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GALLERY: Lollapalooza 2015

Three days of guitar highlights from Chicago’s world-renowned festival.

Chris Kies
By Chris KiesAug 07, 2015
Chris Kies
Chris Kies has degrees in Journalism and History from the University of Iowa and has been with PG dating back to his days as an intern in 2007. He's now the multimedia manager maintaining the website and social media accounts, coordinating Rig Rundown shoots (also hosting and/or filming them) and occasionally writing an artist feature. Other than that, he enjoys non-guitar-related hobbies.
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The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel
Taking a Friday residence at the Palladia stage, Adam Granduciel played a 9-song set that touched on all three of this band’s albums. For Wagonwheel Blues’ “Arms Like Boulders” Granduciel used a ’70s Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with mini-humbuckers and for “An Ocean in Between the Waves” off Lost in the Dream, he used a 2000s Fender Stratocaster XII reissue.

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