Punk junk

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

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The former Cars six-stringer talks early guitar exploits, the golden age of vintage-guitar buying, and why he’s not as jazzed about amps as he is about guitars themselves

IN THE SEVENTIES, Larry DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan broadened the tonal horizons for the electric guitar community by developing their own pickups to be retrofitted onto instruments made by other comp