“My cheap guitar fell out of my station wagon. When we backtracked, it was gone – someone must have grabbed it:” Literally dozens of massive artists would have missed out if Motown hadn’t replaced David T. Walker’s guitar
The life of a session player is never easy. Ask David T. Walker, who, at 82 years young, has appeared on dozens of albums as a gun for hire.
His origins are humble. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1941, his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was 7, exposing him to a new world of music.
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Andrew Daly is an iced-coffee-addicted, oddball Telecaster-playing, alfredo pasta-loving journalist from Long Island, NY, who, in addition to being a contributing writer for Guitar World, scribes for Rock Candy, Bass Player, Total Guitar, and Classic Rock History. Andrew has interviewed favorites like Ace Frehley, Johnny Marr, Vito Bratta, Bruce Kulick, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Rich Robinson, and Paul Stanley, while his all-time favorite (rhythm player), Keith Richards, continues to elude him.
