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In an article from Sound On Sound magazine, The Kaiser Chiefs' keyboard tech Roger Lyons mentions how Nick Baines' "much loved" Roland SH101 White is integrated into their live setup.

Wyatt Shears can be seen using a 1991-1992 Gibson Star Acoustic ebony guitar on the cover of the album "Exploited," identifiable by the distinctive star-shaped fret markers and the guitar's shape. This is confirmed by the album cover photo credited to Ashley Clue, as shown in the YouTube video provided by Vada Vada.

In an interview with I Heart Guitar, Fletcher Dragge mentions using a VHT Pitbull amp along with a Dual Rectifier, although the exact model of the VHT is not specified.

"I purchased this pedal from a small-town guitar shop in Australia while on tour with Tim McGraw." -Jess Carson on Reverb.com

This is my favorite Princeton clone. I have been buying Princeton's on the road for about the past three years and while this amp blows a lot of vintage Princeton's away, I just can't seem to part with the old ones. These are great for recording or gigging. I used this in my home studio and it's all over early versions and demos of Midland songs. In excellent condition.

This was the guitar that Cameron, Mark, and I were passing back and forth when we first came up with the idea to form Midland.

I bought it because I wanted a smaller-sized acoustic to travel with to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for Cameron's wedding. I got there about a week before the wedding and Mark had also arrived early. The three of us swapped songs on the porch of Cameron’s mother-in-law’s house. We performed with it at the rehearsal dinner talent show, which we lost.

I bought the guitar from Musicmakers in South Austin, where now-Midland-guitar-player Luke Cutchen was the sales associate! Buying this guitar was how I met Luke and eventually started playing music with him.

So if there is a guitar at the center of the DNA of this band, this is certainly it. It still has my return flight airline tag on the case.

In this promotional photo you can see Uncle Al and Sin Quirin posing in front of a pair of HT METAL 100s which he used on stage starting around 2014 and ending in 2020 when he switched to powered kemper profilers. Additional photos of the pair with their HT METAL 100s can still be found on blackstar's facebook profile.

This guitar was used on the “Let It Roll” album recording sessions -you can hear it soloed on the intro to “21st Century Honky Tonk American Band” plugged straight into my 1958 Fender Princeton. It's the greatest playing and sounding SG I’ve ever laid hands on.

This guitar was used on the “Let It Roll” album recording sessions -you can hear it soloed on the intro to “21st Century Honky Tonk American Band” plugged straight into my 1958 Fender Princeton. It's the greatest playing and sounding SG I’ve ever laid hands on. In fact, I wasn't looking for an SG but when I played this one, I knew I couldn't walk away from it. It has my favorite neck profile that Gibson ever made -before they went to the pencil-thin necks in the later part of the Sixties. Played on tour 2016-2019.

This guitar is the ultimate mutt. It has a very stable repaired crack at the heel. It started life as a “Special” and has been converted to humbuckers. The vibrola tailpiece is disengaged. Changed tuners and hardware. It’s lightweight and it screams.

I love rare and weird guitars and this is certainly both. In fact, I didn't know that these even existed until I found this one. Something about the non-reverse body with the 12-string headstock is just so cool. It's really fun to play and people freak out on it. Johnny Winter actually played a Polaris White one of these.

I toured with it extensively -paired with the original mini-humbuckers it has that ultimate vintage jangle. Original except for a refin (was originally tobacco burst) and pro-refret.

In the video "Paisano de Hurlingham" by DIVIDIDOS, filmed at Luna Park on 17/08/17, Ricardo Mollo is seen using a Gibson SG Jr., as evidenced by the footage available on YouTube.

The guitar that started it all! I played this guitar at the very first Midland show and it was my number one for the next three or more years. What's really cool is that in 1967, this was a pro-player custom order from Fender, identified by the factory marker “Spec For Smitty” written on the heel of the neck. I can't confirm but my suspicion is that it was Fay "Smitty" Smith, Ernest Tubb's guitar player.

Original pickups and wiring included along with the Emerson Custom overwound pickups and wiring harness that are currently in it. Pro refret. Original finish, hardware, case, and ashtray cover. You can see this guitar in the "Put The Hurt On Me" music video (I temporarily swapped the original Rosewood neck with another late-sixties Tele maple cap). I also played it on the 2018 CMA Awards when we performed "East Bound and Down".

At 3:01, you can see the distinctive blue panel and white buttons of a PPG Wave on Izumi's left side. You can tell its a version 2.3 by the number pad on the right side of the keyboard.

At 3:01, you can see the nameplate of the Prophet-5 right in front of Izumi.

At 45:18 you can see the Akai logo on the back of the keyboard which is identical to the one on Izumi's left hand side (bottom tier). at multiple other points (such as 15:45) the S1000KB's chunky stature can be observed.