Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi), January 16, 1981, is a guitarist for the American alternative rock band The Strokes.
Valensi's father is Jewish and was born in Tunisia, and his mother Danielle is French . He was once quoted as saying, "I always thought I wanted to be able to play any song you could name. But once I started playing with Julian, that's when I really started to understand music"
Valensi's main guitar, which he uses for nearly ...
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Nick Valensi (born Nicholas Valensi), January 16, 1981, is a guitarist for the American alternative rock band The Strokes.
Valensi's father is Jewish and was born in Tunisia, and his mother Danielle is French . He was once quoted as saying, "I always thought I wanted to be able to play any song you could name. But once I started playing with Julian, that's when I really started to understand music"
Valensi's main guitar, which he uses for nearly every live show and recorded song, is a 1990s Epiphone Riviera with Gibson P-94 pick-ups. In a 2004 interview with Epiphone, he called it "the greatest guitar never made" because Gibson had never produced a semi-hollow with P-90 style pickups (except for the fully-hollow ES-330 and the Epiphone Casino). He has several models in different colours (all with P-94s), including multiple naturals, one in vintage sunburst, one in red, and a 12-string in red. In 2005, Epiphone released a signature model of his guitar, the Elitist Nick Valensi Riviera...
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