I had one Gibson on the first tour – the Firebird. But the Marshall Major and the Fender Tone Master were my rig for the last tour. I should have used a smaller wattage amp. Probably because of all the headroom I had with that 200-watt amp and was always stacking different combinations of gain on top of each other. “The fact that I used that amp wound up being a problem.
The fact that I used a 200-watt Marshall Major wound up being a problem… I should have used a smaller wattage amp So, I never played as loud as I think the band had in the past. I used a 200-watt Marshall Major amp – because John Frusciante used those, and at first, I was thinking, ‘If he used it, there’s got to be something to that loud amp.’ But over time and just the trend of how comfortable people are playing changed over time. “But live, it’s just louder and more present.
So, I was going to put that into effect on my third album with them… which didn’t come to be. I collected a bunch of amps during the first tour I’d done with them – it just goes to show you can’t make too many plans or try and control anything. But I had a whole diametrically opposite plan for that record – I was going to do a lot of creative things with amps. “But the two amps I had set up were a Marshall practice amp from the early ‘80s and a late ‘50s Fender Deluxe. I did that whole album with a Marshall practice amp! The last album I did with the Chili Peppers, The Getaway, I’m ashamed to admit that my rig was nothing like what I intended it to be. The Chili Peppers live rig is one thing, and then the studio rig would be another thing. How would you compare your Pluralone setup to what you used with the Chili Peppers? (Image credit: Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images) And early ‘60s Jazz basses, too – I have one with flats and one with wounds.” He was my best friend growing up and he died when he was 19, so I used his bass on his birthday to record the song. The bass I used a lot on this album was my late friend’s Music Man StingRay fretless bass. I used it on the first tour, but never again. But it wound up being difficult to find a place to play in that band. “Apart from on this last Pluralone album I used my Gibson Firebird VII a little bit – which I got right when I joined the Chili Peppers, thinking I would tour with it a lot because it’s a lot of fun to play. I tend to use a lot of Fenders in the studio. And I’ve recorded with a Jaguar and Jazzmaster. So, I usually approach everything thinking either, ‘Which Strat to use?’ or ‘Why would I not use a Strat?’ For Pluralone, I generally used a couple of different Strats on the last recordings. “I think because I spent so much time in the Chili Peppers, I was always attracted to the Strat. Which guitars did you use in the studio for Pluralone? I usually approach everything thinking either, ‘Which Strat to use?’ or ‘Why would I not use a Strat?’ And then the other thing I had up there but was putting a drum machine through it – but I use this on guitar all the time – was the Red Panda Particle.” “And that distortion is one of my favorite pedals – an Ibanez Bass Stack. So, I would play a whole song thinking I was on clean, but really, my distortion was on. And effects, I threw a 'board together for that show specifically, and I regretted it the entire time – because I played around four in the afternoon, and the sun was beating down on me, and I couldn’t see any of the lights! I was a little frazzled because it was my first performance, and I was forgetting all the things you’d normally check. Those are the two guitars I used at that performance. I played a Teisco Del Ray 12-string that I had just purchased three days before. “And this is typical for me – for my first-ever show, I played a bunch of guitars that I was fairly unfamiliar with.
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