“Here is a cover of Meshuggah's Stengah, pitched down a string, utilizing the Ibanez RG9 guitar. I put a lot of work into this one. Full production. No drum samples. Vocals and all. Hopefully this displays the tone of the RG9 in the context of the style of those that pioneered the 8 string guitar. Very little processing was done. The rhythm guitars are live amp's mic'd cabs. I utilized Toontracks awesome EZmix for the bass and lead tones. Hope you guys enjoy!!!”

“Mike Gianelli along with drummer Michael Levine, perform "Aftershock" live on EMGtv. Showing you cover a lot of ground with a nine string guitar, this duo leaves it all out on the stage. Mike Gianelli is using his EMG 909X, showcasing how well EMG pickups hold together in the low register and how the upper register sings for lead playing.”

HEAVY. AS. SHIT.

  When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself. The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard. -Historian Barry Lee Pearson