Rig Rundown - Doyle Bramhall II 

Doyle's late father was the drummer and vocalist for The Chessmen with Jimmy Vaughan who were on the bill with Billy Gibbons and The Moving Sidewalks opening for Hendrix in Texas. Doyle Sr. was also the drummer for Marc Benno and The Night Crawlers who featured Stevie Ray Vaughan on lead guitar in 1974 ! Check out Doyle II with The Arc Angels that also featured Charlie Sexton, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon...Double Trouble.

People are acting like john bolinger was being weird ... He was being totally normal. He just loves guitar and music and gets excited. It's a shame that if you don't put on an act and be Rico Suavee people get uncomfortable. Great vid, Great player.

Doyle is one of the rarest things in music today, a totally original talent. He's also one the most humble and down to earth individuals you can encounter.

Doyle is a genius, when my wife tells me I need less volume, I can tell her I need to get a quieter amp! New Amp Day whoooo

I always appreciate when the actually let you hear what their rigs sound like.

Some of you are way too sensitive. Doyle and John seem to be having a fine time together. I don't detect even the slightest discord from Doyle at any point in this interview. He's not being a stick in the mood either; he's just being chill. John is a personality and there's nothing wrong with that. He's not being fake or weird; he's a good dude and he's just being himself.

This was a great gear rundown because this guy actually demonstrated a lot of his tones. And boy can this guy play. Thank you guys. this channel is awesome.

Love his playing...really hits me deep...he is one of the last great Austin cats...not that there aren't great ones now but from the old guard...i used to live there, and there is just a certain authenticity to his playing..like Stevie Jimmy...Derek OBrien etc...its like they aren't just playing the form properly..the music is really a part of them..of the fabric of the culture from that part of the country !

Doyle Bramhall II is the man! I saw him with Clapton, my last live show before covid. New SF place in December of 2019. He is incredible. Between he and Clapton I was blown away!

This is one of my favorite rig rundowns. I love and respect Doyle's humility. What a great guy and an incredible talent. Rich Man is one of the best albums I've heard in a while. Thanks Doyle for being so open and generous.

Love Doyle Bramhall...one of those hidden Gems in the guitar world, but ranks up there the more you listen to him.

I also have tinnitus. Didn't know that Doyle also suffers from this condition. It's quite remarkable that he's been able to keep playing/working with tinnitus. Cool guy, great player and nice rig as well.

Doyle Bramhall II is one of my favorite artist. Excellent Rig Rundown!

John B. is a great host and interviewer. He’s using personality to get as much info from his interviews as he can. Much respect to both of these guys. And...damn, what a player!

He has the greatest vibe tones.... since Hendrix. Hands down!

We love John Bollinger.. It's a pleasure to watch his Premier Guitar stuff. And Doyle's new album ''Shades'' are fantastic! They both kick major ass!!

great interview with a great american musician, a true artist... so much talent and still soft spoken and humble.. defineately a great rundown

Doyle Bramhall II. One-of-a-kind. Truly.

Doyle is and has been my Numero Uno guitarist to study the blues by. Loved and still listen to his dad's stuff having grown up with it over my years. What an awesome artist he is! Love his new CD which I also bought on vinyl. I've yet to see him live in concert BUT he is on the bucket list of "MUST DO's"! Thanks PG for asking Doyle to do this video interview. Awesome!!! Hopefully you will do another one on him in the near future.

This Lesliesound is fabolous!! Doyle is so cool and an incredible player and singer!

Don't care what anyone says. This was a great interview.And really shows how humbling and real both these guys are! Great stuff man!...

"That's great!" - John Bohlinger

I remember seeing Doyle live with Roger Waters back in 2000, during Roger's "In The Flesh" tour. Great guitarist.

Love to see a rig rundown with Doyle's friend Charlie Sexton.

Fantastic. I saw Doyle at the Troubadour in LA with Craig Ross. Best show I have ever seen. A true presence on the guitar. I dig these rig rundowns and I've been waiting for this one!

I love watching Doyle play with the great Eric Clapton. Arc Angels and Storyville were amazing and I was lucky enough to see them in small and large venues in and around Houston. Traveled to 6th street in Austin a handful of times. My great friend, Mary, was the promoter and manager for many musicians such as Bobby Mac and Seth James Walker all amazing. All great musicians from TX, all very approachable and humble. Doyle is one of my favorites by far and I love his vocals

One of the great modern players/songwriters/singers of the last twenty years.

Love Doyle. Really impressive how he plays. Fun to watch. Great guy. Such s good player too. He really gets a unique sound with his strings reversed.

This is my Guitar Man. so Royal. Just love listening to this.

Saw Doyle once with the Arc Angels in a small club in OKC. He and Charlie were both amazing. His passion and tone were incredible. Really wish that band had been together a bit longer.

I saw Doyle earlier this month, and he had this guitar.. he really took his time tuning it.. But it does look like it was played and put away wet! Sounded great, who cares about bright and shiny... And he blew about 3 amps!!

Love this! Doyle's new album is amazing!

Great video.. Nice to hear Doyle call it a Lesley Amp..Can remember one, two horns spinning around 40+ years ago Thanks

Love watching John Study! Doyle's playing, of Course John you are amazing as well

Doyle has the best fuzz sounds. that zonk machine is amazing

Doyle is so badass playing a guitar upside down and backwards, no one compares! I've loved him since Arc Angel's and am so happy Clapton got him back playing again and has recently been on tour with Clapton. I'm proud of him for getting clean and playing better than ever. I've already pre ordered his new CD coming out in Oct. Can't wait! Love love love you Doyle.

Whatever his vices might be, he's still one hell of a guitarist and that's all I'm interested in. May God help him to overcome any addiction

Premier Guitar Thanks for doing these awsome "RigRundowns" And John Bolinger Your Awesome!

Doyle has some of the best tone in the game today!! Also, the best hands and gets that unique sound playing top down on the upside down strings

Every time I see a video with Doyle playing, I appreciate his skill, stlye & passion tons more. I'm a drummer not a guitarist but, I really dig cats that are into their gear as much as their playing. That always carries me cause my gear is a huge part of how I play & how I sound. I just couldn't get into playing but knowing how to tune my kit or why I would use an 18 Medium or a 18 Thin Crash.

Damn he is sassy..Great interview..these two. John and Doyle. Doyles mind and petals..Awesome..So Melodic Doyle..I bless you for holding the ground in the Middle among the Kings. Among Arch Angels.

What a great guitarist and he knows his gear.

one of the best rig rundowns I've seen in a long time......the guy actually playing the rig.....talk it cheap sometimes...kudos

Its about Time they caught up with Doyle. He has been under everyones radar for far too long. He is a real artist a real musician and a great singer songwriter. His style is completely unique, no one sounds like or plays like doyle.. Nice to see he is getting the recognition he deserves. Great job premier guitar. Also for you guitar pplayers out there if you really want that fuzz tone hes got, check out berkos fx. i got the third stone pedal and it is incredible, and if you want the zonk machine make sure you get it from a dealer who is legit alot of crappy clones out there> thE zoNK has the sizzle of an octavia without the octave.. Doyle uses his volume knob alot to control his tone and fuzz. Before this board he was using an Analogman NKT 275 Sunface and a Deja Vibe , the new custom shop deja vibe is just as nice as the vibe bro

Man does this wah sound good !!

I loved Doyle on the Roger Waters tour, he nailed Gilmour both on guitar and vocals, as best as anyone could.

Love Doyle, has to be one of the very best musicians out there, after his Dad, AND he is a big "Jr Brantley" fan too!

He has earned his place in the top blues players list for the last thirty plus years and I am a huge fan of his work and he has been with Clapton since the first part of the nineties so he has been very creative with his solo stuff and his contribution in the Arc Angels with is a great album/ CD That still stands out today

one of my favorite guitar players of this modern era. great interview John !!!!!

Haha, I loved "Vemu-, Vehmoo-?" "Jan Ray." "Jan Ray, okay."

Holy shit that wah sounds so good and that zonk sounded just perfect too

This guy is so happy about everything "awesome, cool, amazing.. I love every tone!!" hahah what a dude. :)

Saw the Arc Angels in RI. General admission, and the band is hangin out at the bar drinking beers, shakin hands, meeting people and super cool guys! We were standing at the stage two fisted and just blown away! I hadn’t even heard anything but Living In A Dream on the radio! The rest is history!

Doyle is probably the coolest cat on the planet! Killer tones and a killer player

“If that’s a $5,000 pedal I think your secret is safe” 😂😂😂😂😂

I love the details of his guitar, I was introduced to Doyle on a Crossroads DVD, I didn't think there was someone else out there that played like me. I play right handed guitars upside down and I'm looking to get my own lefty fender someday.

Super excited to have found this channel. What a great, laid back way to find out some really interesting stuff about these amazing musicians and their gear! It’s like something you’ve always wanted to do, and now you can! Just an extraordinary idea for a RU-vid channel and I commend y’all for doing this! Hopefully it will continue for many more legendary artists and bands. Y’all rock.

my favorite Rig Run Down so far!

I saw him in Minneapolis on this tour and five years later I still get inspired thinking about it...

amazing tone, great lesson.

Great rig rundown. One of favorite players - cool to mention learn straight to amp then add textures once you got your tones down - mistake I made years and years ago -

NOW THAT'S A PEDALBOARD I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE!

Great rig rundown! Really enjoy Doyle's music. Nice job by Mr Bolingbrook.

Left handed strung, right handed, that’s how I jam and it’s awesome. I’m in great company. I would never change it for anything. 🤘🤘

The sound of that '68 Vox wah at 19:53; such a great old school Strat tone.

Great Rig Rundown!!!!! I wait to see Doyle in a Rundown and now ist's happening...sooooo cool!!👌 Doyle is the coolest and one of the real players!

Right on Doyle - see you soon live in Austin!

Man, Doyle is great!! What a sound!!

1964's continue to come up as really great guitars. Have four Strats here '55, 57, 64, 66 and the 64 is heads and tails over all of them. This particular one found at the original owners home right down the block from me. Super clean as he never learned how to play it, not one solder's been touched and it weighs 6,5 POUNDS!!! Have never had a trem Strat that light. AND....yes, it's for sale

Love our Doyle 2. Wish he was still here in Austin so we could see more often. But hey, we've got Grissom!

One of the best guitar blues players!!

Thanks John! I appreciate the Rig Rundowns, and the content that it provides.

"More than likely!" Love your work, John. Thank you PG

Really awesome rig !!! Doyle Bramhall is an extraordinary player !

Finally getting to see Doyle in Buffalo at the Tralf! BTW, Coco Montoya also plays the same way - left handed but strung for right handed. He's also a monster guitar player and singer.

He really went in depth with his pedal demos, I would be nice if they all did this.

One of the best intro riff the rig down!

Nice to see Doyle still rocking the Acid Fuzz Zonk Machine!

Mr. Bramhall is a historian as well as a player - the note about Hendrix's playing. And Bohlinger acknowledges that!

John is a great guy. So is Doyle. Both phenomenal players. John is far more excitable and outgoing than Doyle. Big deal. This is an amazing rig rundown. I appreciate John's questions and Doyle's thoughtful responses. Want to see something "great"? Watch John demo the Moog tremolo pedal. Guy could wipe the floor with most of these armchair rockstars in the comment section.

Such a cool and humble musician...true artist

Still miss the real Arc Angels years with the cherry red glitter Fender guitar!

Doyle's solos are so tasty. I love this guy

Doyle is the man 🙌🏼 So, he’s talking about using the Analog Outfitters vibrato unit for Leslie sounds, but John didn’t ask about the Leslie pedal on Doyle’s board :/ Also, I’m guessing Doyle gets the slow chorus (and Leslie) sounds he mentions by mixing the Fender amp (with the Analog Outfitters’ vibrato) and the Blankenship’s “dry” signal. Vibrato + dry = chorus.

“That’s a killer, man”

Best one ever, this guy is cooler than a cool thing on a cool day

His tone is amazing and I think much of it is attributed to him being a lefty and bending differently.

Love this guy, great sound!

Love, love Doyle's style and tone, great player. Saw Arc Angels here in San Diego many years ago at a club probably one half the size of the venue on this video. Excellent show. But what I really want to know is, how can you have like 13 pedals on your board with no sort of switching system? Have to do a lot of tap dancing to go from your fuzzed out, vibe sound to get back to a clean tone and vice versa.

"It does what a tube screamer tries to do" Doyle Bramhall ll.

Dope Rig Rundown, with a bad ass player!

If you guys who don't like John Bollinger whine enough maybe they will get a sleazy used car salesman (otherwise known as an actor) to replace him - i prefer a real person who struggles with his acting - John Bolinger lives for the whole guitar thing and that's what matters most to me . Doyle is cool but he's so laid back that he made it a little more awkward than it should have been.

Very cool! I am a lefty myself but strings set for lefty... much respect to those who play strings upside down, looks so difficult! To tell you the truth, I am just glad to be able to find lefty a Stratocaster guitar, nowadays it's great, so much to choose from and at great prices too! ALTHOUGH I still suffer when going into a guitar shop where 99% of the guitars are right-handed... ordering a lefty is basically what I do, and hope to God that when it arrives the sound is there, and the build is right on... Years ago I would wish to have been a right handed player, but not anymore :-)

I really dig that Analog Outfitters in the acrylic case. My first amp a Fender Princeton Chorus which is no longer made is all solid state (no tubes) can make that Leslie sound when the chorus rate & depth knobs are selected.

What a killer tone!! Amazing

well saw him and the band in person in Richmond...what a talent and really good music. sometimes you wish he would just keep on playing.... hope to see him in Austin

Wow, that flux capacitor sounds great!

Great as usual John. Always find Doyle stuff interesting.

I liked his band, the Arc Angels from the early 90's , with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton from the late SRV's Double Trouble, Charlie Drayton and Ian McLagan ...

Been waiting for this one for a while. Great interview.