Tater Gear List – Guitarist of 10 Years – Ryan Johnson

Ryan Johnson (aka Tater) is one of the founding members of the alternative metal band, 10 Years. Tater wanted to play guitar at the early age of 13 years old, but coming from strict Southern Baptist roots, his mother didn’t want him to play music, especially rock ‘n roll. After Tater went to his first show (Rancid and Offspring), he knew that’s what he wanted to do.

Tater never took any guitar lessons, instead he would just try to surround himself with the most talented musicians he could to help him learn. Tater’s guitar influences were more on the side of punk and alternative music such as Nirvana and Alice In Chains. Tater is also in another band called American Plague. See pictures of Tater’s gear taken from the Carnival Of Madness Tour at the DTE Music Theatre in Clarkston Michigan.

Fun fact: Tater loves destroying drum symbols with an AXE on stage. Watch the YouTube video of Tater demolishing a drum symbol on stage.

Tater’s Gear List

• Gibson Les Paul guitars (with the neck pickups removed)
• Genz Benz Black Pearl amplifier
• Bogner Uberschall
• Genz Benz Speaker cabinets

Rack:

• Furman PL-Plus Series II
• Rocktron HUSH
• Monster Power PRO 2500

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Brian Vodinh Gear List – Guitarist of 10 Years

Brian Vodinh is one of the founding members of alternative metal band, 10 Years. He started off as the drummer for the band, but later switched to guitar. Some of his band members say he is a guitarist first, a drummer second.

Brian started taking guitar lessons at the age of 11 years old. He grew up around music as his father was a first-chair violinist in a symphony orchestra and his mother was a huge Elvis Presley fan. Brian says growing up with rock ‘n roll meets classical helped shaped his style.

Brian’s guitar influences growing up was bands like Deftones, Metallica, and Korn. Brians says you can hear a James Hetfield-style in his guitar playing, especially in his right hand attack. What helped him develop that style was his determination to learn Metallica songs, especially Master Of Puppets at the age of 13. See pictures of Brian Vodinh’s gear taken from the Carnival Of Madness Tour at the DTE Music Theatre in Clarkston Michigan.

Brian Vodinh’s gear list

• Talor Standard Guitars (single cut)
• Demeter TGA-2 guitar amplifier
• Bogner Custom Shop Shiva guitar amplifier
• Roland JCM120 2×12 combo
• Bogner 4×12 speaker cabinets

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Gibson Randy Rhoads Les Paul Custom

Gibson Randy Rhoads Les Paul Custom — Randy Rhoads had one of the shortest but brightest runs at the top of the rock and roll game. His body of work with Ozzy Osbourne has stood the test of time and still provides inspiration for up-and-coming metal players and his legend has only gotten larger since his untimely death in a plane crash in 1982. Read more

Blackstar HT-Blackfire Gus G Guitar Distortion Pedal

Blackstar HT-Blackfire – The HT-BLACKFIRE is the first artist signature product by Blackstar, developed with influential guitarist Gus G. (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind). Gus’s instructions to the Blackstar design engineers was to produce “the ultimate heavy metal distortion pedal”. The HT-Blackfire is a two channel, valve-driven, metal distortion pedal. Read more

History of Cort Guitars

The history of Cort guitars bears a striking resemblance to many other Japanese and Korean manufacturers. Cort is a South Korean manufacturer of electric, bass and acoustic guitars and has been around since 1973 when it was founded by Yung H. Park along with Jack Westheimer. The company never offered any special signature guitars of its own instead choosing to offer guitars which were more or less copies in both appearance and quality to popular brands such as Fender and Gibson. Much like the Japanese brand Ibanez, this got it into plenty of lawsuits and legal issues however the company has retained its position as one of the most prominent guitar manufactures of the world. Read more

How to choose a kids guitar

Most of us readers at Gear-vault remember what age we started playing guitar and what kind of guitar we played. But many parents are stumped on which kids guitar to get their youngster. Rather then buy your child the ever so popular ‘Guitar Hero’ TV game system, why not persuade them to play the most popular American instrument, the guitar. Hopefully this article will shred light on a difficult decision on which kids guitar to purchase. Read more

History of Squier Guitars

Squier is a second-line guitar company that sells low cost products akin to those of Fender Guitars, which was not always the case. Read History of Squier Guitars.

Squier’s trademark comes from the Squiers, an English immigrant family. The family’s first settler, Jerome Bonaparte Squier, built and repaired violins together with his son in Boston during the late 19th century. Victor Carroll Squire, Jerome’s son, eventually settled at Battle Creek, Michigan, where he founded his own string shop named V.C. Squier Company. The company’s first contact with Fender came in the 1950s, when Squier began making electric guitar strings for Fender’s first products. Read more

AMT Electronics British Sound BRS Guitar Pedal

AMT British Sound–Think classic 70s rock sounds pumped out by the likes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Eddie Van Halen and you’ll know what the AMT British Sound, er, sounds like before you even plug your guitar in. It emulates a classic British amplifier stack. Nuff said. Read more

AMT Electronics Du Hast Guitar Pedal

AMT Electronics Du Hast — If you like listening to grown men stripped to the waist shouting something angry in German, then you’ll love this guitar pedal. Named after Rammstein’s ditty about marriage, Du Hast, this brutal pedal has all the gain you’ll ever need. Love it till death do you part… Read more

AMT Electronics TH-1 Tube Hall Guitar Pedal

AMT Electronics Tube Hall — The Tube Hall is a programmable reverb and delay guitar pedal driven by an onboard valve. It offers a bunch of hall, room, plate and spring reverbs and eight delay types. You can program and save 16 of your favorite settings, and you’ll even get a power adapter with this unit. Read more

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