Red Hot Soloing
Pepper’s pedals (boxout; interview scan; page 03)
John on the pedals used on Shadows Collide With People
“Well, there’s the Fuzz Factory. That guy (Zachary Vex) makes really interesting effects and he handpaints them himself. The song Water has that cazy guitar sound at the end of it and that’s me just playing right-handed finger harmonics and that’s the sound that came out of the thing! We also used an Obi-Wah to create sample and hold filter effects. Josh used that on the song Cut-Out for the guitar at the end that you hear wobbling. I love that sound. Frank Zappa was the first person who I ever heard use that sound on his Black Napkins song. Also, my friend Omar Rodriguez from The Mars Volta played through a Space Echo for the slide guitar that’s on Chances and 23 Go Into End.”
Gallo the guitar scout (boxout; interview scan; page 05)
On top of his parallel careers as musician, director, actor and major mouthpiece, Vincent Gallo has acted as “hustler” for John when he’s buying guitars.
“He’s found me a lot of things. At this point he’s found me pretty much a whole recording studio! As far as guitars go, he’s found me my 1955 Gretsch White Falcon, which is the nicest guitar I have, I think. I have a Rickenbacker that he got me from 1961 that used to be owned by James Burton. I have a Gibson 175 like Steve Home played on Close To The Edge. And I guess that the Telecasters he found for me, and my SG Custom from 1961 he found me. I really don’t have that much that he didn’t find for me…”
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