Chords for Rig Rundown - Melvins' Buzz Osborne [2015]

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[N] Hey, what's up everybody?
This is Perry with Premier Guitar here in super muggy Nashville,
Tennessee, hanging out with Buzzo from the Melvins.
We're going to take a look at some
real cool stuff he's got going on.
We haven't done a rig rundown with you for a while.
You
got some new stuff to show us.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Well, I haven't seen this yet.
This is pretty
cool.
Let's talk about that bad boy.
The anodized gold electrical guitar from the Electrical
Guitar Company.
Here, try it.
See what you think.
Yes, I do.
It's a lot lighter than
I expected.
It's heavier than a Les Paul.
It's heavier than a Les Paul, but it is all
metal so I kind of figured it would [Am] be heavy.
The neck.
All the way down.
[N] Try it all the
way down.
The thinnest neck.
Alright, so this is your, is this your number one right now?
This one and the orange one.
Oh cool.
Same, exact same setup?
They're a little different
body shape.
This one has a little more of a horn on it, see?
But yeah, they're pretty
much the same.
I have a Gibson pickup and then one that he designed that he wound that
has a little bit lower output in the neck position because I realized it was getting
too much output when I had the switch.
A little too hot on the neck.
Too hot.
And that's the
way all those pickups always run.
I got that idea and he ran them.
So did you tell him
hey I want something a little less hot and he did that for you?
He did.
Does that sound
more like a PAF to you?
Yeah, kind of.
I don't know what it sounds like.
It's just lower
output and it works for me perfect.
So now when I have the switch, I used to switch all
the time through the whole show.
Sure.
Full blast, half blast, quieter.
Chill.
Yeah.
So
it really works great.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And then you're still playing the reflective
aluminum one that we saw.
Yeah, well there's this one.
You can try it if you want.
Oh yeah,
awesome.
And then I just got this one recently which is actually chrome body like an auto
part.
Chrome.
The neck's still aluminum.
So is the neck of the same thinness on all of
these?
I can't get over that.
That's like the thinnest thing I've ever felt.
Pretty
thin.
A little thicker but not too much.
I don't know if you guys can see this on camera
but this is like the skinniest little neck in the world.
They're the same all the way.
Yeah.
There's no, yeah, it doesn't concave or anything.
So when you have the hands of
a five year old like I do, they're amazing.
Yeah, this is perfect.
Really, really cool.
He wanted me to try this one out with a chrome.
So with these same pickups, right, in both
setups, did you pull these out of a Lustball?
No, I just bought them.
You just bought them?
Gotcha.
They're Lustball custom pickups, whatever they are.
Cool.
And then the same deal here,
one of his?
Yep, one of his with a low output on it.
It sounds pretty bulletproof.
Oh, they're
amazing.
Yeah, really cool.
I don't know anybody else that does that.
Speaking of bulletproof,
looks like these sons have been to hell and back.
They're actually in pretty good shape.
I just had them revamped recently.
Do you know what year?
79s.
79s.
Salt State.
There's
no tubes in this setup at all.
At all.
The best part is a lot of people think that these
guitars are all high-end-y.
They're all mid-range and honky sounding.
They're not at all.
Really,
yeah.
And so then people freak out that these aren't tube amps. _
Sounds good to you.
They sound
great.
The thing is, I've A-B'd and I can't get the same kind of thing with a regular setup.
And
anybody that I know, a guitar player from Honky, who also plays in Down, they toured with us and
he was like, I don't know if I could use these.
But once he tried it, because he's used to
Marshalls and stuff like that, once he tried it, he was like, oh my god, these sound amazing.
Once
you can get past that mental block of there's no tubes in it.
Of aluminum and no tubes, then.
Do
you record with these?
Oh, I record with everything.
I got a bunch of different amps though.
Yeah,
sure.
A few.
You guys cover a whole lot of sounds.
A bunch of different guitars, a bunch of different
amps.
This is what I use live.
It's really reliable.
You know, Crown Power Amps or a G-USC.
We didn't use the Crown tonight.
This is a redundant over here.
Gotcha, just a backup.
Yep.
Cool.
And then, so these cabs are different than the last time, but you're still running a similar
configuration.
You got a couple of 15s and a couple of 12s, right?
Actually, what I'm using
this time, I don't know any other guitar players doing this, two 15s in this cabinet, one 15 and
one 12 in that cabinet.
Weird.
That's awesome.
So I'm using three 15s and one 12 for guitar.
Are the
15s to compensate at all for like, maybe like, you know, some people would argue that a tube
amp has a little more like bottom or more rumble?
No, not at all.
I would say no, I like the 15 sound.
Yeah.
They're way more, you know, _ pounding sounding.
Most people can't deal with it until
they try it.
You gotta feel it, huh?
15s are like one of the most underappreciated guitar speakers
that there is.
I don't know why people, more people don't use it because they can't get,
it's like what Kevin talks about, the guy, Kevin Burkett that makes these guitars, he goes,
once people can get past the metal, then it's metal, then they love them.
Then they love it.
Love them.
Yeah, this is too cool, man.
Yeah.
All right, and the pedal setup is real simple.
Really simple.
Not a whole lot of stuff going on.
You got that way huge.
Yep.
That I got from the guy from Dunlop, which is really great.
And I bought the Octavio and
then a compressor, a distortion box that stays on all the time, which is actually a bass distortion
box.
Yeah, I noticed that you, have you, obviously you've AB'd like a regular just overdrive with the
bass.
I've AB'd everything.
You love it.
I've tried a million different things and that's the best one
for me and for my setup.
And it just stays on?
Well, you know, it stays on all the time and then
I do all of my tone stuff with the switch.
Sure.
Three different volumes.
Do you ever use the tone
knob to dial it back a little bit?
Sometimes.
And you know, you figure it out.
Every show is
different.
Every stage is different.
So I might need a little more volume on the rhythm pickup
than normal.
So out of curiosity, what is it about the bass drive that you like,
like that particular bass drive, does it do something different than an over, like a normal
overdrive?
Is it real, real, real transparent or something?
Most distortion boxes sound too fuzzy.
Yeah.
This is a cleaner sound.
Gotcha.
But you still, it's still raging, you know, really great.
So then our sound guy mics up a 15 and he mics up the 112.
So you get a good mix of both.
Combination.
Sure.
And then the compressor I use mostly for over the top feedback stuff or lead
stuff sometimes.
Use a little bit of delay.
The Octavio I rarely use.
I hit it once in a while.
Once in a while.
I noticed that it's just dimed on both.
It's just noise.
All the way.
Noise, huh?
Yep.
Makes it fun.
And the compressor's up all the way too.
Yeah.
Very cool, man.
All right, so is this a custom? _
Like, did somebody make these for you?
Yeah, the guy from Emperor made these.
Oh, Emperor cabs?
Yeah.
Why did he call these?
Why did he call them blown?
He's gonna make me my own cabinets.
I said,
I want them to be called blown.
Blown.
Copyrighted.
Nice.
Don't rip it off, guys.
This is copyrighted.
Somebody asked what kind of cabinets you use.
I use blown cabinet.
No, really, what kind are they?
Blown.
They're blown.
I'm the only guy I know that uses blown cabinets exclusively.
[D] Very, very clever.
Hey, man, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today.
Now you have to buy one of
these cool guitars.
I can't wait to get my hands on one of those things.
Those are awesome.
Cool,
check them out.
See you guys soon.
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