Best Premierguitar Podcasts (2024)

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Adrian Belew 24:36

1h ago24:36

24:36

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 Cr…

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Green Day [2024] 36:34

1d ago36:34

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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…

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MonoNeon 18:52

9d ago18:52

18:52

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 str…

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Baroness [2024] 53:00

15d ago53:00

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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…

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Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett [2024] 38:48

23d ago38:48

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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 th…

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Elijah Rig Rundown with Xander Raymond Charles & Brandon Kyle 25:04

29d ago25:04

25:04

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, h…

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Michael Lemmo 29:37

1M ago29:37

29:37

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 …

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Chris Buck of Cardinal Black 50:47

1M ago50:47

50:47

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 …

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Drain's Cody Chavez Guitar Gear Tour 17:41

2M ago17:41

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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,…

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Fall Out Boy Rig Rundown with Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman & Pete Wentz [2024] 52:20

2M ago52:20

52:20

Andy Hurley Drum Rundown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLCiHZl7C4o Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/fall-out-boy-2024 Back in March, Chicago’s Fall Out Boy blasted through Birmingham, Alabama, in the middle of a year-long tour supporting their 2023 release, So Much (for) Stardust. It was their first solo headline t…

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Rig Rundown: Cage the Elephant’s Brad Shultz, Daniel Tichenor, and Nick Bockrath [2024] 58:39

2M ago58:39

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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/cage-the-elephant Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Cage the Elephant was formed nearly 20 years ago in Bowling Green by vocalist Matt Shultz, guitarists Brad Shultz and Lincoln Parish, drummer Jared Champion, and bassist Daniel Tichenor. That core lineup has …

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In Flames' Björn Gelotte, Chris Broderick & Liam Wilson 55:58

3M ago55:58

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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/in-flames Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube If In Flames didn’t invent melodic death metal, they cemented the genre’s arrival with Lunar Strain and Subterranean, and if those were early blueprints to the burgeoning style, the Swedes’ The Jester Race and Whorac…

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Helmet's Page Hamilton [2024] 34:35

3M ago34:35

34:35

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/helmet-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I could not exist without guitar,” admits Helmet founding lead guitarist and singer Page Hamilton. “I know this to be true because I’m a miserable asshole if I don’t play guitar. When I wake up in the morning, the…

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Donny Benét 29:24

3M ago29:24

29:24

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/donny-benet Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube There’s comical bands (Gwar), there’s parody bands (Steel Panther), and there’s clever combinations of both (Mac Sabbath). The Italian-Australian Donny Benét is none of those and all of those at the same time. H…

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Tyler Childers & the Food Stamps' Rig Rundown w/ CJ Cain, Jesse Wells, James Barker & Craig Burletic 1:04:03

3M ago1:04:03

1:04:03

Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Food Stamps have been cooking onstage behind the redheaded songwriter pretty much since he left Appalachia and began touring as a full unit. These loyal road dogs have worn the rubber off the tires touring with Mr. Childers. First, they were strictly a live band enlisted to recreate an…

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ERRA 34:58

4M ago34:58

34:58

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/erra Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Before ERRA’s headlining show at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl in support of their latest album, Cure, cofounding member Jesse Cash and newcomer Clint Tustin—a pair of proficient guitar-playing pyrotechnicians—invited PG’s Ch…

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Loathe 23:54

4M ago23:54

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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/loathe Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Loathe is a challenging listen. In 10 years, they’ve released three dissimilar albums, a pair of pulverizing EPs, and a couple reinventive, collaborative covers (with Sleep Token and Teenage Wrist) of their own material…

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Dixie Dregs 27:37

4M ago27:37

27:37

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dixie-dregs Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Steve Morse and Andy West are legendary players. In addition to co-founding the Dixie Dregs together in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, both virtuosos have colorful personal resumes. Guitar giant Morse’s is more high-pr…

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Knocked Loose 23:32

4M ago23:32

23:32

Knocked Loose Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/3WOPb983Pss Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/knocked-loose-2024 If hell had a guitar tone, it’d be what Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale and Nicko Calderon conjure up from their Ibanez 7-string beasts. The band’s mission since day one has been to pummel listeners with the most-ex…

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Grace Bowers 22:37

5M ago22:37

22:37

Follow Grace Bowers: https://lnk.to/tellmewhyudothat Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/grace-bowers Guitarist Grace Bowers is a 17-year old California transplant tearing it up in Nashville. Currently working on her first album with producer John Osborne of the Brothers Osborne, Bowers invited John Bohlinger and the PG …

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Black Pumas 1:02:14

5M ago1:02:14

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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/black-pumas Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube In just seven years since meeting based on a recommendation, Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada formed the Black Pumas, released two albums, and have already been nominated for seven Grammys. However, this fruitful fri…

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Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt & Pat Badger 29:54

5M ago29:54

29:54

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/extreme Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Nearly 40 years ago, Nuno Bettencourt walked into Mouradian Guitars Co in Boston where Pat Badger was working and they formed a bond that would change their worlds. In March of 2024, Pat Badger and Nuno Bettencourt, of…

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Adrian Vandenberg 42:58

5M ago42:58

42:58

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/adrian-vandenberg Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Adrian Vandenberg is a Dutch rock guitarist, best known for his tenure as one of the guitarists in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period, and also with the band Vandenberg, which he started …

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Crosses' Shaun Lopez 37:06

5M ago37:06

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Full Crosses' Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/crosses Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube What if Deftones’ lead singer Chino Moreno fully leaned into his love for the Cure and Depeche Mode—think “Digital Bath,” “Teenager,” “Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event,” and “Cherry Waves?” The short answ…

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Sammy Boller 34:19

6M ago34:19

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Sammy Boller on Randy Rhoads: https://youtu.be/Ym-LXU-3nd4 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I grew up wanting to be Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, but over time I’ve found my own dark and aggressive style. These days, my dream as a musician is to make people feel as connected to the cosmos as I feel when I play the gu…

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A.J. Ghent 28:23

6M ago28:23

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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/aj-ghent Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube AJ Ghent’s uniquely inspired Singing Guitar has its roots in the Sacred Steel musical style and African-American gospel traditions that developed out of a group of Pentecostal churches across the South. Ghent comes fr…

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Erin Coburn 24:57

7M ago24:57

24:57

Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/erin-coburn Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Erin Coburn grew up on blues and classic rock. That background has afforded her a spotlight onstage for over half her life, including opening slots ahead of Marcus King and Blackberry Smoke. She released her fir…

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Pantera Rig Rundown with Rex Brown & Zakk Wylde 51:52

7M ago51:52

51:52

Watch Charlie's Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/Gz-suX8VSqM Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/pantera Original Cowboy from Hell bassist Rex Brown has gone through so much gear. He’s lost amps and donated basses to charity. He’s fostered many fruitful friendships with companies that’s resulted signature wares for war.…

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Tool's Justin Chancellor 41:21

7M ago41:21

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“Will the next Tool album take more than 10,000 days?” That was an ongoing (and agonizing) joke for Tool fans that awaited the band’s fifth album following the release of 2006’s 10,000 Days. (A cruel clairvoyance of a title.) For those counting, when Fear Inoculum was finally delivered on August 30, 2019, it was just 4,868 days from their previous …

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Buffalo Nichols 25:46

7M ago25:46

25:46

Buffalo Nichols believes in the power of acoustic country blues. He also believes it’s not a fossil, trapped in amber, but a living, breathing musical genre. Which is why he blends elements of the tradition—slide guitar, resonator, open tunings, themes of loss, redemption, and struggle—with loops, samples, drum machines, myriad effects, and modern-…

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Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale 20:23

7M ago20:23

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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/wolfmother Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube When we walked into Nashville’s Eastside Bowl for this Rig Rundown with Wolfmother’s alpha canine, Andrew Stockdale, it sounded like he was playing his SG through a Marshall stack at head-ripping volume. Nope! S…

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The Menzingers' Greg Barnett & Tom May 55:41

8M ago55:41

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The Menzingers’ albums are storied time capsules. Starting in 2007 with teen angst and rebellion, they’ve refined and reshaped their narratives into self-reflective numbers that continue to balance melody and might. Their most-recent installment—2023’s Some of It Was True—was their eighth chapter that stares down aging with acceptance rather than a…

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Kelley’s Heroes’ “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary 23:45

8M ago23:45

23:45

Robert’s Western World on Nashville’s Lower Broadway was home to the Don Kelley Band for as long as anyone can remember. Kelley’s band was an institution in Nashville, serving as a stepping stone for super-pickers like Guthrie Trapp, Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Daniel Donato, JD Simo, and more. “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary also came up throug…

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Jason Isbell & Sadler Vaden [2024] 1:23:39

8M ago1:23:39

1:23:39

Jason Isbell’s last Rundown was in 2019. The guitarist and songwriter, who we’ve called “Americana’s poet laureate,” is a huge gearhead though—and his collection is truly the stuff of dreams—so a lot can happen in a few years. Currently touring with his acclaimed 400 Unit band in support of the highly acclaimed Weathervanes album, he rolls with a s…

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram [2024] 21:36

8M ago21:36

21:36

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, bringin…

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mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024] 44:01

9M ago44:01

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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 …

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Mudhoney 25:01

9M ago25:01

25:01

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 Ja…

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Ryan Lerman (Scary Pockets) 24:50

9M ago24:50

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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 Jo…

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Pat Metheny 41:05

9M ago41:05

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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 wha…

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Steve Hackett 33:26

9M ago33:26

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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 re…

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra 51:09

10M ago51:09

51:09

“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…

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David Ryan Harris 20:33

11M ago20:33

20:33

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 curr…

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Brian Setzer [2023] 18:22

11M ago18:22

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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…

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Little Feat 52:51

11M ago52:51

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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 Aud…

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Fontaines D.C. 57:05

11M ago57:05

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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 mus…

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The Band CAMINO 39:03

11M ago39:03

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“‘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 trope…

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American Football 23:17

12M ago23:17

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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-exp…

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Alter Bridge [2023] 51:02

12M ago51:02

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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 wi…

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Emily Wolfe 34:08

1y ago34:08

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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 …

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Steve Vai [2023] 44:56

1y ago44:56

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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 vir…

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