Throughout an look on the most recent episode of “The Mistress Carrie Podcast”, British guitar sensation Sophie Lloyd spoke about how legendary Eddie Van Halen modified rock guitar, from popularizing “finger tapping” to modding out his guitars. She stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It was what nobody had ever actually heard earlier than. I assume after I was rising up, there was different artists that had been doing form of what he was doing. I am form of possibly a bit too — I used to be a bit too younger or I used to be born too late to love expertise the true, like, when it first got here out. However even now, and that is only a testomony to how superb he’s, his approach continues to be so distinctive and nobody can get it precisely like he may, and get the texture precisely like he may. So I feel that is why he is such a staple. It is stood the check of time and nonetheless evokes new guitarists right now. They nonetheless form of have that second of earlier than Eddie and after Eddie, regardless that there’s folks that do related issues, however he is nonetheless simply so distinctive in everybody’s eyes.”
Concerning the place she thinks a guitarist’s tone comes from, Sophie stated: “That is a superb query. I feel, for me, it is not even a lot from the guitar or the tools. It is out of your palms and out of your fingers and the way you do various things. My vibrato is totally completely different to B.B. King‘s vibrato or one thing like that. The stylistic is so completely different and also you do develop your little nuances — you develop licks that you simply that you understand inside out, so that they at all times form of pop up in your enjoying not directly or one other. Everybody form of develops this stuff which can be so distinctive to them, and I feel that is the signal of like a very profitable guitarist, is after they can form of decide up something — actually you may decide up some damaged guitar off the road and begin enjoying and it sounds such as you. If Steve Vai in all probability picked up any outdated guitar, if he picked up B.B. King‘s guitar, he may sound like Steve Vai, regardless that it is on a [Gibson] 335 [guitar] or no matter. So I feel that is actually the place it comes from, is your personal expression of the way you resolve to type the licks, of simply your little micro nuances that you’ve that make your enjoying actually particular.”
Requested who the ladies had been that she noticed enjoying the guitar that taught her it was doable, Lloyd stated: “I feel a giant one for me was Orianthi. It was simply after the ‘This Is It’ documentary with Michael Jackson. We went to the cinema and noticed that, ‘trigger my mother was a giant Michael Jackson fan, so we went to the cinema and noticed that. And that was form of the primary time I might actually seen a lady that regarded form of much like me as nicely simply completely form of rocking out, enjoying the craziest solos on such an enormous stage with an enormous artist and simply completely proudly owning it. And he or she was nearly the star of the present. And that was a very distinctive second the place it was simply so particular to see. After which I bought actually into her and began listening to her music. And, yeah, her profession has simply been so inspiring, and the very fact she’s nonetheless simply completely killing it, nonetheless enjoying stay on a regular basis, releasing unbelievable music. And he or she’s simply, yeah, a completely large inspiration for me.”
Sophie launched her debut full-length album, “Imposter Syndrome”, in 2023. The LP noticed Lloyd teaming up with a few of rock’s greatest names and her personal private heroes to create a surprising assortment of labor spanning a wide range of genres from the rock and steel world. Launched completely independently through her personal Autumn Data, the album debuted at No. 3 within the rock charts and 11 within the indie charts, receiving rave evaluations within the press.
Final October, Sophie performed her debut headline present at a sold-out London Underworld. Sophie additionally introduced a live performance on the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, California on January 16, 2025.
“Imposter Syndrome” featurea blazing singles and visitor collaborations like “Choose And Jury” (that includes THEORY OF A DEADMAN’s Tyler Connolly),“Fall Of Man” (that includes TRIVIUM’s Matt Heafy),“Do Or Die” (that includes Nathan James),“Misplaced” (that includes Cole Rolland),“Runaway” (that includes STEEL PANTHER’s Michael Starr),“Hanging On” (that includes Lauren Babic)”, “Imposter Syndrome” (that includes HALESTORM’s Lzzy Hale) and “Let It Harm” (that includes BLACK STONE CHERRY’s Chris Robertson).
