{"id":67129,"date":"2023-04-24T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solar-guitars.com\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=67129"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:10:36","slug":"baard-torstensen-clawfinger","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/www.solar-guitars.com\/artists\/baard-torstensen-clawfinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Baard Torstensen &#8211; CLAWFINGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baard Torstensen is the guitarist and one of the founding members of\u00a0rap metal crossover band Clawfinger. Clawfinger was one of the pioneer bands of the genre back in the early nineties. Why they still exist is an open question. Even though Baard owns a huge number of guitars, he decided to start using Solar because he was convinced that the great sound and action of the guitars would conceal the fact that he is old, nearly deaf, and a really crappy\u00a0guitar player. 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