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Rig Rundown: The Afghan Whigs

The alt-rock pioneers show us the killer screen-printed Mesa/Boogies and piles of pedals they use to dish out both ethereal and rough-and-tumble tones.

Curley runs a Mesa/Boogie Big Block 750, “the best bass amp I’ve ever owned both in terms of sound and reliability,” Curley claims. The cabinet is a Mesa/Boogie PowerHouse PH1000 that sports a quartet of 10” speakers around a 15” center cone.

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