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Tosin Abasi
Founder and lead guitarist of Animals as Leaders, and the player who moved the eight-string guitar out of novelty territory and into a working instrument. The 2009 self-titled debut was recorded on an Ibanez RG2228 -- the first mass-produced eight-string -- with Abasi playing every guitar and bass part and Misha Mansoor engineering, programming drums and mixing. His vocabulary draws as much from thumb-slapping and two-hand tapping as from conventional picking, which is why the parts sit so oddly on a fretboard built for riffing.
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