Slash Rig Rundown for His Blues Ball Band with Tash Neal for . Festival Tour
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Slash’s blues-rock romp Orgy of The Damned debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Blues Albums Chart this spring. Now, the legendary guitar slinger is taking it to the people with his 29-date . Blues Festival tour. When Slash’s Blues Ball Band played an intimate pre-tour gig at the Gibson Garage in Nashville, they invited John Bohlinger and the PG team.
Before shooting our Rundown with singer/guitarist Tash Neal and Slash’s tech, Ace Bergman, Slash sat down with PG for a chat. The maestro tells Bohlinger about how he found his blues sound on a 1963 Gibson ES-335 he picked up at Norman’s Rare Guitars in Los Angeles. That guitar was copied by the Gibson Custom Shop for the Slash 1963 ES-335 Collector’s Edition model, which he now brings on the road.
On Orgy of the Damned, Slash and company are digging into a different repertoire than his usual hard-rock-’n’-rollin’ fare. In this case, he’s re-exploring influences and old bands. “All these songs had … a very specific influence on me,” he explains. Back in the ’90s, Slash formed his Blues Ball Band, and he was inspired to pick that project back up, record, and hit the road to play “music that I really loved when I was a kid.”
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0:00 - D’Addario & Joe Glaser
0:15 - Slash Blues Ball Band Intro
0:40 - John Bohlinger Intro
0:52 - Slash on Releasing Orgy of the Damned
1:36 - Slash on his 1963 ES-335 Collector’s Edition model
3:26 - Slash on Song Selection for Orgy of the Damned
4:51 - Slash on Recording Orgy of the Damned
5:35 - Slash on Gear for Orgy of the Damned
8:00 - Gear Differences for Blues Ball Band & GN’R
10:06 - Embracing Jams and Solos on Orgy of the Damned
11:50 - Slash Playing Pedal-Steel Guitar on Fest
12:38 - Gibson Custom Shop Master Artisan Leo Scala Explorer
14:02 - Gibson Custom 1963 Firebird V
14:42 - Slash’s Ernie Ball Power Slinkys & Tunings
15:35 - Slash 1963 ES-335 Collector’s Edition
16:42 - 1986 Gibson Les Paul Standard
18:20 - 1970s Travis Bean TB1000S
20:34 - Slash’s Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M-80 Amps
22:32 - Slash’s Blues Ball Band Pedalboard
29:36 - D’Addario & the Rig Rundown
30:07 - Tash Neal Intro
32:18 - Tash Neal’s Gibson Les Paul ’50s Goldtop & SG Special
34:54 - Tash Neal on Playing with Just 3 Strings!
36:54 - Tash Neal’s Fender ’59 Bassman LTD 4x10
38:59 - Tash Neal’s Pedalboard
46:12 - Fest Tour Happening Now!
46:47 - D’Addario Strings
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