched this, I am heading to help host and play in the house band at an open mic and have been inspired to dust off my Danelectro DC59-12 (like yours, but 2 single coil lipsticks) which hasn't been gigged in ages! My favourite TPS show of all time! Thanks so much, guys, for allowing us a glimpse into the beautiful mind of this true creative legend.

this had me screaming like a little girl. Thank you guys for your service to the universe.

Mick’s face when Dave plays the “Senses” riff was the same I made when I saw what this video was going to be about.

I must say THANK YOU. DAVID GREGORY is certainly a National Treasure..!! He is the most gracious and charming man... his KNOWLEDGE of guitar is at the level of a master archivist..!! I am so grateful for you putting this show together. PART TWO..??? 🙃👍 (I'm head over heels)

Stressed out this morning! Listening to Dave speak might be even better that Headspace for relaxing

BEST. EPISODE. EVER!

Dave Gregory is absolutely one of my guitar heroes and criminally under appreciated. Thank you for bringing him around!

You should totally get Johnny Marr to be on the show :)

I love listening to DG talk almost as much as his playing.

Thank you TPS. I was on a XTC bing and Andy's new vid showed up and the next day Dave showed up. I missed this one. I am on a cloud today.

Best 90 mins since Celtic won the European Cup in 1967...Superb!

I just watched every second of this video. Wonderful. Gregory is a soft-spoken gentleman with fascinating stories from his life in music. Thanks so much!

I really enjoyed this, what an informative video! I knew nothing of the history of the Rickenbacker 12 - but a couple of weeks ago I heard the 330/12 on a video and loved it. Then a small tax refund arrive by surprise and I'm now the very proud owner of a new 330/12 Mapleglow! I'm just a 56 year old chord-bashing learner, but the sound of this guitar is simply amazing, it inspires me to practice more.

OMG, Dave is my absolute all times hero. Thanks a lot for this.

I will mirror Mr Gregory, yall have absolutely rekindled my love of guitar and playing, not just pedals. My pedalboard has grown exponentially in the few years since yall started, and so has my enjoyment of playing. Being able to get the sounds in my head, or at least have an idea of how to try to get them, has been wonderful. I watch your show every week, and even if it's not a topic I'm interested in, I learn so much about things that I am. Thank you so much for the show. We all love it.

Bless you Dave - not sure you even know how much of an influence you are to so many of us. Thanks, TPS!

Watching your faces when Dave plays 'Senses Working Overtime'... priceless!

Brilliant show guys….Dave Gregory is so nice

That was so good. What a lovely man Dave is. Totally without affectation, and all the more charming for it.

Dave tells great stories and is so humble. Love his sound with XTC.

What a marvellous interview!!! thank you, Mr Gregory! Thank you.... Happy holidays

Love them Ricks.

Ah, the intro is sublime. That's the progenitor of shoegaze, right there, in those chords. Just add overdrive, chorus, delay, and reverb. :D A Rickenbacker 330 has been my main guitar since 1991, when I bought it new. The Hi-Gain pickups are one of my all-time favorites. I prefer them to the Toasters. The R tailpiece is hard enough to manage with 6 strings; I can't imagine how it must be with 12! I found Dave's perspective on hollowbodies and distortion funny, as those of us of the shoegaze generation very much chose hollowbody guitars for the fact that they feed back, and we obviously used tons of overdrive and distortion.

Huge XTC fan still trying to figure out half the chords....I don't even play guitar and I can tell Dave Gregory is good...to say the least. Very underrated and XTC made it look easy but interviews /discussions like this make you realize the amount of effort involved and he's so gracious!

What a rare treat both Dave from XTC and the Rickenbacker 12's. Just amazing!

Dave Gregory is TOPS!!!! one of the best pop guitar players hands down no discussion. If you don't know...well..I'm sorry.

Could you imagine how much Dave’s Rickenbacker used on English Settlement would fetch at an auction 😀. Put that thing in a museum! Dave is so great and interesting to listen to. He seems so down to Earth. Rock royalty for sure!

Love XTC and I love this interview with Dave. Seems like a genuine nice guy, great guitars as well!

Great video. Dave Gregory is awesome!

Dave's knowledge and passion is matched by his genius. Really enjoyed this talk thank you.

This might be my favourite youtube video. Thank you! Such a great player, so knowledgeable and yet down to earth.

I have a fantastic story about my wife's grandfather. He lived in a town named Benton, which is in Illinois, and is where George Harrison's sister lived. A few months before the Beatles hit it huge in the States, he spent some time in Benton with his sister. Nobody there had ever heard of the Beatles (yet). My wife's grandfather, Gabe, played in a local cover band and George's sister asked Gabe if he'd show George around, she figured they had the music thing in common. Gabe agreed and kind of took George under his wing and brought him all around. One of the places he brought him to was a local music store that sold Rickenbacker guitars and that's where George got his very first Rickenbacker guitar. There is a very low quality documentary about this called, "A Beatle In Benton."

Dave is a treasure

Gregory, Marr, Mcgeoch - the real holy trinity. Dave is a genius guitarist. Try playing the dear god arpeggios to understand his effortlesss technical prowess

Mick the expression on your face when Dave said '53 Les Paul was great

I dig so much your show Dan & Mick. When you have a guest like today it's so rewarding. Knowledgeable and very informative! Their sharing of gear choices, orgin and how they achieve their sound. Another great post! Greetings from Hollywood California.

By 10 minutes in I'm pausing the video and grabbing the Takamine acoustic 12 I haven't _really_ played for years. Some odd hours later and I'm back after a good play and a bit of a new tune. Brilliant! Cheers guys!

This is heavenly.! I could listen to Dave G all day (and you guys too of course)! thanks!

Nice video. I was not into XTC and I only knew David Gregory from Dan honk-dropping his name on the show. What a great guy and he has a ton of cool gear-related stories. More of this, please.

Huge XTC fan. Best Pedal Show ever!

Best TPS ever. The way Dan always lights up when Dave Gregory is mentioned in past pedal shows, I knew this day would one day come, lol. Sure enjoyed every moment of Dave's interview and having him walk us through those Ricks. Bravo gents!

Hearing the opening to All Of A Sudden nearly made me weep. Thank you Dave and Andy for all of your creativity and musical skills.

What a great guy. I was never much into bands like XTC, but I really enjoyed this episode. Very different from the usual - good job.

Johnny Kinkeade! a TPS hero! 🙏

It's striking that the guests on the show always seem to be really pleasant, thoughtful people. I think that tells us something about Dan and Mick.

Mick's joy and wonder in this video is pure joy. Such a great video, i could listen to Dave Gregory tell stories all day. What a bloke!

Greetings from Sardinia to you Dan & Mick and of course to the great Dave Gregory. The first CD I ever bought was Oranges and Lemons! Long Live Dave and XTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REM - Buck's12 string on "Reckoning" (notably on "South Central Rain", that opening riff) released1984. Possibly featured on "Murmur" album, 1983 You were first, Mr. Gregory

This episode is a sterling example of why there are nearly 200K of us TPS addicts.

I just paused and listened to Real by Reel remastered and then Live in Paris 1979 in another tab. Dave is a genius!! What a great live band XTC was - I was too young!! What a legend to have playing in a band with you Dan!!

The Church's Marty Wilson Piper, Robyn Hitchcock in the Soft Boys and Will Sargent from the Bunnymen all great early '80s 12 string exponents.

One of the BEST Tps guest vids ever! Dave seems like such a lovely person. but a side note.. how can you guys sit on those hard ass stools for 1.5 hrs?

I love these episodes where you get to sit back and learn as well. Brings out your top-tier nerdiness which is great to watch. Also, Rickenbackers deserve more of a run out

Absolute magic. Been waiting for this ever since I made the Tin Spirits connection with TPS. I’ve been an XTC fan for so long I can actually remember when Life Begins at the Hop and Making Plans for Nigel were first released. I started playing guitar the week I bought the 25 O’Clock EP on Vinyl, no coincidence. Amazing that now you can get pedals to make many of the sounds John Leckie conjured with Dave and the others on that record. Also so great to see and hear so much about Rickenbackers, as there is not much available on them outside of print. The look on Mick’s face when Dave first opened up on the JetGlo 12string summed up how I felt throughout. Thanks so much for this great show! Indebted.

What a great episode. I hope you guys understand how meaningful your work is to other musicians. Thank you so much.

"That's pretty damn good" Dave Gregory - Danelectro sales for this model jump by 20%

when they started talking about mike keneally borrowing dave's equipment for that gig, i had to pause this video to search for any videos of that night... i was not disappointed... you gotta love you-tube!

His voice is beautiful I didn’t even need to hear him play. Thank you for the great work guys.

I say this in a complimentary way, Dave Gregory's voice sounds a little like Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh. Hearing that voice talking about gear is really amazing!

I'd not heard of XTC or Dave before this, but what a lovely, well-spoken fella he is! Such a joy to see someone with proper vintage instruments who still plays the shit out of them rather than keeping them locked up in a case somewhere.

Brilliant episode ! Rickenbacker 12 string user and XTC fan here. I saw Dave and the band in the Fréjus Arena in 1980 and never stopped loving their music since. Dave seems to be a friendly man, is such a great guitarist so it was a real pleasure for me to hear him talking about those nice guitars and associated memories , like the history of the 335 of Eddie Phillips! Thank you guys.

From a year back or so TPS is my Friday entertainment. A couple of cold ones and TPS and my Friday is complete. And all the extra show they do in the week is just icing on the cake. Many thanks Mike and Dan. BTW I've gone back and looked att all your episodes you have in youtubeia.

Gotta love a pro who is also a gear junky / historian!!!! What a great episode!

"The vanishing girl, she'll give you a twirl." Chips from the Chocolate Fireball by the Dukes is a masterpiece.

OMG somehow I never even saw this video until now. Thanks so much for the shout out!

Thanks guys. I'm so glad I took an hour and a half out of my afternoon to watch this. I've now decided to play Senses Working Overtime at my acoustic gig tonight - I haven't played it in years so, I'm off to practice it now..! :-)

How would I describe this episode? Like the sound of a twelve string, Glorious.

Ok. 1hr and 32 glorious minutes later ... what a brilliant show, guys. Just brilliant. Deep, satisfied sigh! BTW - sold my Rick 370-12 after a couple of years, when I finally had to change the strings. That’s over four hours of my life I won’t get back. I now miss that sound, even more so after this episode, but in truth, I still rather re-string an old Bigsby ...

I've had Rics in my primary lineup for decades now... 360/12 (traded in a Fender Electric xii with a wonky neck for that one) then a 5002v58 then a 4003FL then a 660. Love 'em all. No matter what band I'm with those Rics stand out like nobody's business.

Here in 2022 seeing this for the first time (gasp!). Amazing! Thank you for this!

First Jonny Kinkade, now Dave Gregory. What is it about these older British guys that is so extremely charming? I have two spaces for granddads that are sadly vacant. How can I get them to be my new granddads?

Dave Gregory - he sounds like the David Attenborough of rock!

I am so, so loving seeing Mick's mind completely blown over and over again (goes without saying mine was too). So fantastic.

Great interview, very interesting but - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD - do a follow-up where Dave talks about his work in Big Big Train!