Dallas Green

At 0:44 in this video, Dallas tells a touching story of how he got this beautiful guitar. "

“My friend Dan Aiken who owned the studio and recorded the record - he was a vintage guitar guy he owned a bunch of old crazy guitars in the studio - and he found me this one from British Columbia from this guy who was selling it…a few years later Dan passed away and this guitar took on a whole new life.”

As you will hear in the interview from the proof video, Dallas had gotten this guitar from his friend and producer Dan when he recorded his second album "Bring Me Your Love" back in 2007. After his friend passed away, the guitar "sort of took on a whole new life". "It was already something sentimental for me because it was something I shared with him [...], but then him passing away sort of [...] reminds me of him and [...] the moments I had with him in the studio. So this is my favourite guitar". It is an all mahogany vintage guitar from 1944 that is not being manufactured anymore, but is closely related to the new Martin 00-15M.

The proof source is a concert video when Dallas Green (as City and Colour) played at Tonhalle, Munich in 2014. A person can find Dallas Green playing a Fender Jazzmaster multiple times.

Used during Dallas' performances with Alexisonfire, and sometimes with City and Colour. Dallas has added a Bigsby tremmolo to this model.

In this video Dallas Green plays as City and Colour, preforming Weightless on a custom Gibson ES-335.

Dallas has been playing this guitar with Alexisonfire. When he was on tour with Alice In Chains, it was gifted to him by Jerry Cantrell himself! Mentioned as a part of the rig in November 2022 Guitar World interview.

Dallas Green uses this guitar when he played in the Bravo! Live Concert Hall in 2008. Dallas Green uses often for his solo project City and Colour.

Dallas used this guitar on his 2015 US/Canada Tour

The very first words said by Dallas in this video are about "the Princeton Reverb amp".

According to Premier Guitar

Last year Eastwood teamed up with signer/songwriter and vintage guitar enthusiast Dallas Green from City and Colour to fine-tune the Jupiter for modern playability. The main structural changes included replacing the wooden bridge with a modern tun-o-matic bridge and upgrading the bolt-on neck to a set neck. The new Airline Jupiter PRO is a hollow-body guitar with mahogany top, back and sides with a one-piece maple set-neck. It features two Airline Argyle Pickups, a 3-way vintage flipper switch and 5 controls mounted on a flowing pickguard. The controls are dual tone and volume plus a unique Blender control to pan between the pickups for a wider tonal palette. The Dallas Green Signature model comes in a beautiful honeyburst finish, tortoiseshell pickguard, upgraded trapeze tail and is embellished with body, neck and headstock binding. The guitar is topped off with his logo signature on the headstock.

“I’m pretty excited to have my own signature Airline Jupiter Pro,” says Dallas Green. “Being part of the creative process in building it was a whole new experience. Can’t wait for people to play them!”

Dallas can be seen playing his Signature Jupiter during Thirst; he mostly used it during The Hurry and The Harm album cycle. He's also using his Signature Jupiter in this promotional photo.

In a video by Alternative Press, Dallas Green is seen warming up with a National Style 0 Resonator before Alexisonfire's set at the Warped Tour 2009.

Dallas begins using this guitar at 14:57 into this video and continues using it for the remainder of the set. He has always been a vintage guitar fan, I'm not sure of the year of this guitar but I know he has a 70s ES 335, a 62 and 66 Jazzmaster, and a 40s Martin. This seems to be a new addition to his vintage collection for 2019 and sounds amazing with whatever pedal board / amp rig he's using now. This show was live at CBC Studio 211 performed late 2019, video was released November 20th.

‘The closest guitar to me is my new Martin. Martin Guitars, who I am endorsed by and play religiously, built me a custom shop acoustic. Myself and Fred at the custom shop collaborated on some ideas. To me it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s sort of a mixture of the two guitars that I play. I have the 1944 00-17, which is sort of a smaller body, which I use for fingerpicking and solo stuff, the other guitar is a 67 D-28, which I kind of play more with the band. I kind of wanted to do a mixture of those two guitars in a way. It’s a smaller-body dreadnought, so it’s not as big as a D-28 or D-18. It’s a 12-fret model, so the neck’s smaller on it, and it’s got a slotted headstock, which I really like – kind of like an old, classic style – but it has like a honeyburst, kind of finish to it, and it has a beautiful floral inlay up on the headstock. It’s really, really amazing and Fred’s done an amazing job on it. It’s got Brazilian rosewood on the sides and back, and I’m pretty sure it’s a spruce top. I’m not really sure on the rest of the woods. I’m not that well-learned on the arts of the woods. All I know is that it looks great and it sounds great. And that’s the best part.’ -Dallas Green; Source: 'Green's Peace' by Guy Little, http://www.acousticmagazine.com/interviews/greens-peace/

Dallas Green: “The Hoof Fuzz is pretty awesome and kind of Big Muff-y. For Woman, which is a pretty long song, I use the Deco tape saturation for the first big ‘open up’ part and then, for the end, I use the Hoof Fuzz.”

The Martin HD-28V Custom Shop is used as his main acoustic, the model has a slotted headstock, a shorter scale neck, sunburst.

Dallas can be seen playing this Martin 00 12 fret in various videos for intimate solo acoustic performances.

The Tele is part of Dallas' Alexisonfire rig.

This Instagram post by Walrus Audio is captioned, "Sending these toys off to @cityandcolour_official today."

Dallas Green: “I found that it works perfectly for two songs in the set, Wasted Love and Killing Time. With the sound of these gold foil pickups, it just makes perfect sense for them. This also gets capo’d, on two or three, and then it’s also used in standard tuning.”

Dallas Green: “This Matchless, which I found in a music shop in Toronto, is great and so simple. It has a master volume, volume and tone, and you can switch it from 15 to 30 watts. I love it. “There’s a 1x12 in there. It’s crisp, clear and it takes pedals really well. I’ve got this Morgan AC45 out with us, too, and we switch back and forth between that and this, and sometimes we have all three. I run the Matchless and the Rock Grinder both at the same time.”

Note: The Morris "Rock Grinder" that Dallas is referring to is a custom made amp.

Dallas Green: “Glen Morris is a guy from Welland, Ontario in Canada and he’s a custom amp builder. He built me a 100-watt head that I used in Alexisonfire for years and years and that’s the best-sounding amp I’ve ever played. “When I started doing City And Colour more and more, I wanted him to build me an amp because the 100-watt head would be too loud. The Rock Grinder is usually a two-channel 50-watt Bluesbreaker-type vibe but I didn’t need the two channels so what we did is we took out and disconnected some of the knobs. “Now it’s just like a 30-watt single-channel amp, almost like an AC30, but with a bit more to it. This is the amp that’s been with me probably for the last six years and it’s the bulk of my live electric guitar sound. The settings are just pretty much almost in the middle and the grind, which is your gain, is just adjusted depending on what the stage sounds like.”

In the video of Dallas performing at the Juno awards, he is playing a Gibson ES-125

There is a good shot of him using it to record a song on the Little Hell album at 13:28 in this video.

"I have the 1944 00-17, which is sort of a smaller body, which I use for fingerpicking and solo stuff, the other guitar is a 67 D-28, which I kind of play more with the band."

Dallas Green is seen using a Fender Jaguar in a Twitter post from City and Colour, referencing the recording sessions for their sixth album.

Dallas can be seen using the LR Baggs pickup in this video. In a post on LR Baggs' website, Dallas explains his love for the M1. "It's hard to make an acoustic guitar sound just as good in front of 10,000 people as it does when you're sitting alone in a small room. For me, the M1 makes that possible!"

"Here's another shot of Dallas' board.

From the top right to left: Boss NS2, EHX holy Grail, telenordia TA100, Keeley Katana, MXR Micro AMp. Bottom Row: Boss TU2, Boss RV5 Reverb, MXR Carbon Copy, line 6 DL4"

Dallas Green: “This is what I call a ‘world-ender’! You step on it and it sounds like everything is destroying… it’s got fuzz and delay and I use it for the ends of songs when we’re freaking out, just having fun.”

Can be seen in the pedalboard photo

The SG gets used mostly during live performances of Wasted Love.

Dallas Green has been seen using a Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar during performances, as noted in Acentric Magazine’s coverage of City and Colour’s show at College St Music Hall on June 9, 2017. Although this guitar is primarily used by Dante Schwebel, Dallas occasionally borrows it, aligning with his preference for vintage gear, as evidenced by the guitar's noticeable yellowing.