Robin Davey

Robin Davey is is an English-born, LA-based musician, record producer, musical director and videographer. Robin formed UK blues rock band The Hoax, who were signed to East West records in the mid-90s. Other bands include The Davey Brothers, The Bastard Fairies, Well Hung Heart and blues rockers Beau Gris Gris & the Apocalypse, who also feature his partner Greta Valenti on vocals. The two run a video production house, Growvision, and produce our Pedalpocalypse series. 

Latest articles by Robin Davey

Walter Trout
Walter Trout: “I played with John Lee Hooker, with Big Mama Thornton, Percy Mayfield, Bo Diddley, Lowell Fulsom, Pee Wee Crayton… The list just goes on”

By Robin Davey Published

The blues-rock legend explains why he abandoned trying to play like Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Bonamassa during lockdown, recalls the time John Mayall sent him a tape of his farts, and takes us on the emotional road he travelled for his 30th solo album, Ride

Artists
John Shanks
John Shanks offers a tour of his epic gear collection and reflects on a career working with the A-list of pop and rock

By Robin Davey Published

The Bon Jovi and Melissa Etheridge guitarist and Grammy Award-winning producer talks collaborating with studio legends, opening for Prince and, oh, y'know, some of the nicest guitars you will see all day...

Guitarists
Supersonic Blues Machine
How Supersonic Blues Machine are evolving the art of blues guitar and doing everything in their power to stop the genre becoming a "museum piece"

By Robin Davey Published

LA’s superstar blues collective currently features guitar royalty Josh Smith, Kirk Fletcher and Ana Popović – they join us for a roundtable discussing the blues scene, competition, and the pros and cons of the new age of guitar stars

Bands
Fabrizio Grossi
Fabrizio Grossi has worked with everyone from George Clinton to Billy F.Gibbons, Steve Vai to Ice-T. But in the event of an unlikely effects-based apocalypse, which pedals would he save from the flames?

By Robin Davey Published

Fabrizio Grossi: "I always use pedals. Why leave all the fun to guitar players?" It's Pedalpocalypse, part 5.

Effects & Pedals
Eric Krasno
Eric Krasno: “John Mayer sent me one of his Silver Sky guitars and I loved it. It got me back into the single-coil ‘Strat’ world”

By Robin Davey Published

LA’s Eric Krasno has both fretboard fire and a prolific pen, making him one of the most exciting R&B-vibed guitarists working today

Electric Guitars
Steve Vai
Steve Vai names 5 contemporary guitarists who are taking the instrument to the next level

By Robin Davey Published

The virtuoso picks 5 players who are breaking new six-string ground

Guitarists
Steve Vai's signature guitar, the Ibanez JEM
Steve Vai on how Frank Zappa inspired him to design the Ibanez JEM – and why the Japanese guitar builder succeeded where others failed

By Robin Davey Published

“Ibanez said, ‘We want to make these for other people, too.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Who’s going to want this? It’s so weirdly idiosyncratic to me!’”

Electric Guitars
Steve Vai
Steve Vai offers a guided tour of his favorite guitars

By Robin Davey Published

How the guitar god went from a 1977 Fender Strat to the triple-necked steampunk-inspired custom Hydra

Guitarists