Hey everybody this is Steve Marker from Garbage, we're here in beautiful New Jersey, we're
playing at Montclair at this beautiful Wellmont Theatre tonight, it's going to be wild and
I thought I'd show you a couple of my guitars that I'm going to be using tonight. I've had
this one a long time it's a Guild Bluesbird guitar I started off using these things because I was looking for, I guess something you might call, something a little bit less Paul like but different.
And I found in these guys Guild Bluebirds in the the late 90's and they're real solid and
this one is one that I had made for me and at the time I was thinking, who needs all those
switches and tone controls and all this stuff that's getting in the way in the way of the
circuit. And I had this idea that was just keep things as simple as possible, do I need a
pick up here? No, I never really use it really. So I had them make this with just the one
pickup, one volume control so in theory there's less in the way of the signal path. Now I
have to be honest I have no idea if that's true but I do love the guitar and it turned
out great and they did this black sparkle finish. I think they only made a few of these
and I've got most of them, think they sold maybe 2 of them like this and sadly Guild
doesn't make electric guitars anymore they're just doing acoustics now and that kind of
bums me out. Maybe after they see this incredible interview, they'll rethink their position and start making guitars
again, because they made some really cool stuff over the years.
Another guitar I've got with me today is this Hendman and let's see the story behind this
is, my wife wanted to get me a 50th birthday present, like a really special guitar and
I was looking to all these things on the internet. And looking for something really unique and
I found this Hendman, this isn't it, I've got this another one and I literally just called
up the guy that makes them, Graham Henman and he saw me them in LA and talked to them about
what I wanted and he sent me out something that worked out really well for me. Since
then I've used it on our album a lot and he made me a couple of these beauties for
this tour we've been on the road for about a year now with Garbage, all over the world, these things
have held up amazingly well, they're really well made. It's kind of incredible. He's having, he's working
with Rick Turner who made Lindsay Buckingham's guitars, those famous Fleetwood Mac guitars that you see and a lot
of other, he had a lot to do with the Greatful Dead in the early days and a lot of stuff I don't even know
about. He did this colour for me, we were just trying to figure our what it's actually
called, I have no idea, it's sort of a British kahki, it's called that! This is a mod, he's
got 2 models that he makes, plus a bass, and this is called the mod. These machine heads
are called spertzel, if that's how you say it. Are amazing you know, I haven't had a
guitar that's had them before and it makes it much easier on the guy who has to change
the strings every night. And they stay in tune, I love them. It's got a great a bypass
for circuitry if you pull that out and this takes it down to a single coil in both of the pickups
and very simple, but it's build like a tank and it's you know served me well, so I've
been really happy with this. So that's what that is if you see it, somewhere it's called
a Henman. They're online obviously. That and I have a bunch of other guitars, but that's
all the time we have for today, so thanks for watching, see you soon, see you on the road
>>Hello I'm Duke Erikson of Garbage and I'm here to show you a couple of guitars that
I play, on stage, off stage. This a Guild Starfire, I can't even really tell you how long
I've been playing Starfire, but I just love the feel of them, I love the sound of them, it's
a very friendly guitar and I think they've discontinued them, last time, Guild is owned
by Fender. Last time I was at Fender in LA they said they were considering to start making
them again, I hope they do, because it's just a great guitar. I just love the feel of the
neck and everything like the bigsby on it, it's a very versitile guitar, I can, I can I do
a lot with it so, I love it.
One of my favourite guitars of all time is the Gibson 335, I have a 1965 that looks very
much like this, but I took the 1965 out on tour with me, it got stolen, 2 years later
it was my birthday and my guitar tech said come upstairs, I have something and I opened
the guitar case and it was my stolen 1965 Gibson. Looks very much like this, cherry red.
They had arrested the guy at LAX and he still had my guitar he hadn't fenced it
yet, and they got my guitar back it was incredible, I nearly cried. This is my, so this is my
cheaper version of that fabulous guitar, that I use quite a bit on stage, not at much as
the Starfire, but it's one of the guitars. This too feels great, sounds great, very very
friendly guitar.
>>Hi, I'm Butch Vig from Garbage and you are here on stage with me and I'm going to give you
a quick run down of my drum kit and the rig that I play with Garbage live. This is my
drum workshop kit, I've been playing Drum Workshop for 17 years on stage with Garbage
and I absolutely love the drums. I'm playing a slightly different modified kit this time, the toms
are shallower, because I wanted to get them closer to the kick drum, as well as you can
see what I play with it. The acoustic drums as I play 4 ddrum pads that trigger samples
effects, loops, any various number of things depending on what the song is. And I've been
doing that since the end of the 1st tour that we did in 1986 so I've been playing Drum Workshop
and using the trigger system for quite a while and so far, fingers crossed, it's working
pretty good. I play Zildjian cymbals live and I also use Zildjian cymbals in Drum Workshop in the
studio and I've been using a combination of those as an acoustic kit for 17 or almost
18 years now and I love the way they sound. When I play live with Garbage I always play
an acoustic kit, in the Drum Workshop live drums trigger pads, pickups that go to the
pads and the ddrum brain. I have been using a ddrum 3 brain now since 1996 and I think we
actually bought, I want to say like 6 of these because they don't make them anymore and to
me they're still the fastest trigger out there. So when I'm playing the acousitc kit, our
front of house guy usually mixes probably 60% of the acoustic kit in the mix and probably 40%
samples. When I scroll into a song here and say turn up push it, it presets all of the
samples so when I hit the acousitc drum to when I hit the pad it triggers the acousitc
blended with sample sound or loops and sounds and that come from the other pads. In Garbage
we use a lot of sequencers and loops and sound effects live and on this tour for the 1st
time, we've been using the launchpad by Ableton which as you can see I have presets for all
of the different songs and not only does it change the presets on my samples and drumkit
it now also changes all the presets on the guitars and keyboards on stage and our headphone
mix, so I sort of am running all of the different sounds, anytime I hit say Supervixen or Queer
or Vow or Hammering in my Head or Milk or whatever the song is, it changes everything on my kit and changes everything
on stage and it's lightening fast it's also allowed us, because we're using the Ableton
live, to change the songs live, like we could speed them up, change the effects that
we're using, it's been a great, much more free and adabtable system than we've had in the
past. When we started early on we used samplers and I think even on the 1st tour we probably
used A decks, trying to use them live and the launchpad hooked up with the Drum Workshop
kit and the ddrum pads and triggers, it makes sense to Garbage, I mean it works because for me
we're able to get the spontaneity of a live performance but we're also sort of able to recapture the sounds of our albums