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“WE PULLED OUT SOME WILD PEDALS!”

From his home studio, which harbours in excess of 120 guitars, Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers discusses how he and bassist Eric Bass combined vintage instruments with an ‘anything goes’ approach on the band’s dark new album Planet Zero.

What guitars do we hear on the album?

Eric has two 70s, that’s straight-up Tele through a Marshall. If I pick up a 335, I’m either going to write more of a ballady-type thing.

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