Crobot’s Chris Bishop

<p>Crobot’s hard-riffin’, smooth-groovin’ rock anthems often ride on the back of guitarist Chris Bishop’s handiwork. The guitarist carefully corrupts his tone with creative pedal tweaking, but he’s never lost sight of his role within the quartet.</p><p>“The groove is the most important thing in the song and, being the only guitar player, my main focus is to make sure that’s there,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/crobots-chris-bishop-follow-the-riff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">explains Bishop to&nbsp;<em>PG</em>&nbsp;in 2016</a>.</p><p>And when you’re opening for the party-rocking&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/steel-panther-2023" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steel Panther</a>, no goal can be greater than making the crowd move ’n’ groove. Before Crobot’s set at Nashville’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.marathonmusicworks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marathon Music Works</a>, Bishop welcomed&nbsp;<em>PG</em>’s Chris Kies onstage to detail his trio of guitars—a beloved offset and a pair of P-90-loaded Teles—his parti-colored pedalboard, and the Victory VS100 Super Sheriff and Kemper Profiler that work together to create his massive sound.</p><p><em>Brought to you by&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.daddario.com/XSRR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>D’Addario XS Strings</em></a><em>.</em></p>