In this fifth episode of Tone Chasers & String Benders, co-hosts Chaz Charles and Dr. Porifera Glund continue their alphabetical expedition through the world of legendary guitarists—and somewhere between psychedelic San Francisco, Delta bottleneck blues, British canal boats, and Spanish nylon-string seduction… things get gloriously strange.

There are debates about what actually makes a guitarist legendary, stories from the Fillmore East, deep dives into the roots of slide guitar, and a spontaneous detour into why the Gibson SG was originally supposed to be a Les Paul model… until Les himself hated it.

And somewhere in the middle of all that?

Janis Joplin hands Dr. Glund a rose through the window of a Cadillac in the dead of winter.

Featured guitarists in this episode:

Sam Andrew ...