Lessons Techniques Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week Twenty-Three Tuition By By Richie Kotzen published 19 November 2008 Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors TOPICS Richie Kotzen By Richie Kotzen MORE FROM GUITARWORLD...1“Within an hour, he got back to me going, ‘This is amazing. I’d love to come and play it.’ A week later he was in my house”: How Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien got hooked on one of the world’s most unconventional guitars2“It stacks brilliantly and the additional modes are super useful”: DOD Overdrive Preamp 250-X review3“I was recording with Jerry Garcia, but I still had to ride my bike to school and keep my grades up, or else my parents would throw my guitar in the trash”: Starship trooper Craig Chaquico on “corporate rock”, and life as a teenage guitar whiz4“My friend told me I couldn’t even play a 6-string bass – so I had to learn it to prove him wrong!” Meet 7-string bass wizard Dylan Desmond, whose accidental two-handed tapping powers doom’s most adventurous low-end5“The time has come to properly address my illnesses and deal with them”: Biffy Clyro bassist James Johnston steps back from band to address mental health and addiction issues