Adam Hann

" There’s a funny story behind the guitar used for that song. When I was 17 or 18, my grandmother passed away, and my parents bought me a Music Man John Petrucci Signature Series guitar with her inheritance. This is when I was going through a phase of being obsessed with Dream Theater and John Petrucci and G3 and Steve Vai and all these virtuoso shredding guitar players.

We recorded the album in L.A. and when we were getting ready to leave, my manager rang and asked, “Are you taking that guitar?” I was like, “No, I’m not taking it. We won’t use it.” And he said, “No, you should take it because you never know. It’s the first expensive guitar you’ve ever owned. Take it.” Funnily enough, we ended up using that guitar on quite a lot of the album—and just for one specific sound. It has a really great out-of-phase sound. It’s got these two humbuckers in it, but the out-of-phase position has both coils split, so you get like a single-coil out-of-phase on it. That’s what got used for the main chord part on “Love Me,” for the solo in “Love Me,” and for the rhythm guitar part in “She’s American.” The reason it took us by surprise is that this album has a specific sound that we had in our heads, which is this ’80s active Strat sound—like you hear on a Madonna record. That Music Man had that kind of vibe, but a really well-balanced even sound to it. I would never have picked that guitar up and chosen it to do that, so it was a bit of a stroke of luck that we had it with us.

It’s this horrible maroon color and when it came to doing it live, the color was so bad that we ended up getting this white vinyl that we cut out and painstakingly stuck over the entire guitar. We then covered up the hardware with tape and threw a load of multicolored paint over it. Now it’s got this weird Jackson Pollock-esque look to it. "

This Jaguar was used live for the songs "Robbers", "Heart Out", "Pressure, You", "Milk", "m.o.n.e.y" as well as "Amongst Others". (This is the official Instagram Post of the guitar he uses).

In this source YouTube video he uses the Fano JM6 for "Chocolate", "Sex" and "Settle Down".

This stratocaster was build by Fender Custom Shop builder Todd Krause, in a limited run of 50's relic stratocasters with Fat 50's pickups and gold hardware. Adam has used this since the start of the "I Like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it" era and continues to use it on the "A brief Enquiry into Online Relationships" tour. More detail on the model can be seen on their guitar tech, Mike Adams' instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ6-uPuB87D/

Adam Hann can be seen using a black Stratocaster at 0:23 in the music video for The 1975's "Ghost."

In this live acoustic session Adam Hann of The 1975 is seen using a Fano Alt de Falco Gf6 semi-hollow.

In this video Hann uses what appears to be a Rickenbacker 330. Judging from the dot inlays on the fretboard and the details in the body you could infer it's a 330 since Rickenbacker doesn't use these inlays and details for the same guitar in any other model.

From Adam's Instagram story posted on 14th September 2021 a Fender Telecaster Deluxe can clearly be seen

Adam is using a Ampeg Dan Armstrong Lucite Guitar on the music video for “Give Yourself A Try'' and the YouTube session for “People”

Adam Hann is playing the Gibson Les Paul Junior in this video for The 1975's song "People"

Adam uses a Dot thorough this 2011's version of "Sex" while playing as "B I G S L E E P" or "The Slowdown" post - Drive Like I Do and Pre - The 1975. it's most likely an Epiphone since it has tape on the headstock covering the brand.

Hann uses the guitar on several songs live

Hann can be seen playing this guitar in this performance. This guitar is a different guitar than his other Jaguars.

Hann can be seen playing a Les Paul custom on various songs on the 22-23 tour including "chocolate", "sex", "heart out", "I always wanna die", "about you", and "people"

Adam Hann is seen performing live with a 1964 Fender Jaguar in Seafoam Green, a distinct model from his other Jaguars. This guitar is also owned by Matthew.

Hann plays this 66 jaguar in the video for the sound

Hann can be seen with a Gretsh silver falcon recently on their 2023 tour for songs like "sex" "you" "about You", "robbers", and "heart out"

Adam Hann states that his first guitar was the Epiphone SG Standard, as mentioned in an interview with Premier Guitar by Tzvi Gluckin titled "The 1975: Adam Hann’s Sonic Obsession."

Adam Hann is seen playing a Fender Jazzmaster during the live performance of "You" at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2015, as captured in the YouTube video by Mags titled "The 1975 - KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2015 (Full Show HD)."