Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-fearless-flyers Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Back in March 2022, we caught up with Cory Wong in the middle of an international tour to film a Rig Rundown. This time around, we found Wong with his Fearless Flyers pals sticking in one spot, at Cory Wong’s Syncopated Summer Camp. The four-day, four-night summit, held in Nashville, brought together ace players like Ariel Posen, Larry Carlton, and Theo ...
Nov 27, 2024•38 min
IDLES 2021 Rig Rundown: https://youtu.be/ZyofmA3bJk4 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Between 2016 and 2024, Bristol outfit IDLES have gone from being snarling, post-punk underdogs to being snarling, post-punk champions. Their debut LP, Brutalism, was an immediate hit, and since then they’ve turned out a string of full-length records that have expanded their creative vocabulary while increasing their popularity. It’s all come to a head this year with Tangk, their Gramm...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/sturgill-simpson You might think alt-country veteran Sturgill Simpson would need no introduction by this point in his career, but this year, he set out to reintroduce himself to the world—as Johnny Blue Skies. That’s the moniker he created for his new record, Passage du Desir, which was released in July on High Top Mountain. Simpson promised that the album was the first step in a new phase of his creative life; the next was the subs...
Nov 13, 2024•42 min
Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-red-clay-strays Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Mobile, Alabama’s Red Clay Strays started out as a local cover band. In 2016, they officially formed as the Strays, adding a couple players to round out the five-person outfit. After a few years gigging around the state and some festival slots, the band hit it big in 2023 when their song “Wondering Why” went viral on TikTok. It climbed up the Billboard c...
Nov 06, 2024•25 min
It’s been a busy year for Jack White. The enigmatic artist and Third Man Records boss rolled out his sixth solo album, No Name, this summer, first as secret, unmarked vinyls distributed to Third Man customers, then with a full-blown digital release on August 2. He celebrated the record with a tour of last-minute-notice, small-room gigs around the U.S., proving that mystery and randomness can still exist in the world of algorithms and overblown marketing. That’s not all. In September, Fender and ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/matt-freeman Matt Freeman's Bass Bunker: https://youtube.com/@MattFreemansBassBunker This summer, a Bay Area punk-rock extravaganza rolled across the world. In support of the 30th and 20th anniversaries of their records Dookie and American Idiot, Green Day arranged the summer’s best stadium-rock tour, with support from Smashing Pumpkins and fellow Bay bashers Rancid. PG’s Chris Kies met up with Rancid bassist Matt Freeman just be...
Oct 21, 2024•17 min
Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/olivia-rodrigo Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts was last year’s pop-rock album of the year, with singles like “All-American Bitch,” “Get Him Back!,” and “Bad Idea Right?” igniting a revival of early-’00s pop-punk, but with quite a bit more nuance and grit. Rodrigo’s tour behind the critically acclaimed record has been rolling around the world since February. To bring it on the road, t...
Oct 09, 2024•53 min
Full Rig Info: Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Jerry Cantrell’s forthcoming solo record, I Want Blood, is a return to beastly form for the legendary grunge guitarist. Featuring spots from Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin—two old friends who played on Cantrell’s 2002 solo release, Degradation Trip—along with Duff McKagan and more, it’s a glorious, riff-filled reunion. Ahead of the record’s release, PG’s Perry Bean caught up with C...
Oct 02, 2024•19 min
Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/bones-uk Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Just ahead of the release of their second full-length record, Soft, the British trio Bones UK tore through the US on a summer tour. PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with lead guitarist Carmen Vandenberg before their Nashville gig to see how she covers the band’s slick, aggressive sonic territory. Shop Carmen Vandenberg's Rig: 1963 Fender Telecaster - https://sweetwate...
Oct 02, 2024•26 min
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 Crimson, Talking Heads, David Bowie, and Frank Zappa, among others, and with his pop band the Bears and on his solo recordings and tours. This fall, Adr...
Sep 18, 2024•25 min
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. This year, Idiot turns 20; Dookie is 30. To celebrate the milestones, Green Day has been blasting through stadiums across North America playing both...
Sep 11, 2024•37 min
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 string closest to the ground and the G on top. That’s how MonoNeon still plays today, coming up through a rich, inspiring gauntlet of family and communit...
Sep 04, 2024•19 min
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 a tiny town in New York and got to work. The band brought all their gear along with them: They literally loaded up a U-Haul truck and left no pedal b...
Aug 28, 2024•53 min
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 the Foos’ July 25 headlining date at the stadium. It was a hot one out there, but that didn’t stop our jeans-wearing Kies and towel-drying Shifty from t...
Aug 21, 2024•39 min
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, he went out on a national tour with metalcore artist elijah. Charles formed half of elijah’s brutal dual guitar section, along with Brandon Kyle. Ahead...
Aug 14, 2024•25 min
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 Norm’s son Jordan spotted Lemmo jamming in the store and introduced him to his shop-owner dad. Norm kept in touch and eventually offered Lemmo a job, ...
Aug 12, 2024•30 min
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 that included a stop at Nashville’s Basement East. That’s where PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with Buck before the gig for a look at what’s powering h...
Jul 31, 2024•51 min
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, guitarist Cody Chavez gave PG’s Perry Bean the scoop on how he achieves his brutal rhythm and lead tones that form the basis of the band’s thrashy, m...
Jul 24, 2024•18 min
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 tour since 2018, and they brought along loads of new noisemakers for the occasion. Frontman Patrick Stump has moved on from his trademark Gretsch elect...
Jul 17, 2024•52 min
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 only changed once, with Nick Bockrath replacing Parish onstage in 2013 and officially in 2017. CTE’s earliest albums—2008’s Cage the Elephant and 2011...
Jul 03, 2024•59 min
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 Whoracle were the impeccable benchmarks that made the aggressive artform matter. They’ve continued to push the genre forward with ten subsequent releases—in...
Jun 26, 2024•56 min
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 first thing I do is play guitar. It’s an incredible instrument and I just love it.” But what does one do with that creative codependency? Page Hamilt...
Jun 19, 2024•35 min
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. His polished compositions, breezy rhythms, and funky fretwork are no laughing matter. Instead, Donny is the joke … or is he? “I thought, “What would I ...
Jun 12, 2024•29 min
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 and recharge the material from his first three studio albums Bottles and Bibles (2011), Purgatory (2017), and Country Squire (2019). But with the last t...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min
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 Chris Kies onstage for a conversation that was both lighthearted and enlightening. They cover their speedy 7-strings from Jackson and Ibanez, explain wh...
May 29, 2024•35 min
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, proving they thrive on juxtaposition and keeping your ears off guard. The Liverpool foursome morph from blissful dream state to Nightmare on Elm Str...
May 29, 2024•24 min
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-profile. He remains the leader of the Steve Morse Band, who opened the Dregs’s late April show at Nashville’s CMA Theater, where this Rundown was filmed...
May 15, 2024•28 min
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-extreme form of hardcore music. The past decade they’ve throttled through all limits making each break down, each riff, each scream, and each performanc...
May 15, 2024•24 min
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 team to walk through her studio and live rig. Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/grace-bowers Subscribe to PG's Channel: ...
Apr 25, 2024•23 min
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 friendship was almost never developed. Quesada was enrolled at the University of Texas but flunking out due to his dedication to guitar over textbooks. H...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min
