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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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49:25

Old Crow Medicine Show's Mike Harris

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/06/09

Mike Harris says he “Forrest Gump-ed” his way into the Grammy-winning Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show when he was drafted to join in January 2021. But rather than picking his spot in the group from life’s box of chocolates, Harris’ initial connection was his friendship with drummer Jerry Pentecost. He quickly proved himself an important member of theNashville-based outfit of “Wagon Wheel” fame, thanks to his flexible guitar, mandolin, banjo, resonator, and vocal abilities.Harris

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45:50

Mammoth WVH

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/06/01

Following in a parent’s professional footsteps is daunting. Imagine re-treading that ground in the public eye. Now conceptualize walking in the footsteps of one of the greatest guitarists to ever live. Succeeding on any level seems impossible. So where do you start when trying to find your own voice on an instrument your dad basically reconstructed?“The main thing, when I started doing this, was that I wanted to find my own sort of sound and not do everything dad did,” says Wolfgang Van Halen. “When

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26:40

All That Remains [2022]

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2022/05/25

A lot of bands are lucky enough to carve a career with one big hit. If they’re even luckier, they’ll ride the wave of an impactful album for decades. But for melodic metalcore heavyweightsAll That Remains, who are honoring their game-changingThe Fall of Idealswith a full album play, it’s not even their most-popular record. Following on the energy and success of that influential 2006 album, they released five straight albums that landed in the top 10 ofBillboard’s U.S. Rock chart.The coal fueling All

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48:00

Shinedown's Zach Myers & Eric Bass [2022]

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/05/19

Musical acts currently filling arenas fall into a few categories: pop, electronic, country, and legacy. The notion of modern or contemporary rock bands packing enormo-domes feels like a fossil, but don’t tell that to platinum-selling Shinedown, who’s been packing thousands-of-seats houses for years.The group was founded by vocalist Brent Smith in 2001, after his previous band, Dreve, disbanded). He enlisted Jasin Todd (guitarist), Brad Stewart (bass), and Barry Kerch (drums). Zach Myers joined the

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42:41

Matt Sweeney & Emmett Kelly of Superwolves

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/05/11

Matt Sweeneydoesn’t want to dazzle you with rock guitar. That’s boring. That’s lazy. At least to him. He wants tomesmerizeyou.“Really, that’s the point of music: to get people’s minds off of whatever and to hypnotize them a little bit,”Sweeney toldPGin 2021. After beginning hisSuperwolves collaboration with Will Oldham, “that’s when I thought, ‘Cool, I did the thing that I wanted to do. I can fingerpick now and I can play with a really great singer who is working in an idiom that I hadn’t worked in

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53:45

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff and Jaime Hanna

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/05/04

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American music legend—aGrammy-winning outfit that’s also been inducted into theCountry Music Hall of Fame. In this group’s case, what becomes a legend most is still working as hard as when Jeff Hanna co-founded the NGBD in 1966.So, whenPG’sJohn Bohlingerrecently checked in with Hanna and his guitar-playing son, Jaime Hanna, they were rehearsing at Nashville’s SIR for an ambitious spring and summer Nitty Gritty Dirt Band tour supporting a new album,Dirt Does Dylan, to

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31:39

Nir Felder and Will Lee

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/04/27

Nir Felder has been called “the next big jazz guitarist” by NPR and hailed byThe New York Timesas a “whiz kid.” Will Lee is the Grammy-winning Musician’s Hall of Fame member you’ve likely seen and heard playing bass as part of Paul Shaffer’s World’s Most Dangerous Band on David Letterman’s late-night talk shows.Currently, Felder and Lee are touring together with drummer Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting), Jeff Coffin on saxophones and woodwinds (Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones),

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25:29

Dirty Honey

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/04/20

Rock ’n’ roll has a long tradition of building on the work of previous stars and reinterpreting their influences. The Beatles honored the Isley Brothers, Elvis covered Little Richard … up to contemporaries like theBlack Keyscelebrating hill country blues beaconsR. L. Burnsideand Junior Kimbrough, and Greta Van Fleet echoing Led Zeppelin and Motown. Dirty Honey is reenergizing the hard-rock sound of the 1970s and sleazy Sunset swagger of the 1980s with their amalgamation of heroes that range from

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21:44

Tetrarch

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/04/13

To most people, WWJD spells out “What Would Jesus Do?” But in the case of sworn shred disciple Diamond Rowe of Tetrarch, it stands for “What Would James (Hetfield) Do?”“The longer you talk to me, you’re going to find out that I’m super old school with my rig,” admits Rowe. “We’ll go on tours and play festivals and people will approach us and ask, ‘why aren’t you doing this’ or ‘why aren’t you doing that’ and I’m just like, I don’t know … because Metallica did it this way [laughs].”Tetrarch was

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END

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/04/06

There’s heavy music … and then there’s End. Formed in 2017, the band is vocalist Brendan Murphy (Counterparts), guitarist Will Putney (Fit for an Autopsy), guitarist Gregory Thomas (formerly of Shai Hulud and Misery Signals), bassist Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme), and drummer Billy Rymer (the Dillinger Escape Plan). The supergroup was created to push the extremes of hardcore music. And, as you’ll soon find out in this Rig Rundown, mission accomplished.From day one, guitarists (and producers) Putney and

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27:42

Hannah Wicklund

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/03/30

We thought a grizzly bear had entered Nashville’s 3rd & Lindsley when Hannah Wicklund fired up her rig at soundcheck on March 20, when she headlined the club with her band the Steppin' Stones. Luckily, it was just the rude tone of her Tom Anderson Guitarworks Guardian Angel model pumping through the sneer of her Orange head and cab, so … no carnage, but some echoes of classic Peter Green.Although Wicklund—who was the subject of aPGprofilein 2018—has U.S. and Canadian tour dates scheduled through

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31:39

Shiner

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/03/24

Shiner sprouted from the fertile, black-dirt underground rock scene of the Midwest. Cofounded by guitarist/vocalist Allen Epley in 1992, the band toured with contemporaries Sunny Day Real Estate, Chore, Jawbox, Season to Risk, the Jesus Lizard, and Girls Against Boys, recorded with Shellac’s Steve Albini, and released four albums between 1996 and 2001. Injections of new blood for 1997’sLula Divina(bassist Paul Malinowski) and 2000’sStarless(Josh Newton on keyboards/guitars and Jason Gerken on drums)

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48:48

Goose

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/03/16

“Are you guys with the band?” A pleasant passerby asked while we were loading out camera gear near the Goose tour bus parked outside Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl.“No, we’re just here to do an interview.” I responded.“Oh man, tell the band that last night’s concert wasuh-mazing,” exclaimed the joyous fan. “We’ll be talking about it for years to come.”And with that sort of impassioned, infectious positivity, Goose is following the freeform footsteps of the Grateful Dead, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, and

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Tinsley Ellis

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/03/09

Tinsley Ellis broke onto the national blues scene with his early ’80s band, the Heartfixers. By late in the decade, when the Atlanta-based guitarist and singer began releasing albums under his own name, he also became a fixture in the genre’s international club and festival circuit. Over the years he's earned a reputation for full-throttle live shows and well-crafted albums that hinge on his powerful singing and on his playing, which is based in tradition but packed with signature moves like deft

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41:46

Cory Wong

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/03/02

The Grammy-nominated high minister of funk guitar and host ofPG’sWong Notespodcast take us through his spare but carefully tailored setup.Hey, what’s happenin’ people?!!! For Cory Wong, who kicks off episodes of hisWong Notes podcastwith that question, the answer is he’s currently deep into an international tour—while still recording new episodes, writing music, and producing. But that didn’t stop the prodigious, prolific picker from taking the time during a recent stop at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl

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JD Simo [2022]

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/02/23

The Nashville-based power player uses classic-style guitars and amps to create big tones that echo from the past to the future.Our last Rundown withJ.D. Simo was eight years ago. Since then, the songwriter, guitarist, and producer has worked with Jack White, Tommy Emmanuel, Luther Dickinson, Dave Cobb, Blackberry Smoke, and even been a friend in Grateful Dead founder Phil Lesh’s band Phil and Friends. Currently, Simo is promoting his most unique, original, and raw album yet, called Mind Control,

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Yungblud's Adam Warrington

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/02/16

Behind the moody makeup, angsty energy, arena-level production, rebellious revelry, and 20 empty Marshall cabs blasting flood lights is a legit modern rock band. And behind the band’s charismatic leader Yungblud (aka Dominic Richard Harrison) is its producer, songwriter, and bona fide riff assassin Adam Warrington. Armed with a handful of Gibsons, a Gretsch, and an MIM Jazzmaster, he is a mortar of might.Before Yungblud’s redlining, headlining show at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium on

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34:12

El Ten Eleven

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/02/09

Pedals can be a source of inspiration. But can they be the catalyst to start a band? The argument could be made that without a looper bassist Kristian Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty would’ve never taken flight as El Ten Eleven. (The band is named after the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airplane.)“I knew I wanted to start a band—in my mind it was probably going to sound like El Ten Eleven—but I didn’t know exactly how I’d do it. I got Tim [Fogarty] to play drums and I thought I’d get a third person for

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30:28

Intervals’ Aaron Marshall [2022]

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/02/02

Aaron Marshall loves guitar. “I make a living every day playing the electric guitar. My identity is built around this thing. I’ve been my own boss since 2015,” he declaredin a 2021PGinterview.Aaron Marshall believes in guitar: “Anyone who thinks the death of the electric guitar is upon us is very out of touch. You can’t hold its head underwater. The electric guitar is iconic. It’s not going anywhere.”And Aaron Marshall is never satisfied with guitar: “Everything’s perfect. Let’s change it all,” the

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38:53

Adam Shoenfeld

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/01/26

Adam Shoenfeld has helped shape the tone of modern country guitar. How? Well, the Nashville-based session star, producer, and frontman has played on hundreds of albums and 45 No. 1 country hits, starting with Jason Aldean’s “Hicktown,” since 2005. Plus, he’s found time for several bands of his own as well as the first studio album under his own name,All the Birds Sing, which drops January 28.Shoenfeld recently letPG’s John Bohlinger in on some of his sonic secrets, running through his session rig at

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