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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Gear-Vault to Interview 10 Years – Readers Questions

Gear-Vault.com will be conducting an interview with one of our favorite bands, 10 Years for the bands new album debut “Feeding the Wolves“. We are very excited to interview and share our experiences with you. In fact, we encourage you to post questions that you would like us to ask 10 Years. We are excited to have the chance for our readers to participate in this interview. Please posts your questions that you would like us to ask 10 Years below. Look for the full interview coming soon! Read more

Tom “T-Bone” Wolk 1951-2010

Today the music world mourns the loss of Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, longtime bassist for Hall & Oates and the Saturday Night Live Band. Often seen working in the company of guitarist G.E. Smith, Wolk died of a heart attack February 27, 2010. He was 58 years old. Wolk was a Yonkers, NY native who first came to prominence playing bass on Kurtis Blow’s seminal rap classic “These Are The Breaks,” which was the first rap track to achieve a gold record. Read more

Peavey IPR 1600 Stereo Power Amp

The Peavey IPR 1600 stereo power amp features 830 watts per channel at 2 ohms and weighs in at 7 pounds! The IPR1600 also has 2 channel independent fourth order Linkwitz-Riley crossovers, a variable-speed fan housed in a lightweight aluminum chassis, patented DDT speaker protection, and the revolutionary new IPR class D topology. Read more

Fight Club – Original vs. Cover Bands

One of the biggest divides in this thing of ours is between those who play their own original material and those who play other people’s songs in cover bands. If you believe the arguments that continually rage on the forums and on craigslist, original bands are made up of self-indulgent wankers that really believe their take on the two-note power chord will land them on the cover of Rolling Stone Read more

QSC K Series Active Loudspeaker Review

Could this be the speaker everyone has been waiting for?
QSC K Series Presser – QSC is marketing the new K Series as “The New Standard.” After spending some time with these speaker and putting them through their paces, I might have to agree that the bar has just been set higher than ever before in the category of portable active loudspeakers. Read more

Song of the night: MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER

Maylene And The Sons of Disaster:

Step up–This is a bad ass video for a bad ass song. From the looks of it the clip was filmed somewhere in the U.S. south, possibly near the band’s hometown of Birmingham, AL. Who knows?

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Maylene And The Sons of Disaster: Step up (I’m On It)

JAMES HETFIELD takes Pie in the face for 46th Birthday

Video footage of METALLICA frontman James Hetfield getting covered in cream pies for his birthday at the conclusion of the band’s performance at the Sonisphere festival on Sunday, August 2 at the legendary Knebworth Park, United Kingdom can be viewed below. Read more

Clutch – 50,000 Unstoppable Watts Video & Tour Dates

Clutch Rocks!–We gots the goods. And so do Clutch; like a fine wine, these Marylanders just get better and better with age. We’ve got their brand new track “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” – from their new album Strange Cousins From the West (released July 7th). Produced by Clutch and the legendary J. Robbins, the effort is the first Clutch original to be released on the band’s own Weathermaker Music. Clutch, the road dogs that they are, already have a 7 month worldwide headlining tour planned, taking flight in the US on May 6th with support from Wino and Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, followed by their July US tour with the wicked, wicked Baroness as main support. Full list of confirmed dates after the jump and the new track streaming video below — enjoy!

Clutch Tour Dates

8/5 First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota^
8/6 Eagle’s Ballroom Milwaukee, Wisconsin^
8/7 House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio^
8/8 Sonar Baltimore, Maryland^
9/9 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls**
9/10 Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom**
9/11 Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory**
9/12 Hartford, CT @ The Webster Theater**
9/13 Montreal, QC @ Lee Saints**
9/15 London, ON @ London Music Hall**
9/16 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre**
9/18 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel**
9/19 Jackson, MS @ Club Fire**
9/20 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues**
9/22 Mobile, AL @ Soul Kitchen**
9/23 Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom**
9/24 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall**
9/25 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Orbit Room**
9/26 Chicago, IL @ The Metro**
9/27 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium**
9/29 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot**
9/30 Denver, CO @ The Fillmore**
10/1 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club**
10/2 Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre**
10/3 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom**
10/4 Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival**
10/6 Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues**
10/7 Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage**
10/8 Richmond, VA @ The National**
10/9 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza**
10/10 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza**
* w/ Wino, Shadows Fall
^ w/ Baroness, Lionize
** w/ Wino, Revolution Mother

JamHub Silent Rehearsal Studio Launches at NAMM

Press Release–In an industry hungry for new innovations, JamHub silent rehearsal studio, made a lot of noise with its debut at Summer NAMM, a global event for the music products industry, by winning an unprecedented three awards. Read more

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