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GALLERY: Reader Pedalboards 2013, Part 2

From basic Boss to sonic psychosis, we bring you another installment of cool pedalboards from PG readers.

Finland’s Keijo Kauppinen has several pedalboards. His latest houses a Korg DT-10 tuner, a Boss FS-5U footswitch, a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, a Boss DD-20 Giga Delay, a Line 6 M5 Stompbox Modeler, an Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress, a TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb, and a Carl Martin PlexiTone overdrive. He controls everything via a G-Lab GSC-3.

Stevie Van Zandt with ā€œNumber One,ā€ the ’80s reissue Stratocaster—with custom paisley pickguard from luthier Dave Petillo—that he’s been playing for the last quarter century or so.

Photo by Pamela Springsteen

With the E Street Band, he’s served as musical consigliere to Bruce Springsteen for most of his musical life. And although he stands next to the Boss onstage, guitar in hand, he’s remained mostly quiet about his work as a player—until now.

I’m stuck in Stevie Van Zandt’s elevator, and the New York City Fire Department has been summoned. It’s early March, and I am trapped on the top floor of a six-story office building in Greenwich Village. On the other side of this intransigent door is Van Zandt’s recording studio, his guitars, amps, and other instruments, his Wicked Cool Records offices, and his man cave. The latter is filled with so much day-glo baby boomer memorabilia that it’s like being dropped into a Milton Glaser-themed fantasy land—a bright, candy-colored chandelier swings into the room from the skylight.


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