Premier Guitar | 9 years ago

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PG’s John Bohlinger hung with Russell Lissack and Justin Harris of Bloc Party before their Nashville show. Though the guitars and amp were tried and true workhorses, both of their pedalboards looked like the dashboard of the Millennium Falcon.

Russell Lissack is a fan of Fender guitars and this ’03 Tele was purchased with his record advance when the band was first signed. He swapped out the original bridge pickup for a Seymour Duncan single-coil and uses Ernie Ball Super Slinky .009–.042 strings on all his guitars.

Next up is Lissack’s mid-2000s Fender Tele Custom. It’s totally stock—except for a plastic toy mounted under the pickguard that he uses for some weird, spacey noises mixed with ambient delays.

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