Rig Rundown – Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Craig Bartock, and Dan Rothchild
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Premier Guitar’s Shawn Hammond met with Ann and Nancy Wilson’s guitar tech, Jeff Ousley, lead guitarist Craig Bartock, and bassist Dan Rothchild before Heart’s show at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 21, 2015. Ousley—who’s been maintaining the Wilson sisters’ gear (and making them mean cups of coffee) for more than 20 years—walked us through everything from Ann’s custom Martin acoustics to Nancy’s vintage SG and Tele, while Bartock and Rothchild shared their cool customized instruments.
One of Nancy Wilson’s coolest road guitars this time around is a ’63 Telecaster Custom with Sperzel locking tuners that she uses for “Straight On,” “Even It Up,” and some Paul McCartney covers. She also carries two Martin HD-35 Nancy Wilson signature dreads, as well as a Martin DCPA1 with a Fishman Aura system that she uses for “Alone.” All her acoustics (and Ann’s) use FU-Tone titanium bridge pins. Nancy also brings three or four Gibson Nighthawks—which she co-designed with Gibson—in various tunings. She uses an early-’90s version for Led Zeppelin covers, and an F-tuned one for Robin Trower’s “Day of the Eagle.” She’s also road-testing a new Epiphone version of the Nighthawk with a prototype Trem King cam-based vibrato. Nancy borrows Ousley’s Duesenberg semi-hollowbody (given to him by Elvis Costello), and her single-pickup, Bigsby-equipped ’68 Gibson SG is her go-to guitar for the smash hit “Barracuda.” A TV Jones Spectra Sonic is her axe of choice for Aretha Franklin’s “Ain’t No Way” and Zep’s “Misty Mountain Hop.” Both Bigsby vibratos feature Vibramate String Spoilers.
Like her pedalboard, Nancy’s amp rack resides offstage. A Peavey-era Budda Superdrive 30 II head is her main amp, and a Fender ToneMaster serves as a backup. Each head drives its own Orange 4×12 cab loaded with 30-watt Celestion speakers.
Ousley is in charge of both cable management and pedal switching for Nancy Wilson. Her offstage board starts with a Whirlwind A/B selector, an Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, an ancient Ibanez flanger, and a Budda Zenman OD/Boost. A Voodoo Lab Pedal Power supplies the juice, and channel switcher pedals for each of Nancy’s heads round out the board.
To learn more about the setups behind Heart’s 2015 live sound, visit: http://bit.ly/HeartRigRundown
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Id love love love a RR on COLLECTIVE SOUL AND SEVENDUST!! This channel and these RR's are amazin!
Kudos to Craig for speaking from the heart (aka, the truth) about the new Vox amps. They need to do what so many (Fender and Marshall, etc.) have done and release authenticate re-creations of their classic amps that don't have an exorbitant price tag.
7:27 totally agree on the G&L. There is something akin to magic about it. IOW, it's greater than the sum of its parts. I've played and owned many Teles (but more Strats), and my ASAT is beyond most of my guitars, including my Fullerton Legacy. In fact, at this moment I'm looking at my blonde ASAT, have an SG on my lap (was putting the truss cover back on), but have my D-35 plugged into my amp as I've been playing "Keep Your Love…". Fun!
My favorite band !! Seen them so many times live !!
the Wilson sisters found my lost cousin…
man, does Craig's tech wipe his ass for him too? geezus. I understand it's his job, but, damn. You can't even pickup a guitar? to each his own, I guess.
Heart is classic
"Let's light it on fire and find out" lmao
Oh I found out what was wrong with my SX someone messed around with it and stripped out all the screws on the bridge that's why it wouldn't stay in tune and I couldn't float it
I think someone was playing a trick on your cuz there's no way a strat neck could just come off like that someone would have had to loosen the bolts and you didn't notice.????????
Kudos to the Guitar tech. That Craig didn't know the gauge of his strings….gads! Dude. And for all the triple pickups (even though he doesn't USE them…) we say "Thank you, Dr. Brian May…"
1st rig rundown with book plugs! Love it! Love this tech! Great dude!!! Love his work station.
Suggestion: Wanna have good reliable tuning stability on the Duesenberg?? As a Luthier, I just installed one of these on my customers Duesenberg"Starplayer", and it eliminated his "Staying In Tune" problem. And for the price, it can't be beat!!! Nancy will thank you, and who knows, maybe me too?? AND, it's a Direct Swap Out! String spacing is 1/16" less, but hey—? George: 4maranatha@tds.net Gb https://www.ebay.com/itm/192766439256?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D0879ff090c3741089a8ccb0bfc969052%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D282501480609%26itm%3D192766439256%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganic%26brand%3DWilkinson&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1
What a cool guitar tech!????
Interviewer needs to talk less
I saw him steal that guitar pick. He slipped it into his pocket!!
The middle one is a Seymour Duncan Duckbucker.
What a great collection of guitars! The light blue strat has what is either a Duncan JB Jr or Lil' 59 and the bridge is certainly a Duckbucker. Neck is probably an SSL-5. Love the tele with the two Duncan designed P90s. I recommend P90s in any guitar repertoire, because it's a great tone to have on tap. Duncan and DiMarzio both make outstanding P90s. The Hot P90s really kick butt.
Shame Nancy voted on the 100 greatest guitar players because she wasn't on the list. Shes top 50 for sure
Crazy that she’s used that same mandolin for over 30 years.
I don't know anything about these guitars,I just play them.
A les Paul’s headstock broke. Who would’ve guessed
Nanc couldn't be bothered to come out ?
I realize this is an old video, and this is and odd question and slightly unrelated; but is this Dan Rothchild the same guy who played with David Boyle on "The Indonesian Experience", Bodyboarding video from 1990? I'm trying to find the music from that video. It's Amazing.
Its a parts guitar, big whoop.
Disappointing that Nancy didn't participate. Always more fun when the stars talk about their gear. Leaving it to the tech is meh.
Only a band from Seattle would have a guitar tech that doubles as a barista lmfao
Pickup snobs don't have a clue as to what they're talking about in this instance.
Hey cool vox amps I got a 10 watt right on
Looks like the carbon fiber Rainsong backup acoustic electric is Nancy Wilson's modern day indestructible Ovation ?
D'you notice that, kids? The bigger the talent, the smaller the ego…
That is totally a Squier Telecaster Custom II with a different neck and a trem route, Craig.
Can't tell you how much I cannot stand the song barracuda they played it to death they still play it to death and it's still just sucks just over played I don't care if it was good.
I'd love to know more about that tuning selector!
What a rig run down – never played a note – disappointing. Like to hear what they're talking about.
So I guess Dan Rothchild invented steampunk with that bass…
I've had an epiphone nighthawk since the mid 90s when I was a kid, still have it, things not great in ways but cool also..I think the Heart chick is the only famous person I've ever heard of using them
Where's Nancy?!?!?
I had a Nighthawk once. It didn't kill any of my Strats, as I sold it after about 2 weeks.
strat killer. Nothing made by Gibson has 1/10th the design features of a stat. Total turds.
The guitars are much too clean looking to me , now the bass is a real go for it instrument.
Jeff has gotta be the coolest guitar and most quotable guitar tech around. Love the espresso machine – grinds the beans fresh for each cup, my daughter has pretty much the same machine
Bartok is a superb guitarist
That is the coolest bass I've ever seen. Talk about making something your own.