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The guitar icon shares what went into making his chart-topping blues album and what gear fans can expect to see at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Blues Festival tour.
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 S.E.R.P.E.N.T. 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.”
Shop Slash's Gear:
Gibson Custom 1963 Firebird V - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6eJ3rr
Gibson Slash Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar - Appetite Burst - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/21AbxO
Seymour Duncan APH-2s Alnico II Pro Slash Humbuckers (Set) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3eG6DB
Seymour Duncan Slash 2.0 Humbucker (Set) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vN7GRe
Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M-80 2 x 12-Inch 45-Watt Combo - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/damNXK
Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M-80 - 45-Watt Tube Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Nkr1dK
Boss DD-3 Digital Delay - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/21QdzO
MXR M68 Uni-Vibe Chorus / Vibrato Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Y9n3YK
MXR EVH Phase 90 Eddie Van Halen Phase Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KjDaRx
Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKVmje
MXR MC401 CAE Boost/Line Driver Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75ZRAy
Dunlop 535Q Cry Baby Wah - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k0MGAv
Peterson StroboStomp HD Tuner - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQLdLj
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2Plus - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXm31V
Radial Shotgun 4-Channel Amp Driver - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xk7Vx5
Ernie Ball 2220 Power Slinky Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings - .011-.048 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6eJK3r
Dunlop Tortex 1.14 mm Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy5ZqA
Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s Goldtop - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQ7kvR
Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar - Ebony -
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Fender '59 Bassman LTD 4 x 10-inch 45-Watt Tube Combo Amp - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5gV2eL
Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5gxL2o
Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi Fuzz - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eK6yoj
T-Rex Fuel Tank Classic Power Supply - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q475RL
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