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Pearl Jam outlasted just about everyone who came out of Seattle, and more than three decades on, they still command one of the most devoted followings in rock. To dig into their guitar work, we called on Mark Hopkins—host of the YouTube show At Home with Mark and the biggest Pearl Jam fan we know—who walks us through Stone Gossard's songwriter's instinct, the surprising difficulty of soloing cleanly over "Yellow Ledbetter," and his case for Yield as the band's masterpiece. And of course, we settle once and for all whether Pearl Jam is a jam band.
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Pearl Jam outlasted just about everyone who came out of Seattle, and more than three decades on, they still command one of the most devoted followings in rock. To dig into their guitar work, we called on Mark Hopkins—host of the YouTube show At Home with Mark and the biggest Pearl Jam fan we know—who walks us through Stone Gossard's songwriter's instinct, the surprising difficulty of soloing cleanly over "Yellow Ledbetter," and his case for Yield as the band's masterpiece. And of course, we settle once and for all whether Pearl Jam is a jam band.
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![Their Heaviest Tone Yet?! #guitar #heavymetal #doom
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Guitarist Ben McLeod demonstrates how he relies on a Stomp Under Foot fuzz for his heaviest tones.
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![Bring Me the Horizons Lee Malia Rig Rundown
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Its been over a decade since we last talked shop with Lee Malia and a lot has changed as we quickly found out during our hang at Nashvilles Bridgestone Arena. The Marshall JCM 800s and signature Epiphone guitars are gone, but there are some equally devilish devices and curvy sledge hammers in their place. Malia details the organic move to the Jackson family and his continued search for any guitar brands oddballs. Then longtime tech Joey Black explains the surprise, happenstance shift from tubes to modern tech and the tweaks they incorporate to maximize the rig.
0:00 - DAddario
0:15 - Lee Malia Playing Intro
0:35 - Subscribe to Rig Rundowns!
0:42 - Chris Kies Intro
1:04 - Re-Recording Count Your Blessings (Repented)
6:08 - Shifting Away from Insane Gain
8:04 - Connecting with Jackson Guitars
9:50 - Jackson Pro Series Lee Malia LM-87 Signature Guitar
14:43 - Jackson Pro Series LM-87 Pickups
17:48 - Playing a .80 E String?! (Guitar Strings)
20:30 - What Strings or Guitars Do You Play at Home?
21:39 - Bring Me the Horizon Tunings
23:04 - Jackson Dinky Floyd Rose
26:59 - Jackson Rhoads
31:30 - Fender Gold Foil Telecaster
32:39 - Fender American Professional II Stratocaster HSS
34:13 - Gibson Marauder
37:10 - DAddario Players Circle Rewards
38:10 - Going from Marshall JCM 800s to Quad Cortex
45:53 - Quad Cortex Settings
47:36 - Lee Malias Pedals
49:42 - Switching the MIDI Settings
53:58 - EQing the Quad Cortex for Better Tones
57:49 - DAddario
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![Rig Rundown: Kitties Morgan Lander & Tara McLeod
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Thirty years in, the metal vets fit their whole live rig in an overhead bin.
Kittie’s 30th-anniversary tour rolled into Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, and PG’s Chris Kies caught up with Morgan Lander and Tara McLeod to see what’s left of a rig that once meant hauling an SVT up a flight of stairs. Have a look at some quick highlights below, and tune into the new Rig Rundown for all the details.
0:00 - Nita Strauss & DAddario
0:15 - Eyes Wide Open Playing Intro
0:34 - Subscribe to Rig Rundowns
0:41 - Chris Kies Intro
0:58 - Recording Fire in Nashville with Nick Raskulinecz
3:52 - Tara McLeods ESP E-II Eclipse Evertune
6:21 - Morgan Landers Solar Guitars V1.6
8:00 - Started Kittie as Teenagers & 30 Years as a Band
9:46 - Renewed Interest in Kittie Encouraging 2024 Album Fire
12:15 - Individual Musical Influences
16:52 - Morgan Lander on Taking Care of Her Singing Voice
17:28 - DAddario Players Circle Rewards
18:28 - Line 6 HX Stomp Settings
24:13 - Last Time They Plugged Into Amps Onstage?
24:51 - Strings & Tunings
25:46 - More Kittie Albums to Come?
27:39 - Yvette Young & DAddario
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![Evil Gear for Evil Tones
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The NOLA doom cruisers share the gear collaborations that give their dark sound its foreboding, sinister sound.
If you’re not familiar with Louisiana sludge-metal legends Acid Bath, you might’ve been living in a cave for a while. That’s sort of fitting, because that’s the exact locale where PG’s Chris Kies met up with the band ahead of a recent gig at the Caverns in Grundy County, Tennessee. Guitarists Sammy Duet and Mike Sanchez, along with new bassist Shane Wesley, showed us how they’re conjuring their toxic tones these days in this new Rig Rundown. Check out the important bits below, and watch the whole video for more details on how they set their gear.
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