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Rig Rundown: Red Hot Chili Peppers [2017]

See how the extensive live setups used by Flea and Josh Klinghoffer have morphed since their 2012 I'm with You tour.

This 1959 Fender Strat is called “Chick” after famed L.A. Lakers play-by-play announcer Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn. On a previous tour, Josh was playing the closing solo in “Give It Away” when he dropped his pick and resorted to strumming the strings with his fist resulting in a fierce blow to the Strat’s middle pickup. The price tag for an original ’59 pickguard was too steep—over two grand—so Ian put a Band-Aid on it and voilà.

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