Premier Guitar | 10 years ago
Article and photos: http://bit.ly/4YearStrongRR
Premier Guitar hung with Alan Day, Dan O’Connor, and tech Patrick Benson of Four Year Strong before their ear-crushing set at Nashville’s Exit/In in early January 2015. Still shaking off the cold after their Canadian tour, these Worcester, Massachusetts, road dogs go for a loud and proud setup.
Alan Day’s current No. 1 is a battered and bruised ’90s Fender Fat Strat that his parents bought him when he was 12. The first good guitar he owned, this Strat is stock except that the pickguard and knobs have been changed and the middle pickup cover is removed for aesthetic reasons. Also, Day eliminated the bottom tone control so the volume knob could be moved farther away from his bashing right hand.
Day’s No. 2 is a stock 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom he purchased on eBay. He also carries a Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster with a stock neck pickup and Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge position. Day tunes his tour guitars down a whole-step to D standard and strings them with custom Ernie Ball sets, gauged .060w, .052w, .036w, .020, .014, and .011. The entire band uses InTune guitar picks and Mogami cables.
Day goes with a purple 100-watt Soldano Avenger head powered by four 6L6s.
For more info on the gear being used by the gents in FYS, visit: http://bit.ly/4YearStrongRR
