All Axcess caught up with SLIPKNOT / STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root for an inside scoop on his personal on-stage gear. Check out the video rundown below:

Root recently spoke with Roadrunner Records UK about his guitar playing career and gear. An excerpt from the interview from the Gear Nerd series is available below:

Q: When did you first start playing guitar and was it the first instrument you ever picked up?

A: "Yeah, my parents had an old nylon string acoustic guitar that I would mess around on which I think had like two stings on it when I was like, 12/13 years old and then I begged them from the time I was 12 until I was probably 14 or 15 for a guitar and they got me this Memphis - not any brand name or anything - like a Les Paul Jr copy, like a double cut away. That was alright, then I begged and begged and begged for a nice guitar and I got a bass, cause the person at the guitar shop told them that if I wanna learn guitar, that I gotta start with bass. I got a Cort bass it looked like a Fender P Bass and I did one bass lesson with that and Paul Wilson, the guy I did the bass lessons with, saw I had good dexterity and a good ear and I pretty much schooled the lesson so I went right out from the lesson, and was like 'err Dad... [aughs] I don’t wanna play bass, I wanna play guitar cause all my favourite guys play guitar', and then I got a Takamine electric guitar, so that was kind of like my first real quick guitar. My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15 I think I got that."

Read the full interview at this location.