Gallery: Lollaplooza 2017

Temples’ James Bagshaw

Temples’ frontman/guitarist loves Gretches. For most of the band’s set, he bounced between a 12-string Chet Atkins Country Gentleman and this 1963 Tennessean—including for the closer “Shelter Song.”

The Drums’ Tom Harlow

For the song “Best Friend” (and most of the band’s jams), Harlow went with his Fender Jazzmaster.

Liam Gallagher’s Mike Moore

While playing “Morning Glory” off Oasis’ (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Moore went with his cherry Gibson ES-335.

Liam Gallagher’s Jay Mehler

The former member of Kasabian and Beady Eye stuck close to his collection of Gibsons for the Gallagher-shortened set including this non-reverse Firebird used on “Rock ’n’ Roll Star.” (Liam left the stage after the fourth song and later stated on Twitter that his “voice was f*@#-ed from the show the night before.”)

George Ezra

The singer-songwriter hailing from across the pond brought his Gibson ES-175 to Chicago and rocked it during “Barcelona.”

Cage the Elephant’s Brad Shultz

The CTE guitarist (and brother to singer Matt Shultz) is a longtime Mustang user. He brought the rock ’n’ roll to the festival with this new-but-beat-up Mustang, which is completely stock aside from a mod where the bridge pickup is connected directly to the output. He opts for this live setup because the guitar’s switches often get in the way while he thrashes onstage and in the crowd. (When he’s in the studio, Brad has his tech rewire the guitar so he has all tonal options at his disposal.)

Cage the Elephant’s Daniel Tichenor

When collaborating with Dan Auerbach on the band’s latest album, Tell Me I’m Pretty, Tichenor was wooed by the short-scale Mustang for its thumpy, punchy tone, but live he still rocks his old trusty Fender P bass.

Cage the Elephant’s Nick Bockrath

The band’s lead guitarist stretches out during “Spiderhead” with his custom Harper Guitars Classic that’s loaded with TV Jones Filter’Trons.

Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz

The flamboyant frontman dropped some jaws and raised some eyebrows when he came running out in a dress for their opener, “Cry Baby.”

Spoon’s Britt Daniel

The Austin-based bandleader takes a break from playing his Fender American Elite Thinline Telecaster and has fun with the crowd during “Do I Have to Talk You Into It.”

Spoon’s Rob Pope

The former Get Up Kids bassist has handled low-end duties for Spoon since the 2007 album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. For the indie band’s Lolla gig, he mainly used his cherished ’70s Fender P.

Muse

Matt Bellamy took to the dark stage to light up the sky thanks to his Manson signature and party-time shades.

Muse’s Chris Wolstenholme

Muse opened its headlining set with “Dig Down,” with Wolstenholme busting out the doubleneck—it combines a Misa Kitara and a Status Graphite S2-Classic.

Muse’s Matt Bellamy

Before inclement weather forced Muse to cut their set short after only four songs, Bellamy took flight with his signature Manson on “Psycho.”

Mondo Cozmo’s Drew Beck

Beck stuck close to his Gibson ES-Les Paul for most of the band’s midday set on Friday.

Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi

Still enjoying the wave of support from their 2017 release, Life Without Sound, the group’s guitar-slinging singer loses himself during “Modern Act” with his non-reverse Gibson Firebird.

The Lemon Twigs’ Megan Zeankowski

The low-ender spent most of her afternoon backing up the D’Addario brothers with her cherry Rickenbacker 4003.

The Lemon Twigs’ Brian D'Addario

Onstage, the D’Addario brothers take turns fronting the band on a shared guitar and hopping behind the drums. Michael starts gigs on drums as Brian fronts the band on guitar, and then the brothers swap spots onstage around the show’s halfway point (both are killer drummers, for the record). They used to rely on Michael’s ’64 Gibson Melody Maker, but for this summertime gig they traded off playing a ’70s Fender Strat. Here Brian gets down during an instrumental break in “Haroomata.”

Kaleo’s Rubin Pollock

The Icelandic lead guitarist relied on his Fender Vintage Hot Rod ’52 Telecaster to lay down some slide-enhanced atmospheric sounds during the song “I Can’t Go on Without You.”

Kaleo’s Daniel Kristjánsson

Kristjánsson held down much of Kaleo’s set using his Fender Standard Precision and Moog station that’s ready to orbit Earth.

Kaleo’s JJ Julius Son

The frontman commandeers his custom Marrakech Runes resonator (given to him by luthier Peter Turner in 2016) to bridge the folk-blues sound of Iceland with the delta blues of the American South during “Broken Bones.”

Phantogram’s Josh Carter

The electro-rock, trip-hop duo stormed the stage with big beats and snarling guitar—evident here with Carter abusing his Music Man Cutlass during a noise break in “Same Old Blues.”

Ryan Adams

The singer-songwriter, poet, producer, and Rig-Rundown avoider grabbed his vintage Fender Strat and went to town during “Let It Ride.”

Foster the People’s Mark Foster

The grooving bandleader strapped on his Gibson ES-335 for the hypnotic number, “Pseudologia Fantastica.”

blink-182’s Mark Hoppus

The cofounding bassist rode his signature Fender Jaguar bass—with octopus and bee artwork painted by Greg “Craola” Simkins—for the crowd-pumping number “The Rock Show.” The bass has just a single volume knob and Seymour Duncan SPB-3 Quarter Pound P-bass pickups that are inverted because he believes it gives a more even spectrum across all the strings.

blink-182’s Matt Skiba

The Alkaline Trio guitarist and newest member of the So-Cal punkers had a bash with his Fender Jag during “Cynical” off the album California, which marked Skiba’s first recording with blink.

Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg
While her 6-string bandmates rock nothing but offset Fenders, the band’s longtime bassist covers the gamut of dreamy pop ballads to garage-rock dance parties with her Rickenbacker 4001 used here during “Undertow.”

Warpaint’s Theresa Wayman

For “Krimson,” Wayman bends some strings with her stock 1966 Fender Mustang that she prefers for its small neck and low action. (See the rest of her gear in our Warpaint Rig Rundown.)

Ron Gallo

One of the festival’s lone rock ’n’ roll torchbearers (think Stooges-style chaos minus the blood) ends his set, fire extinguisher in fretting hand, with the high-voltage “Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me.”

Highly Suspect’s Rich Meyer

For the single “Serotonin,” he goes with this sharp Jaguar bass that has a block-marker Precision neck.

Highly Suspect’s Johnny Stevens

The frontman and lone guitarist for Highly Suspect uses his King Bee La Grange model that has a set of gold-foil pickups that help him get the desired bite for the band’s Grammy-nominated single “My Name is Human.”

Highly Suspect’s Johnny Stevens

During the song’s solo, he took his King Bee to the deck.

Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr

The bass-drums-duo’s frontman was a longtime rocker of Gretsch Electromatic and Fender Starcaster basses, but for the 2017 tour in support of How Did We Get So Dark?, Kerr switched to a handful of custom Jaguar basses. This black sparkle 4-string was used for the fan-favorite “Come on Over.”

Alt-J’s Joe Newman

The English indie-rock bandleader flip-flops between guitar and bass during shows. Here, he’s spending time with a sunburst Fender Strat for “Something Good.”

The xx’s Romy Madley Croft

Saturday’s headliners lit up the downtown Chicago sky thanks to Romy and her ambient guitar textures played on this Gibson Les Paul.

The xx’s Oliver Sim

The xx has been hitting the U.S. heavy in support of their latest album, I See You. Oliver brought a hefty load of black Fender P basses for jams like “Say Something Loving.”

Mac DeMarco

The Canadian multi-instrumentalist (aka Pepperoni Playboy)—seen here with a Fender Strat—closed out Lollapalooza’s Pepsi stage on Saturday evening with a set that included covers of Vanessa Carlton and the Champs.

Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo

The formerly one-man band turned four-piece frontman for Car Seat Headrest relied on this MIM Fender Telecaster for most of the band’s midday set. He spoke with PG in 2016 and here’s what he had to say about it: “The Telecaster was a gift … I’ve never had much of a taste for big, heavy guitars because they weigh down my neck. The Tele is a lot more solid in that respect, and I do like it for that reason.”

Car Seat Headrest’s Ethan Ives

Helping fill the guitar parts on the band’s discography mostly written and performed by Toledo, Ives goes with humbuckers and his Gibson SG to contrast his bandmates single-coil Tele.

Milky Chance’s Clemens Rehbein

Most of the band’s Sunday afternoon set featured the guitarist/singer playing his old, cherished Guild Starfire IV including for songs “Blossom” and “Sweet Sun.”

Milky Chance’s Antonio Greger

“Ego” saw the German-born guitarist put on and plug in his Gibson ES-335.

The Shins’ James Mercer

While belting out “Caring is Creepy” to the closing-day attendees, the Shins founding member hammers away on his Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway.

Grouplove’s Christian Zucconi

The party was kept alive during the good-vibe tribe’s set thanks to up-tempo numbers like “I’m With You” and “Hippy Hill,” while also keeping it fun and fresh with tributes to David Bowie (“Space Oddity”) and the Beastie Boys (“Sabotage”). Zucconi went up front and center for “Itchin’ on a Photograph.”