It is still thin enough and still deep enough. Griggs: Even Taper +.050 is a perfect neck for me. You selected an Even-Taper +.050 neck back shape for your Seafoam, Icon-a neck that is not slim and yet not big-a medium depth neck. But, if I am being honest, I still inspect my Ande after every gig to make sure it came through the show unscathed.Īnderson Guitarworks: A lot of guitar players enjoy the feel of a slim neck and then there are those that feel bigger is better. These are my gigging machines and you are going to knock them into something-no matter how careful you are-and this helps you to not freak out when that does happen. Griggs: Love the look of the In-Distress paint, really, really cool. Why did you opt for that rather than all shiny and new? And I like the feel of the maple fingerboard under my finger tips.Īnderson Guitarworks: Yes, and you did select an In-Distress paint job. It puts the tone right up front and in control where I like it. Griggs: Yeah, I wanted the look of the Caramel Maple to go with the In-Distress look of the Seafoam Green and I wanted an all-Maple neck and fingerboard for that all-maple neck tone. But my “T”is like that as well.Īnderson Guitarworks: And you selected an all-Maple Neck. And I didn’t order anything special, that is just the way it came to me. And man, this Anderson Icon is really lightweight too-much lighter and more manageable than…other guitars. Griggs: For this guitar I wanted to get an awesome airy, woody, super organic tone and Swamp Ash does that so well. Such a great idea that makes “total sense.”Īnderson Guitarworks: Why did you select a Swamp Ash body for your Icon? Griggs:And in Seafoam Green-what a great vintage color. So, it had to be an Anderson, Icon Classic for me-a flawless vintage, S-style guitar that can also function above the level of any modern guitar…and with the playability of the T-Classic. I had to have an S-style guitar that could perform on the same elevated level as my T-Classic. Griggs:With that Anderson experience I knew I could now settle for nothing less. Now he wants it back but I can’t let it go. Finally after a lot of convincing, he sold it to me in 2016. I told him I wanted to buy this T-Classic. He let me play it and that guitar completely changed my life-totally blew me away. Peter became a good friend and mentor to me-big influence. That is a school run by Jeff Berlin in Clearwater Florida. Griggs: Well, I met this guy Peter at The Player’s School of Music. To keep us all entertained and informed we asked him a few fun questions:Īnderson Guitarworks: What led you to Anderson Guitars? Thomas attended the University of Tampa, where he earned a degree in Classical Music and then also graduated from Berklee College of Music. You can definitely learn a lot from this player. Griggs is also spending some time writing things you will want to read-working on material to eventually release highly informative guitar books-licks and super cool transcriptions. And when we can all come out to play again they will be ready to record. Now he is taking advantage of the time to work on more great tunes with his Anderson Icon in hand. The trio was about ready to hit the studio when we all went into isolation. The newest album is less metal and more fusion-slipping into the R&B / Pop side of things.Īnd if that wasn’t enough to already be impressive, when available Thomas is also gigging every Saturday and Sunday with a worship group and working on his own modern jazz trio project. He is a super nice guy and touring guitar player with Intervals-Aaron Marshall’s impressive visionary band.Īccording to Griggs, Intervals may best be described as a modern, eclectic, fusion quartette that hangs on the boundary of pop and metal. What we are actually talking about (and to) is Thomas Griggs-affectionally known as Griggs. What kind of a gig is a griggs gig? Like a gig that is griggier-or what?
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