Looking to build up Gear IQ? Here is a plethora of unsubmitted gear

Fragments of photos on and from Mike Vegas' old website, guitartechnician.com (mostly unarchived, but possibly floating around online):

• Index page
• Photo Page 1 (Sheryl Crow Band)
• Photo Page 2 (Sheryl Crow Band)
• Photo Page 3 (Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello)
• Photo Page 4 (Sheryl Crow Band)
• Photo Page 5 (The Viking, The Morning After Pill, Louder Than Stupid, Big Sugar, Sheryl Crow, Peter Stroud, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, The Smashing Pumpkins)
• Photo Page 6 (The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Duffy)
• Photo Page 7 (Rammstein)
• Aaron Kronis' independent uploads (cf. his Wikimedia Commons upload of Billy Corgan's September 2001 rack gear)

Japanese magazine from 2001 showing Billy Corgan's live gear and James Iha's live gear (itemized by Netphoria user crabshack).

It's interesting to me that Japanese publications in the 1990s were able to get vividly-detailed technical info like this straight from the artists, but even the most musician and producer-focused magazines in the US rarely mentioned more than 2 or 3 pieces of gear in passing in most any interview.

Japanese Magazine: "Tell us how you make music"

Artist: "Let me walk you through this numbered diagram of our studio setup and my touring rig."

USA Magazine: "How did you approach this latest project?"

Artist: "We didn't want to repeat the same thing we did on the last record, and one of our first conversations with our new Producer was how much we all loved Husker Du, which is why we decided to start listening to demos and making notes at Pachyderm Studios (in Minnesota, Husker's home state)... we ended up scrapping everything we recorded at Pachyderm, but that's where we ran into Bob Mould, who agreed to play bass on "ruptured septum"... a track that didn't make it into the album, but we think we might release as a bonus track for the Japanese CD release..."

Damn, I can't think of a more accurate answer.

Dude! That screed about Bob Mould and recording at Pachyderm made me laugh so hard I almost yakked!

Dude! That screed about Bob Mould and recording at Pachyderm made me laugh so hard I almost yakked!

:D

I had zero access to anything Husker Du had recorded back on the farm, in the pre-internet '90s, but it seemed like every other article or review I read mentioned him... he was somehow everywhere.

I gotta be honest, I think I first heard of them through a periodical. Same with westerberg and the replacements.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

https://thedumbingofamerica.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-the-interview/ https://otherbandsstuff.tumblr.com/post/81301962498/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-32114 https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/25501o/comment/chdu83x/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61a-GIBhFDU

Bootsy Collins

https://web.archive.org/web/20190421222351/https://www.bassplayer.com/artists/bootsy-collins-still-stretchin-out http://web.archive.org/web/20171102171530/http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/in-session-with-professor-bootsy-collins/26268 https://web.archive.org/web/20171116033002/http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/check-out-questloves-exclusive-pandora-interview-transcription-with-bootsy-collins/64408

You Am I

• "You Am I - Gear Nerds" Facebook Group (private)
• Triple J TV, live performance at The Mint
• Aclam Guitars artist page
• December 2017 gear auction (You Am I website archive, eBay archive)
• Mixdown interview
• Australian Musician (#1, #2, #3, #4)
• Mozztronics (#1, #2, #3, #4)
• Australian Guitar, May 2006 (Breakdown of the album Convicts) (requires a Rock's Backpages subscription)

• Rowland S. Howard (Australian Guitar, May 2006)
• The Vines magazine interviews
• guitarheroes.com.au ( with Australian Guitar magazine CD online back issues)
• James North (Australian Guitar, 2016)

Adrian Utley

• Reverb.com summary of the making of Dummy (mentions primary sources, use those instead of the article!)
• Guitar Player, January 1998
• Music Radar, July 4, 2018
• An Instagram post (to be hunted down from this The Gear Page post)
• Remix, May 2008
• Archived Guitar Geek thread with multiple leads

• Genesis (Musician, June 1992)
• Made in Rock's "From stage" collection

[EDIT:

• Guitar Player Artist Archive (2000-2001 back catalogue of interviews throughout the decades)]

https://www.drumforum.org/threads/the-most-rare-signature-drumsticks-of-all-time.174153/

https://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Louie_Bellson.html

• Preston Crump
• Leland "Lee" Sklar
• Moe Z MD

Monster Magnet

• https://youtube.com/watch?v=iy8aZ73YhrQ
• https://youtube.com/watch?v=3HfK4oZ7ey4
• https://www.harmonycentral.com/forums/topic/1700760-monster-magnet-fuzz-on-quotsuperjudgequot-album/?do=findComment&comment=28402957
• https://www.vintageguitar.com/2854/monster-magnet/amp/
• https://images.app.goo.gl/9KydKRivUWGwqotM7
• https://youtube.com/watch?v=rargzI1uRSU
• https://legacy.ballbustermusic.com/hard_talk/11-1999/atomic-int.htm
• https://nowinvisibly.com/wwc/1997/10/john-mcbain-guitar-interview/
• https://nowinvisibly.com/wwc/2001/11/in-the-beginning-there-was-liquid-light/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20061112150804/http://www.stonerrock.com/interviews/index.asp?InterviewID=201
• http://www.kitrae.net/music/big_muff_users.html

I love those guys.... Tarzan King of Mars is still a guilty pleasure.

Robert Quine

• http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/robert-quine-newarks-reverent-iconoclast
• https://www.quine.org/rob-quine-site02.pdf | https://www.quine.org/rob-quine-site03.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiQvtKzhtNg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSbtm_KDYlc
• https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/29286-forgotten-heroes-robert-quine
• https://www.tdpri.com/threads/the-rise-of-the-fakes.878747/post-8651616
• https://www.furious.com/perfect/quine/stevecaratzas.html
• https://www.vintagesilvertones.com/forsale_fender_strat_quine.html
• https://www.vintagesilvertones.com/forsale_epiphone_casino_quine.html
• https://reverb.com/item/32027194-fernandes-rst-50-64-the-revival-strat-early-80-s-burgandy-mist
• https://web.archive.org/web/20051215105706/http://carminestreetguitars.com:80/pdf/quineinvoice.pdf

The Hunter Thompson of punk. At least by looks. Such an underrated player. I'll do some of these. I already dud some monster magnet.