Anthony Pirog

*Interview with EarthQuaker Devices: * Aaron Rogers (interviewer): ...so, are you a gearhead? What’s in your rig for the upcoming tour?

Anthony Pirog: "Yes! I am. Okay, so on tour, I play a 1962 Jazzmaster with Joe Barden pickups in it. They’re Two Tones. And then my pedals..."

Interview with Guitar.com: https://guitar.com/features/interviews/anthony-pirog-the-messthetics-fugazi/

"...After finding that bending on his Telecaster sounded a little too clean, he went all- in on a ’62 Jazzmaster kitted out with Joe Barden pickups – and it remains his go-to recording guitar. 'I bought that on eBay and sold an amp and guitar to get it,' Pirog says. 'You can have a relationship with an instrument and that one almost melted into me. I feel like I’m able to be creative with it. It’s not like that with every Jazzmaster – that guitar is a special one for me.'

So special, in fact, that it doesn’t make it out on the road. There, Pirog brings out a monster board, running close to 20 pedals, and his signature Shelton GalaxyFlite. Fitted with a GraphTech bridge and modular piezo/Barden pickup system, it’s also home to multiple outputs to facilitate his love of vintage guitar synths such as the Roland GR-100 and G-707, which pop up on Anthropocosmic Nest standout Pacifica. 'There’s a lot going on under that pickguard,' Pirog says. 'I think there’s like 54 wires. It’s crazy and I love it. It tracks with the synths very well.'"