MusicRadar.com caught up with guitarist ORIANTHI (ALICE COOPER) at NAMM 2012 back in January, which took place in Anaheim, CA and the Anaheim Convention Center. Check out the gear talk below:

Orianthi has released her new EP, Fire, via iTunes. Go to this location to preview the songs and to purchase.

The tracklist is as follows:

'Heaven in This Hell'

'If You Were Here With Me'

'How Does It Feel?'

'How Do You Sleep?'

'Fire'

Orianthi recently spoke with Guitar Planet. An excerpt is available below:

Q: You have quite a classic rock pedigree, but is it fair to say there's quite a big pop influence in your own music?

Orianthi: "Yes, I grew up listening to a lot of JIMI HENDRIX, but I was also a big SAVAGE GARDEN fan! But the blues was the thing that really influenced me, and it comes through even in the more soft rock and pop things I play. Playing with MICHAEL JACKSON, for example, on something like 'Beat It', I was still able to put something of my own in there. So I do like that commercial rock sound, but that's not all I'm about; everything I do – even the way I solo – is quite blues based."

Q: Everyone seems to click on the Alice tour; what's it like playing to those big stadium crowds?

Orianthi: "The biggest crowd I've played to was something like 80,000 people. That's very addictive! Having that many people happy and jumping up and down is like a high, you just want to get back to doing it. Once you get on stage and you get that rush, it's highly addictive stuff."

Q: But I imagine your own live shows will be a little different?

Orianthi: "Yes, it's just classic rock and roll. The Alice shows are going to be crazy, but I toured Japan with just a guitar player, a bass player and a drummer. It was real stripped-down rock. But there's a new sound to this record so the shows will be a little different; I think it's important to change stuff."

Go to this location for the complete interview.