Rig Rundown - Black Pistol Fire

PG’s Chris Kies hung out at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville, Tennessee, with Black Pistol Fire’s Kevin McKeown who goes over the Epiphone and Gibson guitars he uses, explains why he has three Fender combos onstage, and demos his favorite tones that are on tap within his pedalboard.

Black Pistol Fire’s lone axe man admits that this current main love on the road is this ’90s Epiphone Casino. He’s been gravitating towards this one because he loves how the stock P-90s howl. The only mod he’s done to the instrument is placing the output jack on the guitar’s top. All of McKeown’s guitars use D’Addario EXL115 .011-.049 strings.

His only solidbody was a gift from Gibson. This Firebird is completely off the shelf aside from the Seymour Duncan Antiquity P-90s he swapped in for the normal mini-humbuckers.

[teunputker]

"Yeah man" - Kevin McKeown, 2016

[offdutyjie]

That's fucken great! What a genuine guy! Just awesome! His sound is the perfect mix of the Black Keys and the White Stripes! It has the White Stripe's chaoticness and unruliness mixed in with the Black Key's Riff beating - soulbound flow. Just awesome! Hope these guys get real far! Digging their sound - just found em today!!

[ErichWK]

I like Chris Kies. He sounds stoked and has a good speaking voice. More of him, please.

[tomsy]

Man I love when they play through the rig and give examples of pedals in their songs!

[mariocaceresg]

Besides the mistakes naming things, the guy was really cool, achieved a great sound, and was very glad to show and share his stuff. Very interesting!

[elephantricity]

Love to play it on the neck pickup. (points at bridge pickup)

[RJD]

How about an updated rig rundown for Kevin on the new Deadbeat Graffiti tour?!? Pretty please?! 🙏😊🤘🏽⚡️🎸

[elijahleighton]

knew he was a jack white fan. probably why i like them so much

[bengalvin]

I LOVE IT WHEN THEY PLAY THERE GEAR THUMBS UP!

[dons]

I live in Austin and I’ve seen BPF prolly 20 times before they blew up. Met them several times. Super genuine guys. One of my favorite live bands.

[mikedfurman]

Love Black Pistol Fire! Sweet to see a rig rundown of a guitarist who's part of a duo. That Casino is baller!!

[ia]

i like this guy. you can tell he enjoys talking about his gear.

[adamhumphreys]

I love me a good soapbox neck pickup on my solid state body guitar

[thecrappyguitarist]

Nice to see someone using epiphone guitars.

[bigkev]

Chris Kies is a very gifted interviewer/host. Professional, but able to relate, and has a passion for what he's doing. Keep up the good work, Chris! And PG, give him a raise!

[briandarabaca]

Most of the comments here are from so-called experts, haters or wanna-bes! Geez! I'm just glad to know some of these artists who have great attitude and gladly show their gears.

[krispatel]

I hadn't heard of this band before. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight then

[scorp]

Thanks for your time kevin. You deserve far greater publicity.

[bencousins]

That solid-state Gibson with the soap boxes, set all the time right back on the neck pickup! (mini humbuckers not man enough)!

[SuperRoggerRabbit]

Would love to see more rig rundowns on the new bands coming out, its so cool to hear the new sounds, fresh minds get out of vintage gear with new gear ... very nice! Thanks PG