Rig Rundown: Coheed and Cambria [2022]
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It’s common for prog bands to create a fictitious narrative for their concept albums. Often, the lyrics tell a linear story, while the adventurous, experimental, and elevated musicianship provides emotional support and dynamism to the album’s arc. Some ambitious wordsmiths may even spread their yarn over two albums or releases, but Coheed and Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez has penned an entire science fiction tale called The Amory Wars that has been transcribed in comic books and graphic novels published by Evil Ink Comics. All but one of the band’s 10 albums, including the brand-new Vaxis–Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind swim in his solar system called Heaven’s Fence—a collection of 78 planets and seven stars wholly envisioned by Sanchez. (The Color Before the Sun, from 2015, is the lone release not centered in The Amory Wars universe.)
Crafting a daring soundtrack for these narratives requires an equally bold group of musicians. Through two decades, this fearless foursome have incorporated prog orchestrations, synth flourishes, pop-punk hooks, menacing metalcore, hardcore aggression, and electronica ballads—and yet it’s always felt like Coheed. No matter the direction they turn or how their colors and hues shift, it’s unmistakable. Having no genre allows for all genres.
It’s worth noting the band’s name is lifted from two main characters in The Amory Wars. Their original name in the late ’90s was Shabütie, and that trio (consisting of guitarist/vocalist Sanchez, bassist Michael Todd, and drummer Nate Kelley) released three EPs before rebranding for Coheed’s 2002 debut, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, released on Equal Vision Records. That first Coheed lineup included the Shabütie carryovers of Sanchez and Todd, and welcomed guitarist Travis Stever and drummer Josh Eppard. (The earliest incarnations of Shabütie included Stever, too.) The band’s current lineup has been solid since 2012, when bassist Zach Cooper joined.
Coheed’s headlining 2022 run is a dual celebration. They’re honoring the 20th anniversary of their debut and the just-released Vaxis–Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind. Before their July 23 show at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, PG’s Chris Kies hosted conversations that covered upgrading Gibsons, overhauling an entire bass rig during shutdown, and how a stolen Big Muff eventually led to a signature sound and pedal.
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00:00 – D’Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 – Travis Stever Intro
01:12 – Travis Stever’s Gibson Les Paul Standard
10:22 – Travis Stever’s Gibson Les Paul Custom
15:58 – Travis Stever’s Sunburst Gibson ES-335
17:39 – Travis Stever’s Black Gibson ES-335
18:24 – Travis Stever’s Black Gibson ES-137
21:54 – Travis Stever’s Gibson Songwriter Standard EC Rosewood
26:46 – Travis Stever’s Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II Setup
35:42 – Claudio Sanchez’s Intro
36:49 – Claudio Sanchez’s 1980 Gibson Explorer E2
40:06 – Claudio Sanchez’s Early ’80s Gibson Explorer E2
41:47 – Claudio Sanchez’s 1963 Les Paul SG Custom Reissue with a Maestro Vibrola
43:59 – Claudio Sanchez’s Gibson Flying V & Explorer
45:18 – Claudio Sanchez’s Gibson SG Special
47:34 – Claudio Sanchez’s 2000s Gibson ’76 Explorer reissue
48:11 – Claudio Sanchez’s Gibson J-45 Standard & Taylor 512e
48:47 – Claudio Sanchez’s Gibson EDS-1275
51:19 – Claudio Sanchez’s Wren and Cuff Signature Fuzz-Drive Prototype
55:22 – Zach Cooper’s Nash PB63
57:35 – Zach Cooper’s Nash PB57
59:57 – Love My Switches
01:02:00 – Zach Cooper’s Aguilar DB 751
01:06:00 – Zach Cooper’s Pedalboard
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I saw these guys open up for a Hot Water Music and Thrice in 2002. They were fucking incredible. Everyone was shook afterwards.
@37:55 fkg legend.
I just saw Coheed for the first time in Portland, ME on Tuesday and they played Sentry the Defiant and it was heavy AF. Glad that one made the rotation again. Waited over 20 years for them to come up here and they did not disappoint.
I can’t believe he was using a high gain amp with an sd1 into a big muff into br nailbombs and he’s getting a pretty basic rock tone
Listening to Claudio talk versus singing is wild
I bought my 2024 Epiphone Les Paul Custom because of Travis.
Biggest rat ever!! The refs know what Marchand is!! No class Marchand!! You want to make the refs look bad that’s what you get. Awesome hockey player if he had any dignity he would get respect from the whole NHL.
Travis is such a trip!
Travis and Claudio love Gibson. And Cooper loves Spector. My kinda guys
Travis seems totally like a kid who would leave the guitar out in the rain hahaha ADHD for sure. Man his energy is infectious.
Coheed is one of the most underrated bands on their scene. Phenomenal band to see live ????
Coheed is one of the most underrated bands on their scene. Phenomenal band to see live ????
Travis’s tone is incredible holy shit! That reverb and delay ????
I think this guy might do cocaine a little bit
Trav is a gem
One among the fence since 2006…and never having met him i still feel i know claudio and travis well..as well as you can for not knowing them personally, ya know, right? .. did travis take a couple shots before this feature? Lol! He did not come of as any other way but very confident in this video, but just wondering.. Lol to be super fair, i myself have taken a couple shots before commenting..LOL maybe im all off, and nothinf wrong, but i love these guys, changed my life. Rock a cherry gibson (since 2003?) Myself. (Shit player, and inconsistent player myself, but ya know). Anyway, thanks for affecting my life ao greatly. Nothing like it. No one will ever do what you guys did for me.
Claudio needs a signature guitar made by MartinGuitar! Plus I wanna meet my famous doppelganger at work lol
That first explorer he has is what are me want one of these!
The greatest group of dudes! Josh, Zach, Trav & Claud
Travis is so faded ????
Freaking love these guys!!!
Are most of their songs on standard tuning?
he got some chris farley vibes
Man they put any nxt person on a interview show now and make them think they know what their doing. LOLLOL !!!
Just got my Anna in the Mail earlier this week. Wild to see them talking about building it here. It's so good, way better than I could have imagined. Keep up the Good work Claudio!!
I would sell my soul to be Claudio or Travis' guitar tech. Travis and Claudio, if either of you ever are in need of a new tech, please look me up!!!
Like Travis ever hits a sour note ???? he's never missed a note live in his life while playing live these guys don't miss its absolutely incredible to watch
That semi hollow single cut with a Florentine cutaway…the , like an oversized, thinline Les Paul..?
That thing sounded SAVAGE!! 20:25
SO crisp and just crushing SNAP! I'm guessing it's maple laminate like a 335… probably with a centre block… of don't know.. mahogany maybe, but quite possibly more maple, or something bright like alder.
I love it's vibe…just a little bit different. I like my shit to he just a tad unique.
Somebody learn me! : what's this model called…?
Graci ????????
Slop City!
Such great tone
That the Nashville stadium? If so I was there
As someone that is intimately aware of cocaine, Travis is for sure on cocaine for this and I’m totally fine with that lol ????
You called Travis "a heavy dood", like Jesus man….rude
Exhibit A: This guitar is still a piece of shit ????
Wait… I thought Lemmy died. He's clearly alive and guitar tech'ing for Coheed.
Travis and Jade Puget are the reason I got a les paul as my first guitar. I still suck but at least I suck with a les paul. ????
Pierce the Veil ????????????????????????????
I love this so much. I've always been interested in seeing all of the equipment that Coheed uses, but this gave more. I learned a lot about what type of sounds these guys use and WHY. I can apply this to my own equipment.
i guarantee you in some parallel universe travis is a stand-up comedian
Claudio all casual ~ "yeah I stole that fuzz pedal"
FBI ~ "OPEN UP"
fav band
18:35 This is NOT an ES-137. I know what I am talking of cause I have one.
Dude is coked out
Holy shit I haven't listened to this band in a long time. Last time I saw Claudio Sanchez he was fat.
This is awesome. I am much more of a guitar whore than amps and pedals. And seeing all these guitars makes me giddy. Also, love Coheed. Thank you PG
Dude's makin my anxiety PEAK!! ????
All guitar music is racist. Time to move on. It’s important we have a black centric culture to make up for the injustices of the past. Except white girls… because they love the d. Bye white guys!
Why do these guys still not have Gibson signature guitars. They would be the best ambassadors.
How much coke do you think dude is doing?