Chris Shiflett

In this video, Chris Shiflett talks about his signature model Tele Deluxe:

"I have a new Fender signature guitar, it just came out. And what it is it's a Telecaster Deluxe, and we made a few a modifications to make it just a little more rock friendly.

So the main thing that we changed about this guitar is that normally a Tele Deluxe has wide range pickups. So we swapped out the wide wide range pickups for humbuckers, so it's a little beefier tone. They normally have a maple fretboard, and we used rosewood - it’s a little warmer, nicer. And they also usually have a 3-bolt neck back here, and we did 4 cause its a little more stable. And of course they don't normally have my name on written on the back of em, but we put that on here as well. We worked for a few months to get this thing together, we ran through a couple prototypes and wound up with this.

As far as my signature sound, or my sound that I’m most comfortable playing with has always been humbuckers. I was always a humbucker guitar player. I grew up playing in rock n roll bands. As a teenager, sort of not knowing what was what, that I plugged in a single coil pickup guitar, it just freaked me out and scared me and sounded so thin and weird and jangly that I didn't know what to do with it so I always ran back to a guitar with humbuckers.

And especially in in Foo Fighters you gotta have a humbucker, it's just that kinda sound - big meaty rock chords and stuff. With the Dead Peasants, I like playing a single coil pickup like a regular Tele. But for anything Foo Fighters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, anything that's rockin, I have to have humbucker pickups, so that’s what we went with."

In the first two minutes of this Premier Guitar video interview from Nov 2012, Chris Shiflett talks about his 1962 Fender Telecaster Custom electric guitar, with surf green finish and a rosewood fingerboard:

“Well, this guitar here is my newest Tele. I just got this recently from Fender, and as you can see it's a beautiful surf green color. It’s got the white binding which is kind of unusual for a Tele, and it's got the rosewood fretboard. And I love a rosewood fretboard, it's the greatest thing in the world.

I saw this guitar out in New York recently when we were out there, and I was walking around going to guitar stores and stuff and I took a picture of it and texted it to my friend Nate who works over at Fender, and I said dude, do you guys still make this? Can I still get one of these? And he was like yes, and I got it the next week and I've been playing it ever since, this is my favorite guitar right now. And every time you play this guitar people are drawn to it, people love it, I get a lot of compliments on it. Because it's just so pretty.”

The interviewer then asks if Chris Shiflett has made any modifications to the guitar, to which he replies, “I have not changed one thing and I don't plan to. I don't know what kind of pickup this is [pointing to the bridge pickup], I think Nate told me but I forgot. And it sounds great. And I don’t wanna f*ck with it at all. It’s a 1962 Tele Custom. It's perfect. Beautiful.

Theoretically I could use this in the studio to Foo Fighters and there's a few Foo Fighters songs here and there that I could probably get away with using a single coil pickup on. The problem is that - I don’t know if you’ve ever seen us play but we go through from song to song like that, so there's not a lot of time to switch guitars. I have to kinda sneak in guitar switches where I can. And mostly with Foo Fighters I’ve always played guitars with humbuckers in them…”

In this video, "Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing," Chris Shiflett can be seen playing a Gibson Custom 1957 Les Paul Goldtop (it's unclear whether it is the reissue model or not). 0:34 into the video provides a good look at the guitar, although glimpses of it can be seen throughout.

In this picture of Chris, you can see him playing his Flying V

Chris Shiflett is seen holding a Gibson Les Paul Custom in a live performance. He has used this guitar in Drop D with the Foo Fighters since 2007.

Chris Shiflett is seen with the Gibson ES-335 Dot Plain-Top, and his use of this guitar is confirmed on Gibson's website in a feature on Chris.

Chris Shiflett uses a Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe in his side project "Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants." You can see him use this Telecaster throughout the source video, with a better view of it at around 02:25.

In this Wasting Light studio 606 live video, at 1:11, one can see that Chris is playing a Les Paul Traditional, on the song Bridge Burning

Here you can see Chris Shiflett playing a firebird in vintage blonde.

Chris used Blacktop Telecaster at Lollapalooza Brazil in 2012 and many other concerts before he had got his signature Telecaster

Chris Shiflett is playing a Fender Stratocaster in this photo

http://www2.fender.com/experience/artists/shiflett-checks-in-with-fender-front-row-blog/

Shiflett can be seen playing a G6129TAU Sparkle Jet, at 0:41, in his other band, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

At the end of this video, Chris can be seen playing a Firebird Non Reverse.

CS: With Foo Fighters, I pretty much just play my signature model now because I designed that guitar to be exactly what I needed.

For Chevy Metal (Shiflett's side project with fellow Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins), I got an EVH 5150 combo, one of the small ones. And I have a Strat with a humbucker in it and a Floyd Rose. You kind of don't want anybody to see you playing it [laughter], but it's perfect for that. Because we were doing all these Van Halen songs, I had to get something with a Floyd Rose. But I could not figure out how to work that thing for so long. [laughs] I couldn't even figure out how to tune it. I had to watch somebody on YouTube explain it.

At 0:52, Shiflett can be seen playing a Black Falcon

This guitar can be seen at 05:02-06:02 in the accompanying YouTube link.

Shiflett can be seen playing a Natural Finish Custom Shop Strat (you have see the neck plate C.Shop Logo in a different shot) at 6:41

Chris Shiflett is using this guitar in the Foo Fighters: Live at Wembley Stadium DVD in 2008. He is using this guitar in the song "Long Road to Ruin". You can see him using it at around the 2:42 mark.

Shiflett can be seen played a blue strat

you can watch chris playing a Gretsch silver jet on the video

he used that guitar with the foo fighters, while they was playing "keep it clean" in kansas city

On this picture you can see Chris playing a Fender Chris Shiflett Telecaster Deluxe Shoreline Gold

In 1:29 you can see Shifflet playing a ES-175 Natural finish

In this picture of Chris, you can see him playing his Flying V through two Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amps.

"The VOX AC30 is a classic amp and I used one a lot during the recording of my Dead Peasants record, and once I did some touring for that album, I started to see how that sound could apply to what I do in the Foos. I’m running two in stereo for my hot tone live and it’s pretty ripping. I’ve got those things pinned."

"I just like the distortion you get from driving an AC30 really hot. It’s nice and dirty but you can still hear the definition and notes. My Hand-Wired VOX AC30s are the tone that I’ve been looking for, for a long, long time. They give me all the fireworks, but all the subtlety as well!"

At, 4:01, one can see a Fender Bassman behind Chris.