Rig Rundown – Failure’s Ken Andrews
Article and photos: http://bit.ly/FailureRR
Premier Guitar (http://bit.ly/PGhomepage) met with producer, engineer, songwriter and founding Failure member Ken Andrews before the band’s June 8th show at Nashville’s Exit/In. After enjoying great success, breaking up and reforming, Failure is hitting it hard on the road. The band used to tour with fragile amps, tons of stompboxes, and miles of cable, but they now travel lightly with clean modeling technology.
Guitars and Bass:
Andrews’ #1 guitar is a well-worn 1976 Les Paul Standard with a Seymour Duncan Custom pickup in the neck and Duncan ’59 in the bridge. Andrews’ second guitar is a shimmery LP-style axe made by Electrical Guitar Company, which arrived the day before this show. It features proprietary EGC humbuckers and a Travis Bean-influenced aluminum neck. When Andrews covers the bottom end, he uses a 2013 Fender Precision Bass with a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickup.
To read more about the setups behind Failure, visit: http://bit.ly/FailureRR
Special thanks to Joel Lauver and Dune Baydoun!
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Perry with the signature rolled up sleeves. guys low key a style icon lmao
those shoes were terrible.
2:41 It’s the Rocktron Intellifex LTD white ver
I had to stop because, as much as I love Ken and Failure, the dude trying to conduct the interview is weapons grade cringe.
Fantastic Planet top 10 groundbreaking albums of the 90’s.
Unfortunate no time was given to discussing bass and bass tone.
Would be awesome to see them interviewed in the 90s to see all the pedals and stuff they have running.
casually states that the first record he ever produced is fantastic planet, maybe one of the most immaculately produced records ive ever heard
13:52 eyes wide open…
Man them speakers remind me of a set of hyle loudspeakers my band had back in the day
Nice rig Bro!!
tight band…..love them!
I get to see Failure tonight!
I just saw these guys live and they’re sound was so pure and good. My next rig may very well be a Fractal.
Shoutout to phone memo recordings! My friend used to voice memo record when we jammed. I thought it was silly, and I had a “low opinion” of most jam sessions. He just recently sent me some clips of those old jams, and i was like “what was that?, was that us? We sounded f’n awesome, we need to get “garage rocking” again. Totally inspired me to bring my guitar out of retirement.
Fantastic Planet is maybe one if the best 5 Rock albums of the 90’s IMO.
Easily one of my favorite bands of all time. So stoked for this.
i dont know why, but when i listen to failure, i want to hear ken and page hamilton from helmet do a collab!
Wow this is an education.
I hope one day for an Autolux rig rundown.
Ken knows his stuff, they sound incredible live.
Great to see a musician who also understands his gear and hasn’t handed it over to a tech
What is that Samson in-ear transmitter/receiver thing? I can't read the model name
They're both nervous, which is kind of funny… 🙂
I like the old guy mods.
HUM please???!!
Fantastic planet such a great album
Great band glad to see them making new music
He has Gordon Freeman's face lol
I was at this show at they were incredible.
Ken Andrews is one of my favorite musicians/artists ever. He seems like such a humble fella also.
WE WANT TAME IMPALA!!
no bass gear …
ken andrews is his name, huh. interesting. does he know he and jonathan davis could be doppelgangers of one another? he has a really strong "jonathan davis" look and sound (his speaking voice, i'm referring to). it could just be me though because i always see look-a-likes in people. can hardly ever look at anyone without thinking of who they look like or remind me of.
all the strangers look like family
all the family look so strange ~ peter gabriel
(p.s. nobody looks like gabriel that i've ever seen)
Ken is a super nice guy, took the time to chat with me for several minutes after playing Dallas two nights ago. He's been playing a 1968 jazzmaster in recent shows on the 20th anniversary tour. I knew it was a jazzmaster , but he told me himself it was an original 68. Very cool guy, they sound absolutely amazing live–definitely, definitely go see them if you can.
Ken Andrews is one smart dude.
chewing gum and offering far too many opinions. I don't like this presenter at all, sorry
Does anyone know what brand and gauge strings they use for guitar and bass?
Please please please do a live album. Thank you-Failure fans.
Such a cool band! This was awesome!
21:34 lol oh my god yes. That's me in a nutshell, desperately recording riffs on my phone so I don't forget them lol.
what's the song that they are playing during the opening sound check
Ken is using that custom guitar now on a few songs. So bad ass.
Ken you're breaking my heart with the axe-fx.
can u imagine say having Ken Andrews.Danny Lohner,Trent Flood,Jason Lowenstein-maybe say Josh Freese or Charilie Clouser on drums-that sht would be beyond human! Ive been talking em up on it for awhile,& they seem open to the concept,but all so busy doing other things!
thought i was watching an episode of star trek for a second there
Fractal Fractal Fractal blah blah blah. Why even bother? Boring video