If you play one of many essential characters of a musical drama TV present which boasts tens of millions of viewers per season, you inevitably get the chance to satisfy a few of your heroes.

Within the case of Sam Palladio, who performs Gunnar Scott in American musical cleaning soap opera collection Nashville, a spotlight got here when he had the possibility to satisfy Elton John, who appeared within the penultimate episode of the present’s season 4.

Showing within the newest episode of Guitar.com’s My Guitars & Me collection – which sees artists wax lyrical about their guitar collections – Palladio showcases his Gibson CF-100E, and explains why the aspect of the higher bout of your guitar is not an excellent place for a signature from one in all your idols.

“There was a season of Nashville – season 4 – and I received to sing with Elton John,” Palladio recollects. “In order that was the most effective days ever on set, as you may think about. And I did get him to signal this afterwards. I [realised later] that my pit sweat goes right here – I ought to have simply put it on the entrance or one thing.”

John’s signature has been largely smudged on the guitar because it was signed almost 10 years in the past. “It says, ‘With like to Scott,’ as a result of it was Gunnar Scott, and my final identify’s truly Scott; Palladio is my center identify,” he goes on.

“And so ‘With like to Scott,’ after which the Elton John squiggle in there. I’d remembered that once I was fascinated with what to deliver over to speak about. [It was] so further particular.”

Elsewhere within the episode, Palladio reveals off his 2018 Gibson Customized Store J-45 with its Tiger scratchplate, which he performed extensively on his new file, The Excellent Summer season’s Day, Earlier than We Misplaced the Mild. “Any little bit of acoustic guitar on my album is that this lady,” he says.

Watch the third episode of season two of My Guitars & Me with Sam Palladio above.