Rig Rundown – Stone Sour’s Josh Rand, Christian Martucci & Johny Chow
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Guitarists Josh Rand, Christian Martucci, and bassist Johny Chow spent over an hour with PG’s Chris Kies before the band’s gig at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium. Josh and Christian show off a whole new lineup of gear including cherry axes making their live debut and revamps on their boards, while Johny proves you don’t need amps to rock out the low-end rumble.
Meet Shandy, Stone Sour guitarist Christian Martucci’s main baby—a 1980 Gibson Les Paul Custom that actually came to his quiver by way of Nashville guitarist RJ Ronquillo. He’s updated it with a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge, an Air Norton in the neck, and increased its playability with jumbo frets. This is his go-to for songs that are tuned down a half-step to Eb. All of his Eb axes use D’Addario NYXL .010–.046 strings.
Bassist Johny Chow covers the low end with just two Warwick basses. His main one for drop-C and drop-B songs is this Warwick Custom Shop Streamer Stage II model that has a few Chow-approved tweaks like different tonewoods (bubinga, wenge, rosewood) and a neck-through design he went with because he feels it upholds the note definition when played in dropped tunings.
Co-founding guitarist Josh Rand started with Ibanez, dabbled with some other brands, but came back home to Ibanez a few years ago. His main C# guitar is this Ibanez Custom Shop Talman that was painted by hot-rod mastermind Dan Lawrence. This one he calls Rizzo 2.0. (Rizzo 1.0 was an RG and was busted on ShipRocked a few years ago—it’s named after the character in Grease, not the Chicago Cubs first baseman.) After being a longtime user of EMGs, Rand outfitted all his guitars with DiMarzio pickups (this one features Steve Vai Evolution humbuckers) and all his guitars have been upgraded with Gotoh locking tuners. All his shred machines, regardless of tunings, use D’Addario NYXL .011–056 strings.
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I've heard a bunch of rumors about Josh being the reason SS is no more, or not active. And he's why Jim quit. So much drama around that band, but this RR is fantastic and I enjoy it. I hope SS gets back together if they really feel it and want to!! As an Iowa guy, Im a bigger SS fan than Slipknot bc i've seen SS more live. Different beasts, bboth killer. Thanks PG!
Dude sounds like he could be Jim roots brother
that's my idea, junior with fender blue 😉
RIP Stone Sour without Jim Root
I totally thought that pink polkadot guitar was a Novo!
I mean…. I know Corey has a fluoro slime green Novo he plays with Stone Cold…so when I saw this fluoro pink number…in that kind've offset shape, I thought,, Novo, for sure!
To think that it's an Ibanez…??! ????
Who'd have thunk it..??! ????♂️
That purple Les Moserite…??
Oh yess! Indeed, Yes ! Oh.. Yess..
Awesome rig rundown ????????????
36:26
mega cringe
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Ha! Shandi! Nice Kiss reference
soooooo good i just love eveary rig rundown ….thanks guys,,,,,
Adam Jones:/ note to self.
Josh has a good hairline, Jk Jk XD just joking around.
Bald people are awesome though.
I can't listen to Christian speak. Wtf is wrong with his speech?
Introduces a 97 Les Paul Custom and informs interviewer it's age
Interviewer-So is this an 80's?
Gentle hint,if you want to interview ppl.listen to the answers?
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Dude seems like he did crack for 10 years
After hearing his backup vocals live on Get Inside, I was definitely not expecting Christian's voice to sound like that
The thing with old guitars is two fold…. things were built with more care in mass production terms and hours of vibration…. the wood is constantly changing.. drying and shrinking moisture and swelling, through the years of playing the strings vibration has resonated through the wood.. there’s a stabilising effect this vibration has.. the wood begins to ‘get used’ to those frequencies resonance becomes more harmonious between the notes playing and the nature timbre of the wood
What’s with this dudes accent? Drugs?? That’s mega Fucked up
Excellent video! I really enjoyed the segment with Christian! Thanks for sharing this with us!
The playing more down tunes is why he dont have his charvel
I like that he uses several different guitars and I'm glad he mentioned the bc rich guitar I was considering getting one but I hate neck dives.. I cant play too heavy of guitars with my snapping scapula syndrome.
I love my charvel pro San dimas, I have an Ibanez neck through guitar with DiMarcio's in it.
I'd love to hang out with Christian. He seems like such a cool guy!
Christian is traveling with some expensive guitars.
Its a '97.
Cool! What year is that?
It's a '97
“You know”
First interview I've seen with Christian martucci and he seems a sound, genuine guy. Much like Jim root. No ego. Just genuine. ???? ????
How the hell are you going to have a poka dot guitar and not mention one bit of any kind of inspiration from Randy Rhoads?
Love Christian's taste and style. Need an update with him since he's with Dean 😉
Wow These guys are insanely into gear and know their shit.
josh guitar looks like miraculous ladybug guitar. I Miss Jim
…not gonna lie…just here for Chris Kies…dat ass
Why is there tape on almost all of Josh's guitars rightnon the neck pickup???
That MoFo was high as Georgia Pine.
Another Iowan here. Awesome to see some Iowans doing good. 🙂
If Randy Blythe and Jim Root had a kid ……
Drop B is not a low tunning in 2018. Pretty mainstream actually. But its ok they’re older guys ????. Miss Jim, he got it.
That goodfellas shirt tho…
Josh Rand talking about Metallica as his favourite band and all the ibanez guitars. He just became my hero hahaha. Love it.
Josh is such a cool guy <3