John Frusciante Has A PROBLEM With His Pedalboard
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- John Frusciante has been having some issues with his pedalboard during the Unlimited Love Tour. A guitarists worst nightmare is your whole pedalboard doing down in the middle of a show and clearly his board has some reliability issues!
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I love him as a guitar player, but his pedalboard is absolute insanity. He’s got way too much stuff on there. There is bound to be something wrong.
Less is more, John. Less is more.
@@kennethpogue718 less is more? what do you mean? more is more
@@maciek_p exactly dunno what hes talkin abt
I was at this show and they were looking FRANTIC while this was happening. I felt bad for them... Band handled it like total professionals and audience didn't really care. Energy remained high and everyone was just happy to be there.
What show was that? I noticed there was an issue in NJ. I’m an audio nut and I felt like i could barely hear John but attributed it to standing in front of fleas bass amps.
Las Vegas
What you said around the 4 min mark is exactly what my first thought was. I get running things in series because it's easier to move things around and swap things out, but a switching loop system is much more dependable for if something goes down. Also, I love vintage gear, but save it for the studio. I really good clone is much more dependable for touring, and usually a much smaller footprint on the board or in the rack.
This x100. All of it. Big fan of loopers and adding an extra major pedal (distortion, delay, phaser) on random loops in case something goes down.
My thought when I saw the video of the rig going down was "why isn't the pedal board he used on the media tour in March on Stern/Kimmel/Fallon connected to a DI or separate amp with a switch over for if this happens?" For the size of the crowds and amount of money they are making there need to be immediate built in redundancies.
This was really fun, love how you showed Josh's rig and how they could potentially use this in the future with John!
They do have technical problems, at Seville the first show the general sound was appalling, but the real problem that no tech could resolve is that Anthony sings consistently very flat now.
Take 'consistently very flat now.' out of your comment and I agree with you completely.
@@waltercoyle6393 are you saying he sings well live? Cause objectively, he is really bad with pitch.
@@guilledezoq ...I reckon it's became his trademark over the years.
@@guilledezoq I think he literally means just take these specific words out. So the sentence would be 'but the real problem that no tech could resolve is that Anthony sings'. Just in general I guess 😅
@Jan Szymanski gets it.
The real problem with RHCP that no one can solve is Anthony.
that bassline when flea was explaining what was going on was so pretty
Seriously you are covering the JF news the fans want 💯🔥
Lord knows over the last twenty years of being a professional musician I’ve had my board fail a few times. There are always things you can do to mitigate (simplify, use bypass loops, etc).
Sometimes when you lose the signal the best thing to do is to plug straight into the amp and crank the thing - it can be kind of fun even.
How much do you have to crank it to get dotted 8th delay?
Just joking 🤣
The video we have all been thinking about. It’s weird that such a huge band have this many tech issues.
Poor John. His microphone has been messed up, his guitar, his pedals, his
in-ear monitors,etc
@@dls31070 I agree. I bet most of us on here would be honored to be John’s tech and would be very precise about cables, pedals, power, etc..
But I know things can happen. But it seems like every show something is going wild…
@@dls31070 for sure!
@@dls31070 there are a lot of red flags in your comment, the first being your use of the term roadie. It’s not 1974. You’d be hard pressed to find a video technician who calls themself a roadie in 2022. I suspect what you mean to say is you either worked for a company that provided video services to a local venue, or you were part of an in-house video crew, probably at an amphitheater. Second, a touring person would know that rigging typically dumps between 7 and 9am, but backline doesn’t have access to the gear until 10-11ish (typically). You also seem to be unaware that a guitar tech doesn’t patch microphones, tech in-ear rigs, or have anything to do with vocal feeds to FOH. I’m trying to stay on the right side of nice with you, but calling a person you know nothing about lazy is bad form.
@@wilfredjbrimley don’t try to tell me my business. @jerry riccardi You trying to school someone you know nothing about is bad form. I worked as part of the video crew for a band that toured the US in 2002. I did not work for a local amphitheater or venue. And yes we called ourselves roadies to those outside the industry because it is a shorthand that everyone understands. I was a video technician who filmed the show every night in 35 cities in the US. Happy to provide my tour schedule. It wasn’t 1974 but it was a long time ago. And we did load in at 7 am, all of us. Yes it does take hours to load in but as I said you still have all day to set up. I also specifically said I was not a guitar tech or audio tech. But I am well aware that a guitar tech does not handle monitors or microphones. You are conflating two of my posts. My point was that there have been a lot of technical problems with all different pieces of John’s equipment this tour. So thanks for your input, Jer, but I don’t need any lessons from you.
I’ve long since moved on from being a roadie oh excuse me video tech.
So! Guys! I went and saw the show in Detroit MI last night and of course, like most shows of this tour, John was having some pedalboard issues… could’ve been a lot worse however, John and Henry Trejo (John’s current tech) very very quickly decided on skipping over the wireless units, they pulled out the exact promo board that Justin mentions in this video! AND they went down to only using the silver Jubilee! Thankfully it was towards the very end of the show, from what I can remember it was at the very beginning of Californication. So just the last 3 encore songs where with the very scaled down rig.
But Justin guessed it right! The promo board is the B rig!
That's crazy! Maybe they saw my video 😆 I need to find footage of this lol.
@@JustinJeske if they did watch your video, then that'd be cool, because it shows that josh's tech was better
I was there for this. The show was good, their energy was high and the crowd was supportive. It was kind of cool to see that John is human. lol
Yeah that Bright Onions switcher is the perfect solution. Crazy not to have that with a band as big as RHCP playing massive stadium shoes worldwide. As a teenager with cheap patch cables and crap power I’d have those kinda problems. For John F’s return to RHCP no way these problems should be occurring so frequently!
Yeah John can afford the absolute best, so I’m sure it’s just him being hard headed at this point.
He’s been having many technical difficulties this tour. Saw them in ATL Wednesday and his microphone wasn’t even working for the first two songs… shoddy setup and troubleshooting work from this tour’s roadies
I bet working with John as a tech is such a pain in the ass.. He’s so different from anyone else on the planet, and he’s such a diva now.. But I still love that diva.
Definitely the issue lies with Johns board, Josh’s was absolute insane especially during the IWY tour & I don’t recall ever seeing him having any issues with it
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@@innerhippiemusic3271 Yes,one problem in 8 years
Good thing a clean strat sound would work well with most of their songs lol
Well that sounded very thin. There is a lot of clean boost coming from his board that creates his clean tone.
I wonder in the midst of all these tech issues if John ever thinks about just getting a helix floor and getting rid of all the tech problems 😂
This will never happen
@@RodrigoPiccoli yea 😂
@@RodrigoPiccoli Oh it can.
Zzzzzzzz. Cool until you run outta DSP
@@kylebichler2258 how easy is it to run out of dsp? With all his effects he’s uses, is that very likely to happen?
John must have some type of “bypass-all” switcher thing underneath the top shelf of the board, because when he had pedalboard issues way back in the stadium arcadium days he would lose all signal, now he still has signal just no pedals. I’m so curious about his current rig lol
Yeah he would fkn loose it when that sht happend .
its surprise me that a guitar player who sold tons of records and play tons of show doesnt have a backup rig
Unpopular opinion: Why not just use less pedals? If you really think about it, the gigantic loop box also adds to the complexity of the board, more cables and switches that could be the issue.
Yea but the loop box also adds ways around each problem so even if a few connections break it can still function
Or pay to have the board wired properly by a pro
Makes me smile knowing this happens to the pros too. I finally got rid of all my bad cables and replaced them with high end cables and now my tuner input is acting funny. Lol I just can't win with the crackly static and dust bunnies. Too many outdoor gigs and smoky bars
he had issues in Vegas, unfortunately I don't think he realized how unstable his set up was. He switched guitars a lot thinking it was basically anything besides the board(Mainly cause he didn't want it to be that for obvious reasons) its tough having a CE-1 and other pedals from that era, plus 60's. guitars, plus tube amps and a million cables. His tech has to tear it apart and rebuild. It doesn't get fully solved any other way
John was having a lot of technical issues with his sound in Detroit tonight as well. At one point in time Anthony joked by asking if there was any acoustic guitars that John could use.
He sounded amazing though and his playing was great
Oh absolutely he sounded great but you could totally tell he was frustrated which probably kept him from getting even more into it. The tempo on Californication seemed a little wobbly and that was right after he had his third issue of the night. It was still such an intense and beautiful show. But somethings up with that board.
I Absolutely agree with you. The josh’s solution is the best by far at all. I think to do the same with mine because, in every case, no one must not stop playing during the show.
Thanks for this video 🙏
Fruscanti must have one of the most complicated in-series rigs out there. All I know is,...Fruscanti needs to have his guitar / pedal tech talk with Trey Anastasio's guitar / pedal tech ASAP! Trey has a very complicated rig set up and it incorporates digital elements and custom switches / loopers / patches / boxes to control everything on Trey's set up.
I suspect Fruscanti's issues are in some of the pedal circuits themselves and/or the patch cables connecting everything. A lot of points along that signal chain could be fail points!
+1 on this - have never heard of any issues with Trey’s rig and can’t imagine John’s is more complicated
There is an even bigger issue - Frusciante is very well known for powering every single pedal with batteries instead of a power supply.
most complicated rig I've ever seen is a rig rundown for Vernon Reid from Living Color... The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
@@bryanquick16 Never heard of Kevin Shields, eh?
2:09 Flea handles the crowd then proceeds to play the most beautiful bass line ever like its nothing
I honestly would not want that job of being his tech with all that vintage gear he uses its gotta be pure anxiety for those techs every night
It seriously sucks that John came back to live performing just to have these problems. The upside is that we get those fun jams with Flea and Chad. I went to the show in Vegas and during one those moments Flea told the whole crowd Chad's middle name was Gaylord without missing a beat.
In Budapest he had issues with getting the right delay sound for Don't Forget Me. Having such a big pedalboard, even one faulty patch cable will take a couple of minutes to be found, agreed.
I read a tweet from Dave Lee, John's previous guitar tech. Dave was defending those who were ragging on the current guitar tech for John. Dave also said he had asked John to do a looping system and John declined.
I think it would be beneficial for him to a have a backup digital board. Maybe like a large helix board with color-coated knobs.
Just finished the video. Yeah I think a B-rig would be the best for him. All the basics.
To be fair a Helix would have the FM-4 effect he uses. Even a HX Effects could get him through in a pinch but I think a B-Board with the basics would be his preferred choice. B-Board with HxEffects would cover a lot of ground.
@@stevethebeeline44 He could get a professional pedalboard build also which limits changing the pedalboard order being swapped. He could get everything aligned and tied down with velcro and zipties to make the risk pretty much zero of encountering issues. A B-board is a good idea.
@@BrettKnows yeah I’d love to know why there are so many vids past and present of John pedalboard cutting out?!? So many legit solutions. Lots of pro guitarists with in series pedalboards and very few vids going around RUclips with malfunctions.
I’ve been to a lot of gigs over the last 30yrs and never seen a world tour level guitarist have those issues. There could be a second ‘A’ board even!
I just wanted to leave a note here, especially as this video is blowing up a bit. With a rig as complicated as John's it's going to be somewhat prone to failure, he loves his old school setups and it's not an easy rig to maintain. It's unfortunate but also a reality of these kind of rigs sometimes. I think Henry is doing a great job and his very best with what John requests!
all i gotta say is these guys KILLED it in ATL just wish they stayed for longer 🤩
John is a serious tone snob, but he needs to at least switch to something like a Helix as backup when this stuff happens. It won't sound quite as good, but good isn't the enemy of perfect.
Pretty sure it would sound AS GOOD but as you mention... snob
I don't think the crowd would notice it anyways at the volume since the full digitals got really close now
I was pit for San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, AND Las Vegas for the Unlimited Love tour and at 3 of the shows there were multiple times when John looked over to Dave and was having major issues that affected the flow of the show. Once was no signal coming out of his tele, once was his in-ears, the other times was pedalboard (I believe). Not sure if I would have even noticed if I wasn't watching/listening as close as I do. John was obviously frustrated each time but maintained his composure.
I saw them a few weeks back at Metlife and happy to say luckily there were no issues at all :) Amazing show, definitely in my top favorites
Saw a guitarist in a tiny bar with 3 huge pedal boards. He had over ten moog pedals alone. He easily had $10K in pedals, but they didn't work. He had no sound for most of his 30 minute set.
Another time I saw Robby Krieger play 4-5 Doors songs with his reverb pedal out. It was AWESOME bc you could hear everything so perfectly clear and the guitar was kind of in your face in a good way.
Oh yeah!!! Always really pumped to see the Frusciante content 🤟✨ thanks!! Great stuff
I’m baffled here: Don’t bands at that level have backups in place in case things like this happen? What do other bands do to prevent pedalboard issues from becoming crippling like this? Josh’s system seems like a good start.
I would imagine a roadie should be ready to run out and remove the painted pedal and replace it
@@michaelcorcoran8768 absolutely. If I was John’s tech, I’d likely have TWO backups of each pedal. RHCP can certainly afford it.
Does he really need so many pedals? To my ear, he has a few main tones that cover 90% of what he’s doing. Never understood why he has such huge boards and it seems to be more trouble than it’s worth.
Fractal audio with some midi control and he could be off to the races.
need? no. but when ur a million dollar musician with unlimited hear collection, i am not surprised he wants all his gadgets. im not even 1/10000 of famous as him and my pedal board is prob half the size of his so idk if i had a million dollars my boards would probably be at his size lol
Because he loves improvisation and trying different sounds. That’s what differentiates you from a professional guitarist playing for 50k crowd.
@@randy0210 so you're saying he needs 100 pedals to improvise? You don't need pedals to play guitar.
@@xTheZapper I like how you missed the biggest point, HE LIKES TRYING DIFFERENT SOUNDS.
This was in Vegas. I was in the pit for that show
Thanks for always diving deep into the research of it too. Really one of my Fav channels now... Interested to know more about that white Jimi Hendrix strat John has too
Thats why you use 3 Pedals max. A band colleague has about 10-15 pedals and every rehearsal there is something malfunctioning.
Atlanta seemed pretty flawless. He played better than I've ever seen him play and there were no issues sound wise.
Dude the Atlanta show was amazing. First time seeing John live, front row, best night of my life
It's part of the show at this point. Pure theater. His signature. Was doing this in '91 too.
jams are cool, but flea sould also do Pea when this happens
The simplest “B Rig” would be a good modeler - a Helix would provide him with eight pedals per preset, with more presets than he would ever need. Of course, it could be set up with amp emulation turned off since it would be running straight to his amp. I know that he probably varies the effects he uses for each song; but they could even simplify things and have him preselect the effects he would most likely want access to, and the unit could be programmed (and have the name displayed) for each song. Units from Line 6, Fractal, and Neural all sound fantastic.
100% this is the solution. Have a backup pedal board, even if it's just a line 6 multi effects or something. Ideally a really nice AXE FX board if you're a rich band.
I'm starting to suspect it's something about how each pedal chats to each other. The same thing had started happening to mine during rehearsals. No understanding why, just volume loss...and I'm not running as many as he does.
A redundancy never hurts.
Those 2 backup ideas are great for him and every live guitarist 👍🏻
Mr justin sir, i have been watching your videos for a while now, and i have been wondering about some sort of edge of breakup to an amp video, almost like a lenny(srv) video. i’m very interested on it and i think it would be a great video. but in the meantime, keep doing what your doing, it’s great stuff!
That Bright Onion solution was my immediate idea before even seeing it. You can do the same thing with any loop switcher and just leave all the loops on by default. John and his tech really need to rethink what they're doing.
When you’re talking about a 7 figure show John shouldn’t even have to THINK about a tech issue! There has to be Plan B instantly in place.
Was this in Vegas? I was there and it was actually hilarious how Flea handled it. He kept singing “I am not the lead singer” while jamming with Chad then Anthony said “we just realized we don’t work as a trio.” I was honestly scared they were going to leave for a second lol but laughing at the same time
I seen this happened to the guitarist from Coal Chamber during his solo gigs and he literally punched the pedalboard and slammed it and it came back on! I felt so bad for him but it happens.
I got a feeling that the riff Flea plays at 2:10 is from a song of the new Dream Canteen album..
It kind of sounded like one of the untitled songs from one of the californication singles
It's crazy to know this now because I saw them in Chicago a few days later and didn't notice any issues, glad John got it sorted out!
That pressure on that Guitar Tech is PILING...YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED BUDGET. I would hope ppl like Josh's tech or Dave Lee orwhoever is reaching out to what's his face and saying, try this...But since hope is no good and John made some enemies, I would be REACHING OUT TO ALL OF THEM AND SAYING...basically, we can't have the best guitar players in the world, who is notoriously "fickle" in the most successfull band of all time, losing sound mid show.
I wonder how John would react if you showed up at their tour bus with a Line 6 Helix in your hand :-D
John should just call josh for advice …. Problem solved ……
Nothing like taking you out of your game. That must not be a great feeling for any of them up there.
I had an issue at the end on one gig, volume drop intermittently. We squeeked out way through the last song or two.
When I got home, I was thinking that it was one of the solderless cables, but it turned out to just be the connection between the actually jack and the socket of one pedal.
Must've been some oxidization as the patch cables were all good, and they sound cut in when I giggled that one cable.
We did play a bunch of outdoor gigs that year, maybe it was condensation along the way, who knows. Deoxit/contact cleaner is your friend.
I didn't even know John was back in the band. I need to go see them again before he leaves again
Looks like he needs to visit Dan at the Gigrig - checkout his work with Ed O'brien on That Pedal Show... amazing craft
mo pedals, mo problems.
this is why I always believe that less is more. yes i would love to have a 20+ pedal board with super fancy stuff on it but at the end of the day all i REALLY need on a board is some type of cheap one knob booster (LPB-1 by EHX just to dirty up my clean sound a lil and as a always on pedal) and some type of distortion (i really like the DigiTech HotHead Distortion or the Boss DS-1)
You're right about the less is more approach. However: John doesn't even use fancy pedals. It's the meat and potatoes of Boss, MXR, Digitech and EHX. I think he's just using too many. A line of 15+ pedals in front of the amp is quite a lot.
Yeah that is the way I run
Phase 90 into a Rat into a clean boost into a slightly dirty amp
The weakness of the setup is that I rely on a good tube amp, might get a backup amp sim pedal eventually...
He’s got all those pedals because of the giant catalog and tones they require
This happened multiple times during the Aug 6th Vegas show too. It's funny hearing Chad & Flea use the same filler jam in both shows
It really surprises me how he has this many issues with his gear at this level of professionalism. It happened at the LA show and Vegas show.
Dave lee (technician from the previous era) commented that his equipment is VERY old, that in his time it also happened but the cell phone camera did not exist and nobody knew
@@lucascastro9792 makes sense. But you'd think he'd be able to get them repaired at least and have a more solid pedal board.
He likes the tone of running all his pedals in order. A loop switcher can change your tone, for better or worse. What is amazing to me is how old the cabling and how disorganized his board looks. His board looks like he put it together in his back yard before his gig for 50 people at some smoke filled shit bar. Dude is playing guitar for the red hot chili pepppers. He needs to get his pedalboard upgraded. This is not rocket science. Stop being a cheap ass. Overhaul the board with quality components. Have a b rig that can get you through. Seriously, looks like he bought a bunch of everyday shit from guitar center. Dude needs to reach out to a professional.
@Luca Scaccini oh yeah? no way!! holy cow... thanks for the looper education!! its called impedance... loopers can have an impact on that just like running pedals in order outside of a looper. Impedance can have an impact on his tone. He likes what he is hearing. Keep it that way, clean up the board. Now go away looper educator.
In a recent "That Pedal Show" Q&A Dan (GigRig) mentioned that John *IS* using a switcher underneath his board - a GigRig quarter master - in case any of pedal failure(s). That's why he's able to bypass them and get back to a clean-tone (or however he has the amps set). What he's been experiencing must be more complicated of a problem that just needing a switcher
That is really interesting, do you remember which one? I'll have to go back and look for this
@@JustinJeske I’ll have to go back through the chat history to pin point it. He (Dan) also mentioned it on the reply to a thread within the TPS Facebook group recently
i was there in detroit and they had to restart californication because his guitar was having technical issues
Some tech villain is out to get JF through mobile interference clause
Can we talk about Kiedis' terrible live vocals though? 😂
John playing clean kinda hits because it's like a lot of bssm/ all his stuff that he plays direct in, in his solo music etc. John has an easily identifiable pick attack
It's the cables.. sometimes they test good and it's bad. They are super rich have a couple pedal boards..and John should keep playing while the techs figure it out.
I play daily.. two regular gigs a week and the rest of the days busking … I’ve been chasing gremlins for weeks .. replaced a delay, compressor and two distortion pedals.. replaced the power supply .. multiple patch cables and instrument cables .. it’s been fine for a few gigs but the signal loss returns .. then I can’t recreate the loss.. it works then doesn’t.. finally replaced the right cable I think .. will find out soon enough ..
A small pedalboard is the best solution ….
Just so long as John doesn't start yelling at audience members again like he did during the Stadium Arcadium tour.
tech troubles last night in Mi, it seems like he blew out an amp or an amp wasn't on though (as seen on Californication and (he switched guitars mid song on These are the ways) as opposed to Las Vegas pedal problem...I think it may be a combo of pedal and guitar and amp probs, to keep him guessing. Dave Lee is somewhere going, "YESSS!!!"
This is why i write and practice without pedals and often clean, you just never know when sht will fail
Well, he has like 150 pedals in front of him... Even though I understand him, he likes the old school pedals and analog equipment just like me, but I would seriously consider Kemper or whatever people use nowadays if I found myself in this scenario.
I just don't find many uses for 100 different patches and pedal combinations. I prefer having one big wall of tone, and another flavor/layer of tone to mess around. So I got down to this: 1 OD+preamp, WAH, 1 chorus and 1 delay/reverb unit, 1 compressor for cleans and a small tuna. Once I get a better guitar with better dynamics and volume pot, I'll even consider removing the compression or replacing it with an EQ pedal. and just roll the guitar volume back for cleans.
Keep it sweet and simple.
Exactly. It's not like the fidelity of all of this esoteric stuff is discernable through the crowd's ear after going through a stadium PA.
Kemper 100% as a backup and program those effects! Stop using old ass gear. Too much stress! 👍🏾
simple is better when it comes to gear folks
Saw them in Paris and Los Angeles, both shows I noticed he was having some serious tech issues.
When I saw them in LA John’s ear piece wasn’t working and was soloing backstage before he came on stage
Johns insistence on running the board in series with no switcher is really silly to me. It seems like every player doing gigs as big as rhcp is using a Bradshaw rig or an rjm, where the pedals live in a rack. Very tech friendly, reliable. I don’t see why John finds it appropriate to use 20+ pedals, many of them over 20 years old, in series, the same way an amateur would throw a board together for a bar gig while he’s playing football stadiums. I’d be disappointed as a concertgoer.
I can't understand why a guitarist wouldn't want a true bypass system anyway, just for the sake of their tone not being drained by pedals connected in series.
I use a Road Rage loop system in my pedalboard, and wouldn't ever go back.
That's okay, Charlie is one Flea carries on
I love John as musician an guitarist himself really cool guy an im (guitar enthusiast myself) but I admit his board size is just bonkers.
There is no wonder he's having problems size of this board.
John should just tour with the promo board. I get having a bunch of pedals to record with but is there really that much ground to cover effects wise playing those songs live? I feel like there is some overlap he can take advantage of. Like you could get rid of the moogerfooger by just doing those three licks he uses it for with a wah.
I was there at that show it was crazy how well flea improvised over the issues
The best thing (the thing I would do at least) is have a backup pedal board I could switch to at the slightest whiff of a problem with the board. I would have like an Axe FX handy that could be plugged in at a moments notice.
We all want to have 3 different overdrives, 3 different reverbs and 3 different delays on the same board
5 different choruses and 5 different distortions
Think it is the issue of having so many pedals and such a complex set up. Like you say he should look to other systems.
I saw John go fkn nuts in ‘06 when this shit happend .
My small 6 pedal board went out in a bar. 4 cable mods in loop. Stresses you out and messes up your playing. People staring. Band mates looking at you like wtf. It Sucks. I spent this morning trying to figure out if i can get by with a tube screamer and delay only. Trying not to use the fx loop will make things easier. I tried some multi fx but they killed my tone. Back to the drawing board.
John's feed certainly had some issues in Vegas when I saw them. Had no real impact on my impression of the performance, it was killer.
Not sure if this had to do with his pedalboard but when I saw them in LA for this tour, their opening jam was a few minutes longer than usual because Frusciante was having guitar problems.
I was at LA show too. John comes out for 10 seconds and then disappears for the rest of the opening jam! I was wondering what the problem was 🤔
As a musician on stage.... its infuriating!!!!
If you're gigging frequently and have more than like 5 pedals on your board, there's no excuse to not be using a loop switcher IMO.
Well they were the ones who fired Josh and he worked as John's guitar tech for a really long time.
No reason for anyone to just not switch over to digital at this point!