Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Band Rig Rundown with Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss & JD McPherson

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Fourteen years after their Grammy-winning debut, Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss followed up with Raise the Roof-which was nominated for three more Grammys. Now on tour, the duo also has a new band that includes bassist Viktor Krauss, guitarist JD McPherson, and utility player Stuart Duncan. But before they hit the road, Krause, Duncan, and McPherson-and their techs Paul Ackling and Kevin Devogel- invited the PG team to a rehearsal at Soundcheck Nashville for a look behind the gear curtain. Here’s a sampling of what our team of John Bohlinger, Chris Kies, and Perry Bean saw. Watch the Rundown for the whole picture.
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00:00 - D’Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 - Stuart Duncan Intro
00:49 - Stuart Duncan's Squier Telecaster with a Palm Bender
02:43 - Stuart Duncan's Little Walter 50 amp
03:00 - Stuart Duncan’s Vintage Silvertone
04:20 - Stuart Duncan's Pedalboard
06:38 - Stuart Duncan's Fiddle
09:11 - Stuart Duncan's 1930s Kalamazoo Mandolin
12:18 - Stuart Duncan's Gibson Long-Neck Banjo
14:09 - Stuart Duncan's Gold Tone Paul Beard Signature Series Resonator
16:18 - Stuart Duncan's Yamaha Guitalele
19:18 - Viktor Krauss Intro & 1967 Galanti Grand Prix
22:08 - Viktor Krauss' 1961 & 1964 Gibson SGs
25:53 - Viktor Krauss' 1960s Vox Octave 12
27:30 - Viktor Krauss' Pedalboard
33:29 - Viktor Krauss' Orange OR50 & Yahama RA-200R
37:12 - Viktor Krauss' 1957 Danelectro UB-2 6-String Bass
39:10 - Viktor Krauss' 2022 Gretsch Duane Eddy Bass VI
39:49 - Viktor Krauss' 1943 Gibson LG-2 and 1953 Martin 0-18
43:08 - JD McPherson Intro & Fender Jazzmaster
46:57 - JD McPherson's Supro Dual Tone
48:50 - JD McPherson's Gretsch G6134T-58 Vintage Select '58 Penguin with Bigsby
51:08 - JD McPherson's TK Smith Special
51:25 - JD McPherson's Fender Vintera '50s Telecaster
55:37 - JD McPherson's Pedalboard
01:02:11 - JD McPherson's Amps
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[@billl.4410]

The musicianship of these guys is inspiring and scary at the same time. Next level players.

[@roughcutguitars]

Yep! Every note picked with care.

[@patrickolivier1]

@@roughcutguitars that I love!!! I’m learning to think more and more like that.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Stuart Duncan seems the perfect bandmate/sideman. Immensely affable and extremely skillful.

[@music_works]

i had no idea he even played guitar! he's a bitchin fiddle player

[@kw9172]

until now, I only knew him as one of Nashivells top fiddle player, playing sessions and gigging with the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Little did I know that he is actally a great utility player too🤯

[@MaTTheWish]

Out of the gates with a Squire, already love this man. Very humble guys, Excellent musicians.

[@stuminnis4050]

Dude, I’m seeing them TONIGHT! Nice timing.

[@gamjammer]

Pretty sure John Bohlinger has the best job in the world and his smiles while watching these guys says it all.

[@tadmorrison]

My all-time favorite fiddle player

[@riveralph3687]

Bravo! Saw them Saturday night in Chattanooga and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. The musicianship of the entire band is superlative. The vocal harmonies of Alison and Robert are otherworldly.

[@seanflynn7840]

This was one the best rundowns in a good while. Players that WANT to talk about their gear. Great stuff

[@neojohn44]

It is truly humbling to see the effort and attention that these master musicians put into every aspect of their craft. From their instruments to their effects, amps and even cables they are chasing excellence and inspiration every step of the way. Of course their playing is both impeccable, but at the same time sometimes risky and even experimental. The results speak for themselves. The Plant/Krauss collaboration, including the outstanding musicians supporting it, is one of the high points of the modern era.

[@artneue]

Great to see these road/studio warriors non glamor gear that just works! If it works it works.

[@ndadson]

Stuart Duncan is such a talented guy. Mark Knopfler had great things to say about him.

[@curtisprice9806]

I LOVE IT!!! A smorgasbord of tone...all the stringed instruments and effect pedals. Robert Plant my all time favorite singer is why I had to check out this episode!!!

[@stevenblakeakahashburns]

Such an enjoyable rig rundown “ sparkles like a diamond in a goats ass….oh yeah “ is a quote I’ve never heard before but will use it at every opportunity 😂😂😂😂

[@fishpotpete]

This was probably the best of these rundowns I've seen. You couldn't have collected a better group of talented, interesting musicians! I'll keep an eye out and see if I can catch this tour!

[@adiohead]

Great Rig Rundown. Good to see people living dangerously and using real amps.

[@robertserafin]

They never discussed (maybe they don’t know) the secret of the Galanti Grand Prix guitars. They have a pickup signal reducer (when they were made it was marketed as a jazz guitar so the output was too hot on the pickups) that must be bypassed to unlock the True Tone of the guitar. It screams and has a growl like no other guitar. I bypassed on my guitar and have shown everyone else who has one and all swear by the mod.

[@davidsummerville351]

That fiddle sounds awesome!

[@fiddlefolk]

Stuart has been my favorite ever since I required him to play Lee Highway blues for me multiple times in a fiddle lesson. Id like to think he put it on his first album because of that 14 yr old panhandle Texas kid. I still have the cassette recording of it. My treasure!

[@milenadeltorto7158]

That was so awesome! Love love love gear!!! Thank you so much!❤

[@leearft8605]

Love the long neck Banjo, it has sustain and sounds half way to a guitar, very cool....

[@rareform6747]

What 💥 PG Best in long Time . He could play Violin for Kansas . Best Lesley Ever !

[@VangeliRock]

This is gold. Just loving it.

[@roughcutguitars]

Stuart's such a class player and I love his taste in instruments, but I spent his entire part hoping against hope to hear that Yamaha rotary :-)

[@dewberry3043]

Wow looks like its also my first time seeing the Microcosm in a Rig Rundown musician feature.

[@grantbob]

Indyguitarist is Wampler. Thats a prototype for his Ecstasy pedal.

[@Tonneback]

I could listen to this clip over and over again. Magical

[@billedwards2657]

It warms my soul to know it takes 3 monster players to cover Buddy Miller and Darrell Scott.

[@sonicosurrealista]

John s rig rundowns are the coolest funniest ones

[@pauldavid2407]

Mixed feelings when I look at my kickass pedalboard, and then Stuarts 'bare bones' board... and realise that I play to myself in a room, and he plays with the lead singer of Led Zeppelin to a crowd each night... Viktor's SG's look awesome too

[@KETEBOWERS]

That was so enjoyable ! 😎🎶

[@MrMikewright1980]

What a great video! Once of my faves since the last Jason Isbell episode!

[@vinivola]

No Load tone pots on 10(tone knob all the way up) gives you the "pure"tone/sound of the pickups and still have the option to use the tone knob instead of bypassing it.

[@tonyevans9999]

yes, on paper absolutely. I tried this on a esquire partso I built a few years ago just for laughs and could hear the smallest treble smoothing (I use LOTS of treble, all the treble) off the top end with everything on 10 compared to the no tone selected. Definitely less loss than a loaded pot

[@ephramtherabbit]

That squier Tele sounds completely amazing through that amp. Would love to know more about what pickups are in it!

[@stopostopo]

And then JD is an awesome vocalist as well!!!

[@MrKevburg]

Great Rundown!!!!

[@christopherkelley3185]

Oooof. My heart hurts a bit. In 1994 my first guitar was a Galanti Grand Prix I bought for $60. Gave it to a friend. Regret is real.

[@gregmize01]

Wowza! Fun rundown guys!

[@haakonlenzi]

Wow, I know Stuart Duncan as one of the best fiddlers on the planet. What a depth of knowledge. Plant and Krauss are lucky to have him

[@nicok5630]

The stereo at 36.22 from the Yamaha is very cool indeed

[@matthewgregg31]

Wow!! That’s my old Danelectro Backtalk delay on Viktor Krauss’s pedalboard!!! Day made.. 😅

[@David_Miftar_Beio]

🔥 Rundown. Top shelf musicians

[@randynorman742]

Wow!!! His rig is incredible

[@johnhanchar4054]

I really enjoy watching these Rig Rundown videos. One thing I would really like to see is list of the equipment used by the different artists, and perhaps a photograph of the pedal boards discussed so people interested can understand the pedals used and the layout.

[@premierguitar]

Full Rig Details: bit.ly/PlantKraussRR (including photos and descriptions)

[@hessex1899]

I actually run Thomastik Infeld flats on my doomy guitar. They are fantastic.

[@jagtone]

FYI, Indyguitarist is Brian Wampler before he started Wampler Pedals, when he was an active participant in DIY forums and sold collections of pedal mods.

[@pasqualedilorenzo9089]

How good was that !! OMG talent and humility = Excellence

[@massimofumanti2232]

Best rig Rundown for sounds....!!!!!

[@daddarioandco]

❤❤

[@ManifestationsOfTheLight]

Awesome find 😊

[@pierrelacoste6621]

AWESOME, I WANT A HOODOO 😅😅😃😃😃😂😂😆👍👍

[@admarhermans1]

Wow!!

[@seansmith8713]

I have played both of Viktor's RA-200s (the sawed off and the full). The full size was so loud, my ears were hurting for two days. But those sound so fantastic in person, it's hard to capture that 3d sound in a recording.

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

Stuart is particularly amazing, especially across all of those instruments!

[@vasilyd8325]

Cool!

[@patrickolivier1]

Whaow, whaow, whaow!!!

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Wow!

[@TheBenwaugh69]

Distorted violin 🎻 💪🤟 legend

[@tres311]

More Electric Long Neck Banjo!

[@Kapper2310]

Stuart getting Jamie Foxx to sign the back of his 1930's Mandolin cause he had nothing else for him to autograph is giving me serious Step Brothers-vibes haha.

[@davidallen346]

Big fan of Alison Krauss so this is a cool insert to her live sound with Robert Plant touring band

[@billyj8810]

Stuart Duncan sounds exactly like Tim Conway. Its like Dorf on Guitar.

[@KowloonBlues]

wondering how JD's Boss FDR-1 function in the very front of the signal chain, I assumed it is a amp-in-a-box pedal and always put in the last of my chain

[@udsmall7306]

Stuart can make my dremel tool sound friggin' melodic. 🤦🎼🎶

[@matthrsy]

What date will you be releasing the Whitechapel rundown? Excited for this one, thanks!

[@premierguitar]

Late June.

[@BrendanMakesMusic]

Can anyone tell what brand of bender is on that tele? Thought I'd seen them all

[@bluebillygrit1]

Alison is my favorite fiddle player of all time. It's a shame she isn't playing much these days. Maybe she'll reunite with Union Station after the RPAK tour.

[@strongbow11]

Is there a link to the string butler he uses on the sg

[@Wileylikethehawk]

As an RA200 owner I can say they sound amazing but are very very heavy. Too heavy to use (without getting chopped).

[@wewewewa]

The fact that John has never seen a Microcosm makes me think he doesn’t use KZbin 😅

[@ulis3082]

and like often: where is the bass player?

[@jesterjigs9914]

I take it back

[@misterknightowlandco]

Love how the focus is on getting the tones and not branding and gear. Get so sick and tired of seeing the same shyt every week. “Oh here’s my pedalboard of strymon pedals, boutique version of a fender amp and a tele” or “here’s my axe effects with my custom 5150 patch and a random two humbucker guitar”. These guys are great. Especially Stuart, “hey I found a squier with a nice neck pickup and hey who gives a shit it’s a squier so I’ll hack it up so itll do what I want.” He’s playing with Robert Plant and takes out a butchered squier and some garage sale acoustic instruments 😂

[@Mr.SeymourButts]

One question, whats plants body count ?

[@KenWillMortonMusic]

couldn't put the man's name in title?

[@aljuric5887]

When the last guitarist said "I don't know what elephant I saved in a past life to get the support slot", what he meant to say was "I don't know what Masonic Lodge I attended to get this gig..."

[@blueishxx]

?

[@aljuric5887]

@@blueishxx Time to do some some research man. Try "X-Factor Winner Reveals World's Secret Religion".

[@jw112mail]

Whenever I get sad about some of my favorite musicians being dead I think about Robert Plant singing with Alison Krauss and I think I'm reminded sometime it might be better to lose legends before this happens

[@DougZbikowski]

What’s that supposed to mean? 🤔

[@TheRoomfull]

Dumb@ss alert!

[@MrMojoRiiisin]

He’s an artist chasing his muse. You can’t expect him to want to just play the hits and he’s going 75, let him do what he wants with the time he has left. I think a lot of it is quite interesting and good music.

[@scythe74]

First!

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

Again the weird laughter. What’s up with that laughing 🤷‍♀️

[@Les537]

Cool band with great sounds. I love everything they do.

[@wesmitchem825]

Why does Bollinger always lie about never seeing some pedals before when he's either demo the pedal himself or seen it on other rig rundowns is he just really stoned

[@Meltedcheese567]

Does it drive anyone rlse crazy when people call "tremolo" "vibrato??"

[@davidjameschamberlain]

He's running a Carl Martin Trem O Vibe, so it's actually both

[@jesterjigs9914]

No

[@cragkeeper2655]

Oh boy. So, it is implied that ticket buyers are now a "good taste" group of purists as opposed to what previously defined a quality rock concert. Loud audience applause : "Great rig! Outstanding tone!" Cheeses.

[@stuminnis4050]

Why so sour? I saw them last night and there was both great great tones and loud applause. It’s not an either/or. Besides, this is a show on a channel that’s all about the gear that musicians are using. It feels a little like you’re rolling your eyes at the sky for being blue.

[@guillermoazul220]

JD!! And TK!! The Rocket Smith is soooo very bitchin' yes it is! And, think playing out at gigs with it ain't so bad ..... AND, love the 'Luck of the OKrish' tape id .. go Okeys!!

[@jeffmazzei8520]

As usual John you don’t ask all the questions ! Strings ,picks, or the speakers in the Amps ! Too busy Laughing !

[@godface81]

Wow. amazing tone on guitar and fiddle and mando- mind blown long neck banjo .geez. great playing.great musicians. still watching. love this episode

[@premierguitar]

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