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    Ed McDonald, the Guitar Guru

    “The wood is living even after you cut it” By: Myriam Rizkallah  One night, in 1977, 19-year-old Ed McDonald received a mysterious call. Someone was asking him to come see Keith Richards who was in town, suffering from a technical problem in the studio. “Yeah, right,” McDonald said as he hung up the phone, thinking that some of his friends were playing a joke on him. It wasn’t until a couple of calls later that he realized it was no joke; Richards was actually seeking his expertise.