Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Mike McCready, lead guitarist for rock icons Pearl Jam, is one of the main reasons why I picked up the guitar. His blues inspired leads are one of the many highlights of Pearl Jam’s live show. His guitar style blends that of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn with a splash of Stooges style punk rock. [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Kim Thayil provided the guitar grunt for alt-rock-grunge icons Soundgarden. His guitar style sounds as if it were inspired as much by Black Sabbath as the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. His wah drenched lead on “Fourth of July” from the Superunknown album is one of my all time favourites. Guitar wise, Thayil used a [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Brian Molko, vocalist and guitarist for alt-art-rock band Placebo, is known for his cutting guitar tone and bizarre tunings. Listening to some Placebo tracks you’d be forgiven for guessing that his guitar signal went through a gargantuan rack setup, but this is not the case. Molko uses a range of guitars, but is more often [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist for Radiohead, has recorded some of the most instantly recognizable guitar tones of all time, with the outro solo on Paranoid Android, from the OK Computer album, a shining example. Greenwood’s guitar rig is a relatively traditional one, for someone that has carved out their name as creating futuristic, trippy tones. [...]
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Skwisgaar Skwigelf, lead guitarist for extreme metal band Dethklok is also known as “The Fastest Guitarist Alive”. Skwigelf’s hands have been appraised by insurance companies as worth ten-billion dollars, or one billion per finger. In his “Advanced Fast Hand Finger Wizard Master Class”, Skwigelf states that his Gibson Explorer features EMG 81 and EMG 85 [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Matt Bellamy, guitarist and vocalist for the band Muse, is arguably one of the most creative and influential musicians to emerge in the past decade. His unique approach to recording and use of effects has inspired a whole new breed of guitarists. Bellamy’s gear is every bit as eclectic as his music. In terms of [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Keeping an up to date list of the gear Korn’s number one guitarist, Munky, uses would be a full time job. As you’d expect, if you’ve listened to any Korn albums, Munky uses a lot of effects pedals to sculpt his signature sound. Although the exact model may have varied, the one staple in Munky’s [...]
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Jim Root, aka. James Root, aka. Number 4, is one of the guitarist for [insert descriptive word here] metal band Slipknot*. If you’ve heard Slipknot, you know the guitar tone is down tuned and heavy, and that is exactly the type of gear you find when you take a look at Jim Root’s Slipknot rig. [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Want to know the secret behind Adam Dutkiewicz’s (aka. Adam D) guitar tone? Then read on. Adam Dutkiewicz is guitarist, and producer, for the mammoth metal band Killswitch Engage. Whilst his gear has changed somewhat over the years, his philosophy to playing guitar, and getting rock hard tone has remained the same. K*I*S*S. Keep It [...]
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