Max Mclaughlin is a freelance music journalist and drummer with a wide range of craft-based interests, including lutherie and vintage drum restoration. Although he is a first time GAL author, he has over 15 years of previous experience in the publishing world and is currently developing his own magazine devoted to the history and future of music and the people who make it.
▪ bio current as of 2022
2022
AL#146 p.14
Max Mclaughlin
▪ Here’s a story that will sound familiar to a lot of us old farts of the Lutherie Boom generation for the decades-old echoes that it evokes. A bold young person wants to do unusual and arty things with guitars, and they find an older mentor in the crowded back room of a New York City guitar store. That takes you back, don’t it Gramps?