Premier Guitar | 6 months ago
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For nearly two decades and across five albums, The War on Drugs’ founder and frontman Adam Granduciel has narrated our complex modern lives while his band has scored our dreams.
The captivating moods of their music, much like us, morph from dense melancholy to saturated, swirling madness and everywhere in between. Granduciel often layers his Springsteen-meets-Young proletariat prose atop a post-rock soundscape, but the heartbeat of their impressive, expansive live shows is their gear and how it is implemented.
“I could play the whole tour with two or maybe three guitars—a White Falcon, Strat, and maybe a Jazzmaster—but I bring all these out just for fun,” he says with a laugh as he considers his trove of axes.
So, let’s have some fun already! Before a full evening of The War on Drugs’ jams in support of 2021’s I Don’t Live Here Anymore, PG was invited to Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. We covered Granduciel’s growing guitar collection, got the skinny on how Jerry Garcia’s monstrous setup played into the bandleader’s theatre rig, and we took in a cockpit view of his stompbox squadron full of tone ticklers, sizzlers, and wigglers. In addition, bassist David Hartley showed off a trio of Ps, an armada of Ampegs, and demo’d a fuzz that has ended his quest for razing tones.
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00:00 - D’Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 - Adam Granduciel Intro
01:34 - Fender American Vintage ’57 Strat reissue
02:44 - 1969 Gibson SG
04:29 - 1963 Fender Jazzmaster
06:38 - 1966 Fender Jazzmaster
07:59 - Fender American Vintage ’65 Jazzmaster
08:57 - Gibson Hummingbird
11:19 - Adam Granduciel's Amp Wall
17:12 - Adam Granduciel's Pedalboard
37:38 - David Hartley Intro
38:28 - 2002 Fender Precision Bass
41:46 - 1983 Fender Fullerton ’62 Reissue Precision Bass
43:39 - Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass
45:04 - Ampeg Heritage 50th Anniversary SVT amps
47:45 - David Hartley's Pedalboard
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