While John Mayer has a massive guitar collection and has played a wide range of guitars over the years, he’s definitely a strat player. I also use the Jim Dunlop wah.10.1 Related Guides and Lessons: John Mayer’s Electric Guitars Whenever you need a special sound that’s unlike anything else, a Talk Box will defi nitely do the trick. “This thing sounds great for the solo I do in Beverly Hills. “This is a little fuzzier than my other pedals, I use it primarily for Back To The Shack, which I felt needed a bit of a creamier sound.” Jim Dunlop Heil Talk Box It’s kinda funny because I’m up there playing this mirrored Explorer on My Name Is Jonas and it comes out sounding like the most beautiful acoustic.” Balls Effects Black Balls If you ever went to see Tom Petty or Neil Young, you’d want the big jumbo and everything all mic’d up. In other situations, you’d want the real deal. “This box nails the idea of an acoustic - it has that timbre, that percussive sound. “This is the best pedal there is! I cannot believe it’s taken this long to figure out this box is all you need to make electric guitars sound like acoustics, which usually sound like garbage on stage.
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If I’m not kicking in distortion or reverb, this is what it’ll be!” Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator I didn’t even know what a Rotovibe was… but this was perfect and exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t really need delay or anything like that in this band, I just wanted another colour. “A friend of mine got some deal with this pedal company and they gave me this big box of pedals. “The last pedal I incorporated, because I try to keep all of this real simple, is the RotoSIM for a Leslie effect, a bit like a Rotovibe. Weezer's Rivers Cuomo talks The White Album, channelling James Hetfield and his enduring love of guitar (Image credit: Amy Harris/REX/Shutterstock) I reckon that it probably qualifies as vintage now!” Prev of 7 Next Prev of 7 Next Rivers: “I got this particular gold Explorer around 2002 when we had lots of pyro and a big, heavy metal stage show! We used this all over Maladroit - it’s all that guitar. So I keep it in this vintage case, and it has to be on a locking stand, never a normal one. In a live situation, anything can happen in a moment… it feels a bit unprotected.
For the last couple of records, I have a beautiful ’64 SG that I’ve been using, and that’s it! The guitar is so versatile, but I can only use it for hometown gigs or rehearsals. You can get a great sound that’s kinda like having the best of both worlds. “We both use Gibsons for pretty much the entire set - though there’s something to be said for combining Fender and Gibson together, which we’ve done in the past. Luckily, it was at a point where I could drop out, during a verse so I could come back in during the chorus.
I very seldom break strings, but I did the other night and needed an immediate change. It actually sounds better than the Champagne Gold on certain songs too. “We have one back-up Explorer that’s just there and ready to go. If an SG falls, the neck is snapped! I don’t want to do that to my guitars. “After plugging in, I thought to myself, ‘Damn this thing sounds great!’ and it didn’t feel as fragile or precious as my vintage guitars, taking them out on the road brings the risk of damaging them. I asked if him if he was using it and he said, ‘Nah, go for it!’ (Image credit: James Sharrock/Future) Gibson Explorer (Champagne Gold)īrian Bell: “This is actually Rivers’ guitar - it’s never been mine, so I don’t know the story of how he got that one, but I do know the story of how I got it… We were rehearsing at Rivers’ house and I saw it sitting in the corner. So I’d say, ‘Hey, give me Courtney!’ which is a bit cooler than ‘the white SG’, which sounds pretty lame.” Prev of 7 Next Prev of 7 Next “Courtney Love has been on the back for a while… somewhere along the road, I had to name all my guitars to tell them apart. Our drummer pointed out it sounds better playing with Brian, because he also uses a Gibson, the guitars seem to have a better tuning together. It weighs only half and I could run around doing rock star poses! A lot of people told me it sounded better. “Instantly, I felt totally liberated - as a guitar player and a frontman. There must have been some kind of on-stage disaster or we might have had a new guitar tech, so I had to switch. I always used to use the Warmoth but on one tour it was going totally out of tune, which never used to happen. I’ll use it for the majority of the set, sometimes I don’t even get the green one out. “All the pickups are stock, I’m not sure about the tuning pegs.
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