Hi, I'm Stefan Bühler, also known as "Russ T. Rocket",
and I play guitar with the band "Boss Hoss".
I'm Sascha Vollmer, a.k.a. "Hoss Power",
and I play acoustic guitar and a few electric parts
with The Boss Hoss
I discovered the guitar and music in general thanks to Jimi Hendrix,
like many others, I suppose. What got me started was when I saw him at Woodstock.
I immediately knew that that's what I wanted to do. It was so cool!
I picked up the guitar much later, as a matter of fact.
But music has played an important part in my life.
I went to a Waldorf school—there you have it.
And I'm not ashamed of it: it was music-oriented and artistically inspiring.
We started with music at a very young age.
I played the recorder and the violin, because I had inherited my grandfather's violin.
Later, I started taking piano lessons in a regular music academy.
The piano became my instrument for 10 years. As an early teen,
I wanted to play music with others.
Modern pop music, way beyond music schools and such. I started playing with one of my friends
who was also a pianist… we both thought it a bit awkward to be seated at the same piano.
That wasn't what I had in mind.
My father had an old traveling guitar that was standing in a corner.
I decided to learn to play it so that we could be a real band.
I saw the booklet stuck between the strings. It contained tabs, i.e. chords,
and I started practicing.
Three chords were enough to play R'n'B and rock'n'roll.
That's how we put our first band repertoire together.
We never stopped.
At one stage, we were given the opportunity to use a rehearsal room at the local youth center.
Then a drummer joined, followed by a bass player.
In those days, playing the guitar had become second nature to me.
And it wasn't long before I could play four chords.
The first strings I ever bought were Ernie Balls, can you believe it?
I bought them at a music store in Frankfurt from Marco Ramazzotto
who is now a friend and esteemed band member.
I have no recollection of my first set of strings,
because my father's guitar already had strings on it.
When a string snapped, I tried to tie a new knot at the end and
used the remaining length around the tuning peg to compensate for the lost part.
Yes.
I managed to get quite some mileage out of that approach.
When a string had become too short, I would run off to our neighbor
who ran a small music store in his basement. His name is Siggi Schwarz,
a brilliant and well-known guitarist who also lives in Heidenheim.
Anyway, we were neighbors and that's where I bought one string at a time.
In other words: I only ever replaced broken strings.
But only those that you were unable to fix, right?
Exactly.
Oh yeah, but the ones you could fix would stay on the guitar.
Yes. Only strings I was unable to fix were replaced.
And one day, Siggi told me: "Listen, it's time to replace them all."
And he gave me a complete set for free.
With Boss Hoss, I mainly play electric guitars, with a rather rocking sound.
I use two combos and a Marshall half stack.
Rhythm and lead guitar and, yes… a rather classic rock sound.
My sound for the Boss Hoss: I usually play an acoustic guitar, which is relatively organic.
I installed a magnetic LR- Baggs pickup in one of them.
My other acoustics contain a so-called undersaddle pickup.
Whenever I play electric, I tend to do the opposite of what he does,
with a slightly retro-oriented sound—a Super Reverb Amp, a Tube Screamer,
and that's it.
Semi-acoustic sounds with a spring reverb and a rather middy retro sound.
What I like about Ernie Ball strings is how they feel, their surface,
and, of course, their nice tension.
Other strings tend to be too loose or too tight, for some reason.
I am very fond of their tension.
They also sound nice and keep their sound for a rather long time.
And let's not forget their tuning stability.
You just install them, pull a little bit, and you're good to go.
That's another thing I like about them.
Same here, I care about the sound.
I still remember how my strings started sounding duller as the gig progressed,
because I was sweating a lot… I mean, at some stage, everything would be just wet.
By the end of the gig, my axe had lost almost half its volume.
I'm just exaggerating.
And the strings sounded dull.
That's right, your sound would be gone within the first half hour.
Dull! I tried lots of different strings, hoping to find stable ones.
In the past, breaking up to three strings per gig was the norm.
Since switching to Ernie Balls,
my sound remains stable during the entire gig.
And I hardly ever break one.
What can I say? These are my strings!
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