In 93/94 I really started buying a lot of stuff because my band won a Rock Hunt thing and we got $5000 in cash and prizes.
I also bought a '59 Special TV with a neck repair that I traded for a TV Junior. I was getting Guitar Trader at this time. First I bought a cherry SG then I traded that for a white one, then I bought a singlecut TV. By this time I was working a real job and not just cutting lawns and delivering papers. Again, I was a weird kid in that none of my friends were playing this stuff but I was young and stupid and was wasting my time playing blooze. I also bought a BF Tremolux head for $125. In '90 I bought myself a '67 Gretsch Nashville for $450. In '89 I bought a used USA Telecaster (which I had to go to about 10 stores to find back then as living in Massachusetts there weren't many around). I got my first real electric guitar and map in the late 1980s.ġ980 Les Paul Standard, 1968 Vibrolux and an MXR D+ - $250 (all used).
Pretty much hasn't changed even though I've added tons of stuff. No FX except for an Earnie Ball VP Jr.Ĭurrent rig: I’m tired of typing. It was an Alt-Country Indy Roots-Rock project.) Telecaster, a variety of small amps, Stonebridge 00- style acoustic, a Donmo Rustbucket steel resonator guitar and a Harmony electric lap steel. I also used an EBow.įourth band: (This was a departure from the earlier bands all of which played some variation of Punk/Indy Rock with varying amounts of psychedelia. Third band, Schechter kit Telecaster with a borrowed guitar as backup (either a MIJ Strat or 76 Les Paul.) Same amp setup as above, but no fuzz in front, just the Cry Baby and the same DD7 with the Boss Tremelo and the Phase90 switched out in favor of a Boss flanger.
I ran an MXR Phase90, a Boss DD7 and a Boss Tremelo-Pan pedal in the FX loop. Second band: (skipping some interstitial projects) Schechter hardtail kit Strat, Guild Thunderbird as backup, same Cry Baby wah and a Sovtech Big Muff in front of a Marshall JCM 800 combo run as a head through a 4x10 Marshall cab. Cry Baby and a Westbury distortion pedal in front of my Peavey Bandit 65 with an Ibanez multi-effect (flanger/chorus, compressor and never-used auto-wah in one box with multiple switches) and a Digitech delay/sampler in the FX loop. My first band: Univox HiFlyer with a Univox Gimme LP copy as backup. I’m gonna skip my first guitar and amp, my rig with my first “band” that never played outside our dump of a shared rental house and any number of guitar and gear stragglers that drifted in and out. Ditched the Ibby acoustic and in a trade for the PRS Custom got and Gibson Gospel and another Am Std Strat.Īll of the above got me through college and bit beyond. Got a PRS CE-24 from East Coast Music Mall that was a massive disappointment compared to the Custom, which I traded for an Ibanez AE800MS acoustic and Fender Am Std Strat. A couple of years later I sold my HM Strat to a friend and added an Ibanez RG 770. Amazing guitar (since sold and then bought back from the same friend). High School graduation yielded a PRS Custom, Whale Blue 10 top w/ birds from my parents and grandmother. Within six months to a year I had a SD Hot Rail installed in the neck. My next guitar was a Fender HM Strat, maple board, bridge pup (never issued that way, but my local shop swapped necks for me). The next year I got a Randal RG80 amp and that had me settled for a few years. This was augmented by my Boss DS-1 and CE-2 for Christmas of that year. Next up was a Roland practice amp and an Ibanez Proline 1440 (13th B-day gift in 1985). I originally played it through his reel-to-reel into his stereo's power amp. Mine started with a Harmony Bobcat that my dad salvaged from a dumpster when he was at Syracuse from '64-'68. Probably the only time I've ever liked a Tele withe he monstrosity pickguard.