Rig Rundown – Bloc Party
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PG’s John Bohlinger hung with Russell Lissack and Justin Harris of Bloc Party before their Nashville show. Though the guitars and amp were tried and true workhorses, both of their pedalboards looked like the dashboard of the Millennium Falcon.
Russell Lissack is a fan of Fender guitars and this ’03 Tele was purchased with his record advance when the band was first signed. He swapped out the original bridge pickup for a Seymour Duncan single-coil and uses Ernie Ball Super Slinky .009–.042 strings on all his guitars.
Next up is Lissack’s mid-2000s Fender Tele Custom. It’s totally stock—except for a plastic toy mounted under the pickguard that he uses for some weird, spacey noises mixed with ambient delays.
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Silent Alarm is totally a desert island album
Really cool interview
Pedals do you want any?
Yes all
so cool, an update would be epic!!
Does anyone remember when this band were a bunch of skinny nerds?…before creatin/Jersey Shore got ahold of them? I love these folks, but the "Muscles"…super weird…WHY?! Why turn yourselves into a bunch of meat heads that will (eventually) become fat old people (not trying to fat shame…but if you were not born into it, why would you try to become it?).
And here we are shaking likes and butts for useless garbage
He has such a sweet and calm personality. Really cool guy.
like the rest of us, john fell in love with russells playing. russells playing needs to be in the hall of fame for making people feel the feeling of deep emotional love and the forever feel of it and all its emotions
this is fuckin insane i never seen this video til now wow
absolutely insane that the new bassist inherited Gordons old basses??!?!?!??
I swear that is not the same guitarist lol. I know it is but he looks super emo when they are live
10:26
@20:30 i think he means "things replace things"
That is a a lot of delay for one man
This is on my top 10 Pit Stains list
John missed the wear a tank-top memo.
This dude has come a long way since 2005 when you’d have been lucky if he spoke even a single word during an interview. (He only did group interviews back then.) I get it, he’s older now and therefore less self-conscious, but it’s incredible to see him carry a 35 minute video when, as an ultra-fan of the group, I swear I didn’t hear his voice even once until like 2007.
does anyone else find this super awkward?
Met Russell 2 months ago at London's Drop Dead Gorgeous festival! He truly is kind and humble! I told him he is my guitar hero. I hugged him and he gave me a pick! Such a wonderfully kind person.
That Mario theme thing was pretty rad.
Super Bloc Party fan here and Russell Lissack is super underrated as a guitarist. Super underrated and super talented.
Russell's so creative and unique when it comes to his arrangements and use of pedals, as well as unorthodox/non guitar gear. And he plays so damn clean! Always so tight live
Russell has been such an underrated guitarist. He’s amazing!
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30.50 the Diabolic pronouncement of the DiaboliK pedal, it made me laugh.
John "I gotta hear it" Bohlinger
24:16 Nice Grolsch beer washer strap-lock
20:25 Russell in 2016: "I don't want it [pedal board] to get any bigger"
Cut-to, Russell in 2019: THREE huge PedalTrain boards laid out in an arc
https://youtu.be/yk3v0P4Y0pY?t=43m10s
I love johns rig rundowns -cos he doesnt spent the time trying to make out how best mates he is with every act or talking about his own gear like the other interviewers do and he just explores and appreciates the gear and the players desire for there tones,
17:40 best effects 😀 full bottles of beer 😀
definitely one of the more inspiring rigs out there
I need to haul out my Bloc Party albums. Fuckin loved this band way back when.
3:45 . For Rx Gibbs
block Party along with Mogwai have 2 of the best debut albums of all time. silent alarm and young team