Rig Rundown: The Aristocrats’ Guthrie Govan & Bryan Beller [2022]
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“Supergroup” is a tired, overused term in music. However, when musical aces like guitarist Guthrie Govan, bassist Bryan Beller, and drummer Marco Minnemann jam… they are an unrivaled force of nature.
Each player has a remarkable resume: Govan has worked with Steven Wilson, Hans Zimmer, and Asia; Beller with Satriani, Vai, Dethklok, and Dweezil Zappa; and Minnemann with the Mute Gods, Trey Gunn, H-Blockx, and Mike Keneally—among many others.
What makes a supergroup novel is generally the collective’s previous endeavors and collaborations. The magic with these three cats is that their superpowers combine to become a flashy and fluent highflying act.
Formed unceremoniously for a performance at the 2011 Anaheim NAMM Show, this tremendously talented trio has released nine albums (five studio and four live) in 11 years. The attraction for both the audience and the band is the same: variety. In any given performance, you can hear them shift from Return to Forever to Yes to King Crimson to Vai to Rage to Funkadelic to moments of deranged Zappa.
“We’ve been a pretty strange, eclectic band to begin with, as the music we do tips our hats to a lot of different styles,” notes Govan. “All I’ve ever done over the years I’ve been playing guitar is to just listen to everything around me and absorb the aspects of it that I liked. I’ve never felt an urge to specialize. I’m happy to keep combining whatever flavorings I like and rolling them all together.” The result: These three executive chefs put on a spicy clinic that would even please Gordon Ramsay.
The Aristocrats’ headlining 2022 run landed at Nashville’s City Winery on July 27. Before the musical throwdown commenced, PG’s Chris Kies hosted conversations that covered Beller’s booming setup, including some old favorites and recovered friends (via social-media sleuthing), while Govan focused on detailing the slight-but-crucial changes to his signature Charvel and explaining his live tonal evolution—modernized with an all-encompassing Fractal Audio unit.
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00:00 – D’Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 – Bryan Beller Intro
00:42 – Damage Inc
02:12 – Bryan Beller’s 1998 Mike Lull Modern 5 Jazz Bass
03:35 – Bryan Beller’s Mike Lull PJ5
05:18 – Bryan Beller’s 1986 Tobias Basic 5-string
07:25 – Bryan Beller’s Pedalboard
11:09 – Bryan Beller’s “Low-Rent Geddy Lee”
12:45 – Bryan Beller’s Gallien-Krueger Amps
14:06 – Guthrie Govan’s Charvel Signature MJ San Dimas SD24 CM
22:33 – Guthrie Govan’s Red Bear Signature Pick
24:20 – Guthrie Govan’s Fractal Audio FM9 Setup
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He went full Gandalf! Love him
Wow. I use the FCB1010 and a little synth box for my low rent Alex Lifeson rig! I'm in good company.????
Guthrie is an example of what happens when a neurodivergent person harnesses his unorthodox neurodiversity and becomes a full on musical genius!
Guys, do you know the name of the speaker/cabinets that Guthrie is using there? I don’t mean the simulation, but the “real” ones on stage.
Seems like a smashing bloke. Absolutely love his playing. Genius
Guthrie.Great guitar player.Horrible guitars and sound.He should play trough my rig.It's the real deal.No master volume or sillynes.But his not there yet.
Who else fast forwarded to Guthrie?
Bet this dudes IQ is nuts
29:01 Steve Vai knows about this haha.. first G3 vid before love of god
In 1991 when I first met Guthrie at Chelmsford Boys Club he was already an astoundingly brilliant improviser with a compelling musical mind
Humblers, both.
I must say that when I tried the middle strat pickup on its own I thought “This sounds the fullest! Why doesn’t everybody use this?” Funny to have learned Jimi H had?
Guthrie is a guitar Jedi.
I have played guitar for 45 years and Guthrie is as good as it gets but also Matteo Mancuzo (sorry for potential spelling mistake) but I don’t think the Matteo has the musical diversity of Guthrie.
32:40
Star Trek !!!!
This entire episode was amazing…Loved the Brian Beller section too
His hand is bigger than my foot
Guthrie=Merlin. Prove me wrong.
HE DID NOT GET THE STAR TREK REFERENCE!
Easily my favourite Coogan character
" or it gets stolen" lol that was a bold joke but too f'n funny haha
I love the fact that saruman left the dark forces and became a guitar player
Guthrie's modesty is probably part of how he became a virtuoso, being that his focus while learning as a young bloke was front and center, rather than being the opposite and stopping his advancement once he thought he'd cracked it, so to speak. All round amazing guy who deserves his great life in music that we all get to enjoy, full stop. This is just my small opinion of how I understand greatness.
I landed here through a video from Steve Vai {what a master guitarist)… but when you listen to Guthrie… He's on a whole other level …. Truly a wizzard on the guitar.
He must be from the same planet as hendrix ????❤
It is a shame that a great guitarist like him, can bring only 2 guitars with him and use the Fractal due low budget.
One of the best if not the best rock fusion guitarists in the world yet so humble and down to earth
Bryan and Guthrie are so different, but so pleasant and likable.
Yes! 11s! On all my electrics.
I can watch Guthrie talk and play guitar for hours. He should have made youtube videos in lockdown from his couch.
Never heard of this band until now. While looking them up I saw songs about Louisville and Kentucky. Does anyone know their connection to the area?
Analogue or digital who cares! Two wizards have entered the scene.
Man, Guthrie's left knee looks really weird here, also, the way his left leg buckled at 30:09 was rather strange. I'm worried, hope it's nothing serious though.
I'm a 5 axis cnc programmer for a leading F1 team. I could literally machine anything Guthrie wants within microns. I'd love to do that for a living.
Even GG can’t make a Fractal sound like smooth tubey goodness, after the zimmer gig needs and some crossover time I’m pretty sure he goes back to real amps as he breaths life through the real deal but these boxes are stifled and flat
Very cool effects though
The guy is a real gentleman, so kind and aware