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PG’s Chris Kies caught up the lead guitarist Denver Dalley who covers the band’s whole setup before Desaparecidos’ headlining show at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge.

This is Denver Dalley’s main guitar—a 1977 Gibson RD Standard. He said he prefers the oddly shaped axe because it fits his body type due to its contours, weight, and scale length (25.5"), or in his words, “It’s tall and awkward like me so I’ve had an immediate kinship with them.” This was the first RD he ever bought and has been his No. 1 ever since because he feels he knows it best. He uses some electrical tape to keep the pickup selector in the bridge position. All his guitars are equipped with D’Addario .011–.049 strings and Grolsch beer-bottle straplocks. And all of Desa’s current setlists use standard tuning.

Denver Dalley loves pedals. Shown here is board number one that is used on all Desa shows. It starts with a Boss TU-2 Tuner that goes into a Boss DD-6 Digital Delay that is set to the loop mode because Dalley uses it for the glitch-style effect all over “City on the Hill.” He has the DD-6 sitting right next to a DigiTech Whammy so he can quickly ramp up the oscillation of the delayed trails by flooring the Whammy’s foot pedal. The next stomp is a Fairfield Circuitry Randy’s Revenge Ring Modulator that is on the board for song passages and interludes allowing Dalley to get on the floor and manipulate the pedal to send his tone into orbit. The Sitori Sonics Tape Worm Echo is half-delay (which Dalley doesn’t use live) and half-synth that he uses to create chaos during song endings and the encore. For standard delay uses, he relies on a Boss DM-3 Delay. Then we enter Dalley’s EarthQuaker Devices section that is comprised of a Grand Orbiter—used on a phaser-rich section in “Ralphy’s Cut,” Talons, Bit Commander, and an Organizer. The Talons and Bit Commander are right next to each other because there are several spots in the set that he will kick one off and the other on with one stomp of his foot.

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