Rig Rundowns

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/kingfish-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube 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 sop...

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/mssv-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube 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...

Universe: “Super Fuzz or Big Muff?” Mudhoney: “Both!” What else would you expect from a band that titled their mischievously visceral ’88 debut EP after both pedals ( Superfuzz Bigmuff )? Formed in the late ’80s by guitarists Mark Arm and Steve Turner after the dissolution of their band Green River (which included future Mother Love Bone and  Pearl Jam  cofounders Jeff Ament and Stone Go...

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/RyanLermanRR Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Ryan Lerman is the cofounder of L.A.-based dynamic funk project  @ScaryPockets  . The musical collective has been crushing it on Youtube since 2017, leading to their taking the show on the road as a successful touring act. Lerman met with PG’s John Bohlinger before the Scary Pockets’...

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/47JQxD9 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Jazz guitar god Pat Metheny recently played Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on his solo tour supporting his latest record, Dream Box. Ahead of the show, PG’s John Bohlinger met with Metheny’s tech Andre' Cholmondeley, who pulled back the curtain on what just might be the most complex solo rig ever dev...

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/SteveHackettRR Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I always apologize to the two Erics [Clapton and Johnson], ‘You have no idea how much I’ve ripped from you,’” joked Joe Bonamassa during a recent video with YouTuber Rick Beato. The Grammy-winning bluesman followed that up with a gracious response: “We all get it from somewhere.” That “some...

“Gear is meant to be destroyed in the line of duty,” laughs Ruban Nielson. “I realize I prefer to see my equipment all dinged up rather than sitting perfect in my basement—that’s a dorky thing to do.” That doesn’t mean Nielson doesn’t care about his sound. He noted in a  2015 interview with  PG  that he spends countless hours in his basement tinkering on breadboard circuits and swap...

Guitarist and singer-songwriter David Ryan Harris rose to prominence as a key part of John Mayer’s band between 2004 and 2012, and he’s backed everyone from Santana to Dave Matthews to Nick Jonas. But as a solo artist and bandleader, Harris has been spinning gorgeous R&B, blues, and funk for decades. Harris took  PG 's John Bohlinger through his current touring rig before a stop with Scar...

Two-time Grammy Award-winning  rockabilly hero Brian Setzer  recently played a sold-out show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in support of his new solo album,  The Devil Always Collects . Tyler Sweet, who has teched for Setzer for 17 years, took  PG ’s John Bohlinger through the rig that rocked this town, and just about every other town in the world over Setzer’s 40 years of tw...

Formed in 1969 by slide guitar juggernaut Lowell George, disbanded after his death in ’79, then revitalized in 1987, Little Feet combines George’s bandmate and co-writer Fred Tacket along with virtuoso Scott Sharrad in their new recording and touring lineup. Tacket and Sharrad invited PG’s  John Bohlinger  to their soundcheck at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to talk gear and tell classic...

Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. is a dual-guitar ensemble featuring Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley. At first, the duo used similar guitars, amps, and settings in an effort to work as a symbiotic saw buzzing their way through songs. The indistinguishable incisions lacerated their earliest work with angsty piss and vinegar. But as the quintet’s musicianship has evolved, they’ve embraced wider infl...

“‘Stumbled into guitar’ is a good way of putting our start with the instrument. [Spencer Stewart] and I formed the band in 2015 and that’s when I got my first electric guitar,” admits The Band CAMINO’s vocalist and guitarist Jeffery Jordan. That sort of sideways T-bone collision into guitardom allows this pop-minded duo to avoid typical tonal tropes like worrying about tubes versus modeling, or im...

The 15-year history of  Rig Rundown  has established that guitar gear fascination (and obsession) runs deep in our community. It’s the life blood of our show. But if there was ever antithetical example to guitar gluttony and equipment idolatry, it would be American Football. Their original self-proclaimed “bedroom college project” focused on self-expression, musical creativity, and worki...

PG ’s John Bohlinger hung with Alter Bridge’s two-man guitar army, Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy, before their sold-out show at The Orpheum Theater in Memphis. Tremonti and Kennedy showcased some beautiful signature Paul Reed Smith guitars, as well as a not-yet-released PRS signature amp. Thanks to techs Dave Pate and Scott Davis for their help with the details. Brought to you by  D’Addario...

Emily Wolfe doesn’t play guitar. She bends it to her will. Like a bronco buster taming a stallion, she saddles up on her signature Sheratons and lets it rip. Much of the magic felt and heard on her self-titled debut was pure adrenaline hitting your speaker. And while her second album, 2021’s Outlier, incorporates Wolfe’s love of Motown grooves and modern-pop stickiness refreshening her songwriting...

Steve Vai is much more than a great guitarist. The American guitarist has established himself as a key figure in guitar culture, and one of the world’s leading masters of shred. Vai broke on the scene in 1980 as Frank Zappa’s transcriptionist, until Zappa hired Vai, age 20, to join his touring band—Zappa allegedly called Vai his “little Italian virtuoso.” Bolstering his guitar theatrics with sharp...

It might actually be easier to list the artists Derek Wells  hasn’t  worked with, than the ones with whom he has. The Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and producer has lent a hand to more than 100 number one singles over the years, with household staples like Kenny Chesney, Maren Morris, Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, even Shakira. He’s also piled up production credits with artists...

When some people travel, they take photos on their phone to remember the trip. Old-soul voyagers will recount their adventures with pen and paper. But for Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez, who together make the globetrotting Ecuadorian-Swiss duo Hermanos Gutiérrez, their experiences conjure soundtracks, and a visit years ago to the American Southwest changed their sound forever. A couple years afte...

Nashville has long been the hub for all things country music but in the last two decades, transplant rockers like  Jack White ,  the Black Keys ,  Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine ,  Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner  and others, have all have made the 615 home. Adding to its growth is the organic blossoms generated via the rock block, cultivating names like Paramore,  All Them...

For more than two decades, trailblazing acoustic guitarists Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero have been blending metal, flamenco, pop, and jazz with their Grammy-winning duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, and they’re not showing any sign of slowing down. They’re currently on the road in support of their seventh full-length album,  In Between Thoughts…A New World , released in April. It’s a character...

A decade ago,  Vince Gill  and Paul Franklin recorded  Bakersfield , a tribute to the raw-boned country music that came out of the rough-and-rowdy clubs patronized by oil-field hands and agricultural workers in the ’50s and early ’60s—packed with songs  by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens . And we visited with them for a  Rig Rundown  then. Now, just for the good times, t...

Full Rig Details:https://bit.ly/NileRodgersRR Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Since the early ’70s, the guitar legend has trusted his 1960 “Hitmaker” Strat to turn out chart toppers that have changed the course of music history and shaped cultures around the world. We explore its unusual origins and DNA as well as uncover some ordinary tools making extraordinary grooves...

It’d be hard to argue that anyone has changed their sound as much as Billy Strings has in the last 10 years. If you reference the pre-war traditional collaboration albums he first did with Don Julin ( Rock of Ages  and  Fiddle Tune X ), and his solo debut EP  Billy Strings , and then witnessed one of his recent high-voltage shows, the songs and sounds are both worlds apart … yet fam...

Canadian alt-country group  the Bros. Landreth  have become known for bringing not just layers of blues, rock, and eclectic modern influence to the traditional country sound, but for Joey Landreth’s depth as a guitarist and stunning tone on the instrument. Built on a lifetime of brothers Joey and Dave’s absorbing classic country music, the band was launched with the release of 2013’s&nbs...

Kurt Ballou  takes tone very seriously. He’s been on the leading edge of aggressive guitar sounds since 1990, and  Converge ’s fourth album, 2001’s  Jane Doe , is still seen as a game-changing release, with its ferocious performances and masterful production. His sonic temple,  God City Studio , is  the  destination for artists looking to make their rawest, heaviest,...