Rig Rundown: The War on Drugs [2022]
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For nearly two decades and across five albums, The War on Drugs’ founder and frontman Adam Granduciel has narrated our complex modern lives while his band has scored our dreams.
The captivating moods of their music, much like us, morph from dense melancholy to saturated, swirling madness and everywhere in between. Granduciel often layers his Springsteen-meets-Young proletariat prose atop a post-rock soundscape, but the heartbeat of their impressive, expansive live shows is their gear and how it is implemented.
“I could play the whole tour with two or maybe three guitars—a White Falcon, Strat, and maybe a Jazzmaster—but I bring all these out just for fun,” he says with a laugh as he considers his trove of axes.
So, let’s have some fun already! Before a full evening of The War on Drugs’ jams in support of 2021’s I Don’t Live Here Anymore, PG was invited to Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. We covered Granduciel’s growing guitar collection, got the skinny on how Jerry Garcia’s monstrous setup played into the bandleader’s theatre rig, and we took in a cockpit view of his stompbox squadron full of tone ticklers, sizzlers, and wigglers. In addition, bassist David Hartley showed off a trio of Ps, an armada of Ampegs, and demo’d a fuzz that has ended his quest for razing tones.
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00:00 – D’Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 – Adam Granduciel Intro
01:34 – Fender American Vintage ’57 Strat reissue
02:44 – 1969 Gibson SG
04:29 – 1963 Fender Jazzmaster
06:38 – 1966 Fender Jazzmaster
07:59 – Fender American Vintage ’65 Jazzmaster
08:57 – Gibson Hummingbird
11:19 – Adam Granduciel’s Amp Wall
17:12 – Adam Granduciel’s Pedalboard
37:38 – David Hartley Intro
38:28 – 2002 Fender Precision Bass
41:46 – 1983 Fender Fullerton ’62 Reissue Precision Bass
43:39 – Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass
45:04 – Ampeg Heritage 50th Anniversary SVT amps
47:45 – David Hartley’s Pedalboard
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Adam is endlessly talented and I respect that he uses fender equipment
He has all that and THEN shows us a kemper hiding behind the rig. The cherry on top
I’d like to see a rig rundown with this guy and Nigel Tufnel together. Epic! ????
I hate his rig.
i sort of guessed that Adam was a bit of a deadhead, cool to confirm that finally.
Adam struggles in the war on "um" sentences. tough interview
Dude, Go buy a FM3. all the effects are in it. lol
Are they loosing?
dumbest FKn pedal board rig ive ever seen….LMAO!!
Plain stupid.
Should we just assume the amps go to 11?
Oh just a 72 Les Paul, ahhh no need to show you this! Lol
Adam is our man
Listen up……..If anyone knows Geeetars…!
That Jazzmaster was "stolen" from me by a "friend"….. pretty sure…
Alembics over Hiwatts?! Adam, are you fucking kidding?! No fucking way.
This guy is so full of shit ????
Robert Fripp rundown: "Modern guitarists suck. They wish they had a rig as dense and complicated as Fripp's"
War on Drugs rundown: "Modern guitarists suck. Rigs back in my day weren't so dense and complicated."
at least he's a better guitarist than the edge. but proletariat? nah.
He’s really into pedals
Seen this band live in Fredericton NB, they were amazing! I had never listened to them much before, but live it was an incredible sound. I really loved their set!
Also, this guy has fantastic taste in pedals. The goatkeeper is amazing. I have a malekko goatkeeper, and its such qa fantastic trem pedal. Best one's I've used, though I wish it was stereo. Also, the reverse reverb on the hardwire is beautiful sounding, one of my favourites.
Whats the use… in the songs mostly his sound is plain.. and muffled by other instruments????