Richie Kotzen interview: the magical voice and guitar for the Winery Dogs

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Here's the short version of the Richie Kotzen interview done when he was in Paris for the european tour of the Winery Dogs (Billy Sheehan on bass, Mike Portnoy on drums) on Sept. 15th 2013. Their concert the night before was really awesome.

A short version of Billy Sheehan interview is available here.

Richie Kotzen live rig (source : John Zocco, his guitar tech)

• Fender Telecaster Signature
• Fender VibroKing and a Fender Vibrolux.
• For overdrive tones he is using a Punch Pedal overdrive/boost pedal
• Dunlop Crybaby Wah pedal.
• Strings D’addario EXL115 .11

The signal chain is : Fender Signature Tele - Line 6 Wireless - Dunlop Crybaby Wah - Punch Pedal Overdrive - VibroKing - Vibrolux.

Richie Kotzen