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Vintage Vault. Esoterica Electrica. Mod Garage. We appreciate your support! Think you know something about guitar gear? Mick Thomson is one of the guitar players for the nine-piece band Slipknot.
Thomson is known as member 7 in the band. Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in the Slipknot guitar player Mick Thomson's guitar rig.
You have to walk before you can run, dude! Obviously, Steve Vai could play anything and sound great, but most of these guys were nothing like him… so back to the E major chord! Plus this guitar is fucking astounding - it sounds and plays incredible. I tend to approach things with a more rhythmic standpoint and come up with weird groove riffs.
When Ibanez send you a custom guitar, they send you the date it was completed on. The moment I got it, this thing immediately became my favourite guitar. Every bit of those trees will be different to any other tree - they will all sound unique. The songs in A I played those giant pointy-glazed guitars that are 50 pounds of mahogany. My tech threw them in just to experiment and I thought they sounded really good in that guitar.
You can never have too many sounds! Rich I used live. It was going to be a signature model but I left for Ibanez and they went on to sell it as their own guitar model. Rich went through a bunch of tumultuous shit within the company after Bernie Sr. My first three guitars were made while he was still there and then that happened.
Then Bernie Jr. Some other companies were looking after a lot of the stuff, while the B. Rich were handling the handmade Custom USAs. This guitar was a fuck-up - it was supposed to be long-scale because I drop-tune and pick fast, so I need more response. This ended up being a short-scale… oopsy!
Little bit of an oversight there. They had it set for a Floyd Rose where the neck is really flat to the body… there was nothing we could do about it. Who is in charge of all this? But on this, there are no string ferrules to guide the strings; they literally terminate in the wood.
The record finds Slipknot - which, in addition to Root, includes the core Des Moines, Iowa-bred unit of guitarist Mick Thomson, singer Corey Taylor, percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan, keyboardist, and sampler Craig Jones and turntablist Sid Wilson, as well as newer additions drummer Jay Weinberg and bassist Alessandro Venturella co-percussionist and original member Chris Fehn exited the band under acrimonious circumstances in March of this year, with his position filled by a so-far anonymous stand-in - playing it as hard and fierce as ever.
For evidence, witness the positively crushing Birth Of The Cruel and the rampaging closer, Solway Firth , while the band also continue to push out on their sonic boundaries, as evidenced by tracks like the choir-assisted first single Unsainted, the eerie Spiders and Not Long For This World, and the hooky, major-key thrash anthem Nero Forte.
As for the others? They also discussed new gear and new masks, and took a detailed trip back 20 years to their first-ever tour, as a second-stage act on the Ozzfest. Jim Root: "This one was a little bit different for us. The whole process for this record took probably two and a half, maybe three years. I started putting riffs and ideas together when we were on the last album cycle, just in dressing rooms or whatever, on our Pro Tools rig.
And then during the downtime when I was home I was working on arrangements. So it was a little bit of a learning curve. We got to a point where we shut the click off entirely and just went for it That was hugely important: it made us sound more like a band on record. Mick Thomson: "One cool thing about the longer time period for this one is that it gives you a longer vision.
That album was a little bit more 'built'. But this record, we would do 10 or so takes with clicks on at different tempos, and then we got to a point where we shut the click off entirely and just went for it, and did 10 or 15 more takes with no click. And that was hugely important: it made us sound more like a band on record.
Back in October of last year, you released a standalone single, All Out Life. What does the phrase "we are not your kind" signify to you? But in all likelihood, we are not your kind.
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