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Rig Rundowns

Premier Guitar’s world-famous Rig Rundowns take you backstage to explore the live gear used by your favorite guitar and bass players. Whether you’re into shred, country, indie, or classic rock, Rig Rundowns give you the lowdown on the instruments, pedals, and amps powering the biggest acts on the road today—and often we even coax them into demoing their favorite settings. Listen now and pick up new tricks for how to set up your rig!

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21:06

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram [2024]

Rig Rundowns ·

2024/01/10

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

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43:31

mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024]

Rig Rundowns ·

2024/01/03

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

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24:30

Mudhoney

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/12/21

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 andPearl Jamcofounders Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard), Mudhoney long ago solidified themselves as the Seattle scene’s big brothers and tightest pack. Through their 11

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24:20

Ryan Lerman (Scary Pockets)

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/12/21

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/RyanLermanRRSubscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeRyan 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’ Nashville show at the Brooklyn Bowl to talk through his current touring rig.Shop the Rig:Fender '68 Custom Deluxe

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40:34

Pat Metheny

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/12/19

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/47JQxD9Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeJazz 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 devised. Afterward, Cholmondeley painstakingly wrote out Metheny’s signal path to help clarify the rig

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32:56

Steve Hackett

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/12/18

Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/SteveHackettRRSubscribe 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 “somewhere” is a muse that molds every guitarist’s individualistic style and voice. For example, Eddie Van

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50:38

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/11/30

“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 a2015 interview withPGthat he spends countless hours in his basement tinkering on breadboard circuits and swapping out components, trying to maximize a pedal for his needs. “I like the idea that instead of buying your sound, you’re

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20:02

David Ryan Harris

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/11/08

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 tookPG's John Bohlinger through his current touring rig before a stop with Scary Pockets at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl on October 5.Brought to you by theD'Addario XPND.

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17:51

Brian Setzer [2023]

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/11/01

Two-time Grammy Award-winningrockabilly hero Brian Setzerrecently 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, tookPG’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 twanging and sanging.Brought to you byD'Addario XSRR Strings.

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52:20

Little Feat

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/10/26

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’sJohn Bohlingerto their soundcheck at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to talk gear and tell classic stories from Little Feet’s early days.Brought to you byD'Addario XSRR Strings.

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56:35

Fontaines D.C.

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/10/25

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 influences, adding different knives to their collection of cutlery. And more specifically, they’ve learned

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38:33

The Band CAMINO

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/10/11

“‘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 imports versus custom. Their focus was and continues to be translating their danceable melodies into

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22:47

American Football

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/10/04

The 15-year history ofRig Rundownhas 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 working with what you had, which wasn’t much.For the recording of their pioneeringAmerican Footballalbum released in 1999,

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50:32

Alter Bridge [2023]

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/09/27

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 byD’Addario Strings.

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33:37

Emily Wolfe

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/09/20

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 with backdrops of more polished, waxy tones, but tumbleweed oscillation, helicopter, square-wave chops,

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44:25

Steve Vai [2023]

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/09/13

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 songwriting and producing, Vai went on to conquer the world of guitar music, winning three Grammys and

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01:18:43

Derek Wells

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/09/13

It might actually be easier to list the artists Derek Wellshasn’tworked 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 like Hardy, Lainey Wilson, Maddie & Tae, and Scotty McCreery, and over the years he’s collected a flashy

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25:59

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/09/12

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 after forming their duo, the brothers took a trip through Death Valley and the Mojave Desert. “It just blew

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52:18

Diarrhea Planet

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/08/23

Nashville has long been the hub for all things country music but in the last two decades, transplant rockers likeJack White,the Black Keys,Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine,Judas Priest’s Richie Faulknerand 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 Witches,Bully,Moon Taxi,The Wild Feathers, The Band Camino, and the guitar extraordinaires that make up Diarrhea Planet.We got caught up with the

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22:55

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rig Rundowns ·

2023/08/17

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 characteristically adventurous endeavor, arranged as a single, album-length composition and augmented with electronics

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