Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers Rig Rundown

Ahead of their performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Zito, Castiglia, and Vivino gave PG’s John Bohlinger a look at the Deluxe-led rigs they use with Murray.

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Modless Mayer

This PRS John Mayer Silver Sky was sent to Zito by Rich Hannon at Paul Reed Smith. No mods—it’s the same as when it came out of the box. “It’s perfect,” says Zito.

Start Your Engines

Zito’s fiancée bought this from the Gibson Garage the day of this Rundown. It’s a Murphy Lab Les Paul in British racing green, with custom unpotted humbuckers.

Mike Zito’s Pedalboard

Zito has a Boss TU-3, Brown Amplification SSHAC and Protein, and Custom Tones Ethos Clean Fusion Deluxe, which runs direct to front-of-house. There are also two utility boxes: a Walrus Canvas and JHS Buffered Splitter.

Bloody Good Gibson

Gibson sent over this Les Paul Standard in “Blood Brother red,” quips Castiglia. He uses bass picks, which he purchases from Pick World in New Castle, Delaware, and plays Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky strings.

Albert Castiglia’s Pedalboard

Castiglia’s simple pedalboard carries a G-Lab MIDI Wowee Wah MWW-1, JHS AT+, and a Catalinbread Topanga, plus a Walrus Canvas and Radial JDI Passive DI Box. A UAFX Lion runs right to front-of-house.

It’s a Wonderful Day for Pie

Vivino calls this Gibson Standard Les Paul “Cherry Pie.” It’s loaded with Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Queen Buckers. He’s not a pedal player—he rides his volume and tone controls to get what he needs.

Jimmy Vivino’s Amp and Pedalboard

Vivino brings just one pedal: a Way Huge Deep State, built for him by Jeorge Tripps. It runs into a Fender Deluxe Reverb. “Any Deluxe will do,” he says.

Boss TU-3

Walrus Canvas Passive Re-Amp

Fender Deluxe Reverb

JHS AT+

Catalinbread Topanga

UAFX Lion

Radial JDI Passive DI Box

Gibson Les Paul

PRS John Mayer Silver Sky