2012.03.05 - Premier Guitar - Rig Rundown: Guns N' Roses' DJ Ashba

PG's Tessa Jeffers is On Location in Chicago, IL, at the House of Blues where she meets up with Guns N' Roses guitarist DJ Ashba who gives us the scoop on all his touring guitars, amps, and effects that he's using on the current US tour in 2012.



Transcript:

Chris Whitemyer [Dj's guitar tech, talking about the duplicated power rig]: [...] And this is our battery backup. I've tried it out and we actually have over an hour of battery backup when the electricity goes off.

Interviewer: Have you actually ever tried that out?

CW: We had an incident in Dublin where the police came and shut the power off, because we were over our time. And then they actually-

I: The police came in, huh?

CW: They tackled me because they thought I was doing something wrong and I was like, "Hey, I just..."

DJ: Yeah, that's the night I went out with my guitar and started playing anyway and no one could figure out how the fuck I had power because they shut the power. So I am up there laughing and Axl has a megaphone.