Green Day Rig Rundown Gear Tour with 's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Jason White 

"Oh this? This is the gum Ibanez made custom just for me to chew loud as hell during interviews, lots of volume, lots of gain"

Legend has it that if you go to this arena to this day you can still hear the sound of gum being chewed.

"CHOMP CHOMP SMACK CHOMP CHOMP" YEah this probably has a "CHOMP CHOMP SMACK CHOMP CHOMP" a P90 in it I think "SMACK SLURP CHOMP CHOMP"

*after he goes through all the guitars amps and pedals* "what kinda gum u chewin? ....ppl are gonna wanna know" "and this is the Custom double mint special, u know the regular ones with like 3 mm thickness,very simple ...flavor lasts about 20 mins of chewing ...15 if u chew harder"

Q: What tuning is that in A: (chews gum, breaths heavily)

Hans is actually lovely. He's helped me out over Instagram and even agreed to set up one of my guitars for free because I'm such a big GD fan. He just likes his chewing gum

Mad props to whoever made it through this whole video

Because I know this is what people came for, here’s all the settings: Billie Joe Armstrong Top head (Pete) settings Presence: 5 Bass: 6 Middle: 6 Treble: 4 Master: 4 Gain: 4 Lower head (Meat) settings Presence: 5 Bass: 6 Middle: 6 Treble: 4 Master: 4 Gain: 3 Boss BD-2 Blues Driver settings Level knob is set up at 1 o'clock, gain - at 10, and tone - at 3. Jason White Top head (Dookie mod) settings Presence: 4 Bass: 7 Middle: 6 Treble: 4 Master: 2 Gain: 2 Bottom head (SE Lead mod) settings Presence: 2 Bass: 6 Middle: 4 Treble: 6 Master: 2 Gain: 3 Chandler Limited Little Devil Colored Boost settings Boost Range is set to MIDs Color Boost - 2.5 Feedback & Bias - 2 Highs are set to Smooth Mike Dirnt Fender Super Bassman settings Volume - 6,5 Bass - 7 Mid - 7 Treble - 7,5 Gain - 7 Blend - 3 Volume - 5 Bass - 7,5 Freq - 8 Mid-Level - 6 Treble - 8 Master - 4 And his cabinets of choice is Fender stock speakers. Universal Amp Settings for Jason, Billie, and Mike Gain - 6 Treble - 10 Mid - 8 Bass - 5 Reverb - 3

Half of the comments on this video are about the gum.

i learnt more about how his gum sound than what makes billies sound

“The angled pickup sounds completely different”. Why is that? “...uhhh”

Nobody is seeing the Australian Beer shirt, but everyone hearing the gum chewing sounds..weird

The reason that the pickup sounds different when angled is that it picks up the higher notes closer to the bridge, which means that the string vibrates with less amplitude than say, then say, near the neck. This gives it a more focused, spikey sound. On the contrary, the three lower strings are picked up further from the bridge, which gives them a more mellow sound, but more volume. Fun fact: Because Jimi Hendrix was left handed, and he played upside-down Stratocasters, his bridge pickup was always reversed so that the Low E string was closest to the bridge, and this is responsible for his very aggressive sound on the lower strings.

It's so annoying to hear the guy chewing gum if you are in headphones! LOL

Went down to the comments to roast the gum chewing and realized it's been thoroughly covered for years. Proud of you

I have to admit, between this guy knowing less than everyone watching the video, the entire audio being swamped with his gun chewing, every single comment mentioning the gum chewing, and the fact that we didnt get to hear any of the guitars, i’d say this is the best-of-the-worst rig run down

"Double Cut Jr... nom nom nom..."

I love Green Day, but I am super glad we had a host. I feel like they weren't even interested. Thank god our host was able to pull information out of them. The only one that even seemed interested was the bass tech.

Just when you thought Dee Dee Ramone was dead, he came back to life in 2013 and became Mike Dirnt's bass tech!

I love how on one of the guitars you can see just how aggressively he plays.

Wrigley's Spearmint brought me here

Interviewer: "How does he (Mike) like to run these amps in terms of settings?" Tech: "Uhh... we got an overdrive here" "These amps have won awards"

Forget the gum. I hate how clueless he is on some of the stuff. “ I think this has an antiquity “. I feel like a tech for someone as big as green day. Should know everything. This guy acts too cool to have to know.

I've always thought Mike Dirnt had the best bass tone on the first few Green Day records.

I clicked to hear this guy gnawing on gum.

You have the entire rest of your life to chew gum but you decided to chew it during your interview. Thanks dude

I love when you guys include the bass player. I know most people are guitarist, but as a bass player, I like to see what a lot of these bassist are using and stuff. So thanks for that @premierguitar

Nothing beats a good "Gum Solo"..

am I the only one who was waiting for Billie to come out of no were and do something crazy?

I watched this with headphones on. It was like the guitar tech was physically inserting his gum into my ear.

I love Hans. Dude is the nicest dude ever. At a Longshot show he took my phone so he could take pictures for me off the amp setting on Billie Joe’s amps/pedals. Class act

"Hi I'm Green day's guitar tech, I was tragically born without a personality"

And uh *chew chew chew*

I prefer the rundowns to be done by the Artist. The last few ones I watched presented by the tech, they just do a crappy job imo.

The First Rig Rundown where the guitar tech knows nothing about the guitars.

>chews gum >Refuses to elaborate

Trust me.. once you REALLY get into playing, and understanding amps, effects, pickups, and other gear... You'll be dying to know EVERY little nuance to your favorite player's sound! I've been playing for about 20 years now and can't get enough of these Rig Rundowns!

All of these racks with insanely complicated pre-amp devices only confuse me. What ever happened to just plugging into an amp with maybe a pedalboard out front and rocking out?

For a guitar tech he doesn't seem to know a whole lot. One of the least inspired rig rundowns I've seen tbh!

00:17 - BJ - Guitars 0:30 - Amps 7:29 - Tech setup / Effects 9:08 13:03 - Jason - Guitars 13:13 - Amps 16:03 - Tech setup / Effects 17:18 20:15 - Mike - Basses 20:23 - Amps 24:17

I love his explanation on string tension on the Fender vs Gibson. He totally nailed the "10s on a Fender, 10s on a Gibson" part.

I love how Mike's tech calls him "Steve" at the end..haha.

I guess we have gotten used to super friendly, cool,down to earth and knowledgeable guitar techs in previous rig rundowns. Gum dude is a work in progress.

“Disposable guitar” FML

*chewing noises* uhhhh

Funny how Billie's tech called their old tunings E Flat, whereas Jason's tech called it D#, they must run on different wave lengths.

Guys Hans is actually really really kind. He's spoken to me at great length about green day's gear and has gone above and beyond

Billie’s Rundown- (Beware of vigorous gum chewing) 0:00-13:03 Jason’s Rundown- (Overall him not not really knowing shit) 13:03-20:15 Mike’s Rundown- 20:15-26:28

Of all techs, I think Mike's is the coolest.

Him chewing the gum and breathing is so annoying

This guy seems more like a guitar grabber and string changer than most techs

lmao I love that they glued Mike's bass from the iHeart radio festival

Watched 2 minutes and had to quit. Can't handle the chewing gum sound

Probably not the best chance to do a Rig Rundown since the techs are often in charge of switching effects, monitoring their guy (gal) on stage to make sure they're happy with their guitar, overall sound, and to always be prepared for the unaccepted. Plus, we know how much you guys hate the occasional soundchecking drummer, just imagine the background noise our mics would be picking up if a show was happening?! Thanks for watching,

Man I’d love to see one of these for Tre’s kit

I like how his guitar tech doesn’t know jack shit about Billie’s guitars... “I think it has a Seymour Duncan...”

"The angle of a humbucker makes a guitar sound special, signature". Is this Spinal Tap, or is it me?

Oh my god he kept my hulk mask oh my gooooood

It was nice of Dee Dee to come back to life and tell us about mikes basses

I have watched this video at least 7 times by now

I would know why Blue has an angled humbucker. When George Cole (Billie Joe's former guitar teacher) gave him the Bill Lawrence pickup, he just made the angled hole bigger to make the humbucker installation job easier, if anything.

There was an amp under the pink Marshall that said the network

When the show starts, we plug the guitars into the amps and turn everything on. Then the band plays and afterward we put everything back and go home and go to bed...on to the next day...

Around 1:08 "I'm still trying to figure out in my mind, why it sounds that way" DUDE!!!

You can tell Mike's guitar tech was running out of things to say

Ask what kind of gum he's chewing. Obviously he loves it judging from the chomping sound.

Everytime the actual tech goes through the gear you know the artist doesn't have a clue what's in there. I love Jim Root's rundown because he always does them himself.

Love these so called old rig rundowns before the kemper ,axe fx and helix.

can we appreciate Jason whites playing for a second and that Mike's tech is the coolest dude there

the angle changes it because the magnets that pick up the g, b, and e string are placed closer to the bridge, therefore those strings will have a bit more treble without adding volume to his tone.

Ah, the fine tradition of chewing gum during an interview. The interviewer needs to ask if they use Bubble Yum or Big Red on tour

After seven years, the pickup question on Blue can be answered. The different string spacing on a fender style guitar is why EVH angled his pickup, and most likely why Billie Joe angled his.

Actually Billie said in an interview that he retired blue and his tech came out and said that Billie wanted to retire it because the neck is almost split and he doesn't want to loose that guitar because it was his first so he went to Fernandas (the company that made blue) and built replicas of the guitar same specs and everything so he could still pull it out for the older songs. He still uses Blue on the albums though

I couldn't stop laughing at 22:21 when Mikes bass tech said "Uh yeah, all the stuff." make my day

Legend has it Hans is still chewing that gum to day.

"This is the guitar that got broken in Las Vegas" "That's it, all one piece" Well... it used to be...

Was lucky enough to catch one of Mike's picks at a gig a good few years back (it was the Warning tour, so a fair few years!). It was a .73mm yellow Dunlop Tortex customised for him. Had his face on it, and instead of "Dunlop" it said "Dumbpunk"and in place of "Tortex" it said "Dirnt".

I agree on the angled pickup, I have one too and it sounds way cooler than my other guitars with normal angled pickups. It comes down to tone, the pickup poles for the low E string are closer to the neck which gives it a thicker sound and the high E string is closer to the bridge which is what you really want tone wise. The magnets are going to pick up the sound based on their location!

Guitar. Cable. Amp. Everything else is in Billie Joe's fingers. And attitude.

It's like he just discovered gum and is like, "cool, now I'm one of those like, gum chewing guys"

8:40 proof that the network was green day the whole time.

I just saw them at Wrigley Field and the guitar sounds were excellent all around. Jason White's 335 with the Fishman setup had a convincing acoustic sound, maybe even more so than a typical acoustic with a piezo.

“And strings?” “Yeah, there’s some strings on there too”

My dream in life is not to become as famous as Billy Joe, but rather to be like the dude responsible for the guitars breathing heavy and chewing gum anxiously waiting for the next smoke break 🚬

The way that the pickup sounds different when angled like that is that it has a bit more pronounced bass and more dynamic, "less mushy" mid range. It's that simple. It actually works out because that suits Billie's playing approach pretty perfectly. Seeing that downstrokes and heavy wound string attack are his bread and butter - and a core aspect of that recognizable Green Day "sound", which Hans mentions in the video - it makes the already "thin" and "tinny" sounding guitar sound a bit bigger and heavier, more full.

This guy's smacking drove me absolutely nuts

Bass tech really saves this. I can't believe I made it through the gum chewer.

For some reason, this interview reminds me so much of the interview of Nigel on Spinal Tap about his guitars.

It's not a fender it's a Fernandez

3:42 Acts like A 59' JUNIOR DOUBLE-CUT IS NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

They need a do a Update Video on this

Cool video. Greenday is a legend.

chewing gum sounds amazing all amplified

Jeez Mike Dirnt is a freaking Fender nut

I'm here exactly 11 years later, and that gum still has some flavor in it

Hear's a direct quote from the video.. "Om nom nom nom, Seymour Antiquities, om nom"

Showing the guitars while chewing gum like that is SO spinal tap! 😂

At least Hans acknowledged the gum 😂

thanks for videos like this :)

I worked the American Idiot musical a couple of times and the tech told me all of the back line was specific to what Green Day used because some times they actually show up and play. I was excited but that never happened. lol