Slipknot's Jim Root has endorsements with Fender and Charvel and can surely call them up if he likes the look of something. But as he tells us in a new interview, he likes electric guitar shopping like the rest of us and when he sees something he likes the look of, he's in the market. And that includes Fender's (relatively) affordable Player Plus Series guitars.
"I'm signed up to the vendor email list, so whenever they [Fender] drop a new series of guitars, or whatever, I check them out," Jim reveals to us in a gear chat where he explains how he's been testing out the company's new Tone Master Pro amp modelling and multi-effects processor at home, along with adding the Neural DSP Quad Cortex to his live rig. "I happened to read the specs on this guitar and saw that it was a hardtail. I was like, 'Well, that's cool.'"
