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The extraordinary story of Kelly Clarkson's lead Guitarist who lived the dream of almost any professional guitarist. Those 5 parts interview full of tips for guitarists and to become a guitar pro. Please SUBSCRIBE for more guitar stories I had the chance to talk to Danny Weissfeld, who among others was the lead guitarist of Kelly Clarkson in the years after she won American Idol. In one point he decided to listen to his inner voice. This is an inspirational story full of tips for musicians and for life. Danny is an Israeli guitarist who decided to take a chance about his music career and took a flight to Los angels to make his dream comes true. After many guitar gigs here and there and "sowing the seeds" for many music career opportunities, he hit the road with singer/rapper Jessy Moss. During that summer tour, he met great musicians like Pharrell Williams. Then his name became known among music producers in L.A. Then, he got a call to go audition for Kelly's first band. This guitarist interview is part 1/5. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMgHtWZN9HY Danny Weissfeld is a professional guitarist for more than 20 years. His resume includes live shows and studio sessions with some of the greatest artists in the world: Kelly Clarkson, Anastasia, A fine frenzy, James Blunt and with the greatest Isreali musicians like Idan Raichel, HaDag Nahash, Rita, Arkadi Duchin, Yuval Dayan and more.

About Danny Weis

Danny Weis (pronounced ; born September 28, 1948) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of both Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros, as well as co-writer of Rhinoceros's only charting single, "Apricot Brandy". Though he left Iron Butterfly after only one album due to internal tensions, his work was an influence in the band for most of their history, since his replacement Erik Brann made a conscious effort to imitate his playing. Weis later recounted "Erik Braunn replaced me in Iron...

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