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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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38:31

Wolf Alice

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/01/19

Listening to the tidal wave in “Giant Peach,” the riotous “Moaning Lisa Smile,” or the punked-up “Play the Greatest Hits,” it’s hard to imagine Wolf Alice as an acoustic duo. Then talk to Joff Oddie about his integral use of effects—“These pedals can do such crazy things; to not do crazy things with thingsthatcan do crazy things seems odd”—and the band’s origin story becomes even more improbable. But it’s true: Wolf Alice started with guitarist/singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Oddie playing

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25:11

Deer Tick

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/01/13

Deer Tick was started by self-taught multi-instrumentalist John McCauley as a solo songwriting endeavor in 2004. The band’s instant, ear-perk appeal is McCauley’s wiry, craggy voice narrating personal hardship and loss. When you hear Deer Tick albums, the honesty that pours out of the speakers punches your gut and tears your heart.Originally touring with a revolving cast of supporting musicians, McCauley solidified his rhythm section with half-brothers Dennis Michael Ryan (drums) and Christopher

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24:29

Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis [2022]

Rig Rundowns ·

2022/01/10

Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis is rock ’n’ roll’s loudest low talker. Onstage, the reserved frontman is overshadowed by his three full stacks, summoning up President Teddy Roosevelt’s quote: “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”Fellow volume-dealing stalwarts Emmett Jefferson Murphy III (drums)—better known as “Murph”—and Lou Barlow (bass/vocals) helped J form the band in 1984 after their first group, Deep Wound, dissolved. Both left Dinosaur Jr., and then rejoined in 2005. This core group

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33:22

Circles Around the Sun

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/30

Founded by the late Neal Casal, this instrumental band of sonic explorers was born out of a request for set-break music during the Grateful Dead’s final run of shows in San Francisco and Chicago during 2015. Originally, CATS was going to be a one-off project, but fan feedback pushed Casal and company to release it asInterludes for the Dead. This wasn’t simply wordless Dead covers, but new creations formed in essence and spirt of the Dead.In 2018, the group released their second double album,Let it

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41:48

All Them Witches [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/22

Expanding, evolving, exploring, and enchanting are all applicable when describing the orbit of All Them Witches. Since their2016 Rig Rundown, the quartet have continued pursuing their sonic mission, unbound by anything but regeneration. Their never-ending musical mutation has yielded three more individualistic, intrepid releases since our last check-in.Sleeping Through the War, in 2017, explored more purposeful, mystical songcraft cloaked in hypnotic, rambunctious rock. For 2018’sATW, the

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25:47

The Hives [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/15

The Hives are a ripping quintet that formed in Fagersta, Sweden, during the early ’90s. They exploded into American pop-culture consciousness during the garage-rock revival with a pair of chart-splashing, straight-forward stingers (2000’sVeni Vidi Viciousand 2004’sTyrannosaurus Hives). And while they did take a hiatus in the mid-2010s, they’ve continued rocking the thin line between ragged and refined for nearly 30 years with a total of five albums, four EPs, and a 2020 live set recorded at

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52:44

Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson & Cindy Cashdollar

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/08

Ray Benson founded Asleep at the Wheel over a half a century ago in 1970. Over the course of his career, he’s won 9 Grammys while turning several generations onto Western Swing.PG’s John Bohlinger hung with Benson and his longtime lap-steel player Cindy Cashdollar before a recent Grand Ole Opry performance in Nashville.[Brought to you by D’Addario XS Strings:http://ddar.io/xs.rr]

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Idles

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/02

Do you hear that thunder? That’s the sound of strength in four 100-watt stacks. (Actually, one is a 200-watt bass tube head.) IDLES’ guitarists Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan finally have the firepower to match their fury. (Original members singer/lyricist Joe Talbot, drummer Jon Beavis, and bassist Adam Devonshire fill out the band. Kiernan took over for guitarist Andy Stewart after 2015 EP Meat was released.)For much of the 2010s, the bashers from Bristol played on anything and plugged into

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32:04

Mannequin Pussy

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/12/01

About 10 years ago Mannequin Pussy bubbled up from the percolating Philly rock scene. Formed by guitarist/singer Marisa “Missy” Dabice and drummer Athanasios Paul, their primary calling card was a stinging combination of snippy and sizzling ragers. The lineup was eventually filled out with Drew Adler (drums) and Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass). (Paul moved to lead guitar in 2013 and Kaleen Reading took over for drums in 2015. Ultimately, Paul left earlier this year after recording Perfect.) Over the

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23:30

Microwave

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/11/17

Music—and guitar—are therapeutic. The songs we write and riffs we play help reduce the pain, alleviate the stress, and produce some positivity in our lives. Microwave's singer/guitarist/lyricist Nathan Hardy has been using the studio and stage as his leather couch for nearly 10 years.Stovall, in 2014, saw him question his Mormon missionary upbringing. Two years later,Much Lovefocused on realities versus the romance of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. And 2019'sDeath Is a Warm Blanketis a dark, heavier,

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20:25

Torres

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/11/10

Mackenzie Scott (aka Torres) likes a good juxtaposition. Her music is a tightrope act between vulnerability and violence. Scott's lyrics often reflect introspection over a backdrop of angular, explosive guitar sounds, and those lyrics and her imagery combat the standard gender tropes by deconstructing their longstanding definitions and re-empowering them for all people. (Look no further than the cover of Torres' latest album,Thirstier, to see her take on the "classic" guitar pose.)Even her playing

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24:23

Dance Gavin Dance's Will Swan

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/11/03

Will Swan has celebrated and elevated radical guitar music through the course of nine frenetic, volatile Dance Gavin Dance albums, a pair of releases with his psychedelic post-hardcore side projectSianvar, and the creation of hisBlue Swan Recordslabel. The common thread is his hue of beautiful dysfunction and his ethos of pushing the instrument (and its sounds) forward.Make no mistake, Swan canplaythe guitar. His style is equal parts violence and grace, with pit stops at all points between. He

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29:43

Thrice [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/10/27

Recently Thrice's Dustin Kensrue (vocals/guitar) and Teppei Teranishi (guitar) participated inPG's Hooked. (The videoseriesfeatures musicians talking about a moment, riff, or song that turned their world upside down and sideswiped them into playing.) Kensrue raved about the Pixies' dissonant melodies, while Teranishi highlighted Metallica'sheavyimpact. And at the conclusion of the video, they both admit the band has a lot of "Pixies" parts and "Metallica" moments throughout its catalog.Over the

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24:15

White Reaper

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/10/20

Tired of pretentious music? Are you looking to just have fun and rock out? The good-time, make-you-move-and-groove medicine you're after is what White Reaper dispenses.The band's core was formed in 2012 when Louisville high schoolers Tony Esposito (guitar/vocals) and Nick Wilkerson (drums) started jamming as a duo. Then Nick recruited his twin brother Sam (bass) and Esposito added friend Ryan Hater (keys). And the fearsome foursome released their rowdy, ripping 2015 debut,White Reaper Does It Again,

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12:42

Eric Clapton

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/10/14

At age 76, Eric Clapton remains a major presence in guitar. He's touring again rather than simply resting on nearly six decades of laurels, and with Slowhand's blessing, Dan Dearnley—the legend's tech for a dozen years—showed us his boss' setup before a September 21 concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Three Signature Strats, Martins, and not much else. Dig in![Brought to you by D'Addario XS Strings:https://ddar.io/xs.rr]

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The Sword [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/10/07

There's no doubt ZZ Top trademarked Texas boogie. And over 30 years later, the Sword furthered the Lonestar shuffle's legacy by darkening it.The Austin outfit's 2006 debutAge of Winterscombined the rhythmic bounce ofTres Hombreswith the power and might ofMaster of Reality. The cross-pollination of Gibbons and Iommi continued in 2008'sGods of the Earth,with heavier right-hand picking and tempos shading towards thrash-y Priest and Thin Lizzy's "Emerald." Traces of proggy psychedelia, like2112Rush and

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Descedents' Stephen Egerton

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/09/22

One guitar (with no knobs), one amp, and one pedal is all this punk-rock papa needs to command the stage.It's pretty astonishing that a sophomoric band of misfits and outcasts have chiseled a 40-plus-year legacy of punk rock, but that's what the improbable Descendents have been doing since 1977. Their brand of snotty, snarling, snarky, succinct songs have endeared them to rock titans like Dave Grohl."[They have] this shameless, love-song aesthetic—none of the other bands had the balls to do that,"

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27:20

Rise Against [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/09/15

Guitarists Tim McIlrath and Zach Blair enjoy tenacious tones with rock's mightiest tag team—Gibsons into Marshalls—aided by a few everyman effects and one mythical stomp.Rise Against rose out of Chicago around Y2k on the back of roaring Gatling-gun guitars, blast-beat rhythms, and defiant, sharp-tongued social commentary. The band's first pair of albums—2001'sThe Unravelingand 2003'sRevolutions Per Minute—are blistering bangers rooted in traditional hardcore chaos, spiced up with fist-pumping,

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40:05

Greta Van Fleet [2021]

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/09/09

Big tones for big rooms takes big gear. The Grammy-winning guitar-and-bass team of Jake and Sam Kiszka give us a tour of their on- and offstage rigs.[Brought to you by D'Addario XPND Pedalboard:http://ddar.io/xpnd.rr]

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59:47

RJ Ronquillo

Rig Rundowns ·

2021/09/01

A backwards Strat, a radicalJetsons-y guitar, Def Leppard's secret weapon, and more pedals than currently listed on Reverb fill this YouTuber's tone lounge.[Brought to you by D'Addario XPND Pedalboard:https://ddar.io/xpnd.rr]

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