Richie Kotzen Gear

[gcpetti]

guitar position.... alex hutchings... nerd, but... amazing! you need to look kotzen!

[ChocloManx]

I play at Beatles guitar height and I'm damn proud.

[td7474]

Richie seems like one cool dude. Such a great player and the fact that he rips the way he does on a tele is amazing.

[magirecords2004]

"All Hell Is About To Break Loose"lmao! Cool dude!

[100slackerman1]

BUT! but!!!..the market for these ninja shredders are big and business is good!! :)D

[100slackerman1]

may sound like a bold statement but we're entitled to our own opinions..

but I think EVH was the last of the mohicans...glad Jeff B. is still alive & kickin' ..he's da' man!!! not good to compare but how can you not compare if all these ninja shredders are all just rowing the same boat,..just varying the colours of their sail really :)D :)D

[100slackerman1]

american rockers are just too taliored, fabricated and a bit too hollywood vegas kinda' vibe,...all show ...not raw flavor :( ...not referring to all ...only the kinda' trickster, shredder ninja type guitarist :)D ..can't differentiate between them anymore ..thanks to the grandpa of all shred show steve vai...

[bingefeller]

Just reading these comments - most of you guys are fucking dicks.

[AndyFerreiraMusic]

"There's nothing that this guy probably can play, because his guitar is just too damn low" - tell that to Nuno Bettencourt. HAHAHA

Just a joke, guys, Richie rocks!! o/

[nakedrockstar31]

hahah he said chooch :P

[daneswede2]

is he for real. the hight of the guitar hanging down from your neck. YOU CAN TAKE ANY CAT and hell have a comfortable height he lays the guitar in front of him and plays . thats it. I mean ok. under your chin is a bnit silly but. I persoanlly rol in the middle tiny bit higher than kot _ zen. anyway. "its not rock and roll if you dont measure , wsith a ruler, how far dong your "ong hangs! LOL. He is great. I still think guthrie govan and greg howe are the same guy. his style. throe a mask on him

[standad445]

@daneswede2 What?? If you are going to post in english at least get the basics down and make some fucking sense!! Otherwise don't type anything you fucking moron!!

[Karburante]

DUDE, I wanna be you!!!!!!!!!, hahahahahaha, my favorite defenetly

[isayah85]

I love this man!

[sparkster65]

what an idiot , who cares how a guy wears his guitar????????? why would that matter????????

[almor619]

@sparkster65 relax dude XD

[Kassarth]

@sparkster65 Ever seen Petrucci play?

Plays better than mostly everyone, but looks like a dork doing it.

That's what Richie meant...

[lickthoseboobs]

@sparkster65 Why would that matter? Compare how much ass he gets after every show to how you are getting none.

[hollywoodactress]

I love it -

"There is a certain guitar height, that when you see it. You just have to say this guy looks like a ..chooch...man"

[JeezoozeChrysler]

Richie you bastard your tele is all modded ,my kotzen tele hasn't got any d tuner,you got brass nut as weel and what's up with that white thing under the volume knob !!! And you changed that fuckin huge pickup selector with a standard one that's not fair at all :D

[admccon724]

what is his d tuner called? i cant seem to find it anywhere all i find is the evh one. help please :(

[threex4]

@admccon724 Hipshot.

[admccon724]

@threex4 Thanks!

[monorailsandwich]

Who the fuck is this guy? Nevermind. No one cares.

[SuperGuitarNerd]

I just recently got that Zoom pedal, but the preset locations he uses for delay & reverb here are actually originally both set with flange settings out of the box... Frustrating(!)

[xJan008x]

so what he says is, when someone has his guitar on a high point, you can't take him serious ?

so you can't take guys like tom morello or john petrucci serious ?

i bet these two guys play this richie puke (german meaning of his second name) to hell

[19lionheart90]

@xJan008x He's just kidding man. and by the way, I'm not too sure that neither Morello nor Petrucci are better than him. He can play pretty much any musical style on Earth. Again, these are just my thoughts and my opinions ok? :) Peace

[dmb3305]

@xJan008x lol, if you only know buddy....morello and petrucci arent even in the same ballpark as this guy. Morello does right some cool riffs, and Petrucci is a virtuoso, but Richie Kotzen is one of the most talented human beings on earth.

[DiBiasehere]

@dmb3305 He really is man

[mlg62playa]

When I get in that position, it means I'm tweaking my effects settings...either that or I'm tying my shoes

[Uz2Brockstar]

When I get in thatposition it means I got to take a dump in the middle of the 2nd set...

[onetime504]

Great guitarist. Here, though, he looks like he's hammered.

[MrDoochebag]

My God he is good... It's like watching porn.

[Conor4049]

SERIOUS tone at 4:50.

[Timmonsec]

One of the greatest guitar players ever... and one of the finest voices ive heard in my life... period...

[eric1love]

so if you want to sound like Kotzen- go buy a bunch of signature guitars and amps, that'll only put you back a good 40 000 bucks

[fleafarteasy]

When I get in that position it means my back just gave out.

[Rootwitch06]

@fleafarteasy LOL!!!!

[OmaKahn]

haha his second name means in german to barf xDDD

[Revival1]

@OmaKahn haha your name in dutch means grandma Kahn xDDDDD

[OmaKahn]

@Revival1

Its the same in german :P

[BLaZe071775]

RESPECT

[gianzanirizky]

kotzen awesomeeee......

[ekserchina]

Did you all know that 'kotzen' means 'puking' in German? :)

[h412m0ny]

back then, he was shredding like CRAZY...

but now he's way better, as musician n guitarist

respect

[MICKEYISLOWD]

@h412m0ny yeah i was listening to loads of guitarist in the early nines then kotzen came out with that ridiculous reh vid and i was hooked he was different then but now he has matured huge time .....

[x7stringinJSCx]

i've seen Kotzen 6x Rev.. and this is the only gig i've seen him at that he used this pedal. u could tell.. sure.. but it Added to his tone. i used to go to MI in Hollywood and i saw 2 clinics he did.. No pedals at all.. still epic. its just bc he is That good that he doesn't need pedals to alter his sound. the only pedal i saw was a boss tuner.. and his foot switch with the Amp..

[kodbahamut]

GOD

[cnmaster01]

i was at that show and i wish i had gotten that warning much sooner. my face was so melted i couldn't go outside for weeks

[Juaniguitarra86]

He is bad ass.

[franee]

what strap is he using?

[Jackwoolley]

Shawn Lane held his guitar quite high, would you not want to hear anything he had to play?!

[NamretliF]

i was thinking the same, i really like richie playing but im no twith him in the strap thing, i wear the guitar higth :P

[omarfusion]

its obviously a joke dude

[revolutionday1]

Wow.....I mean...a fuckin' 2-button Z00M??? LIVE??? Really?! This guy is beyond douchebaggery.

[bwdevel]

It's an endorsement. You play whatever you can get your name on. Obviously he wouldn't use the pedal if he wasn't getting paid cash by Zoom to do so.

Satriani is doing the same with his Vox pedals; Vai the same with his Jemini pedal; etc etc.

[revolutionday1]

I'm saying, a Z00M pedal like that one is inferior for use in a live rig, and is generally relegated to bedroom-shredder duties.

The guy has signature Fender guitars, so I'm pretty sure he's not really having to beg companies for endorsements.

Might wanna' 2x check your facts on who's actually PLAYING what that they endorse. Joe Satriani is currently in some hot water over NOT playing his signature Peavey "JSX" line of amps live, and replacing them instead with some Marshalls.

[Dwyane3MVP]

Saw him twice this year. If he touched the zoom I missed it. It's just him, the guitar and the amp.

[BLaZe071775]

yeah i dont think he actually uses it..

[nenad1974]

I saw him a couple of months ago - he used the Zoom for delay, and alternated between two delay settings (more delay in slow songs and some solos).

[crimsondynamoo]

@revolutionday1 says the man who hasn't made 20 albums and opened up for the Stones. Keep making those grand sweeping generalizations from your Mom's basement.

[revolutionday1]

@crimsondynamoo How do U know I haven't, exactly? A "mom's basement"-reference....?? On YouTube...?? Wow. Surely not!

[scirasco]

funny mofo

[pberrio]

Whats the name of the song in the background?

[designfolio]

It's "Bad Things"

[cjhc5150]

The first one is Bad Things, the second one is Sacred Ground and the third one is Fooled Again

[dissipated101]

@pberrio ,around 2:00 is Sacred Ground from Into the Black Album.