Latest Rigrundown Podcast Episodes
In Flames' Björn Gelotte, Chris Broderick & Liam Wilson
Rig Rundowns - June 26, 2024 19:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 ...
Helmet's Page Hamilton [2024]
Rig Rundowns - June 19, 2024 16:31 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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...
Donny Benét
Rig Rundowns - June 12, 2024 15:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 Ben...
Tyler Childers & the Food Stamps' Rig Rundown w/ CJ Cain, Jesse Wells, James Barker & Craig Burletic
Rig Rundowns - June 05, 2024 21:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsSubscribe 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,...
ERRA
Rig Rundowns - May 29, 2024 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 p...
Loathe
Rig Rundowns - May 29, 2024 19:54 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 (w...
Dixie Dregs
Rig Rundowns - May 15, 2024 18:17 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 colorfu...
Knocked Loose
Rig Rundowns - May 15, 2024 18:16 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsKnocked 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 sin...
Grace Bowers
Rig Rundowns - April 25, 2024 21:56 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFollow 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 Bro...
Black Pumas
Rig Rundowns - April 23, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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...
Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt & Pat Badger
Rig Rundowns - April 22, 2024 19:11 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 world...
Adrian Vandenberg
Rig Rundowns - April 10, 2024 18:52 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 peri...
Crosses' Shaun Lopez
Rig Rundowns - April 03, 2024 21:48 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 ...
Sammy Boller
Rig Rundowns - March 24, 2024 11:08 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsSammy 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...
A.J. Ghent
Rig Rundowns - March 24, 2024 11:07 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 ...
Erin Coburn
Rig Rundowns - March 06, 2024 19:14 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 o...
Pantera Rig Rundown with Rex Brown & Zakk Wylde
Rig Rundowns - February 29, 2024 21:19 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsWatch 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...
Tool's Justin Chancellor
Rig Rundowns - February 21, 2024 23:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratings“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 Augus...
Buffalo Nichols
Rig Rundowns - February 21, 2024 21:40 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsBuffalo 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 loop...
Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale
Rig Rundowns - February 07, 2024 15:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 ...
The Menzingers' Greg Barnett & Tom May
Rig Rundowns - February 01, 2024 15:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsThe 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 chapte...
Kelley’s Heroes’ “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary
Rig Rundowns - January 31, 2024 15:17 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsRobert’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. ...
Jason Isbell & Sadler Vaden [2024]
Rig Rundowns - January 17, 2024 17:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsJason 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 ...
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram [2024]
Rig Rundowns - January 10, 2024 15:22 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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. F...
mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024]
Rig Rundowns - January 03, 2024 18:45 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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...
Mudhoney
Rig Rundowns - December 21, 2023 14:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsUniverse: “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 R...
Ryan Lerman (Scary Pockets)
Rig Rundowns - December 21, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 ...
Pat Metheny
Rig Rundowns - December 19, 2023 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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...
Steve Hackett
Rig Rundowns - December 18, 2023 20:10 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull 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 Gr...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Rig Rundowns - November 30, 2023 14:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratings“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 t...
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