Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe new Muse album will feature a secret chord that Matt Bellamy plays, though it remains to be seen how the Lord feels about it.
In an interview with Guitar World, Bellamy reveals that he recently purchased the guitar that Jeff Buckley used to record his 1994 album, Grace, which includes his iconic cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah.”
“I had a whole team of people doing due diligence on it to make sure it was absolutely the right one, interviewing his family and all sorts,” Bellamy says of the instrument, a 1983 blonde USA Fender Telecaster. “I managed to get it verified, and I’ve got his Telecaster that he recorded the whole Grace album with, and the song ‘Hallelujah.'”
Bellamy explains that he didn’t buy the guitar to “hang it on the wall with a picture of Jeff, saying ‘Look what I’ve got,'” but instead he intends to “use it and integrate it, and keep this guitar part of music.”
“It’s got an extremely glassy, bright sound, and it doesn’t really sound like any other guitar I’ve used before,” he says.
Bellamy’s already played Buckley’s guitar on a track with his Jaded Hearts Club covers band, and he plans to use it on the next Muse album, the follow-up to 2018’s Simulation Theory.
If you’d like a preview of what it sounds like when another artist plays the Grace guitar, Alter Bridge‘s Myles Kennedy covered “Hallelujah” with it last December during a show at L’Olympia in Paris, the same venue where Buckley recorded a live album in 1995.
Bellamy, meanwhile, just released a new solo song called “Tomorrow’s World.”
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