Rig Rundown: Shinedown's Zach Myers & Eric Bass [2022]

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Musical acts currently filling arenas fall into a few categories: pop, electronic, country, and legacy. The notion of modern or contemporary rock bands packing enormo-domes feels like a fossil, but don’t tell that to platinum-selling Shinedown, who’s been packing thousands-of-seats houses for years.

The group was founded by vocalist Brent Smith in 2001, after his previous band, Dreve, disbanded). He enlisted Jasin Todd (guitarist), Brad Stewart (bass), and Barry Kerch (drums). Zach Myers joined the fold in 2005 (as a touring member). He and current bassist Eric Bass (no joke) first earned album credits with 2008’s smash The Sound of Madness. (Rig Rundown alumnus Nick Perri was a short-time member of Shinedown and earned lead guitar credits on TSOM before fully handing over the 6-string reins to Myers.)

The quartet’s ability to fuse post-grunge pyrotechnics, four-on-the-floor rockers, and glossy, arms-in-the-air anthems, and their dynamic acoustic performances, have earned them 17 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. (If you include the other Billboard charts, they’ve got three more.) They also have three platinum albums (three more are certified gold in the U.S.), and six additional platinum singles. If guitar truly is in a slump in pop culture and the mainstream, somebody forgot to tell Shinedown.

When PG’s Chris Kies first talked tone tools with Myers and Bass in 2013, they had some gear, and even some cool signature stuff. But this time, the war chest was on another level. Before their May 4 headline show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, supporting their new, seventh album, Planet Zero, the duo flexed their rockstar credentials and carted out 40-plus instruments. Myers contends he uses every one of his guitars on a nightly basis. And Bass details his signature line of Prestige basses, which incorporate an ingenious thumb rest. Myers also shows off an irreplaceable PRS created by the late American fashion designer and entrepreneur Virgil Abloh (Off-White), and he explains how a custom-painted Silver Sky earned him some serious eye rolls and scoffs. Plus, their techs break down the power and might that help them rock the rafters.

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00:00 - D’Addario XS Electric Strings
00:15 - Zach Myers Intro
01:00 - Pink PRS Silver Sky
03:23 - PRS SE Zach Myers Off-White
05:21 - PRS SE Zach Myers by Joshua Vides
07:18 - PRS Private Stock Paul’s 85
08:16 - PRS DW CE 24 Floyd
08:49 - Guitar Picks
10:07 - PRS 594 McCarty
11:07 - PRS Santana
13:09 - PRS NF3
13:57 - PRS Mira
15:06 - Martin J-40
16:32 - PRS SE Zach Myers
18:46 - PRS Custom McCarty 594
19:32 - All Maple PRS McCarty 594s
20:46 - PRS SE Zach Myers 2021 Model
21:51 - Zach Myers' Rack and Effects
29:29 - Eric Bass Intro
29:53 - Prestige Guitars Eric Bass Signature Models
36:17 - Prestige Guitars Todd Kerns Signature
38:20 - Bass Signature Models Customized by Relic Guitars The Hague in Netherlands
39:38 - Nash PB52
41:08 - Prestige Legacy OM
43:24 - Eric Bass Amps & Effects

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