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Jonny Buckland
Coldplay's lead guitarist and the band's most disciplined player -- his parts on Parachutes are built from two or three notes at a time, left ringing, with the space around them doing as much work as the notes. Producer Ken Nelson's account of the sessions has Buckland running a Fender Twin Reverb with a rack of delays feeding it; Nelson's suggestion that he split into two amps, one wet and one dry, is the reason those early records sound wide without sounding washed out. His main instrument from that era is a Fender Jerry Donahue Signature Telecaster.
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