Joe Hawley

Best visibility at 1:31, but Joe can be seen playing a metallic red fender strat throughout the video. This guitar also appears in some of the mtv specials from this era

At about 15 seconds into the video, you can see the amp behind and to the left of Joe. This amp can be spotted in many other videos, but I chose this one because it's by far the clearest tally hall performance.

In this performance, you can see Joe Hawley playing a Red Gretsch G6128 Duo Jet.

The Rickenbacker 330 was Joe's main electric guitar starting around late 2007 up until Tally Hall's final shows in 2011.

In the source above, https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tally_Hall#Equipment_List, it states that "The boys (Joe Hawley, Zubin Sedghi, Andrew Horowitz, and Rob Cantor), use Sennheiser e 935 microphones.

The microphone can prominently be seen in this video performance. https://youtu.be/QBqP4ia85R4

This photo of Tally Hall getting their equipment set up shows Joe Hawley holding a Boss GT-8.

About 1:13 seconds in the pedal is show being plugged into andrew's synth. earlier in the video joe is seen using the same pedal

Joe Hawley is seen playing a Seagull S6 in this 2011 concert photo. Originally this guitar would be used live by both Joe and Rob, switching for whoever would play the acoustic part of each track, but later on it would be only used by Joe.

This guitar was used by Joe at his 2016 Sonic Lunch concert in Ann Arbor as well as a private show with Sofar Sounds the same year.

At 1:23 in this YouTube video, Joe Hawley opens Logic Pro X and shows the project file for his solo track, Rotary Park.

Joe would sometimes use a Takamine G-Series for acoustic Tally Hall sets, mostly in 2006 and 2007.

Joe Hawley of Tally Hall occasionally borrowed the Gibson J-185 EC acoustic guitar from bandmate Rob for performances, though he primarily used his own Seagull S6 and Takamine G-Series guitars. This information is supported by a user-uploaded photo.

An Esquire is visible in the studio at 1:31 in this video. It's unknown if this guitar was ever used however it is visible in the background of several Tally Hall videos. It's unknown who actually owned it but it was likely shared by Rob and Joe as several other guitars they used were.

At 1:00, Joe pulls out a kazoo to play the "fiddle" part of Be Born. The original studio version had an actual fiddle solo at this part, but none of the actual band members could play a fiddle, opting to instead have Joe play it with whatever additional instrument they had at their disposal. Most often this would be a melodica, however there were other performances where Joe used a kazoo, a banjo, whistled, or simply had someone else play an actual fiddle solo.

At 12:03, Joe pulls out this banjo to use on the song Be Born, the only known time he used a banjo for the song. This same banjo is also seen being used by Ross in Tally Hall's SXSW 2007 episode of their internet show.

Joe and the rest of Tally Hall often used a vibraslap named Henry at live shows, more often at acoustic shows.

Used by Joe in several acoustic Tally Hall sets as well as a few tracks on Tally Hall's Good & Evil. He is seen playing this guitar for the track Hymn For A Scarecrow at 3:09 in this video.

This megaphone was used by both Joe and Rob at Tally Hall concerts on songs such as Ruler of Everything, Good Day, The Whole World and You, and Turn the Lights Off. The megaphone is best visible at 2:21.

Used by Joe at some Tally Hall concerts, usually during acoustic sets.

Joe would use this guitar as a backup for his red stratocaster in the early days of Tally Hall. One of the few known times he used it was at the Pingry School on May 13, 2005 (see photo).

In this video at 1:09, you will be able to see a Fender amp closely resembling a 65’ Deluxe Reverb. If you look very close, you can make out writing that says ‘Deluxe Reverb’.

At 2:33 a bunch of pedals are shown, the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver is among them

In this photo from a Tally Hall concert from 2009, you can see Joe has a Dr. Z amplifier as his backup amp.

In this photo from a show in 2007, you can see Joe holding an SRV tribute Strat with a different pick guard or the name scratched off. It is clear that is an SRV tribute because it has the reversed bridge, gold hardware and SRVs name on the headstock.

In this interview done in 2008 with the rest of the Tally Hall band, Joe talks about how he would create demos of songs to show the rest of the band.

"My style is I have a song in my head and I can’t get it out and I put a lyric to the music and do a rough demo in Final Cut or Garage Band and then show it to the band. I usually have specific ideas for the song. I put it together pretty meticulously before I present it to the band."

In this 2008 interview with the band, Joe explains the recording process for the EPs "Party Boobytrap" and "Welcome to Tally Hall", which were then combined into the compilation album "Complete Demos".

"I’ve actually mastered Final Cut Pro, which is video editing software. I used it to record all of our demos. It’s supposed to be for video, but I developed an unusual technique by doing high-quality recordings by building a metronome track in an iPod (it’s sort of complicated) and I had been experimenting with that and when it came time to do the Tally Hall recordings I went with that."

It would not have been version X, as it was not available at the time, but some version of Final Cut Pro was used.

In this photo from a 2004 live performance, Joe Hawley can be seen using what looks to be a Fender Frontman 25R manufactured from around 1997-2003.

The red light is in the correct place to be the light of the Frontman 25R's "Drive Select", and the distance from that light to the Fender logo is also the same. Plus, the light is in-between two knobs, just like the Frontman 25R.

1997-2002 models of the Frontman 25R have the metallic corners, and is generally more cube like than current models.

In this video, Joe Hawley can be seen using the Gibson ES-335 at 1:39. The video is very compressed, however there are details that show that it is the ES-335. The tan "outline" on the sides of the body are shared with ES-335. The pickups, while hard to see, do match the ES---and the bridge is in the correct location. This was during the rerecording of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum for the 2008 release.

Rob Cantor can be seen playing this in the NYC II (https://youtu.be/YfcC4hXs_SI?si=z_UltszGS5GferuB, 1:35) video, where the back of the guitar is seen, and the shape of the headstock matches the ES-335.

The ultimate deciding factor was an image posted to Stratosphere Sound's Facebook. The videos were recorded at Stratosphere Sound, and since neither Joe or Rob used the guitar in a live performance, it is safe to guess the guitar is owned by the studio. This image features an ES-335 on the right side of the picture, behind a Telecaster.

https://www.facebook.com/stratospheresoundnyc/photos/pb.100076561762245.-2207520000/113936322571/?type=3

In the video BORALOGUE VI, posted by the Tally Hall YouTube Channel, Joe Hawley can be seen at 3:45 using the Boss DM-2 Delay pedal while recording the song "Never Meant to Know".

In this picture from a live performance in 2004, Joe Hawley can be seen using what appears to be the original Line 6 POD. Compared to the POD 2.0, this is much thicker, proving that he is using the original POD.