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Erin Coburn Mar 06, 2024

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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/erin-coburn

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Erin Coburn grew up on blues and classic rock. That background has afforded her a spotlight onstage for over half her life, including opening slots ahead of Marcus King and Blackberry Smoke. She released her first album Chaos Before Conformity in 2015 at just 14 years old. She was starting to cut a groove in the blues-rock genre, but the needle stopped when her ear latched onto the darker moods of Alice in Chains, more dynamic music of Sleep Token, and the technical proficiency from modern guitar whisperers Tim Henson and Scott LePage of Polyphia. Since then, her playing has sped up, her tunings have dropped—including the addition of a 7-string Strandberg—and she’s joined the heavier side of riffing with one goal in mind.

“I’m going more towards hard-rock and metal because I love it and that’s where my soul is—I just want to open up mosh pits someday!”

It’ll be interesting to see how she fuses her backbone of blues-rock with the new injection of musical blood. Regardless of the destination, we’re just glad to be sitting shotgun for the ride.

Before her band’s headlining show at Nashville’s Eastside Bowl, Erin Coburn welcomed PG’s Chris Kies onstage for a conversation about gear, music, and surprises in her lunchbox. She dished on how she gravitated (and possibly levitated) towards Strandberg guitars during a NAMM Show visit and then divulged a brand-new offering from Lace that includes some of her own signature of sweet ’n’ heat.

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0:00 - D'Addario: When You Know You Know

0:15 - Chris Kies Introduction

1:15 - Erin Coburn Playing Intro

2:30 - Strandberg Boden Classic NX 6

7:27 - Strandberg Boden NX 6 Neck-Thru

9:26 - Signature Coburn Lace Pickups

11:25 - D'Addario: XPND Pedalboard

12:14 - New Egypt Folk String Lunch Box Guitars

16:12- Kala Ukulele

18:30 - Neural DSP Quad Cortex

22:56 - “Scary Territory” Coburn Play Through

24:10 - D'Addario: When You Know You Know

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Pantera Rig Rundown with Rex Brown & Zakk Wylde Feb 29, 2024

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Watch Charlie's Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/Gz-suX8VSqM

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/pantera

Original Cowboy from Hell bassist Rex Brown has gone through so much gear. He’s lost amps and donated basses to charity. He’s fostered many fruitful friendships with companies that’s resulted signature wares for war. His latest partnership has him riding high on a pair of namesake Thunderbirds dressed in black and gold. He still tours with old Spectors who feel like home (if home was a thunderstorm). He’s got a proper pedalboard and rack gear that’s been routed through a RJM switcher (first time ever). And he and tech Bobby Landgraf (also guitar player in Honky and Down for Down IV – Part II) detail the whole chain of tonal command. Then we have a blast chatting with Zakk Wylde who covers his toolbox of Warhammers and Master 100 heads. He ponders what it must’ve been like to have been Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhoads who toured with their iconic instruments and not having any backups! And then his longtime tech Stephen Murillo goes over his rack gear that includes three pieces from Dimebag Darrell’s original Pantera rig.

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0:00 - D'Addario When You Know You Know

0:15 - Pantera "I'm Broken" Intro

1:19 - Chris Kies Intro & Shoot Insights

7:32 - Rex Brown Intro

9:16 - Gibson Rex Brown Thunderbird

10:07 - Rex Brown's Spector Bantam 5

10:52 - Rex Brown's Spector Euro 4

12:46 - Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird

14:32 - Tech Bobby Landgraf Joins In!

16:15 - Rex Brown's Ampeg SVT-4 Pro

17:32 - Eric Morettin's Video on Jackson Basses

18:57 - Rex Brown's Pedalboard

26:18 - Rex Brown's Strings, Picks, and Rack Gear

29:48 - D'Addario & Nita Strauss

30:04 - "Walk" Outro

30:50 - Zakk Wylde Intro

31:08 - Wylde Audio Guitars

31:36 - Wylde Audio "St. Dime" Lightning Guitar

33:13 - Guitar Heroes Touring Light

34:48 - Wylde Audio Quality Control

36:13 - Zakk on EMG Pickups

38:36 - Wylde Audio Master 100s

39:41 - Electro-Voice EVM12L BL Zakk Wylde Speakers

40:11 - Understanding Tube Differences

41:52 - Zakk Wylde's Pedalboard

43:49 - Zakk on Honoring Dime & Pantera

44:58 - Dimebag Darrell's Pantera Rack Gear

47:09 - Zakk Wylde's Rack Gear

49:31 - Pantera "Floods" Soundcheck Outro

52:04 - D'Addario & Gina Gleason

#guitar #rigrundown #pantera #guitarist #guitarplayer #bass #bassguitar #rexbrown #zakkwylde

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Tool's Justin Chancellor Feb 21, 2024

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“Will the next Tool album take more than 10,000 days?”

That was an ongoing (and agonizing) joke for Tool fans that awaited the band’s fifth album following the release of 2006’s 10,000 Days. (A cruel clairvoyance of a title.) For those counting, when Fear Inoculum was finally delivered on August 30, 2019, it was just 4,868 days from their previous album. All crummy jokes aside, the anticipation of the album was real for a reason: the music. And the rhythmic cog of their constant contorting of depth and darkness is bassist Justin Chancellor.

Sure, drummer Danny Carey is a living legend bashing everything his large frame can smash and crash. Adam Jones transforms his guitar into a Hans Zimmer production with varied textures, temperaments, and traits his tone expresses. During shows, singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan prowls in the shadows adding to the band’s musical mysticism. This triumvirate core dished out the punishing EP Opiate in 1992, and their 1993 debut full-length Undertow was more complex and calculated in its rage. But in 1995, when Justin Chancellor replaced Paul D’Amour on bass, Tool immediately expanded their dimensionality. The original three continued to dazzle and dumbfound listeners, but the addition of Chancellor and his pocket-minded role unlocked a collective vocabulary previously unspoken. Simply put, if Tool was an octopus, Chancellor was the head. The others could be momentarily independent tentacles exploring the melodic murkiness of their respective reaches, but when they needed to propel forward, Chancellor was steering. His lines are the base for the band’s groove and attitude that became a focal point on subsequent releases with 1996’s Ænima, 2001’s Lateralus, 2006’s 10,000 Days, and eventually 2019’s Fear Inoculum. The former three went triple-platinum, while the latter three were No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (Ænima landed in the No. 2 spot.)

If you ever catch yourself playing air guitar to Tool, you’re probably mimicking Chancellor’s parts. “Schism,” “The Pot,” “Forty Six & 2,” “H.,” “Fear Inoculum,” “Descending,” “The Grudge,” and plenty of others feature his buoyant bass riffs.

Chancellor’s tone has had a longstanding relationship with Wal basses, Gallien-Krueger amps, and Mesa/Boogie cabs. The evolving part of his rig has been his pedalboard. At this juncture of the band’s run supporting Fear Inoculum, Chancellor’s board is larger than his guitar-playing counterparts. Yet everything has a place and purpose. Some of it is duplicity, some of it is to avoid any required knob-turning during the show, and as we find out in the Rundown, some of it is just for fun. Grab a seat and get comfortable as Chancellor and his tech Pete Lewis walk PG’s elated Chris Kies through his live setup.

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Buffalo Nichols Feb 21, 2024

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Buffalo Nichols believes in the power of acoustic country blues. He also believes it’s not a fossil, trapped in amber, but a living, breathing musical genre. Which is why he blends elements of the tradition—slide guitar, resonator, open tunings, themes of loss, redemption, and struggle—with loops, samples, drum machines, myriad effects, and modern-day narratives. His new album, The Fatalist, is the culmination of his art to date. Listening to its echoes of Skip James, John Hurt, Pink Floyd, and Dr. Dre is an even stranger experience when you know Nichols started his career in the thundering, downstroke-chiseled trenches of the Midwest metal scene.

When you watch this Rig Rundown, Nichols will explain, and play, it all—it's a fascinating story. And the gear! Get ready for a feast, full of the trad and the rad.

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Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale Feb 07, 2024

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When we walked into Nashville’s Eastside Bowl for this Rig Rundown with Wolfmother’s alpha canine, Andrew Stockdale, it sounded like he was playing his SG through a Marshall stack at head-ripping volume. Nope! Stockdale was blasting skulls apart with a Line 6 HX stomp doing the heavy tonal lifting. Surprise!

It's part of his strategy for traveling lite in support of Rock Out, the Australian outfit’s 2021 album, on a make-up tour of the States that was preempted by the Covid shutdown. For Stockdale, the rest of his formula for playing his blood-and-guys rock 'n' roll live includes an SG, a White Falcon, and a vintage Supro, and … no traditional amps.

“I used to have, like, three Voxes–cabs and everything up there. And we had a trailer behind the bus and two guys to carry it, who'd have a beer and high-five each other after they loaded out,” Stockdale recounts. “Now they‘re gone, all the amps, and them gone.”

Here’s a close-up look at what’s onstage with Stockdale right now, as he uses minimalist gear to create maximum sound!

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0:00 - D'Addario: When You Know You Know

0:15 - Wolfmother "Pyramid" Live Intro

0:38 - 1961 Reissue Gibson SG

4:06 - Vintage Supro Guitar

5:15 - Gretsch White Falcon

6:52 - Wolfmother's "Apple Tree" Live

8:19 - D'Addario: Bohlinger and XPND

9:08 - Andrews’ Amps and Pedalboard

18:59 - Wolfmother's "Pyramid" Live Outro

19:36 - D’Addario: When You Know You Know

#guitar #rigrundown #guitarist #guitargear #guitarplayer #wolfmother

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The Menzingers' Greg Barnett & Tom May Feb 01, 2024

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The Menzingers’ albums are storied time capsules. Starting in 2007 with teen angst and rebellion, they’ve refined and reshaped their narratives into self-reflective numbers that continue to balance melody and might. Their most-recent installment—2023’s Some of It Was True—was their eighth chapter that stares down aging with acceptance rather than anger. But don’t get it twisted, these rockers will still charge.

“This record just feels different for us,” Barnett explains. “It’s a really important one in our catalog, and a pivotal moment in our history. We have the liberty of our fans growing with us now, and after writing these lyrical songs about where we are in life, we decided to take other peoples’ stories and make something bigger out of it.” “It brought us back to our energetic side as a band,” May concurs. “We got to let loose, which is what drew us to the energy of being in a band in the first place. This is a live band—why shouldn’t we record live songs? As a result, we’re back to why we started this band in the first place.”

In support of Some of It Was True, the Philly crew toured the States and touched down in Nashville mid-November for a romper at the Marathon Music Works. Before their headlining set in Music City, both singing-guitarists Greg Barnett and Tom May welcomed PG’s Perry Bean onstage to converse about their setups. Barnett explained the pros and cons of being a left-handed player, while May divulged the inspiration for his loved Les Pauls. Both detailed why they prefer a two-amp rig, and each demoed the various sounds set off from their respective pedalboards.

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Kelley’s Heroes’ “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary Jan 31, 2024

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Robert’s Western World on Nashville’s Lower Broadway was home to the Don Kelley Band for as long as anyone can remember. Kelley’s band was an institution in Nashville, serving as a stepping stone for super-pickers like Guthrie Trapp, Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Daniel Donato, JD Simo, and more. “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary also came up through the ranks of the Don Kelley Band. After Don retired in 2020, Fick and McQueary enlisted drummer/vocalist Billy Van Vleet and kept Don’s old shift going, throwing down at Robert's Western World each night from Wednesday through Saturday. John Bohlinger and the PG team joined Kelley’s Heroes pre-shift at Robert’s to rundown their rigs.

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Jason Isbell & Sadler Vaden [2024] Jan 17, 2024

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Jason Isbell’s last Rundown was in 2019. The guitarist and songwriter, who we’ve called “Americana’s poet laureate,” is a huge gearhead though—and his collection is truly the stuff of dreams—so a lot can happen in a few years. Currently touring with his acclaimed 400 Unit band in support of the highly acclaimed Weathervanes album, he rolls with a stash of vintage Fenders and Gibsons that would make even the least gear-motivated among us blush. That’s not to mention his enviable traveling amp and effect closets. Isbell invited Perry Bean and the PG team to the Ryman for a look at his current touring rig and that of Sadler Vaden, the band’s ripping co-guitarist whose relatively more modest collection is still quite the enviable one!

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram [2024] Jan 10, 2024

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram’s 2019 debut album, Kingfish, hit No. 1 on the Billboard blues album chart and remained on it for an astonishing 91 weeks. From then on, he’s been roaring around the world, bringing his mix of downhome Delta-informed blues and sophisticated turns incorporating funk licks, Hendrix fantasias, jazz runs, and inspired improvisation to club and festival audiences. Late last year, he was a guest performer at BMI’s Troubadour Awards presentation for fan Billy Gibbons. His second album, 662, named after his hometown’s area code, also topped the blues chart and won him a Grammy.

For this Rig Rundown, at Nashville’s sold-out Brooklyn Bowl, he was on the run behind his third album, Live in London, which captures the fire and invention of his guitar work onstage. You’ll be hearing more from Kingfish, but right now, check out his live rig.

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0:00 - D’Addario Brand Vignette Glaser Instruments

0:15 - Kingfish Playing Intro

1:26 - Kingfish Signature Telecaster Deluxe

6:11 - Custom Michael Chertoff LP style Guitar

9:43 - Pedals

10:08 - Boss Waza Craft Tuner

10:22 - Crybaby Mini Wah

11:41 - Marshall Shred Master

13:07 - Boss DD-3T Digital Delay

14:26 - Amplifiers

15:34 - Fender ’65 Re-issue Twin Reverb

16:19 - Peavey Classic 50

18:36 - Shure BLX4 Wireless

20:06 - Kingfish Playing Outro

20:49 - D’Addario Brand Vignette Andre Cholmondeley

#blues #rigrundown #kingfish #nashville #guitar #hendrix

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mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024] Jan 03, 2024

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The trio mssv is an underground supergroup. They’re not playing the local enormodome, but each musician has a storied career and the ability to leap musical conventions in a single bound, even while rocking like hell … or playing compositions with sections that ricochet from Coltrane to Martian terrain.

The group sprung from guitarist Mike Baggetta’s dream of an ideal, omnivorous band—one that could navigate any kind of musical or sonic path, much as Baggetta has done himself, whether playing with other artists or solo. His first choice of bassist was Mike Watt, a legendary indie music figure who has been releasing daring rock and improv albums for decades, starting with the highly influential ’80s and ’90s outfits the Minutemen and fIREHOSE. And while mssv’s debut album, 2019’s Wall of Flowers, was recorded with the foundational rock drummer Jim Keltner, Keltner’s disinterest in touring caused Baggetta to seek a replacement in Stephen Hodges, one of the few sticks players who can match Keltner’s intention and a brilliant artist in his own right, with decades supporting Tom Waits, Mavis Staple, and other legends.

On the road behind their latest recording, Human Reaction (one of my picks for best albums of 2023), mssv stopped at the Blue Room in Nashville’s Third Man Records complex in late October, where their wily creativity ignited the place. But at soundcheck, Baggetta and Watt explained to the PG team exactly why they dig their rigs.

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0:00 - D’Addario: WYKYK

0:15 - Mike Baggetta playing intro

1:50 - Mike Baggetta’s Custom Koll Tornado w/ Guyatone Curtis Novak Goldfoils

8:36 - Strings - D’Addario XT 10-46

9:33 - Mike Baggetta’s Pedals

9:49 - Hold Tight Fuzz by Creepy Fingers

10:44 - EHX “Ring Thing” side band modulator

13:16 - Wilson Effects “Freaker Wah” V2

15:09 - Benson Amps “Vincent”

18:45 - Red Panda “Tensor”

21:41 - EHX “Deluxe Memory Man”

23:20 - D’Addario XPND

24:34 - Reverend Guitars “Watt Plower Mk. II” Mike Watt Signature bass

32:18 - Mike Watt Pedals

32:47 - Broughton Hi Pass filter

33:14 - Earthquaker Devices “The Warden” optical compressor

33:36 - Sushi Box FX “Finally” tube direct box

34:52 - Bergantino Forté Bass Amp

36:46 - Bergantino 2x12 Bass Cab

43:13 - D’Addario Glaser Instruments Vignette end roll

#guitar #rigrundown #mssv #mikewatt #punk #mikebaggetta #guitarist #guitarplayer #bassist #bassgear

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