Bumblefoot Ron Thal gear video - Vigier guitars

Bumblefoot from Guns N' Roses plays Vigier guitars. He tells us what he loves about the guitar's and gives us a demo.

The first guitar he shows us is the Vigier GV:
The Vigier GV is a single cutaway guitar, it's got two humbuckers but has a 5 way switch selector. The guitar comes with Dimarzio PAF Pro pickups and alder body. According to Bumblefoot it sounds great and the best guitar Vigier has come out with.

The second guitar is Vigier's Bumblefoots Signature guitar
The Bumblefoot Vigier signature guitar is a modified version of the Excaliber guitar. The pickups and pickup selector is customised to Bumblefoots tasts getting nasty gritty tones, getting thicker single coil characteristics. It also has a small how for Bumblefoots thimble.

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For more on Vigier guitars check out GuitarCenter.com

Bumblefoot Gear interview on the Gibson Darkfire

The Gibson Darkfire seems to be building a fan base from guitar heroes. Billy Morrison has already given his official endorsement, now Bumblefoot for Guns N' Roses is giving his praises to the Darkfire.

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Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Interview


Heres some of the Darkfires features:

Headstock:
- Gibson Darkfire vintage Traditional Flowerpot headstock inlay from the 1920's. With a red Darkfire truss rod cover.
- Upgraded Powerhead tuners, for self tuning from the Master Control Knob.

Nut:
- Self lubricating teflon nut.

Neck:
- Classic Block inlays made of acrylic and carbon fibre. This design was used in Gibson 335's from the early 1960's.

Pickups
- New Gibson P90H pickups at the bridge, to give that classic single coil sound but designed to stop the hum
- BurstBucker 3 pickups
- Piezo bridge pickup

One of the most unique features of the Darkfire guitar is its Chameleon Tone Technology which allows the guitar to change its tone to many classic sounds even to make it Telecaster or Strat like.
Check this clip of Bumblefoot playing an instrumental of Better from the new Gun N' Roses Chinese democracy album, the guitar has that single coil strat quality to it. Truly amazing.

Video of Bumblefoot and Line 6 Vetta II

Bumble foot (Ron Thal) guitarist with the new Guns N' Roses talks about part of his rig when touring with Guns. He uses a Line 6 Vetta II. He goes through the basic sounds, such as clean "Fender" sound, chunky Marshall sounds, and bluesy JCM 800. Bumblefoot then demostrates some of the other effects he likes such as auto wah, reverse delay.


For more information on Vetta II and Line products check out www.line6.com/vettaii

and for more on bumblefoot's gear check out http://www.bumblefoot.com/gear.php