On my one back home, I’ve got a P-90 in the front on one of them and the other is just a cavity. It’s not like a dirty pickup it’s just got a giant fucking magnet sitting in it. It fucking blows my mind when you roll the volume back and it’s as clean as a fucking whistle, man. “I use Invaders, just ’cos they’re so brutal, and they really have great tone, man.
It blows my mind when you roll the volume back and it’s as clean as a whistle, man We’re tuned to D but, for me, if you rake a G chord on that shit, it sounds ‘RRRAAAANNGGGG!’ None of your noodley bullshit. It depends which one my tech hands me, I guess. One of them we call a Lexus ‘cos it’s white with gold hardware. They’re just off-the-shelf things, y’know. Pepper: “I got a little nervous bringing my main guitars over on an airplane, so ESP gave us a couple of guitars. (Image credit: Will Ireland / Future) LTD Deluxe Viper 1000 I never did use the Rectifiers it was warm, but it just didn’t have the crunch I was looking for.” Prev of 8 Next Prev of 8 Next I’m running it through the silicon diode. So they don’t cause any trouble - they’re not even in there.
I don’t use that selection, and it was recommended to me by my amp guy to just yank them out. I just liked the tone of those so never fucked with it, and I pulled the Rectifier tubes out. I use the 6L6s, I’ve never switched over. “I think the quality of those old ones is just a little different, a diode here and there. We used the 50 Cals, but they sent them and whoa! They wanted feedback, we gave them a little, and then they had them out everywhere. “When they first came out with the damned Rectifiers, they sent us a couple of test models they were working on, to try out and see what we thought. Tonight I’ve got a couple of Triples but really it’s the same thing, you get a similar tone. Woody: “I use the old Rectifiers they give you a shit-ton of gain without a lot of the top-end noise. (Image credit: Will Ireland / Future) Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier When they made the customs, I was like, ‘Don’t put anything there just one knob and that’s all I want.’” Prev of 8 Next Prev of 8 Next “A long time ago, I was fucking with one of my guitars and I was like, ‘Man, these knobs are in the way.’ So I hit a chord, and clipped the little wire that went into the tone knob, and it got brighter and sounded better. Just the pickup switch and one knob, volume - that’s it. I’ve just got one knob, no tone, none of that shit. Pickups-wise, Seymour Duncans - the Invaders, man! In the neck I keep a Pearly Gates, just for whenever you need a little warmth, I kick it on there. I have a ’72 Gibson SG, and I sent that to them and was like, ‘Make something kind of like this, but make it tough as hell and stay in tune.’ And they did! And it was fucking awesome. They made me three of them and gave Keenan three of them. “I’ve got one of my customs with me and one regular Viper.
You can beat the hell out of ’em, and they pretty much stay in tune. We really needed something that was a thru-body neck, that was as solid as a rock, and ESP came through for us. I’ve still got several at the house, but it got to where some of the tunings we were using and just the way we were playing, attacking the guitar, we were having trouble keeping those old things in tune. We really needed something that was a thru-body neck, that was as solid as a rock, and ESP came through for us
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Angus Young, Tony Iommi, you can’t go wrong! Those were early influences - plus the look of the SG, you can’t beat it. Woody: “I’ve always played an SG-style guitar, but I’ve had these ESPs for, shit, 20-something years. (Image credit: Will Ireland / Future) ESP Custom It’s just as well then that ESP built them tough. As Weatherman says as somewhat of an understatement: they attack their guitars - “we beat the hell out of them” is far more accurate. Keenan strings his with a wound G for extra purchase and uses a bass pick. For Weatherman, that means Mesa Boogie’s Rectifier series, minus a few cables ripped out, while Keenan is now and forever a devotee of Orange Amplifiers’ discontinued Thunderverb 50.īut it’s their guitars that take the beating. While Keenan uses a lot more effects than Weatherman’s rustic-ly simple board, both lean hard on their amps for tone. Afraid of damaging their favourite instruments,they bring along what they call “the weekenders” - doublecut electrics from LTD and the ESP custom shop that have seen more than their fair share of aggressive playing. Corrosion Of Conformity guitarists Woody Weatherman and Pepper Keenan think similarly when touring overseas.
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