+T Scott Don't know what Tord uses precisely so I am still curious. I know he also uses a Fender baritone Jaguar, plus he uses some kind of vintage looking Bassman head + cabinet in conjunction with the SVT. Probably uses some pedals as well. So not quite 80% of all bass players, or whatever random percentage people come up with. ;) Even if it was just a P with SVT it sometimes is more interesting to listen to the approach of the player in regards to 'tone' and techniques. I watched J.D. Simo geek out over his gear for 40 min, which was basically a Gibson ES and a Marshall stack.
MisterJawaman I get what you mean, I would have liked to see his gear but he probably doesn't take much on the road. When I saw them I think he used the same bass for the whole set and his amp setup was relatively small.
+ClaudeSolicitor Defintely have seen one with NOFX or maybe just their frontman? forget his name to be honest, but it is somewhere. Might not be on Premier guitar but deff on youtube.
I appreciate that not every musician needs to be a gear fetishist, that's great...but surely taking a little bit of interest in your own stuff wouldn't go amiss. Talk about looking like you'd rather be somewhere else, I thought he was about to drop off giving his own gear tour. All credit to John for being so upbeat, he always gives a great rundown. He was up against tough odds here though, seemed like trying to get blood from a stone. If the techs weren't there to save the day and explain Murph's gear for him it would have been about three minutes long.
I agree, I find it pretty pathetic that he "doesn't know what he uses" and blah blah, you'd think he'd take somewhat of an interest and knowledge in what he's playing, it's somewhat sad too that he finds tone pots/pickup selectors to be worthless, seriously it's kind of a joke
+Egregious How's your album sales and international tour going? I doubt that the band actually asked for the rundown - PG.com needs fodder for its channel. Also - if you guys haven't experienced English people before - we don't tend to come across as excited unless cups of tea are involved, and Bohlinger didn't bring any.
+pd4165 album sales are poor for me lol, I know it wasn't as exciting and lively as I'd hoped, it just boggles my mind how people can be so satisfied with being so simplistic...you'd think as an "artist" he'd be a little more in touch and appreciative of what he's got instead of acting like some 12 year old god who let's his peasants create some rig for the master artist
+pd4165 Ah, the old 'if you haven't done it you can't criticise' routine. Very original. My album sales and international tour? Non-existent my lovely, entirely non-existent. But if you'll bother to read my post properly in no way did I attack his musicianship or his skills as a songwriter. I've heard of the band but can't say I'm familiar with their music, but if they're able to make a living doing it then good for them, I'm not criticising his skills as a musician. That in no way affects my point. It just seems vastly odd to me that someone in a band, who many people will have heard of, blindly places everything in the hands of the techs to such a degree. All musicians shovel off the heavy lifting to a tech when they get to the level required to have them, I'm not disputing that, but this isn't a case of not wanting to change your own strings or swap out your own pickups; he gave the impression that he wouldn't even know how to turn his own rig on if he was without a tech to do it for him. As far as experiencing English people, being British myself I most certainly have. I don't expect him to be bouncing off the walls in excitement, but that doesn't mean that showing a modicum of interest in the conversation you have elected to have is too much for ask for.
There is some Japanese made Jazzmasters from the 90s, I’ve got one. This in the video is also a 90s Jazzmaster because the Japanese versions are true to the originals where the trust rod hole is at the body end of the neck, not the headstock. Classic players have the truss rod hole in the head stuck. So this in the video is definitely a 90s.
+Mike Newell Right??..."We dont rely on the techs to do the switching, because..what if they can't make the gig??"...ummm..looks apparent that dude is clueless about what is goin on in his setup...So, that being said..Seems to me that the techs are pretty important to his performance...sillyness
I've been watching almost all of the Rig Rindowns and I have must respect for John's work dealing with all kinds of people and I feel like I could write something about this one because of Egregious and Peter Phillips-Vass writed here and I can relate to what they're feeling but one have to agree that there are a lot of people seeing this kind of videos and perhaps some of them are fans of bands like The Wombats, wich I'm not and I think Jonh neither and a lot of us too. Don't understand what's the point of playing with fx and don't knowing what I'm I playing. But I think the Wonbats are not about guitar tone or fx.... I think they're more pop songs oriented wich is fine for me even if I don't like. Never heard of them before and because of the comments here I give a little view on some videos of them and ok I can't say I hate it but it's not my music..... but I like to see all the Gig rundowns anyway, I learn a lot, I see people I like some not but still interestinf to know all about gear....I could be on one of those videos but I'm on the other side of the word. Keep up the good work people!!!
Rig rundown Not snore sleep down Let's swap jobs and UA-cam videos that give your band huge exposure and then let's do it again With some vigor "ACTION"
He did not want to be there at all and you could tell. Its sad, if you didn't wanna do this then tell premier guitar that you don't wanna do it. Dont say you will do it and then do a horrible job with it.
If you look at other videos by him he always look done with life. It might be his personality or his issues with anxiety or depression. In photoshoots you can see that he is rarely represented as a powerful guy and is normally represented as awkward so it is also not out of character for him to look tired. It is normally Dan or Tord that give all the energy during interviews
"It's not a particularly good guitar"? You don't say. No guitar is going to be "particularly good" when you disable 90% of what it can do. Might as well only play with 1 or 2 strings
Nonsense. Boss tuners are used by so many famous artists who have some of the best guitar tech’s around, Do you think they would use them if they sucked tone? In fact they have pretty good buffers, which is handy when you have quite a big pedal board. True bypass isn’t always good if that’s all you use. You sound just like the kind of person that reads things on cork sniffing Internet forums and repeats it but never played outside of a bedroom
Who cares? Must successful musicians don’t have time be gear nerds, they’re too busy writing, recording, touring etc, the instruments are just tools. If most gear nerds spent time actually making music other than stroking their cocks over pedals, they might actually do something worthwhile
Feckling Dim? WTF drugs are you taking? Are you 1 of these American pseudo 'hipsters', whose butt hurt cos I insulted his favourite band? It seems Mr. Feckler you are QUITE the troll, and not to be taken seriously! Your trail of trollage is easily traced. So the only dim wit here is you for being a professional troll! No1 ELSE cares what YOU think! Be gone man child!
Their name was quickly made last minute after a gig asked them "who should we say are performing tonight" and one of them (I think it was Dan) just quickly was like "the wombats" as they all had relations to animals through nicknames and stuff. Since they didn't really like the name they said they'd change it later down the line but if course they never did and now they're called "the wombats"
These guys kill it live. Such a shame they have to play small venues over here in the US, I'd love to see them over in Europe where they're MASSIVE.
Tbh they play relatively big venues but they're not really massively popular over here, well in the UK anyway xx
They’re not Massive in Europe. Mid level indie band. Some good songs though.
Missed opportunity to cover Tord's bass rig as well... :(
A precision bass and an svt. Same for 80% of bass players.
+T Scott Don't know what Tord uses precisely so I am still curious. I know he also uses a Fender baritone Jaguar, plus he uses some kind of vintage looking Bassman head + cabinet in conjunction with the SVT. Probably uses some pedals as well. So not quite 80% of all bass players, or whatever random percentage people come up with. ;)
Even if it was just a P with SVT it sometimes is more interesting to listen to the approach of the player in regards to 'tone' and techniques. I watched J.D. Simo geek out over his gear for 40 min, which was basically a Gibson ES and a Marshall stack.
MisterJawaman I get what you mean, I would have liked to see his gear but he probably doesn't take much on the road. When I saw them I think he used the same bass for the whole set and his amp setup was relatively small.
+T Scott he used a fuzz pedal also i think
The baritone jag is probably a fender 6 btw
the day you do a rig rundown with tame impala will be the day i cry
Yusssssss
+Will Phillips you will not be cryin alone
I love these rig rundowns- and John Bohlinger seems really nice -unpretentious !
More Rig Rundowns!!
+WaRLoKWYATT Yep, I can't get enough of these. Would love to see one for NOFX.
ClaudeSolicitor I want one every day lol. I search all the time for them.
+ClaudeSolicitor Defintely have seen one with NOFX or maybe just their frontman? forget his name to be honest, but it is somewhere. Might not be on Premier guitar but deff on youtube.
xenochrist13 Nofx? You sure it was them?
No bass rig???? I become the sadness...
Keep up the good work Have a great xmas and a better new year. Look forward to your stuff moving forward.
do the kooks please!!
I'm super interested yet I have no idea on anything about guitars, one day I've got to pick it up
Waiting on this for 7 years!
+Daniel N same, The Wombats are my favorite band
The look on Murph’s face when the amp guy talks about a click track….
Ya bass rig would have been nice.....What songs of their's are in D standard?
Dual Dual Terrors! Awesome amps indeed !
Get Dave Keuning with The Killers if possible!
Great guitars
I appreciate that not every musician needs to be a gear fetishist, that's great...but surely taking a little bit of interest in your own stuff wouldn't go amiss. Talk about looking like you'd rather be somewhere else, I thought he was about to drop off giving his own gear tour.
All credit to John for being so upbeat, he always gives a great rundown. He was up against tough odds here though, seemed like trying to get blood from a stone. If the techs weren't there to save the day and explain Murph's gear for him it would have been about three minutes long.
I agree, I find it pretty pathetic that he "doesn't know what he uses" and blah blah, you'd think he'd take somewhat of an interest and knowledge in what he's playing, it's somewhat sad too that he finds tone pots/pickup selectors to be worthless, seriously it's kind of a joke
+Egregious How's your album sales and international tour going?
I doubt that the band actually asked for the rundown - PG.com needs fodder for its channel.
Also - if you guys haven't experienced English people before - we don't tend to come across as excited unless cups of tea are involved, and Bohlinger didn't bring any.
+pd4165 album sales are poor for me lol, I know it wasn't as exciting and lively as I'd hoped, it just boggles my mind how people can be so satisfied with being so simplistic...you'd think as an "artist" he'd be a little more in touch and appreciative of what he's got instead of acting like some 12 year old god who let's his peasants create some rig for the master artist
+pd4165 Ah, the old 'if you haven't done it you can't criticise' routine. Very original.
My album sales and international tour? Non-existent my lovely, entirely non-existent. But if you'll bother to read my post properly in no way did I attack his musicianship or his skills as a songwriter. I've heard of the band but can't say I'm familiar with their music, but if they're able to make a living doing it then good for them, I'm not criticising his skills as a musician. That in no way affects my point.
It just seems vastly odd to me that someone in a band, who many people will have heard of, blindly places everything in the hands of the techs to such a degree. All musicians shovel off the heavy lifting to a tech when they get to the level required to have them, I'm not disputing that, but this isn't a case of not wanting to change your own strings or swap out your own pickups; he gave the impression that he wouldn't even know how to turn his own rig on if he was without a tech to do it for him.
As far as experiencing English people, being British myself I most certainly have. I don't expect him to be bouncing off the walls in excitement, but that doesn't mean that showing a modicum of interest in the conversation you have elected to have is too much for ask for.
+Egregious - hey, you should check out J Mascis.
I cringe thinking of tone that sounds like "a wasp flying around a Coke can". Good sound guy!
Wow, guitarfetishists only here? The Wombats are really good musicians indeed.
Does anybody know what kind of tele the backup-one was?
really nice automatic midi setup !!
I don't believe that there is such a thing as a late 90's Jazzmaster. Looks like a Classic Player from the last 8-ish years.
There is some Japanese made Jazzmasters from the 90s, I’ve got one. This in the video is also a 90s Jazzmaster because the Japanese versions are true to the originals where the trust rod hole is at the body end of the neck, not the headstock. Classic players have the truss rod hole in the head stuck. So this in the video is definitely a 90s.
What happened to the Wolf Alice one?
Do one for panic at the disco
Is it just me that finds it disappointment by that a guitarist doesn't know anything about his own gear?
+kellyisvlogging well I'm glad I'm not the only one
Not just you.... How does this guy not know anything?
+Mike Newell Right??..."We dont rely on the techs to do the switching, because..what if they can't make the gig??"...ummm..looks apparent that dude is clueless about what is goin on in his setup...So, that being said..Seems to me that the techs are pretty important to his performance...sillyness
+Mike Newell at least he only focuses on the most important thing: making music
+SweBass Yes but the excitement of buying and tinkering with your own gear has to be 50% of the guitar playing experience
tough interview
what? no bass?
What song does he use the whammy pedal on?
Wolf Alice, please.
I feel that, given the chance, he'd have someone play them for him as well...
They are so British...
I've been watching almost all of the Rig Rindowns and I have must respect for John's work dealing with all kinds of people and I feel like I could write something about this one because of Egregious and Peter Phillips-Vass writed here and I can relate to what they're feeling but one have to agree that there are a lot of people seeing this kind of videos and perhaps some of them are fans of bands like The Wombats, wich I'm not and I think Jonh neither and a lot of us too. Don't understand what's the point of playing with fx and don't knowing what I'm I playing. But I think the Wonbats are not about guitar tone or fx.... I think they're more pop songs oriented wich is fine for me even if I don't like. Never heard of them before and because of the comments here I give a little view on some videos of them and ok I can't say I hate it but it's not my music..... but I like to see all the Gig rundowns anyway, I learn a lot, I see people I like some not but still interestinf to know all about gear....I could be on one of those videos but I'm on the other side of the word. Keep up the good work people!!!
circa waves?
i know you work out and starve, but why the supertight t-shirt? 40 year crisis?
Sounds like you mignt not be able to get away with it... ;)
TheTRUTH that's not nice
Ace Ventura
definitely tame impala plssss x x x
It’s a blue guitar, an orange three amps.........lol
it feels like Murph is pretty high
He just has depression. So it seems like he is high but he isn't.
YYYYYYAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNN.
The new cool thing guitarists say: I'm not much of a gear person.
I love Rig Rundowns, but this one is terrible!
the guitarist shows no interest his own gear. if he doesn't have I don't have either
Rig rundown
Not snore sleep down
Let's swap jobs and UA-cam videos that give your band huge exposure and then let's do it again
With some vigor
"ACTION"
Yeah, like how Tord is onstage. Massive energy. Murph is a bore.
shit I'm not first
He did not want to be there at all and you could tell. Its sad, if you didn't wanna do this then tell premier guitar that you don't wanna do it. Dont say you will do it and then do a horrible job with it.
that's bullshit, he's a really nice guy but he's very shy and awkward
He always looks done with life, if you look interviews and other videos. It's just how he is.
@@jellyfish0311 He's been known to really, really hate interviews
If you look at other videos by him he always look done with life. It might be his personality or his issues with anxiety or depression. In photoshoots you can see that he is rarely represented as a powerful guy and is normally represented as awkward so it is also not out of character for him to look tired. It is normally Dan or Tord that give all the energy during interviews
"It's not a particularly good guitar"? You don't say. No guitar is going to be "particularly good" when you disable 90% of what it can do. Might as well only play with 1 or 2 strings
murph’s guitar tone is and will always be better than anything you’ve ever touched lmao
It's so unprofessional and awkward, just like The Wombats.
Nothing sucks tone out of your signal quite like a Boss tuner...
Nonsense. Boss tuners are used by so many famous artists who have some of the best guitar tech’s around, Do you think they would use them if they sucked tone? In fact they have pretty good buffers, which is handy when you have quite a big pedal board. True bypass isn’t always good if that’s all you use. You sound just like the kind of person that reads things on cork sniffing Internet forums and repeats it but never played outside of a bedroom
These guys dont have a clue what their gear is LOL
Who cares? Must successful musicians don’t have time be gear nerds, they’re too busy writing, recording, touring etc, the instruments are just tools. If most gear nerds spent time actually making music other than stroking their cocks over pedals, they might actually do something worthwhile
WOMBATS? Seriously? They're NOT even Aussie!
THAT kind of name should ONLY be used by AUSTRALIAN bands!
Feckling
Dim? WTF drugs are you taking? Are you 1 of these American pseudo 'hipsters', whose butt hurt cos I insulted his favourite band?
It seems Mr. Feckler you are QUITE the troll, and not to be taken seriously! Your trail of trollage is easily traced.
So the only dim wit here is you for being a professional troll!
No1 ELSE cares what YOU think!
Be gone man child!
stop deleting comments
Greyson Myers
HAD to be done!
If it makes you feel any better, ~60% of the crew are Australian
Their name was quickly made last minute after a gig asked them "who should we say are performing tonight" and one of them (I think it was Dan) just quickly was like "the wombats" as they all had relations to animals through nicknames and stuff. Since they didn't really like the name they said they'd change it later down the line but if course they never did and now they're called "the wombats"
This video ruined my perception of this band.