Concluding the Shredders in chiffon series with one of the best guitarists I have ever seen - Carrie Brownstein. Formerly of Sleater-Kinney and currently touring with Wild Flag, the Portland-based musician often crops up in 'best female guitarists' lists.
Brownstein started playing guitar when she was 15 and stuck with it ever since. She attended the 'birthplace of riot grrl' Evergreen College in Olympia, Oregon at the same time as Kathleen Hanna and founded Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker in 1994.
Now with Wild Flag (a band that boasts another awesome female guitarist in the form of Mary Timony), Carrie's fluidity and speed up and down the neck results in some impressive (but usually fairly tasteful) solos. Combined with windmills plenty and some high kicks too, she's just so rock and roll.
And so to equipment: Guild S-100 with Bigsby and I've seen her use amps by both Vox and Fender. Pedal-wise, she uses a Line 6 Delay, Boss Blues Driver, Boss OD3 Overdrive and a Z-Vex Super Hard On. Thanks are due to Dr Mailbag Hickory for pedal ID skills - please visit the Mailbag Hickory photography blog or follow on Twitter - @stcstc.
Anyway, here is Carrie Brownstein ripping it up with Wild Flag in Glasgow recently.
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