The War on Drugs [2022]
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For nearly two decades and across five albums, The War on Drugs\\u2019 founder and frontman Adam Granduciel has narrated our complex modern lives while his band has scored our dreams.
The captivating moods of their music, much like us, morph from dense melancholy to saturated, swirling madness and everywhere in between. Granduciel often layers his Springsteen-meets-Young proletariat prose atop a post-rock soundscape, but the heartbeat of their impressive, expansive live shows is their gear and how it is implemented.
\\u201cI could play the whole tour with two or maybe three guitars\\u2014a White Falcon, Strat, and maybe a Jazzmaster\\u2014but I bring all these out just for fun,\\u201d he says with a laugh as he considers his trove of axes.
So, let\\u2019s have some fun already! Before a full evening of The War on Drugs\\u2019 jams in support of 2021\\u2019s I Don\\u2019t Live Here Anymore, PG was invited to Nashville\\u2019s historic Ryman Auditorium. We covered Granduciel\\u2019s growing guitar collection, got the skinny on how Jerry Garcia\\u2019s monstrous setup played into the bandleader\\u2019s theatre rig, and we took in a cockpit view of his stompbox squadron full of tone ticklers, sizzlers, and wigglers. In addition, bassist David Hartley showed off a trio of Ps, an armada of Ampegs, and demo\\u2019d a fuzz that has ended his quest for razing tones.
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