Billy Idol: Enjoying some tracks me and Steve Stevens have done with Sam Hollander & Butch Walker … in early stages yet as #COVIDー19 #quarantine and summer hols have slowed the process but coming along well now…
Can’t wait for you guys to hear this https://t.co/XzpGuT6i4k
— Steve Stevens (@Stevestevens) September 27, 2020
Butch Walker: Just tryna dispel all those rumors that my old hair metal band from 80s-90s made us all mad rich.
Butch Walker: Cool guitar alert: while recording last week, Val McCallum would come in every day with a vintage guitar that would make your guitar nerd dreams come true. Then he walked in with this on Friday. I said “what’s in the guitar case today?” And he pulled this out and gave it to me and said “Not mine… yours… Happy Birthday.”. I’m having the best time with this gift. Gold foil pickup, bigsby vibrato… on a Squier Bullet guitar. Plays and sounds amazing. Thanks Val!! The gift was me hearing you play in the studio all last week. This is just icing. Making music is fun…
Butch Walker: Just sittin’ here trying to make light of the dark… power is out to help alleviate any potential sparking of fires with these annual, ever increasing winds.. it should all mellow out by the weekend and we can do some music. As a part time left-coaster, Everyone out here please take care of yourselves and others, and be mindful and cautious until this fucking windy season is over.
Love you,
BW
Little River Band – “Reminiscing” (1978)
Butch Walker: Comin In here to post a pic of my pedalboard from the last year of shows I’ve done (fellow guitar nerds been askin’?). It’s never fancy or pretty, but it’s good sounding stuff. I’m always envious of the pedalboards that have 94 pedals crammed into a beautiful custom walnut wood board, with absolutely no cables showing at all. But let’s be real here.. i wreck shit onstage. This is why i can’t have nice things, apparently. Also that’s the difference between a “guitar player” onstage and a “singer that also plays guitar” onstage. My big ass, clumsy feet turn 30 buttons on at once if i have them too close together, and i also can’t look at my pedals while signing or I’ll literally fall down (singer vertigo or something). I’m currently building a smaller board that is gonna be SIMPLE AND DOPE, consisting of a TC Electronic tuner, JHS Pedal ЯR signature overdrive (by yours truly), and a Line 6 HX Stomp (it’s gonna be amazing)! Will report back in to post pics and vids of that working when i get all the parts i need to complete that little bad boy. Pictured here are:TC Electronic tuner,JHS Pedal compressor and ЯR signature pedal, WayHuge overdrive, Jim Dunlop MXR echoplex, carbon copy delay, reverb, and stereo chorus… That big red thing is my Audio Sprockets Tone Dexter acoustic guitar system that is THE TRUTH when it comes to plugging your acoustic into a sound system.
Butch Walker: True story on this custom made, master built Gretsch White Falcon guit-fiddle. They made it for Neil Young when there were plans for a CSNY reunion tour or something. Neil got pissed at Stephen Stills over some shit. So Neil sent the guitar back. Now i have it. Rock n Roll is fun!
Warren Huart: We recently had the chance to sit down and talk with the amazing Butch Walker. ⠀
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As a songwriter and producer, Butch has worked with artists like Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Harry Connick Jr., Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Pink, All Time Low, Saosin, Dashboard Confessional, Katy Perry, and many others!.
Jakob Dylan will be joined by Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Butch Walker for this year’s ‘Rock the Night to Cure Crohn’s & Colitis’ event in Los Angeles on April 14th.
Who: Connecting to Cure Crohns and Colitis
Where: Teragram Ballroom
Attire: Casual
Start Date: Saturday, April 14, 2018
Start Time: 7:00pm
End Date: Saturday, April 14, 2018
End Time: 11:00pm
Teragram Ballroom
1234 W. 7th Street
Los Angeles
CA
90017