“Fretless guitars are freeing. I’m trying to convince more bands to experiment with them. You can escape from whatever box you’re in”: Fretless guitars can change your perspective on the instrument – just ask Dead Poet Society’s Jack Collins
After butchering his Schecter 7-string as a teenager, Collins turned to his Frankensteined fretless to break the spell of writer’s block. He explains how it has gone on to define his monster riffs in Dead Poet Society – even if some of his ideas make his bandmates laugh at first
