#BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN GUITAR RIG FULL#

“This one was recorded in California, mostly, and I’d never done a record out of New York. I could really go deeper into my life and write more autobiographical stuff instead of just writing for the gang.” 4. And for me it was a chance to write about things that were more personal. But Ryan was fearless and enthusiastic and very supportive, and the band I had at the time just really came through. It’s very raw, and I didn’t have much money because I didn’t have a record deal. He and I were looking for a lead guitarist, and he just strapped on the guitar and suddenly became a lead guitarist too.

#BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN GUITAR RIG FULL#

He’d never produced a full record, but he had worked with so many great people. I thought it was going to be a pretty quiet record, but then Ryan Adams came in as producer. It was all about the mosh pit or the hairdo, and not about the songs. But once I got past that, I realized it was a time where people were listening to songwriters again, and in D Generation I was always frustrated that my lyrics were never heard. Why isn’t the band called Jesse Malin?’ I thought that’d be very adult. I’d always been in bands, but somebody said to me, ‘You pay for the rehearsals, you write all the songs. “I was really nervous to be a solo artist. We got to play Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, A7, the Ritz, and eventually we went on tour, to the point where I stopped going to junior high school and just started touring.” 2. I guess I just had this atheism already in my 14-year-old head. “As for the title of the EP, I had never even heard of Nietzsche. “It has three songs: ‘God Is Dead’ is a thrash number, ‘Shotgun’ is an anti-NRA song – which, you think how many years ago that is and how it’s the exact same stuff that we’re still dealing with – and ‘You’ is about a girl that didn’t want to give me any notice in junior high school. The only other band that had a record out around then was the Bad Brains, and they were from D.C. I believe it’s the first New York hardcore record. “We put this out, and then we went and started doing shows with the Misfits and the Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks. We were a power trio, and our manager was a guy named Mojo who the Beastie Boys later wrote a song about. It was a three-song EP my band Heart Attack cut at a studio in Long Island City. The Profiler has truly become that one piece of gear I simply cannot live without.“This came out when I was in junior high school – PS 194 in Whitestone, Queens. One of the things people who love music don't think about is the cost of touring! Shipping thousands of pounds of gear all over the world is insanely expensive, and the Profiler just demolished that entire problem with one product. With the Profiler, we can profile all of the amps we use live, I have all but two very custom effects available to me in the Profiler library of effects pedals (many of which sound way more rich and have better dimension than the 'real' thing), and this all fits into a 3 space rack that I can check on a plane and never have to wonder again what I will be dealing with on a fly-gig. Then along came the Profiler and changed my life forever! Unfortunately, I've always had to lug around enormous amounts of gear (multiple different amp heads, multiple iso-cabs, matrix loop switching, literally more than a dozen different pedals, etc.) to do what I needed live so that I could pull off several albums worth of material at the level of quality needed. I've always struggled to choose between tonal quality and versatility versus convenience for touring. What can I say? I have waited a long time for something like this to finally be great enough to implement on the Thirty Seconds To Mars stage.

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