Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Band Rig Rundown with Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss & JD McPherson

foreign [Music] Bollinger with Premier Guitar we're at soundcheck in Nashville and I'm with Stuart Duncan and you're out on the Robert Plant Allison Krauss raised the roof tour raise the roof yeah mate what a what a lineup man what a so much fun God in that catalog I mean yeah so great okay so you're you're playing a lot of instruments but right now show us your electric rig what do you got going on here this is a not an expensive guitar this was a pawn shop squire the best kind and uh but I had some other pickups put in it and put a mini bucker in there a lot of people use a mini bucker up on the the neck position I decided I like the sound of this tele pickup right there um so I just put it right there perfect so you get the you know a five-way switch and I I did the Old Roy Buchanan trick For You guitar nerds out there of uh of uh bypassing the uh treble roll-off and just going straight from the pickups to the volume pot to the Jack really so no tone control no tone wow I don't have any good tone to work with anyone that's great well it sounds amazing and you've got a double bender on it yeah um that's great that's fun yeah what fun and are you and so along this in your plane dobro and and you've got a original guitar out here and ukulele mandolins banjos yeah two fiddles wow you know yeah that's that's you're you're in the hot seat so yeah that's just with a little crunch here with a bonado effects overdrived oh sure there's without it or with some vibrato [Music] foreign [Music] in every instrument you're running through the same rig right all going through this amp Little Walter oh it's great yeah it's been a very good camp for a lot of years now very cool okay so this one you're playing on you said about three songs yeah let's I've got a silver tone back yeah let's see that as well that that looks like a friend yeah keeping keeping with the uh with the inexpensive guitar theme yeah this this was a yard sale find you know God that's great 100 yeah yeah so kids that's all you need it really has a has a sound [Music] all right that's great and this stuff got tuned down a half step wow and is it is that a short scale it looks really short it's a short scale but it doesn't mind being down to D no that's you know it loves these lipstick lipstick pickups are very forgiving uh they they're not in they don't pick get a lot of finger noise or pick noise they're real stable and it likes overdrive oh yeah [Music] there's an additional one here the Prototype thing that I got from Brent Mason years ago [Music] you know while we're discussing it maybe just take us through this signal flow of these of these pedals and since we'll be going through them all anyway we have an A B box here okay so when one thing when I'm transferring from one instrument to the other Stuart over here can help me get plugged in with a fiddle or whatever else comes next without having to take a cord out and read it for it it's already ready to go yeah so there's that and there's color-coded blue and red so I know which one oh those goes perfect you've got a system into my tuner um then into uh into this and the tremolo so into that Brent Mason uh weird and overdrive in defects okay Carl Martin trim a vibe tried and true great then into the bonado for anything else I might want I'm running just a little bit of what he calls the steel verb just a little bit which I can uh I can adjust because it has a tone knob I can take a little bit of the highs or add them and do it with your foot in real time exactly or more verb [Music] oh yeah that's great or less or here's the delay knob with a little helper on there yeah [Music] so in In the Heat of battles do you find yourself uh having a difficult time with your feet dialing up your oh sure yeah yeah it's like yeah the scariest sobriety test yeah you stand on one leg Yeah you know do that I've gotten very good at that yeah Santa Went leg with the with a stadium full of people and some TV cameras and well I mean it just it looks a lot better than that right right right yeah and I'm faced with making a lot of changes from song to song sure okay that wasn't the primary reason for forgetting this but yeah but the big knobs really helped yeah yeah that's great okay well two very cool electrics let's look at what's next for me is always like coming home we could do some of that oh yeah absolutely oh yeah this has been a long time in the making coming up with fiddle Sound electric fiddle that I actually like sure because it doesn't happen very often um there's something some instruments like being plugged in better than others and fiddle's just never been one of them for me sure but yeah I figured out some things um okay so what pickup are you using that is in LR bags pickup just the bridge type it's embedded into the bridge yeah um but what I did um violin pickups they tend to like violins that have less um high-end projection like like most fine violins don't like to be plugged in you you want like a Gordy sounding fiddle that doesn't sound as good in an orchestra sure but it loves being plugged in so I wanted to get like the hybrid between those two things so I took a nice sounding violin and I took the top off and did some hogging inside what they call a re-graduation at the top wow that was just a hint more Gordy sounding that was a completely ruining the instrument hopefully yeah that's a big commitment yeah yeah it is and I and I've had a lot of time and experience doing that so I wasn't so worried about ruining it because I've been I've ruined a lot of Cooper fiddles before I got to this one did you literally do it yourself yeah I've been doing it for about 25 years wow well it's kind of like the uh parachuter packing their own shirt you know yeah yeah that's like yeah so it has a nice tone to it [Music] foreign [Music] foreign hard to imagine it's going through that same and it works for overdrive too the bags is well shielded the bags pick up so it you can [Music] yeah that is just nasty that's great right yeah fabulous okay that's gonna be hard to beat oh great sir so what's next well you know something maybe less abrasive sure sure yeah mandolins are good oh yeah that looks like an old friend this is an old indeed an old friend signed by a signed by Jamie Foxx oh that's great yeah I didn't see that one Kevin yeah yeah what was the what was the situation where were you on was it like rain or something like that it was a uh I think the acms were held in Las Vegas and he was a guest vocalist so he came in for rehearsal yeah I didn't have anything for him to sign so I just sit here sign this yeah perfect that's great yeah well that's too cool okay so going through the same rig [Music] this is a uh um a Fishman a style mandolin pickup and it's a Craftsman it's a Kalamazoo oh Kalamazoo okay this is it from the late 30s I'm guessing so the Gibson family part of the like a Gibson oh but lightweight because there's no rod in the neck oh right wow this plane and I had guitar sized Frets put in it so it would play a little easier oh and uh so one of the one of the things that we do with this um if I can get the delay happen in here I got I got little markers on where the delay is for The Sweet Spot On The Ballad of Evermore oh fine Led Zeppelin number got it so it'll it'll be something like this and we just we just dial it in where we think it's going to be by those marks and we pray it's gonna work yeah because I got it I got the intro all by myself right foreign [Music] itional point I use that lever thing to back off the delay so it's not so [Music] foreign [Music] yeah making that switch with your foot yeah and keep the timing going right yeah right yeah yeah but it's probably a song you've been playing since high school no no just for the last 12 years oh really okay okay great great no I listen to it plenty but I never got out the mandatory yeah yeah all right so you had to yeah yeah but that's three can you believe it's a 90 year old instrument yeah yeah it's it's amazing it's still still kicking it's got a lot of a you know a lot of bruises you can see the all the cracks that are yeah Noble Battle Scars yeah that's great but it's still kicking oh yeah sounds great okay very cool let's uh let's see what's next in the bag of tricks all right oh we're going old timey my uh my father um was a a folk music fan in the 1950s and so he went out and got himself a long neck banjo like Pete Seeger played right that is a canoe paddle man yeah and so that was my first instrument was a was my dad's long neck banjo so I just kind of got used to having one around this this was not his but it's exactly like his so what what his advantage of the reasons the reason I chose a long neck for this particular uh tour is because of um you can really tune down the string low [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] wow you know sir if I was just listening to it and not what I would have no idea what that instrument is because it sounds like a resonator a little bit wow so that is a shatin pickup with a piece of wood shimmed under it to give it a more output wow so so it immediately has that sustain thing going on and held together with Gaff tape yeah there we go there we go yeah got to keep those wires from rattling that's right multi-million dollar Tour held together and bailing wire yeah right right oh that's great man doesn't usually go through yeah oh that's right that's right it doesn't I wonder how this this is untested oh okay oh so is this one you usually this doesn't usually go through the amp so okay well let's see how this little experiment goes by the way that's this Tech Stewart so it's we're both named Stewart there we go [Music] thank you [Music] see that on Capo adjustment on the fly yeah sometimes you have to ensure yeah they're doing that it was yeah it was just one one tweak away [Music] something like that it's a little Out Of Tune but you get the ideas yeah it sounds okay so tell me about this instrument um uh Colin Linden played an instrument much like this on the record uh and this is a gold tones version of that of that vintage instrument um I'm not sure his has a has a cutaway in my but basically a rezo guitar yeah but with the guitar and neck that was fretted that you don't play overhand that you play with sure but with a pickup on it too and ordinarily you run that just through a DI to the front of house or exactly yeah but that sounds great to the half yeah yeah works great yeah I should do that yeah oh well at least for right now yeah well that's great it's uh it's really got it's really got to be exciting doing those changes you know I bet you were just on it the whole time to oh it's a challenge that I gladly accepted because you know I have all these toys that I never get to use and now I'm using like all kinds of toys yeah right and the final toy I uh this this also doesn't usually go through the app but you get the idea I just uh there's a song that required um something nylon string yeah and so I started looking around and realized they made a six string nylon ukulele I get to laylee that's what it's called sure [Music] thank you [Music] well that's great [Music] so is that is it tuned like a uke or or what let's tune like a guitar okay okay so you're uh so you're in in force yeah how cool in a Yamaha indeed yeah it didn't come with the pickup I um I installed that myself oh really what what kind of pickup are you running I stole a lot of a Bouzouki that I oh really already has yeah I'm not sure I could yeah tell you but it really is but there's a bazooki somewhere missing a pickup yeah that's great yeah well Stuart so cool to see how you're doing it all it's such a you know doing the the multi-instrumentalist thing it's really interesting to see just the mechanics of how a person pulls that off it's a yeah it's it's been a long long road to discovering what works plugged in versus not and yeah having an amp with it's a tube powered amp is a big part of of being able to run acoustic instruments with Piezo pickups through that right and have it be you know a warm sounding thing yeah other ants just won't do that sure and that little Walter sounds great yeah I'm really happy with that yeah perfect fit now or are you running wedges during the show we are and ears okay I got one side of an ear in so you can hear your amp a little bit hear the room a little bit Yeah and then but I also on Allison's playing her fiddle most of the times through her own vocal mine oh really we're doing some twin Parts yeah and so I gotta hear her yeah and so I got ears for that so I can hear her vocal mine and that but I hear other people through the wedge on my left side of the balance yeah yeah well that's great well Stuart can't thank you enough for uh for uh taking us through your rig absolutely yeah okay all right so now I'm with Victor Krauss and Victor actually we met like 25 years ago I had a I had a deal for about six minutes on Atlantic and Gary pachoza produced and you were playing Baseline upright and now you're on this yeah yeah crazy guitar let's hear about this thing well this is uh this is a recent acquisition I got this uh recently at uh uh rumble seat music oh yeah and uh you know the beautiful stuff there and and I met you know I've known a bunch of the guys there for a long time and this this is a 1967 um uh galante uh Grand Prix and uh which was an accordion maker and and I visited this store you know I visited Rebel seat a couple times and and they said to me he said you got to check this one out it's the best guitar store you know even though they're you know they're good yeah for the 50s yeah until I played it I was just like wow it's really great and thought about it for a while and then ended up getting it but it sat around for a while and picked it up I just kept thinking about it and I said yeah this is so now it's here meant to be so what's the country of origin uh it's Italian and I if I'm not mistaken I I think they galante may have made some stuff for Goya as well okay and uh but it's cool it's got you know these crazy uh buttons you know for turning on the pickups this is a kill switch this one is uh um the bridge no no sorry the Neck Bridge and then both and uh yeah it's just cool my son said it's like it's like the coolest thing I own yeah all right well he would know yeah but these are these are hum these are mini humbuckers which so it's got It's got a bit of um you know get a get a bit of output oh yeah which is kind of cool well let's let's hear this uh Jetsons weirdo yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay that's that's really cool okay let's see some more cool guitars a lot of the stuff I've had a long time and and so I'm making Kevin work yeah like almost every other you know every tune is a guitar switch so okay so tell me about this thing this one um this is a 61 that's been uh been pretty butchered um it's got I got this one from Groom guitars a few years ago and uh on the back they call it the plate of death and uh so they they added this on here and you know I've had I've had a bunch of straight ones before and this one's just great you know it's like it's you know had the neck break it had a you know headstock break you know none of the stuff is original in it you know um this one I when I got it it originally had a um which wasn't original it had a Bixby horseshoe Bixby on it sure and then um I put this back on there with the uh uh oh gosh the the Mojo ax he had to stop yeah to keep it on not operational and then I felt like it wasn't quite doing it and like I wanted to have a tremolo again so then I tried putting a uh Maestro along you know Maestro on there and then the neck angle wasn't right and then put the Horseshoe back on and then eventually went back to this without the Mojo racks and uh so does the whammy bar actually function now no no I've got a it's funny I've got a uh a knob off of mixing console that's blocking blocking it so it doesn't it doesn't Bend that's great yeah yeah I just wedged it in there and uh yeah but I mean it's a it's great you know and I love that historic instruments worth a fortune yeah mixing up crammed in there yeah and I use this a bunch on the last tour we did and then I got actually another SG which I could show you too oh yeah we'll see that one yeah this is a this one's more recent this is a 64. and uh I wanted to you know I actually did like having that the Maestro oh sure um there's a couple tunes that kind of require um having that and yeah and uh so and this one is stock and so it you can kind of tell that you know like the the high end and Shimmer of the oh sure deal is kind of so I probably end up using this guitar um more than anything else but uh you know I mean more is like three songs yeah sure versus like one but you're changing a lot right pretty much every everything and you're playing Keys as well yeah yeah and there's actually a couple Tunes where I end up playing keys for the first half of the song and then I switched to guitar that's always a little stressful huh yeah like actually some of the the uh the uh the changes are actually more stressful than the junk right okay yeah yeah very very George Harrison that's yeah right yeah and it's just like I I uh on both of these I like these um uh what are the the string but I said yeah um Dean Parks had shown me here he has 61 or 62 SG that he had um one of these on there and he said that it really kind of changed the tension um and the tuning stability stability on especially on the SGS and sure um I love it yeah he was right yeah yeah that's a great I've seen those it's a great idea I've never used one but yeah it's a great great design and I put the the other one is that I guess it's like type one where it where it goes into the into the tuners if you're using later tuners these are the original tuners so I ended up putting the ones that just cover the truss rod sure there's nothing uh permanent modification to it or anything that's great okay this is a I use this on one tune um that uh that's it's a cool sound it's it's it's actually it's originally of you know it well it still is a box but it was one of the octave mandolin 12 strings and I bought this years ago um and uh it had been re-necked so it down to a six okay and um uh it's just great it it actually works really well on on this one tune that we do the price of love and so it's just it's kind of a uh so are you in guitar tuning for it or it's just up on octave so okay okay so it's just uh so unlike Nashville tuning it does have the the high B and oh cool IB and E so I mean and this one's kind of fun because it's like you can it's got I mean I think it's got all of them on there [Music] so that's the one that's um that uh Stewart was playing the uh right that's the low uh banjo on there yeah and that's one of the one times that I use the the uh the Hologram yes okay which that brings it an interesting point let's segue into talking about your pedal board and you're running all these instruments through the same yeah pretty much yeah except for the acoustic guitar and and there's a little bit of routing different with the the base six okay well let's uh let's hear about this maybe talk about um just kind of the signal flow through it and this is a pretty uh mighty pedal board the spaceship yeah it's it uh uh multiple uh I mean yeah I mean I guess you never stop yeah right messing with your with your pedal board yeah it's a work in progress but it's it's running through um a couple of um let me throw the tuner and then through uh an EP booster which is in front of the compressor for a couple of the tunes a couple of instruments that have lower output sure um and then I'm using this guyotone uh st2 uh compressor which was another recommendation from Dean Parks um uh what I really like about this is that it it allows a direct signal to come unaffected at the same time so it's kind of there's a single switch on there so you're kind of running compression and as well without and and it's uh oh it's so I mean you it's got a bit of flexibility sure um that's nice so it's not completely squashed yeah okay so that's the guy turn yeah that's cool and then then another EP booster which I have in front of the uh the drive sections which is this you know the Nobles overdrive which you know which is everywhere and masturtion and um uh and then into the Clone um that where the KTR sure and I guess before all this I have a separate Loop that's running um the backwards the Dan Electro backwards back talk delay yeah would you mind playing that for a second it's such a weirdo pedal so this is [Music] so yeah we're in it already so it's a so it's just you know yeah it's a great you know it um I've had a couple other ones I had I you know I I made the mistake of selling my original one and then bought it again when it was way too expensive sure yeah as we do yeah yeah yeah and then this Pitchfork I have the electric Harmonix Pitchfork is also in line so I can um I mean it's probably better demonstrated on a on a guitar but but I can sure if I want to get into uh baritone land um yeah and then um and then I'm going into the uh the uh Game Changer sustain which is such a cool feather yeah you know and that's a so if like if I'm wanting to hold a no [Music] foreign what's great about the uh about that particular pedal is the you know you can layer on top of it like it's kind of like the the electro harmonics freeze except a bit more advanced yeah and so then I'm running an effect Loop which is that space Echo just to give it kind of like if you know I I guess it is essentially it's a delay so sometimes if it catches it's like a little you know sure so that usually corrects it a bit uh and then into the Super trim two excuse me uh super trim two which then goes into uh the stryman Volante and then into the uh oh gosh the Hologram microcosm which is you know instant ambient you know yeah anything you want I've never seen that before Oh gosh yeah it's uh let's hear that weirdo so I'll take off the uh uh uh let me take off the other delays um so this is so if I add that [Music] oh yeah so it's it's it's a very complicated delay with you know with reverse capabilities octave micro Loops you know yeah so how trippy yeah so you know mostly you can you can become a mess in a hurry if you know if I'm playing it it's so like at on certain parts of the song I can just kind of bring it in for a second sure and then it just you know but it's it's a I'm still kind of figuring it out yeah sure well and by comparison from all those years of of when you're on a gig just plain up right yeah did you have any pedals at all yeah well that's the thing I've been I've been a big guy forever you know and I've like major like at the worst employees yeah yeah I was up to about 300 pedals oh my God yeah I mean this was kind of neat there was just because people knew me I was a collector I mean one of those it's the The Stomp box book the uh oh really the Rarities oh sure they did a page I mean a little chapter on some of my collections oh that's great but you know so but so you know like it was trying to figure out you know exactly what to bring yes and and uh but you know I've become smarter I think since the last the first tour you know so now I'm figuring out okay this will work on this song and this will work on that sure and not just a bunch of toys out here no it's great oh okay and then amp wise I think I think the most interesting effect you have going on is that yeah I love this I um so what what is that well it's a it's a Yamaha ra uh 200r and um they were made in the 70s I think maybe as early as like 1974. a friend of mine uh Ray Herndon who had played with the Lyle Lovett's band for guitar player he had shown me that um that these uh that David Gilmer had used those uh really after the animals too oh and you know they showed me pictures of him and asked me if I'd never seen one of those and then I said no but it looks like the coolest thing ever yeah and uh I went to I was looking on Craigslist and uh there was one that was being sold for 100 bucks oh my God and so this one this one has been sawed off uh on the back normally they've been uh normally they have uh four twelves uh in addition to it wow that is like one of the loudest it's a you know 200 watt oh yeah I think it's three uh um three power amps ones that's um doing the rotor drivers and then two for the other uh sets of uh twelves and I ended up getting a real one and uh Tom bukovac has I think I remember seeing something that was like his his favorite toy as well and uh who cares everything yeah yeah and uh so I ended up um getting that one and then when I talked to uh our production manager I was saying well I have one that's big but you know it's like 200 pounds I said well maybe yeah maybe this one maybe the uh the saw it off okay and so I'm not using the um I'm not using the preamp I'm just using the power amp and then this uh This Groove Tube uh Trio is the is the preamp okay on top of that and that's pretty cool but I'm kind of using the the the clean one which is kind of supposed to be like a fender with um you know a fender and this is supposed to be a marshall section it's supposed to be maybe like a Bogner section so are you running it um along with the orange at all times where you switching between the two or pretty much the Orange is running at all times and then and then this this pedal here I'm kind of bringing it in different volumes and some sometimes the the rotary isn't in play at all kind of like Jill Walsh had those Leslies going yeah oh that's too cool it's a and then yeah and then just the um yeah then the Orange is yeah that's pretty much on can you just play that a little bit more it sounded so amazing [Music] God that's great [Music] yeah well but you know it's it's it's so cool that you you know you want to put it on everything yeah right you didn't want to turn it off yeah it's so great okay that is the coolest yeah now I guess all you have left for us a couple of Acoustics yeah well and then then what yeah actually your base too yeah the base uh six which is a um which I end up probably playing more than anything else on the show um you know just a good old uh Dan Electro sure um it's not the UBC maybe it is the ub6 I know there's a number connected with it but uh I don't know some somebody in the comment section will probably know exactly what it is what it is here this side so it's uh okay [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a lot of that [Music] you know it's so it's a most of the time it's kind of aggressive sure stuff out there okay do you find with this stock Dano Bridge do those Just Bounce out when you hit it hard if you have that yeah you know sometimes you have to kind of fudge this a little bit Yeah and um and it's usually mainly here sure you know but this one actually this one is a good one I think yeah you know but it's a but you know I I ended up I have another one it's a a short Horn uh uh it was like was like oh okay single pickup short horn double cutaway sure and the gold one and and uh that one that one's like a toy compared to this one and then and then I also use the the Gretch uh Duane Eddy model which is that uh oh it's really pretty yeah I'd love to see that yeah and that one is uh and this probably weighs all of like three pounds the strap weighs as much as the base so wow you know so this is beautiful and um so there's been there's been some stuff where it makes sense to use this one too oh yeah but this is it's uh so that's a base six that's six yeah wow so it's just tuned like a Basics you know same way as like a like a fender base six or or Fender six sure yeah and uh yeah oh okay that's great yeah yeah okay that's fun yeah this one this one does intonate a little better than that one that one you have to kind of cross your fingers sure yeah yeah okay great and then uh looks like Kevin's got your Acoustics um so everything's running through the amp up to this point but these yeah you're running direct these run direct and these go through uh these uh these Demeter okay um tube directs which is I've used them on base forever sure it's almost Superstition for me that okay I think about it every time I use it it's just like it sounds wonderful and so um you know I end up using those and uh but yeah this is a 432 oh beautiful I um when I knew that I was going to be doing this tour and that Battle of Evermore was going to be on the set you know something that I was going to play was instantly going to become an heirloom sure you know right and uh so I talked to the Tony Nagy at grones uh you know in the repair department and he had said that uh um you know I'm looking for something that can you know doesn't have to be like the most perfect you know example pristine example and then so I um he says oh I might have something and and you know and and I've had an LG LG twos before and especially these you know these this era with the baseball neck sure you know um so and so he got this and it was perfect for it oh beautiful and what what pickup did you end up going with I believe this this is the I've been a fisherman guy forever too and this is the Infinity uh which has the uh uh blend for microphone in yeah and uh pickup but it's you know under saddle and you know and uh and then you can mix in between the two Joe how cool okay that's great yeah I think I think it's a mahogany top one and it's a it you know it did exactly you know it was uh I remember picking it up it was like uh two days or maybe I would think it's on the way to rehearsal you know I got a chance to play it and it's just like okay it's exactly yeah exactly what I wanted oh that's great yeah and um and I think we just have this other one here okay this one um this one I've had forever um this one um is um I think it's a 53 uh just a Martin o18 and uh there's one song that I need to be down a half step and and this one just uh I played this one forever so it felt familiar sure and same pickup in that exactly is there much of a tweak in volume and things like that or yeah yeah we're still kind of kind of ironing it out yeah you know we were um I think we'll we'll probably figure it out by by you know by um before Tuesday yeah yeah right but yeah but it is a little bit different yeah well Victor this has been so much fun uh yeah I love you taking us through this this pedalboard and that thing yeah yeah it's it's uh yeah I love that it's just it's uh yeah totally impractical totally great yeah member uh JD so okay all right now we're with JD McPherson who you remember from his rig run down I guess how long ago was that nine years maybe I'm guessing no way yeah wow way yeah well it's been a good nine years it's treated you well oh yeah did you watch the guitars I got new guitars let's talk about this okay good seeing you man I'm a fan so this is gonna basically be one big Fender in 2K Smith commercial this whole thing but I I like that neighborhood yeah so I love I love fenders and I love bands that have had Jazz Masters but I never owned one and because I can't keep my hands off of stuff and fiddling with things um the Nashville team offender like some of the best people and they indulge me in some of my weird ideas but this is one of those weird ideas and I wanted basically a 50s shell pink Jazz Master but I will never have any hope of actually getting one oh sure so this was a this is a 50s Repro that they got for me uh they made it actual the proper shell pink the kind of gray the gray pink right and then um they even painted the headstock which is an unusual uh detail uh my good friend TK Smith like I said uh yeah you guys go way better we do because your last rundown was Heavy in that yeah well he's he's amazing Builder Craftsman musician friend just guy had like asked for advice on like home renovation sure so but um he made this pick guard for me with this little Argyle detail oh I love that which just freaks me out give me some knobs but this is um I use this on this this gig a lot it's kind of a Fender Custom Shop Bridge it's so brass yeah it's it's like a glass Bell it's just good it's just like so clean you know yeah kind of for this thing I've been kind of doing like a James Wilsey Vibe you know with with this guitar because it's so surf surf oriented sure I love this thing and I get so many weird sounds out of it and uh so well and in this bad it's such a cool band it seems like everybody's bringing in these different flavors it's really a yeah it's uh so Stuart and Victor who you you met yeah are you know Masters oh yeah and I'm like the 15 year old that knows dirty jokes that's what the adverbs yeah no because I mean I'm yeah Stewart you know he's got the he's got the the folk instrument Market covers oh yeah Victor's like an engine room of sounds and textures and things and and uh you know I know Robert loves I mean he's an expert early rock and roll I'm sure he keeps me on my toes he'll say something like what about like gold band and I'm like wait a second was gold band muscle Shoal and I have to like think about it for a second but cues from him and we both love that stuff so I've been able to kind of dig into a lot of the guitar players that I love from the 40s and 50s and 60s sure and kind of bring those into what those guys over there do so yeah it's it's a dream come true you know and you're opening the show too right yeah I don't know what kind of karmic uh I like rescued a baby elephant in the past life or something yeah yeah yeah that's great okay so that that's the that's an excellent start let's see what's next in the Arsenal oh okay now you're in Supra land yep so I don't know this was like seven eight years ago I was in Austin Texas in a guitar store there and I saw this like 62 dual tone supro uh link Graysville like right and then just immediately I was like yeah I had to get it and uh I use this I use this on one tune I use this on fortune teller because it's just so um it's just so un I don't want to say unreliable but it's so like right on the edge of being not even a guitar it's I've got it tuned down to E flat and it's just you know really hard I get all those wow yeah which just you know gives me the Fizz oh yeah this thing is like I I put this um you know I was told I asked a buddy of mine deep Dickerson I said man there's this dual tone at this awesome music store and he's like I don't know man I mean it's kind of does one thing and um I have exploited that one thing too right but yeah I just I love this thing and it's uh it's super noisy it's super microphonic so when you pay when you play you can hear you can hear it you know just let's hope it has your own it's it sold its own soul yeah okay you know it's got one thing but that's a one great thing I love this guitar yeah okay I love that that's also really good blunt force tool oh sure to defend yourself oh this is penguin yeah so um so you know if you're a big fan of the plant Kraus material as I am you'll know that one Mr T-Bone Burnett uh sort of like kind of is the is the the the pulley and string system behind that and uh she's a real big Gretch guy so uh literally he's very tall tall man uh so I knew that I was gonna need a Gretch I've never owned a Gretch and I admire many Gretch players um Duane Eddy Eddie Cochran you know Brian Setzer all these people are like but it wasn't ever a thing for me I was such a ensconced and Fender world but I love this thing so much it's like um it just Sparkles like a diamond in a goat's ass oh yeah and so anyway this is goes on uh this is on like uh what's the tune let me look at this that list uh this is on uh gone gone so that's the wank that all all day long that's I had to have a Gretch for that because everything I've ever seen you know T-Bone do with them was on a Gretch and I just love this thing I mean I'm so cool penguins to me are just like the coolest weirdest one and because they only made originally just a handful of them right there's like the rarest wouldn't the the penguin like the rarest of the Gretch yeah this is a reissue uh and uh obviously but uh it's it's it's pretty close to the real thing I had a buddy look at it who's a Gretchen aficiono and um it's just been a dream about the phone right just on the top three strings that was just a muting thing I was using plus I sweat a lot yeah foreign [Music] [Music] it's just got a thing the only gretches do that thing oh that's great okay very cool okay what's next so uh you know you did not have this one on your rundown no so this is actually a loner to me for this tour uh TK this is one of his specials but it's got a different set of pickups and a different um pick guard but the first thing I did with Robert Nelson was uh we shot a BBC uh TV appearance and uh I I had that guitar and that's what I played and that's kind of like the first thing I did and I used that other guitar on so many songs in the set and so I knew I kind of needed to have it back up because one night something was going on with it and I had it out and I was playing a tele and I just kind of saw Robert kind of sniffing around like what what's missing here yeah so I knew I got one of these but this thing is very similar to the other one um obviously this is more like like what T TK would make um the other one's just a complete crazy insane guitar but yeah these are these are very accurate representations of what like the bixbys would be sure 50s um that and he tools all these himself right all this yeah like he makes everything yeah he's not buying a big so he's making every Sandcastle aluminum um that is labor intensive right yeah but I mean I just love these um [Music] yeah these are these are domestic inflds okay 11s uh everything that TK will send you is going to have them on there yeah I feel I feel wrong charging them into something else do you ever change them or do you run those just forever uh much to Paul Chagrin I probably would not have changed any strings ever but um I've been touring with the same cables and strings for sure five years if it ain't broke yeah right they sold them break that's kind of the good thing those domestics but uh yeah I use uh Daddario chromes on all my other guitars okay and those are the ones that are a little bit more I've used them a little bit more these are these are more kind of like swing yeah so do you live pretty much on the on the bridge pickup on that or do you for this one I do yeah um yeah yeah this is well this is kind of this guitar is for that [Music] that Vibe and uh but they're very versatile instruments might use I run them through all kinds of pedals and you know I've gotten all the nooks and crannies to get feedback happening and stuff sure my regular my regular touring outfit doesn't do a lot of that stuff so it's been nice to kind of try some things out oh yeah yeah that's great okay so I think this was actually in the possession of Julian Lodge for a minute really yeah who's who's all right go good yeah yeah that dude's amazing oh another one I messed with this is my little uh this is a venterra uh I think that's a venterra or an American Vintage but it's Fiesta red um kind of 50 style telly uh TK Smith pickups can they make them any bigger well it's like the car pick if they're like Bixby pickups yeah but I use this one on um uh trouble with my lover that Allison sings the heck out of and uh I've got the low string tuned to see so I can [Music] we oh yeah is that neck super fast it looks really fast it's like a baseball bat yeah um yeah but I mean this thing is this is the guitar that I asked Fender to help me get together for my every I do a Christmas tour every year and I wanted a special Christmas themed guitar so perfect got a gold pick guard in the red but um it's great for that tune in the set this is a TK electric mandolin like what tiny Moore would have played um the pedal board is a a hybrid of my band's pedalboard and what I need for the plant Crouse gig sure because um the fine folks at pedal train helped me kind of condense them into one because you know I'm doing both sets so yeah it's good to have it all just on one thing so it moves from over there to over here sure so okay so you're starting with your D Dario tuner why don't you just take us through the signal chain from there okay so the the Daddario tuner is like uh it's this really cool thing where you can hit a thing and a letter comes up and you turn one of these oh and it changes the so you can tune your guitar thanks for that explanation okay great uh I have a good buddy Brian Kehoe over at Jim Dunlop I don't know if you know him he's a wonderful guy sure love the Dunlop team he hit me up these uh Echoplex pedals which I just use on I think this this delay this Echo collects delays is is on all the time for me basically it's just uh a real like solid I'm leaving it a little bit of a slap or or yeah I just yeah let me turn off all the the reverbs just simple uh uh so the preamp is just kind of a little boost for leads um hot cake is something I use uh yeah maybe the Mando was a bad place to yeah yeah maybe I should change um this is Paul's beautiful Telecaster that he's letting me use I what a great Tech takes care of guitars brings his own let me just introduce Paul come here buddy this is Paul ackling Paul is one of the best guys you're ever gonna meet and he's taken mercy on me and gone through all my stuff and made it 10 times better than it was and he's worked with everybody T-Bone he's worked with Bob Dylan Elvis Costello yeah Greg gallman just he's and and he's really taking the internet that's great he's like loaned me pedals and loaned me because uh I had all I have I have a few pedals but um he always seemed to come up with something that was more appropriate that's I think that's his specialty is he helps people kind of down on their tone especially in studio settings oh wow that's great so you know we knew what we were going for and he kind of would help me zero in on it but um thanks Paul Paul love your work thank you so the hot cake okay I've seen the hot cake before I'm sure sure but it's uh but let's hear it I use that in my in my bands what I use for the Head Over Heels uh sound [Music] like this yeah harmonic kind of fuzz Distortion that's uh they use all the time I use it in the other set too uh let's see what we got this is Paul's uh Deluxe Reverb amp pedal which is a good [Music] nice yeah uh this right here would be my trusty uh way huge javelina fuzz [Music] thank you pedal this I don't even know what is this called six distortion it is right we just we just added this and I I I've been using this on basically the last half of the set I just it just sounded better with it on all the time so who makes this I want to give them a shout out because it's really good it's a callus soccer list thank you there we go okay okay yeah sorry about that yeah no not at all no you make a real nice pedal I will learn how to say it yeah um and then from there purple tram I love it is that for the kind of uh sure kind of pitch pitch trim a low yeah I love tremolo it's a tonic and so I have a few different ones but this one is one of my favorite tremolos which is I don't tend to go for I try to find something that's going to help approximate an amp tremolo yeah and this guy's got a tube in it so it's [Music] it's just got a little little fuzz on it that helps helps me kind of sure [Music] but yeah that's a fender made I love that thing MTG tube tremolo um love it memory man got the reverse on that's a that's a common thing I would hear on T-Bone records sure and then my trusty pair of doctor scientists reverberators no longer in production I understand okay so here's a plate this is this is dry let me get rid of the delay ah and then you've got that kind of EMT Splash sure and then I turned this one on with a long Decay on it [Music] yeah yeah do you just leave those on most the time green is on all the time sure and then yeah really without it it's a little empty right it is yeah and that's that um well that's great so the modest pedal board but a lot of options yeah I don't know how Victor does it yeah like I know man it's just like playing another instrument right yeah it is okay now amp was let's talk about what you're doing here um so down there in the end is my trusty Texas Presidio 15 made by Billy Horton in Austin Texas right and I think you did you have that on your last rundown I did that's that's uh that's been with me forever and it's the opening band uh amp yeah and it's a it's a backup for this guy and it's got a Weber in it yeah uh all of these have Webbers oh really yeah uh that's kind of the first thing I would do with pretty much any amp I would get great speakers yeah um Fender Uh custom Pro 15. um I just love this thing it's uh it's like every beautiful Fender Tweed except real loud and clean yeah 15 inch and there's 15s yeah right yeah uh yeah I mean this thing's built like a tank too I've had this out with me for a long time I don't tour with a whole bunch of amps I pretty much just toured these two I don't have backups in my own thing and they've they've been really good to me um so what's going on here is I have this for kind of my clean twangy tone and this silver face I think is a 68 reissue um this is like my dirty but they're both on all the time on all the time yeah in the front house kind of switches in between them but one's a little dirtier than the other yeah fiber Lux is just a hair dirtier oh but yeah man that's uh that's it oh you know what there's one Paul's got one more guitar we should show it because it's as a an homage to your earlier uh rundown yeah um I just want to say too really quick Divine noise cables I have one of those and I've been touring with that for like eight nine years and it has never failed on me wow all of the all of the pedals have been changed to Divine noise and one night I couldn't find that and we had a gig and we used a different cable and like the signal just went like this really so I I'll say that for free okay there we go oh here it is yeah see I'd Excalibur yeah I love this weirdo yeah this thing is man this this thing is uh I'm embarrassed every time I take it to TK to get service because you know I can just kind of see him kind of you know most of the people that play these things are sitting down oh yeah you know and uh this thing is like the lacquers coming off right here and oxidized and everything and I but I love it even though I I mistreated I do love it oh yeah but yeah that thing is you man that's great yeah [Music] oh [Music] it's my baby he's a special baby that is great that's great oh man congrats on this fabulous tour and this great this great gig and yeah good to see you again man thank you great to see you again and see in this context so well uh I just also I always believe in giving gratitude when able uh Stuart Victor J Bellerose on drums Dennis crouch on base they've been so welcoming to me all the crew is like the top-notch Robert Nelson are the best people to work for it's just oh yeah man this has come true and uh yeah it's just it allows me to be able to talk to you again uh so I don't know I'm the happiest kid on the Block yeah well fabulous well just as you should be so see him out on tour it's all happening it's all happening okay cheers

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Length: 66min 18sec (3978 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023