Premier Guitar | 8 years ago
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PG’s Chris Kies stopped down to Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater before Mutemath’s hometown opening set with Twenty One Pilots and talked with the band’s two multi-instrumentalists Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas (above) and Todd Gummerman who showed off their JHS-loaded pedalboards. Plus, Roy details two interesting instruments while Todd explains how the guitar he plays has been in the band longer than him.
Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas bounces between guitar and bass during Mutemath sets. Here is his main guitar—a Sublime Guitar Company Chieftain. The guitar itself is stock, but it did originally come with a Pelham blue finish (think Dave Grohl’s Trini Lopez model), but he wanted to give the instrument a different identity. Roy used artwork from Jean-Michel Basquiat to cover the top. Only one upgrade has been made: The headstock was repaired by a friend with super glue after the guitar fell off a stand.
Guitarist/keyboardist Todd Gummerman doesn’t have a choice when it comes to his No. 1 instrument because the band has been recording and touring with this 1967 Silvertone 1429 since the early 2000s.
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