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>>This is Joe Bosso, and i'm here in Pittsburgh, where the Kings of Leon are playing and i'm
with Nacho, who's the guitar tech and before we get into guitar stuff Nacho, I have to
ask, where did you get your name? >>Um, it's kind of a lame story, my cousins
just thought my leg looked like a nacho sitting like this, so they just started calling me
Nacho. >>Um, that does not look like a nacho.
>>Yeah you know, the chip. >>Oh, I see, I thought it was because you
had a particular fondness for nachos. >>No, nothing to do with that.
>>Ok, so why don't you take me through some guitars here.
>>Alright, well we'll start with Matthews. Matt plays a Gibson ES137, humbuckers um,
it's pretty cool. He's been using it for about a year now, something like that. He loves
it, it's real bassy, not bassy but it's got a deep crunch about it you know, a lot of
feedback if you want it. >>So would you say that's the number one stage guitar?
>>Yeah for Matt that's what he's played for the past year or so.
And we'll go to Calebs, the lead singers. He plays on a 72, 1972 325. You see he's put
some marks on her, some battle scars. It's got the mini humbuckers, older guitar, it's
the only one he's really used. He's had a couple of you know, backups that he's switched
out for songs but now it's just pretty much strictly this.
>>I mean this is pretty much his main guitar. >>Yeah since I've been here so about 6 or 7 years or so.
>>So what would happen if some terrible fate befell this one? I don't know if i'd be around to find out.
I'd go running, i'd just go straight and pack my bags.
>>Oh boy, ok. >>So lets, well I mean Caleb plays a hummingbird,
shouldn't leave it out this is a nice guitar. Just got it not long ago in australia. Deep
and rich. That's it, gibson hooked us up. >>Do we deal with any special tunings?
>>Nah, not really, I mean, I tuned down to D for a minute for one song but that went
away pretty quick. And every now and again they're tuning to D, open Ds, to mess around
in the dressing room but nothing, nothing we have to play with yet.
>>Ok, can we see some amps and some pedalboards? >>Yeah, let's go.
Matt plays on a Ampeg Reverberocket, two by twelve and I guess he just really digs it, because one of the things is
it's got a master and a gain switch so he can keep the volume low, give it crunchy, turn it up
real loud, turn the crunch down. But we kind of keep it loud and crunchy, thats matts thing.
Feedback, he likes to get up in it and do stuff like that. And then his pedal board
which are all strung out, he uses a Whammy pedal, route 66 for the overdrive.
Also got a wah pedal, you know he messes around and uses that at volume. There's a little mic
stand and that's just what we've got up here, and of course the tuner. Anyway, we've got
another rack of pedals up here which we run through the ground control, you know you keep
everything turned on, much like the bass Jay showed you. Just have eight channels of multiple
loops, stuff like that. Just step on a button, queue all these pedals up here.
>>And what do we have here? >>Well, we got a Digiverb, a Verbzilla,
this is a harmonizer, or supershifter I should say. This is you know just an overdrive MXR
for more boost and gain. We;ve got more whammys, verb, another route 66, some line sixes, a
Verbzilla, another green line six, the all doing, it's pretty cool. Then the ME50, it's
supposed to have fifty multi effects, so I don't know, he uses this a lot, it's a bit
key. Had a little bit of trouble with it last night but we got through it.
>>What was the trouble? >>Oh a cable went bad, it was nothing big.
>>Does he use all fifty effects? >>No, I don't think all fifty, we've got about forty eight.
>>Ok. >>Alright, then we can go to Sir Calebs.
Caleb is playing the Matchless 212s. It's pretty
cool, it's kind of it's own thing you know, it's kind of got it's sound, you can't really,
it's got tone selector switches, you can't really dial up a middle bass or something
like that, it just gives you what it gives you. It's pretty good though, it's pretty
loud though if you want it to be. And Caleb doesn't do much on the floor, he's just got
the same effects rack, you know, the ground control voodoo labs switcher. It runs back into this rack over here.
>>What do we have here?
>>Here we have an MXR, which we use these, a Tremolo, what do you call this thing? You
know it compresses, a compressor. This is kind of a Full Drive mosfet, it's real
beefy and crunchy, sounds pretty good. This is a POG which kind of sounds like an organ,
you know polyphonic octave generator. >>What song would that be used on?
>>We used it on the record on, what's the name of that song Darren, where he uses the POG?
>>Frontier city?
>>No, anyway, I don't know. >>What you talking about?
>>Anyway, we can't think of it. >>We have a space echo, a Deja 2 that's pretty classic.
>>Here we are looking at an empty arena that will soon be filled with screaming people.
>>Hopefully screaming. >>Oh i'm quite sure.
>>Yeah Toronto gave them some competition last night, they are going to have to step up, Toronto was good.
>>16,000 last night right? >>Yeah, I heard 17, but we'll call it 16.
>>Ok, is that it for the rack? >>Yeah that's pretty much it for the rack.
>>Now, how long have you been working for the guys?
>>Well I started when they started, so me and the guy there Brent, we've done every
show that they've done so far, so what's that, 6 or 7 years, something like that.
>>So what's been the most trying experience of working with the guys?
>>Um, I guess, I don't know if there's one particular one, it's just the 14 and a half
hour flights to australia and stuff for the fifth time, that kind of gets trying, a little
hard you know, you get worn out. Or the tour buses in europe, that's rough too.
>>I have to imagine you're travelling in a little better style these days.
>>Yeah, well yeah, the roads over there are smaller, so obviously the tour buses have
to be smaller, it's just more comfortable back in the states, but we love it over there,
don't get us wrong, it's just the tour buses. >>And currently in the UK, you guys are doing
quite well. >>Yeah, they've been good to us, the UK has
been, you know where the bread and butter has been for a while, but nnow you know, it's
kinda popping up everywhere, australia is really nice, the US is starting to get better,
stuff like that so. >>Fantastic. Well this is Joe Bosso, and i've
been speaking with Nacho. Nacho thank you so much.
>>Yeah man no problem. >>And take care.
>>Alright.