Rig Rundowns

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dweezil-zappa-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The shredder and son of legendary artist Frank Zappa gives a tour of his up-to-date gear, including a complex stereo switching system, four racks of pedals, and some of his father’s favorite guitars. Dweezil Zappa was always going to end up being an incredi...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/oni Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Oni’s guitar duo cover 16 strings between them with a pair of Neural Quad Cortexes and some choice patches. Jared Dines had been writing for Canadian metalcore outfit Oni—fronted by Jake Oni—for a few years before Jake invited Dines to join him onstage. Dines had just two...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/la-lom Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Los Angeles League of Musicians—LA LOM for short—brought the vintage vibe with them on the road last year. It wasn’t long ago that LA LOM—guitarist Zac Sokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner, and percussionist Nicholas Baker—were cutting their teeth together as the house b...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chat-pile Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The fast-rising Okies use solid-state amp heads, baritone guitars, and a bit of Peavey magic to bring their nightmare-rock to life. Oklahoma City sludge rockers Chat Pile have had a busy few years. Their 2022 LP, God’s Country, broke them internationally, and their...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/whores-2024 Visit Eastside Music Supply: https://eastsidemusicsupply.com/ Since forming in 2010, Atlanta noise rockers Whores had only released one LP, 2016’s Gold.—until this year. Eight long years later, their new full-length, WAR., dropped in April, and Whores celebrated by tearing across the country and blasting audiences with the...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/alan-parsons-live-project Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Jeff Kollman is a lifelong gigging guitarist whose resume stretches from Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes to Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Since 2017, he’s been performing with famed engineer, producer, and songwriter Alan Parsons, who worked on Abbey R...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/rob-mcnelley Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Rob McNelley spends a lot of time at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville. When he says, “I live here,” he’s only half kidding. McNelley has recorded with country superstars like Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Churc...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-fearless-flyers Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Back in March 2022, we caught up with Cory Wong in the middle of an international tour to film a Rig Rundown. This time around, we found Wong with his Fearless Flyers pals sticking in one spot, at Cory Wong’s Syncopated Summer Camp. The four-day, four-nigh...

IDLES 2021 Rig Rundown: https://youtu.be/ZyofmA3bJk4 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Between 2016 and 2024, Bristol outfit IDLES have gone from being snarling, post-punk underdogs to being snarling, post-punk champions. Their debut LP, Brutalism, was an immediate hit, and since then they’ve turned out a string of full-length records that have expanded their creative voc...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/sturgill-simpson You might think alt-country veteran Sturgill Simpson would need no introduction by this point in his career, but this year, he set out to reintroduce himself to the world—as Johnny Blue Skies. That’s the moniker he created for his new record, Passage du Desir, which was released in July on High Top Mountain. Simpson p...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-red-clay-strays Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Mobile, Alabama’s Red Clay Strays started out as a local cover band. In 2016, they officially formed as the Strays, adding a couple players to round out the five-person outfit. After a few years gigging around the state and some festival slots, the band hi...

It’s been a busy year for Jack White. The enigmatic artist and Third Man Records boss rolled out his sixth solo album, No Name, this summer, first as secret, unmarked vinyls distributed to Third Man customers, then with a full-blown digital release on August 2. He celebrated the record with a tour of last-minute-notice, small-room gigs around the U.S., proving that mystery and randomness can still...

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/matt-freeman Matt Freeman's Bass Bunker: https://youtube.com/@MattFreemansBassBunker This summer, a Bay Area punk-rock extravaganza rolled across the world. In support of the 30th and 20th anniversaries of their records Dookie and American Idiot, Green Day arranged the summer’s best stadium-rock tour, with support from Smashing Pum...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/olivia-rodrigo Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts was last year’s pop-rock album of the year, with singles like “All-American Bitch,” “Get Him Back!,” and “Bad Idea Right?” igniting a revival of early-’00s pop-punk, but with quite a bit more nuance and grit. Rodrigo’s tour behind the crit...

Full Rig Info: Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Jerry Cantrell’s forthcoming solo record, I Want Blood, is a return to beastly form for the legendary grunge guitarist. Featuring spots from Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin—two old friends who played on Cantrell’s 2002 solo release, Degradation Trip—along with Duff McKagan and more, i...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/bones-uk Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Just ahead of the release of their second full-length record, Soft, the British trio Bones UK tore through the US on a summer tour. PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with lead guitarist Carmen Vandenberg before their Nashville gig to see how she covers the band’s slick,...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/adrian-belew-2024 Visit Eastside Music Supply: https://eastsidemusicsupply.com/ Adrian Belew is one of the most inventive guitarists of the past half-century—an incandescent player and songwriter who has a vast menagerie of tones and sounds at his command. You’ve heard him with King Crimson, Talking Heads, David Bowie, and Frank Zappa...

Full Rig 2024 Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/green-day-2024 Green Day 2013 Rig: https://youtu.be/7uomdMrkNgA This year marks two huge anniversaries for Green Day. They defined an entire era of pop-punk with their 1994 major-label debut, Dookie, then did it all over again 10 years later with the punk-rock-opera American Idiot. This year, Idiot turns 20; Dookie is 30. To cele...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/mononeon Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube MonoNeon, aka Dywane Thomas Jr., came up learning the bass from his father in Memphis, Tennessee, but for some reason, he decided to flip his dad’s 4-string bass around and play it with the string order inverted—E string closest to the ground and the G on top. That’s...

BARONESS Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/SFSTU1_oObE Full Rig Info: https://bit.ly/BaronessRR24 Hard rockers Baroness were busy writing during the early days of the pandemic, sharing ideas and bits of songs over weekly video calls until they had enough for a new record. Then, after scouting for potential recording locations, they rented an Airbnb in a tiny town in New York and got to work. The band...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chris-shiflett-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The last time PG caught up with Chris Shiflett, Chris Kies paid a visit to Foo Fighters headquarters at Studio 606. This time, he meets Shiflett in Cincinnati, onstage at Great American Ballpark ahead of the Foos’ July 25 headlining date at the stadium. It...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/elijah Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Philadelphia-raised metal guitarist Xander Raymond Charles has built himself quite a following on YouTube—his subscribers now number over 120,000. But when he’s not YouTubing, he’s playing live, and earlier this year, he went out on a national tour with metalcore artis...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/michael-lemmo Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “It’s a loony bin.” That’s how Michael Lemmo describes Norman’s Rare Guitars, the coveted Los Angeles shop. Lemmo was tapped to join the store and eventually host their popular Guitar of the Day web series after Norm’s son Jordan spotted Lemmo jamming in the sto...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chris-buck Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube It didn’t take too long for Welsh guitarist Chris Buck to go from making YouTube videos to playing the legendary Royal Albert Hall. Earlier this year, he brought his band Cardinal Black to the U.S. for a short tour that included a stop at Nashville’s Basement East....

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/drain Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube We had the good fortune of catching up with California hardcore outfit Drain on their Good Good Tour, a year after the release of their 2023 LP, Living Proof. A few hours before the band ripped Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, guitarist Cody Chavez gave PG’s Perry Bean the sc...