From old-school metal lords to doom gods, blues hotshots, shred heads, and indie bird-flippers—here are 12 of the coolest stomp stations from our last year of Rig Rundowns.
Samantha Fish
Chicago’s three-day, punk-rock carnival was host to Slayer, Jawbreaker, Raconteurs, Patti Smith, Rise Against, Bob Mould, Rancid, Bikini Kill, Lucero, the Struts, and more. Here are our favorite guitar-related moments from the 15th annual gathering.
Ween’s Dean Ween
One half of the offbeat alt-rock group Ween, Dean (aka Mickey Melchiondo) pays constant tribute to his Hendrix influences by primarily rocking a Strat onstage. His Frankenstein Strat’s cavity has a ’57 route with a dowel cut in half-lengthwise and glued to the outside wall to receive the extra screw hole for a ’62 or later pickguard. It was refinished Dakota red in the early ’90s, and its neck plate dates to 1962. The guitar has a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup in the bridge and Fender Lace Sensors in the middle and neck positions. The band played The Mollusk in its entirety.
Grunge songstress Clementine Creevy hits us with the barrage of drives she uses for her band's lo-fi garage sound.
At just 22, Clementine Creevy has been releasing albums for seven years and fronting Cherry Glazerr since 2013. Along the way, she’s created a distinctive band sound and a guitar approach that relies on spare phrasing, backbone riffs, dynamic shifts, and sonic contrast.
Before Cherry Glazerr’s June 11 show at Nashville’s Exit/In, the guitarist took some time to hang with PG’s Chris Kies. Creevy strapped on her Fender American Professional Strat HSS Shawbucker and showed why she’s now rocking a Roland solid-state combo (instead of her trusted Mesa/Boogie) and how she dirties up the amp’s classic-clean platform with a handful of signal disruptors.
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