Within the latest episode of Gear Issue, Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity, Down) performs his favourite riffs.
CoC have been one in every of so many unimaginable bands who hit the stage on the 2025 version on Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio. Luckily for us, this stoner rock legend had a second to hang around, plug in and provides us his life story, as informed by riffs.
In each episode we take it again to the very starting and that first riff that made our visitor need to even decide up a guitar within the first place. For Keenan, that’d be Led Zeppelin‘s “Communication Breakdown, the Aspect B monitor on the band’s basic 1969 debut.
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“It despatched me on a tangent which became the Ramones and something down-picking as a dumb punk rock child,” Keenan says of that childhood inspiration at round 14 years outdated.
“I by no means even had a guitar. My buddy who performed guitar was a little bit older than me and he received killed in a bike accident. So, me and my buddy broke into his home and stole his guitar as a result of his mother and father did not like him taking part in it anyway,” he recollects with amusing.
As for the fingerpicking, that is one thing he picked up from Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour. He goes on to show the approach within the Down track “Jail” as effectively.
Study extra about Keenan’s historical past as a guitarist and watch him play extra Down and Corrosion of Conformity riffs too! On the finish, he talks about writing new albums for each bands, so be looking out for some new heavy stuff from every.
Comply with Corrosion of Conformity on Instagram, X and Fb. Go to the CoC web site for extra (new website and merch retailer coming quickly) and catch the band opening for Alice Cooper and Judas Priest later this yr. Keep updated with Down on Instagram, X and Fb too and head to the group’s web site for the newest happening.
Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity, Down) Performs His Favourite Riffs
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