“That’s a special tone,” says Jabs. “I played my Gibson Les Paul that I call Leslie, plugged
into two rackmounted Line 6 PODs. That sounded pretty good, but we wanted to give it
some extra meat in the mix so we reamped it through my Marshall. There’s an interesting
story about that guitar. I bought it in 2002 when we were touring with Deep Purple. I
didn’t play it during the show, but it was always on stage—from the soundcheck on—listening
to the speakers. People thought I was crazy, but I know that guitars sound much better
when they have had frequencies going through them. The best way is to play them yourself,
but if the guitar gets the sound from the speakers, that’s the next best thing. It also got
some sun—we played outdoors a lot on that tour—and that helps the tone as well. I didn’t want
it to sound so new. Everybody in the crew knew to get Leslie on stage right away.”