Blind Melon’s Rogers Stevens - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 589 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Rogers Stevens, guitarist of the alternative rock band, Blind Melon, shows off the gear that he uses onstage.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Standard ’59 Reissue (R9) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKG9QV Geoffrey Teese Real McCoy II Wah - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dOA6bM Analog Man Beano Boost Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xLP1Wy Analog Man King of Tone Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Dyr4Pb Loop-Master 2-Loop Switcher - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/qzqPJg Eventide H90 Harmonizer Multi-effects Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9L3KRE MXR M101 Phase 90 Phaser Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/POZ5XR Eventide Rose Delay - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/e1Gm9Q Analog Man Dual Analog Delay - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/APD49a 3 Monkeys Orangutan Amp - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vPrAod Dava Control Picks (blue/aqua) - https://www.davapick.com/davacontrol Stringjoy Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Z6DgOz  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - July 9, 2025 Location - Des Plaines Theatre in Des Plaines, IL  KEEP UP WITH BLIND MELON: Facebook - https://facebook.com/blindmelonband Instagram - https://instagram.com/blindmelonband Twitter - https://twitter.com/blindmelonband  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:32 Guitar 04:18 Pedalboard 10:01 Amp  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.  Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you make a purchase. Your support helps me continue to create content like this. Thank you!

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00:00Hi, my name is Roger Stevens. I'm one of the many guitar players in Blind Melon and I'm here to tell

00:18you about some of the gear that I'm using currently for our live performances. So I'll start with this

00:26guitar which I just got this from Gibson about six months ago and I mean I fell in love. It's the

00:38best guitar I've ever had by a long shot. It's a custom shot 1960 just straight off the rack. I haven't

00:48touched it you know that they sent it straight to me. I'm scared to even intonate it just because

00:56I'm worried I'll screw it up. But that is a wonderful guitar and I just feel very fortunate

01:02to have it. I carry it with me on the airplane. I won't ever you know let it go out of my sight

01:08basically. I never use the neck pickup. I always use the bridge pickup and I roll the tone knob down

01:16to around six or seven maybe. And usually I'm just kind of playing with this you know just just a you

01:25know from eight to ten basically. And I just pick it softer. It's super responsive this guitar. It just

01:31resonates and you know I don't know if it plays like butter. I mean I don't exactly know what I mean I know

01:44these guitars cost a lot and but I think they are getting them I guess you know what is purportedly

01:51really close to you know the old you know holy grail whatever 1959-60 Les Pauls that people

01:59you know covet so much. I think they're kind of I don't I've never really spent time with one of

02:06those guitars a real one but I can't imagine it's a whole lot better but maybe I'm crazy I don't know.

02:12I just started using these strings from this company called uh string joy and I just use the

02:19ones that are in the dark blue package they're just um I forget what they're called but um they just

02:25sound really natural to me. Um they uh plus they they make this the uh east the the low east ring

02:34it's like a 48 rather than a 46. I thought well huh I wonder why they do that. But you know I I mean

02:42psychologically it seems to have you know given me something I don't know. Um you know I'm usually just

02:49trying to make them sound clear you know and uh I don't like mostly despite this pedal board I'm mostly

02:59most of the time I'm running kind of straight through to the amp you know. I just play in standard tuning

03:06I know I I bring one guitar I don't even have a backup out here. I just I don't know like I'm pretty low maintenance

03:13you know put it on that stand I gotta pick it up play it something goes wrong we've got problems. But our the other side

03:20of the stage has backup guitar so um you know I could use that I suppose but you know I don't beat the

03:27shit out of it basically. I mean I play I play it but I don't you know I'm not like a um a heavy hitter

03:35or anything with it you know I'm trying to get it to ring like bells you know and it does. Um it sounds

03:43resonant just acoustically when you're playing it. That's how you know. You know I um I feel like

03:50sometimes I pick up less pause and they just feel dead they sound dead. This one sounds alive

03:56you know in the room with it without it plugged into an amp. Super important. I like to get them on the

04:01lighter side. I don't know if that if there's really any rationale to that. It's true people seem to

04:08think that but it seems like they will resonate more or you know I have strats that are the same

04:14you know that I get on the light side as well. So yeah this pedal board I just got made I just got

04:19tired of screwing up pedal boards and trying to put them together you know. I just lose focus

04:25and I start making shortcuts and then it's by the end it's just bullshit you know. So I got these

04:31guys at Pivotal pedal boards to make this for me and it showed up. What they do is they um they have

04:41either examples of these or they you know have a same size shell you know and so they um they make the

04:51whole thing with all of this wiring and it shows up and all you have to do it took me like 10 minutes to

04:57put it together just everything these cables are cut like perfectly evenly. I could never do shit like

05:03this I would just you know I just don't have but it like you know it lifts up and it's got power supplies

05:09under here. These are the, look at that fell off. But um this is the stuff you know that they you know

05:16recommended and it's worked like a dream it's dead quiet. You can plug in like the you know this thing

05:24this thing is um that's that's that is an amazing guitar pedal right there that that's probably you

05:34know these things have changed so much um I think since you know I was using them back in whatever the

05:4090s or whatever but now that you you know I love Eventide stuff so um I have an original H90 I have an original

05:50H949 I use in the studio so um you know that's a great company but you know I got these nice cables from

06:00Bullitt or Irvin's which are really cool this is your input here right and and and without going into the

06:06switcher or anything it first goes straight into this wah pedal which is a uh the Jeffrey T's wah it's like uh I

06:16I think this is the real McCoy 11 or something like that man I've got like three or four of his wah pedals

06:22and they're just killer like they're all different and I keep switching them out because I like this one

06:26better now and I go to the next and then I just go and then it goes straight into this uh which is the

06:32Analog Man Beano Boost which is a basically a uh sort of a treble booster you know and he makes a good one I have

06:44as you can see a bunch of Analog Man stuff because I've been using his stuff for years this sounds good and so um

06:52then I run straight out of that into this is the Analog Man King of Tone he calls it and it's got two channels

07:00and um you know depending on the amp sometimes the amp this side sounds great the yellow side you know this

07:10this arms other amps this sounds great you get very guitar amp specific and it's super that thing like you

07:18can take it and use it like really with any rig um if you don't have much else because it just it makes

07:26stuff sound you know pretty good all the time um and so then after that I'm going out into this switcher box

07:36uh loop master made for me he's he he's a cool dude he makes he makes stuff for me um I've had stuff over

07:43the years just different things I still have them all they they all still work they're built like brick

07:48shit house you know but um so it's just a two loop switcher and in the first loop I have the eventide h90

07:56and going into the mxr phase 90 and in the second loop I am going into these two delays just because

08:06I don't know why I have three delays but I do and uh this thing is blowing my mind um I've not incorporated

08:13it into our live set yet but the enotide rose that's the best coolest weirdest delay pedal I've heard

08:19in a long time I love that thing I mean it's like it's like Dan Lamois in a box or something you know

08:27um but um and this is the the dual channel analog delay um which I just use sometimes just as like a

08:37tight slap single repeat you know now I thought I was going to use it all like that um and this

08:45expression pedal will control might of both of these and then all of it is switched with this

08:52so this will switch this one and this one and so I have you know certain songs that we have in the set

08:58I have them in here I can tap the tempo for controlling both of these um this plate I use like like that's

09:06a plate reverb and I usually have that on and going straight into the um into the amp so that's usually

09:13what I'm I'm doing in fact I haven't turned this on the second loop with these two on once on this

09:20tool so it's really just um so these guys are pivotal I may be calling them again and doing the smaller

09:26one now that I've gotten out here because I love the board I love what it does um but I might they

09:32make a smaller one you know that you can like take on an airplane so I think that's all I really need

09:36because this thing is this thing is incredible that kind of does everything like I mean

09:44you know and you can it's I got these two things talking to each other I've never done

09:48shit like this before it took me forever but I eventually figured it out and um yeah I'm still

09:55plugging up the VCR you know so uh anyway I run out of that into the three monkeys which is um

10:03um I know the guy who builds this amp he used to have a company called Blockhead and I had some

10:09Blockhead amps which I really loved he made a Marshall Blues Breaker clone it was amazing

10:14a friend of mine used to play golf he's a great golfer too but the three monkeys are Ossie who is my

10:21friend who's the actual builder and uh Greg and uh is uh who is the tech for uh Brad Whitford from Aerosmith

10:31and Aerosmith and Brad Whitford those are the three monkeys and they they own the company so this is on

10:38where you can see right there it's like on three and it and it's like a natural it breaks up you know

10:44at a natural and it's kind of a I mean it cranks but it's it's not overbearing you know and um I just

10:53you know I got the treble up here the bass right there but the interesting thing about this amp is this

10:57knob right because this is a I don't know what this exactly does is that somehow how he's affecting

11:04the transformer but it changes the circuit and so that's more like a champ almost where I am is more

11:10like a like almost like a tweed deluxe is what it sounds like to me but like if you go all the way

11:14over here it's almost like Vox Marshall like but I just keep it on that one it's like six different amps

11:19in one this thing's fucking incredible it's called uh the orangutan and uh you know I'm bringing it

11:27out on the road I got a case made for it and and when I put it all in there was 101 pounds

11:33so now I got to figure out how to make it one pound lighter so I can shake it on airplanes

11:37yeah you know I use uh I started using these about a year ago it's like the the Dava

11:44is blue they're sort of aqua colored and they're just I don't know there's something they're kind of

11:48softish but if you hold them close to the edge they're not I think this pick because it has

11:54different widths and around like you can turn it around like that and it's like a heavier pick you

11:58know but it has a bendy part in the middle so if you get close to the edge it's like a it's a hard

12:05pick you know but if you're back here it's almost like you can I use it on acoustics electrics everything

12:10well I hope to see everyone uh show sometimes you can hear what all this actually sounds like

12:15like I think it's working but let me know if it's not thank you

12:30you

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