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Rig Rundown: Social Distortion [2015]

Guitarists Mike Ness and Jonny Wickersham show off their tried-and-true rock ’n’ roll machines.

Chris Kies
By Chris KiesSep 09, 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 second #1 axe for Wickersham is a 1959 Les Paul Junior doublecut that is tuned to standard. The reason he uses this one without a capo and in standard tuning is because it has a more drastic neck pitch that doesn’t play nice with a capo and overall it has a more rock ’n’ roll aggression that really shines with power and barre chords from the band’s earlier songs off Mommy’s Little Monster and Prison Bound. 

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