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THIS MONTH: Tomo Milličević
A qualified pastry chef, Tomo Millicevic was on the point of quitting music altogether and taking up a career in catering when he
was invited to audition for LA progressive rock/pop band 30 Seconds to Mars. The lucky break has led to meteoric seven years for 31 year old guitarist/keyboard player, who was born in Sarajevo and grew up in Michigan after his parents immigrated to America when he was a baby. Millicevic was something of a musical prodigy, under the tutelage of an uncle who was a professional music teacher he began playing violin when he was barely out of nappies but despite a teenage infatuation with heavy metal he didn’t take up the guitar until he was 19 years old. His instinctive musical abilities soon saw him developing his rock and roll chops with a number of local bands until he got wind of the auditions for 30 Seconds To Mars. Beating 200 fellow guitarists into the coveted position, Millicevic joined band founders Jared Leto (who also moonlights as a Hollywood actor during downtime from the band) and Shannon Leto. The core trio, which is augmented by session musicians during live shows, has honed a signature sound that weaves soaring choruses around powerful prog- tinged rock and their ambitious videos are pretty cool too; which is only fitting considering that lead vocalist Jared Leto is an accomplished method actor in the Robert Di Nero mould who clearly knows a thing or two about movie making as well as being an ultra-cool rock and roll frontman. PM
Tomo Millicevic loved his new Marshall Vintage Modern rig so much that he used it for the remainder of 30 Seconds To Mars’ 2010 world tour!
Marshall 2466 Vintage Modern
In December 2009 30 Seconds To Mars released their current LP, This Is War and only recently concluded the seventh and final leg of a mammoth tour that has seen the band on the road intermittently for almost a year. This type of schedule naturally demands equipment that is up to the job and so it’s no surprise that the band’s final UK dates at the 02 arena saw Tomo Millicevic take delivery of a brand new 100 watt Marshall 2466 Vintage Modern head and a matching 1960 412 speaker cabinet. According the Marshall Amplification Millicevic was blown away from the moment that he plugged into the new Marshall rig at his 02 sound check and loved it so much that he used the Marshall setup for the remainder of the tour. The 2466 harnesses the classic Marshall 100 watt tube-driven circuit with a
18 3pickup
special preamp that can select between the glassy clean tones and harmonically sensitive dynamic tones of the classic 1960s style Marshall ‘Plexi’ or alternatively a ‘High Range’ mode delivers more overdriven sounds that are based on the hot-rodded Marshall amplifiers that many influential rock guitar players used during the 1970s and 80s, which eventually helped to prompt the era of the modern high-gain channel switching Marshalls like the classic JCM800s and 900s. With an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock Band under his belt, Tomo Millicevic and Marshall are gonna be pumping even more iron into 30 Seconds To Mars and you can bet that his beloved new 2466 Vintage Modern will be delivering the good news all the way! PM
Something's cookin': Former chef Tomo Millicevic turns up the heat!
LEARN THE SECRETS OF MARSHALL USERS’ TONES
Photograph courtesy of JoanneEchelon
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