Andrew Taylor

"My first guitar I've had about seven years, it's one of the early Yamaha models, a little thing which I think they called the SG90 then"

[...]I use several guitars, a Telecaster with Seymour Duncan that I use a lot....

About 8-years ago I tried a Fender Telecaster 50th anniversary issue from Fender, the black one I currently use.

Andrew Taylor uses a Gibson ES-335 to achieve the distinctive funky groove in Duran Duran's "Notorious." This is demonstrated in the YouTube video "Duran Duran -The Andy Show- Notorious-" by aviewtoabill. Taylor emphasizes the guitar's direct sound over software-generated tones for this style.

In the YouTube video titled "Duran Duran - The Andy Show - Taste the Summer," Andrew Taylor mentions owning a white Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar, similar to the one used by Jeff Beck.

I use several guitars, [...] a Les Paul red cherry with some pickups of the custom shop and a white Les Paul with Seymour Duncan.

He plays the item throughout the video.

According to Duran Duran official website Andy used to play a 160e in spring 2003.

According to Duran Duran's official website Andy used to play a Fender Mustang in spring 2003.

"To begin with I always choose maple necks when I can because they feel smoother and look nicer; so what have I got? There are two Schecters, slightly modified from the standard shape, and a Roger Giffin; a Fender Squier Telecaster with Seymour Duncan pickups fitted; two Strats modified with just one DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup – a noisy Van Halen one for feedback and the other's a spare; a few Yamahas, including the black one which is the first good guitar I ever had, bought it when I was 15, it's an SG90, the first electric they ever made, but again it's been modified; there's also a Yamaha SG2000 which I use in the studio and a 335 type, which is nice for jazzy stuff; the Ibanez is a cheapo, but it's got a great out of phase sound, again good for funk; I've got a couple of Gibsons including a '76 Firebird which is when they re-issued them, and a couple of SGs, one with a tremolo arm. I had a really nice '61 Cherry SG but that got ripped off. It was in storage. Who ever did it took two Strats and this SG which had a really thin body, but they left the cases behind, so it wasn't until months later when we opened them that we found out they'd gone. If I ever find the bloke who did that, I'll stamp on his head."

"To begin with I always choose maple necks when I can because they feel smoother and look nicer; so what have I got? There are two Schecters, slightly modified from the standard shape, and a Roger Giffin; a Fender Squier Telecaster with Seymour Duncan pickups fitted; two Strats modified with just one DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup – a noisy Van Halen one for feedback and the other's a spare; a few Yamahas, including the black one which is the first good guitar I ever had, bought it when I was 15, it's an SG90, the first electric they ever made, but again it's been modified; there's also a Yamaha SG2000 which I use in the studio and a 335 type, which is nice for jazzy stuff; the Ibanez is a cheapo, but it's got a great out of phase sound, again good for funk; I've got a couple of Gibsons including a '76 Firebird which is when they re-issued them, and a couple of SGs, one with a tremolo arm. I had a really nice '61 Cherry SG but that got ripped off. It was in storage. Who ever did it took two Strats and this SG which had a really thin body, but they left the cases behind, so it wasn't until months later when we opened them that we found out they'd gone. If I ever find the bloke who did that, I'll stamp on his head."

Presently the Schecters and Giffin are the favourites, and the Yamaha SG90 still comes in for some use. There are acoustics as well such as a Martin D28, and 12-string Ovations – "the first acoustic I've ever heard with a pickup inside it that sounds as good as a mike." He does have a Roland GR300 guitar synth, "but I played it on the last album and ran out of things to do." The latest acquisition, a new GR700, is being evaluated by a mate.