GALLERY: Lollapalooza 2013

Lollapalooza 2013
Grant Park South was filled to near capacity during the National's set Saturday on the Red Bull stage.

Atlas Genius' Keith Jeffery
This south Australian alt-rock trio is comprised of three brothers-Keith Jeffery, Michael Jeffery, and Steven Jeffery. Here, bandleader Keith gets down with his Fender Cabronita Telecaster outfitted with TV Jones Classics during his solo in "If So."

Bad Things' Jared Palomar
Bad Things bassist Jared Palomar runs his Fender Jazz bass through an Aguilar DB750 driving an Aguilar GS 412. His only outboard devices are a Korg DTR-2 rack tuner and a dbx 166xs compressor.

Bad Things’ Anthony Sanudo
For most of the Bad Things’ set, rhythm guitarist Anthony Sanudo played his main axe—a Rock N’ Roll Relics Jazz-90 with D. Allen P-90s. His Gator Gig-Box pedalboard includes a Boss TU-2 Tuner, Xotic Effects RC Booster, Boss DD-6 delay, Boss DM-3 delay, Keeley Java Boost, and a Strymon Flint, all of which feed a 5881-powered Friedman Dirty Shirley head driving a matching 2x12 cab.

Bad Things' Shaun White
The snow- and skateboarding gold medalist and X Games record holder adds "lead guitarist" to his list of accomplishments. During the first of his two Lollapalooza sets with Bad Things, he blasted his Gibson Les Paul Studio through a 3 Monkeys Orangutan half-stack. His Salvage Custom pedalboard has three Boss pedals-a TU-2 tuner, a DD-7 delay, and an RV-5 Digital Reverb-a T-Rex Crunchy Frog, and a Six String Effects Cobbles Tone.

Ben Howard's India Bourne
Howard's bassist, India Bourne, worked double-duty at Lollapalooza, alternating between '57 Fender Precision reissue and a cello. Her bass rig also features an Ashdown CTM-300 tube head, an EBS MultiComp pedal, and a Boss TU-3 tuner.

Ben Howard
English singer-songwriter Ben Howard croons "Keep Your Head Up" while fingerpicking his Martin D-28, which he routes through two Fender Deluxe Reverbs.

Band of Horses Ben Bridwell
Ben Bridwell plays his 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom-which is nicknamed "Ace Frehley" during Band of Horses' performance of "NW Apt." at Lollapalooza 2013. His pedalboard features a Boss TU-2 tuner, a T-Rex Room-Mate, three Bosses-two Boss DD-5 delays, and a TR-2 Tremolo-an Electro-Harmonix Freeze Nano, an MXR Micro Amp, and an SFE the Pusher.

Band of Horses' Tyler Ramsey
Ramsey's main axe at Lollapalooza was his stock, late-'70s Gibson ES-335, which he ran into a Marshall JMP Mk II head driving a Blackstar 2x12 cabinet, as well as a Fender Deluxe Reverb.

Brick + Mortar's Brandon Asraf
Asraf handles bass and guitar duties, switching between his Gibson SG-a sweet, $100 pawnshop find-and a Carvin bass he modified by adding two Duncan Basslines. Both instruments ran into his Markbass Little Mark III head and 1x15 cabinet.

Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
Bradley got his first break in the '90s when he was in Brooklyn performing as a James Brown impersonator. Discovered by Daptone Records, Bradley has since put out two albums of his own material, including 2013's Victim of Love. Inspired by their retro ringleader, the Extraordinaires play old-school gear. Bassist Vince Chiarito plays a 1976 Gibson SB-300 into an Ampeg SVT-CL and Ampeg SVT-810E. Guitarist Alex Chakour plays his Truetone Speed Demon into an Ibanez Wau Fuzz and a Fender Super Reverb, while Paul Schalda plays his Rickenbacker 360 into a Boss TR-2 Tremolo and a Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue.

Eric Church
Eric Church-the lone country star at Lollapalooza this year-serves up his band's southern-fried country rock with the help of his Gibson Hummingbird, which is equipped with Fishman Matrix Infinity electronics feeding an Avalon U5 DI.

Eric Church Band's Driver Williams
Williams relied exclusively on a nice selection of PRS SC 245 models during the Eric Church Band's performance at Lollapalooza.

Eric Church Band's Jeff Hyde
Multi-instrumentalist Jeff Hyde helped Eric Church hold down country tradition by switching between a Johnson resonator, an Ovation mandolin, and several banjos built by Washburn, Mitch Keys, and Deering.

Eric Church Band's Jeff Cease
Cease grinds out rhythms with his trusty Gibson SG, which he runs into a pedalboard stocked with a modded Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, three T-Rex pedals-an Alberta, a Tremster, and a Replica-and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. From there, his signal goes into two amps, a Reinhardt Vintage 50 and a Marshall JTM50 combo.

Eric Church Band's Lee Hendricks
Hendricks alternated between 4-and 5-string Sadowsky basses during the Eric Church Band's Lolla set. Here he's shown with the 5-string during "How 'Bout You." He eschews effects and sends his signal to both an Avalon U5 DI and a Mesa/Boogie Big Block 750 head powering an Ampeg 8x10 cabinet.

Deap Vally's Lindsey Troy
The fiery guitarist/vocalist for L.A.'s fuzzed-out blues-rock duo relies on Fender Mustang guitars into Fender Bassman and Deluxe amps running in tandem. As for pedals, she keeps things pretty simple-it's just an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff and a DeltaLab DD1 Delay.

Ghost B.C.'s Nameless Ghouls
The purposely anonymous "Nameless Ghouls" of Swedish metal band Ghost B.C. both prefer Gibson RD reissue axes.

Local Natives' Nik Ewing
Bassist Nik Ewing of the Local Natives thumps out the low end with his go-to Fender Deluxe P Bass Special, which features a slimmer, faster Jazz neck and a Precision body loaded with Vintage Noiseless pickups-a P and a Jazz in the bridge-feeding an active circuit. He plugs it into a 300-watt Fender Super Bassman head and matching 8x10 cab.

Local Natives' Ryan Hahn
Ryan Hahn primarily holds down keyboard and mandolin duties for the Local Natives, but sometimes he helps out with guitar, too. Here he plays a Gretsch G5422TDC Electromatic hollowbody driving two Fender Twin Reverbs by way of Empress, Boss, Electro-Harmonix, and Fulltone stompboxes.

Local Natives' Taylor Rice
Rice primarily used his Goya Rangemaster semi-hollowbody during the Natives' set, including during a cover of the Talking Heads' "Warning Sign."

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real's Corey McCormick
Bassist Corey McCormick played his entire Lollapalooza set with his Gibson Les Paul Money 4-string, which he routed through a Markbass Little Mark III head driving an Aguilar 4x10 cab. His stompboxes include two Bosses-a TU-2 tuner and an ODB-3 Bass OverDrive-a few Electro-Harmonixes-a Micro POG, a Q-Tron, and a Holy Grail-a HomeBrew Electronics Hematoma, and a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby 105Q wah.

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Lukas Nelson (son of Willie) bends the strings on his 1957 Gibson Les Paul Jr during his Lollapalooza 2013 set.

The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz
Lumineers frontman Wesley Schultz strums his '66 Guild T-50 during "Submarines."

Mumford and Son's Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford destroyed the D string on his Mart D-28 while banging out chords to "Whispers in the Dark."

The National's Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner does double duty as the Naitonal's primary keyboardist and as co-guitarist with brother Bryce. Here he takes a solo at the end of "I Should Live in Salt" on Bryce's custom Gibson Firebird, which has a P-90 in the bridge and two mini humbuckers. Aaron also prefers Fender Super Reverb or Twin Reverb reissues because of how well they work with his many stompboxes.

The National's Bryce Dessner
One-half of the National's twin-brother guitar attack, Bryce Dessner, plays his vintage Fender Jaguar during "I Should Live in Salt" and "Don't Swallow the Cap." Bryce relies on Fender Super Reverb or Twin Reverb reissues because they're friendly to his packed pedalboard.

The National's Scott Devendorf
Devendorf used his sunburst '78 Fender P bass for most of the band's Lolla set. The P goes into an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano, a Boss GE-7 EQ, an Endangered Audio Research AD4096, a Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive, an Aguilar Tone Hammer, and a Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus, and then into a Jaguar 200 head driving an Ampeg SVT-610HLF cabinet.

Nine Inch Nails' Robin Finck
Longtime Trent Reznor collaborator Robin Finck used a plethora of gear throughout the two-hour NIN show that closed out Lollapalooza's Friday night. Here he plays a prototype of his signature Schecter Ultra through a Kemper Profiling Amp, Native Instruments Guitar Rig, Ohmicide Distortion, and, SoundToys plug-ins.

Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor
Despite being known as a techno genius, Reznor furiously rocked a Gibson ES-335 during NIN's opening number, "Copy of A."

Perry Farrell
Lollapalooza's organizer and Jane's Addiction ringleader Perry Farrell took the time to stop by the Kidzapalooza stage Saturday to hang with the kiddies and introduce Shaun White's new band, the Bad Things.

Planet Hemp's Rafael Crespo
Crespo's psychedelic hardcore riffs come courtesy of his Fender HSS Stratocaster, an Orange Rockerverb 50, and a '70s Marshall JMP Mk II.

Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme
Flying high from QOTSA's critically acclaimed sixth album, ...Like Clockwork, Josh Homme hammers away on his MotorAve semi-hollowbody nicknamed Ryder during "No One Knows" and "My God Is the Sun."

Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen
Van Leeuwen adds atmospherics to the QOTSA sound with his upcoming signature Fender Jazzmaster, which features an aftermarket Mastery bridge.

Reignwolf
Reignwolf-aka Jordan Cook-was a one-man wrecking ball, wowing Lollapalooza onlookers with fiery playing and rambunctious stage presence. Here he plays a Gibson ES-335 into a Fender Princeton and a jumpered 50-watt Marshall JMP head driving a Marshall 4x12.

GALLERY: Lollapalooza 2013

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