If you caught ‘Mad Max: Fury Road‘ you no doubt experienced the flamethrowing guitarist known as ‘The Doof Warrior‘. Played by Australian musician iOTA, both the guitar and the traveling wall of amps he was suspended upon known as ‘The Doof Wagon‘ were both functional. iOTA told Buzzfeed of his time filming:
“You know, the guitar wasn’t great. It spent a lot of time in the sun and the sand and the cold. So it was pretty hard to get a good tune out of it. But it was a lot of fun. … I would just jam. I love [bands like] Soundgarden, Sepultura, you know, just anything wiry and disgusting. I was standing above an amplifier, which you can’t see there. But it was lying on its back. I was standing above it, so the guitar was actually blaring in my ears. I just went for it. I pulled out all my rock licks that I could think of.”
As for ‘The Doof Wagon‘ itself, producer designer Colin Gibson said of it:
“We eventually ended up with an eight-wheel drive all-terrain ex-rocket launcher with drums that are actually reverberating through old air-conditioning ducts, which became a superstructure that we then built the stage [onto] and connected the speakers — the last Marshall [speaker] stack on the way to hell.”
And just in case you thought The Doof looked like Devin Townsend, you aren’t alone:
I’ve gotten 20 or so comments about how I kind of look like the guy in mad max. Is that the case? I’m guessing it must be…
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) May 18, 2015
