Rig Rundown: Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes [2023]

the coding durability test puts excess through a cycle of 10 000 strums through the lens of a microscope it is clear that excess retains its composition better than other coated strings testing complete [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] Bulger with Premier Guitar I'm with Warren Haynes in the historic Ryman Auditorium Warren thank you so much for joining us today absolutely comment it was fabulous watching your sound checking watching you guys tear into that song well we're even our way we've only played it once and that was before Jeff died and of course I just teased a little bit at the beginning the rest of it was just noodling but uh we planted one time uh and I think we're gonna hopefully play it again tonight for the second God that was like weepy hearing the sound check of it it's just beautiful man thank you yeah what a loving homage well hey uh I know you got you got doors opening in a minute so we'll be as quick as we can let's talk about this this is your signature right this is my signature model uh Les Paul that uh is based on a a 58 body 59 neck burst Booker one burst bucker two but the the most unique thing about it is this switch that engages uh this buffer preamp that uh when when you turn the volume down the tone doesn't change so you can have it like a traditional Les Paul or you can have it where the tone doesn't change when you adjust the volume so it gives you more variety so that's how you're doing it was that engaged right there no no it wasn't and most of the time I I don't have it engaged I only engage it if if I turn down really low right and want to get the treble back yeah uh otherwise you know I'm so used to playing Les Paul's and and I thrive on that tonal change right but it just yeah that's part of your expression yeah and you know I I've been playing Les Falls for so long that I I that's kind of part of the the vocabulary so to speak yeah yeah beautiful well uh that's that's so is this an actual this is one of the models that somebody could could buy this is yeah this is a this is a prototype uh of the actual guitar yeah yeah and I play these guitars more than than any anything else even though I carry a lot of guitars they're mostly for different tunings sure and then occasionally some of them just to get a different sound but you know I have a drop d uh open D open G 12 string and open G a 12 string and drop d uh I have a one point I was carrying a open a guitar around because it's it's a pain to change them sure during the show because as you know guitars take a little bit to settle in and then also all my Firebirds are tuned down a half step oh okay and I have one guitar that's tuned down a half step with the bottom string tuned down an additional Whole step that I play on the song bring on the music uh I have two different open C tunings wow one has two E's on the top and one has uh a e and a c I know I'm sorry one has two C's on the top and a drone for the first two strings and the other one has an e on the top and then a c on the second string um so sometimes if I write something or we record something in a certain tuning then I need that guitar in case we play it but we don't play the same show every night we play a different show every night right that's part of the magic and people never know what they're going to get and it's part of the reason that I have to drag around all these guitars which I would prefer not to do well let's uh look at some of these guitars I think Eric's got another one over here for us so this is uh a signature model 335 that Gibson made which is a copy of my 1961.net 335. and they did an amazing job when I saw it I was like wow that's my guitar it looks exactly like my guitar the neck feels exactly like my guitar and it sounds as similarly as they could could possibly make it so what pickups did they go with uh the original pafs that were and so it's actually they copied it uh this says this says the newer pickup but you know I don't have the the 61 with me on the road I'll leave it at home but this one uh definitely sounds and plays very much like my guitar foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign love it you can hear the the difference in the way the the base pickup and the treble pick up on those guitars work they're very different from each other but you have to like blend them in get a lot of cool sounds and stuff you know okay that's that's great what's Eric got for us next uh oh this looks that's a pretty one this guitar this has an interesting story I've been playing this guitar for a long time um so what a top on that I usually keep this one tuned to drop d on the bottom I played this guitar in the Allman Brothers a lot um the story with this guitar is uh years years ago I went to the Gibson custom shop and said that I was looking for a tobacco Sunburst Les Paul sure they only had a few at uh at the custom shop at that time and I played three or whatever however many they had and none of them had like that that feeling like when you play a guitar acoustically without plugging it in you can always tell a really magical guitar and none of them had that magic um and my friend Rick Gambar who was running the the Gibson custom shop that that time said well I want you to get one that you love and he just happened to remember uh this guitar that had been hanging on the wall in his office he said what about that one hanging on my wall and they said oh well uh it's flawed we we can't sell it what do you mean well they there's two extra screw holes in it where somebody put screw holes in the wrong place so they were just gonna scrap it so we've been sitting on his wall for like two years or something it had no tuners uh no pickups no electronics it was just wood and he said but it was strung up no oh nothing it was just a piece of wood oh yeah and they said he said how long would it take to put this guitar together it had no tuners on it oh and uh they said about 15 or 20 minutes so we're at Gibson yeah so uh we sat around and tried some other guitars and played and stuff and they brought it out and it sounded better than any of the guitars that that I had been playing and I was like well can I have this one and uh and they're like yeah absolutely they they couldn't sell it legally they couldn't they couldn't call it a Les Paul and so for me uh for all the guitars that I had from that time period this is my favorite one and uh it had that not occurred uh this guitar would probably be in the garbage somewhere wow you look great yeah that's like a stray puppy walking up absolutely licking your hand and he's working for the rest of your life that's kind of the way I looked at it yeah okay that's a great story I mean and it you know I I use it I mean it's a really cool guitar all the way around but I place light on it a lot um [Music] [Music] um [Music] it's a little low at the moment because I haven't been playing much slide on it recently [Music] [Music] oh that is great that so do you find when you're playing slide do you do you have things set up a little bit higher just the action like or is it a considerable difference I usually keep them the same uh there are a couple of guitars where the action is a tiny bit higher but I like to keep my action what I refer as too high for lead and not high enough or slide so but that's what I'm comfortable with yeah yeah and but this one the high e is a little too low at the moment because I had it too high in the last few days and and we just lowered it and I'm still kind of tampering yeah I'm gonna have to raise it back up just a tiny bit do you remember what pickups they put in it I think these they used to be classic 57s but I don't know if they still are uh because we they still are okay yeah and you know I'm one of those guys that if it sounds good I just leave it right yeah I don't really care uh what's what's in a guitar if I pick it up and it sounds good I'm like okay cool yeah um uh so you know some of my guitars have burst buckers in them uh we we try a bunch of different stuff and if something sounds good in a certain piece of wood then we'd stay with it yeah right okay let's see what's next let's what do you got over there look okay so this guitar well my old guitar tech Brian farmer who passed away a while back labeled all these guitars he named them and and put the labels on them so he could tell them apart in the dark sure this one uh he called the dead bird and the reason is because he actually had this guitar designed himself when I did the dead tour in 2009. uh I wanted something that sounded uh a little bit smaller than the Les Paul not quite as wide yeah and uh I had been playing some Firebirds and he said well what about one with many humbuckers and so instead of Firebird pickups there there are many humbuckers and I use this guitar occasionally but I use it on that that whole tour with the dead it just has a unique sound that's somewhere in between a Gibson an offender yeah it's kind of bizarre uh cool let's see let's see uh wow wow [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's great it's like that is perfect for that Deadpool yeah and even for cool bluesy stuff it's just it doesn't have as much gain yeah and it uh it's it's really bright on the top end but it still has Gibson mid-range yeah [Music] thank you foreign [Music] love it okay all very cool uh does Eric have another one for us one more oh wow at one point in time this was one of two uh Les Paul 12 strings and I've had this one a long long time again another uh guitar that I love due to my association with with Gibson and uh this guitar it's called railroad boy because one of the songs that I played on is is the song called railroad boy um I also play it on uh dark was the night Cole was the ground and on so weak so strong I usually have it tuned to drop d on the bottom foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] awesome you know it's a really unique instrument because I have a couple of epiphone twill strings over there that sound beautiful but they don't sound like this this has a little more girth to it and it also has this coil tap oh so [Music] you know take it off [Music] so in the middle of railroad boy I switch it from one position to another as the band gets louder right stuff like that oh that's great Gibson did they ever do a production running this is this not this guitar they did a production run of a 12-string Les Paul but the headstock was much smaller that's a lot of heads this one's pretty enormous um I'm amazed it fits in your boat it barely does yeah you have to be really careful with it like that oh that's great okay amazing hey now let's get into I want to get into amps and pedals but maybe we need one more guitar okay okay so all right [Music] [Music] this is a a custom shop Firebird with uh three P90s that I keep tuned down like all my Firebirds tuned down a half step um for some reason I really like the way the Firebirds respond to being tuned down like that uh more so than than Les Paul they that extra brightness kind of helps them speak through the sure the lower tuning yeah and it again it has a little more of a fenderesque quality but it still has the meat of a Gibson so [Music] um oh that's great nice top end but it still has a lot of bottom and it doesn't sound like a a strat so it it's cool for me like if we as an example if I did a Hendrix song I'd probably do it on a Firebird instead of a strat right just to sound a little different because that's you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that that's great okay amazing now let's talk a little bit about your amps you're running two of them uh they're not run at the same time it's an either or yeah and this soldana was uh one that I've had for a really long time uh SLO 100 with my modification which gives it a lot more low mid-range at a low preamp volume uh when I first started using these guitars I I mean when I first started using sodano apps I called Mike's O'Donnell and said I'm having trouble getting enough bottom end uh otherwise I love the sound and he said well that's really strange where where is your pre app set and I said it'd sit on two and a half or three and he said oh well most people said it much higher I see you but I don't I don't want that extra dirt yeah um so he said great I'll make a mod to it so he made this modification here I had him put a switch uh where you can you could flip the switch and it's a stock Soldano or you can have my modification but all my soldanos have this mod and it just gives it a much more beef out a little preemptive right because there's such a almost like a metal kind of amp and with you it's not that one when you do this you can you can set it way cleaner and have have that girth you know oh yeah I don't like the the really overdriven sound sure yeah that yeah so this is uh the the more marshally side of of what I'm doing yeah and uh uh Eric can tell me if I'm correct I think these are 75 watt celestians all right and uh and then the homestead which is more fendering uh is 100 watt Homestead head um the homesteads are a continuation of Diaz when I used to use Caesar DS sure of course Peter McMahon that that is is now Homestead he worked with Caesar and carried Caesar's stuff forward for a while and then started making his own gear which was kind of uh a continuation of that sure he's branched off into a lot of other stuff so I really like these heads uh I think these are Greenback 25s and in this cabinet correct so different speakers for the two different apps yeah two totally different tones that's great and you just switch as you need that yeah flavor but I never have them on at the same time occasionally in the studio if they're off in another room somewhere sure yeah okay and pedalboard wise looks like you've got a you've got the uh custom audio controller out here yeah uh all the effects are in drawers in this rack back here um well let's start on the left is uh a base cut okay for the homestead so sure uh it's just like on the fenders when you pull the knob out yeah it's basically doing that uh the thing next to it is a speed switch and a break for the rotosphere Leslie simulator right so I can uh operate it like it's a real Leslie pedal oh that's great um the there's a clan centaur there's a short delay long delay uh the uh discombobulator which was the Envelope Filter that I was using earlier the old brown October octave petal right um the uh there's a digital Reverb in there that if I want to use it on the soldana which has no Reverb which I use very little but sometimes uh there's a Texas Ranger which is a Diaz boost built based around the old top boost of the Vox AC 30s but he made it where you could have uh low mid or high you could choose which part you wanted to boost um and then there the the reverse thing Eric what is the reverse is a hardwired dl8 blh okay which is yeah let's hear that thing [Music] foreign the other pedal is a mid-range boost for the homestead and the volume pedal and that's pretty much it yeah well and most of the time it's just you and that age most of the sounds are just straight in yeah I started using pedals When government mule formed because we were a trio and sometimes it was nice to have other textures you were covering a lot of ground in the Almond Brothers I just plugged straight into the app yeah and a lot of the sounds for Government Mule or that as well yeah Warren I know you got a show so thanks for taking the time to hang at this man what an honor to meet you and hang out with you thanks so much my pleasure you all till next time thank you

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Id: d-i38e2VnYw

Length: 25min 17sec (1517 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023