Bob Mothersbaugh

Bob playing a La Baye 2x4

"For the live shows, I’m using a ’59 Les Paul reissue—a Gibson Custom Shop instrument modeled after Mike Bloomfield’s guitar. For the new album, I used a 1964 SG and a couple of my G&L SC-2s. The SC-2 is probably my favorite guitar. I was introduced to them when we did the New Traditionalists album. I did an interview then where I mentioned buying a weird guitar called a G&L and how much I liked the tremolo system because it stayed in tune. The day after the interview hit the newsstands, someone from G&L called me and asked, 'Hey, can we endorse you?'"

"For the live shows, I’m using a ’59 Les Paul reissue—a Gibson Custom Shop instrument modeled after Mike Bloomfield’s guitar. For the new album, I used a 1964 SG and a couple of my G&L SC-2s. The SC-2 is probably my favorite guitar. I was introduced to them when we did the New Traditionalists album. I did an interview then where I mentioned buying a weird guitar called a G&L and how much I liked the tremolo system because it stayed in tune. The day after the interview hit the newsstands, someone from G&L called me and asked, 'Hey, can we endorse you?'"

"Yes, I played a Rickenbacker 330 of unknown vintage that I bought from Doug Fieger of the Knack, as well as a custom guitar Ibanez made for me."

Bob Mothersbaugh played a Gibson L6-S Custom on the early Devo albums.

This is an approved repro. by Bob Mothersbaugh of his Devoized custom les Paul... Back in 1979, .... The 360 Systems people recommended I use a Les Paul, and at the time I was horrified—I thought Les Pauls represented arena rock, long hair, and Puka shells. But I got a Les Paul and took a jigsaw to it with the intention of making it look like a skull. I cut the little horn off at the cutaway and flipped it over backwards and thought it looked a lot better.

This is a one-off from Ibanez for guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh (Devo)- an Ibanez which looks like a potato/ cloud body outline. His hands-off pose here proves that the body thickness is sufficient & flat-edged to allow an upright placement without a guitar stand support. http://theguitaraddict.blogspot.com/2010/10/ibanez-cloud-potato-guitar.html

"On the latest album, I used a WEM Dominator combo. It’s an old British tube amp that sounds incredible. Other than that, I just used a Line 6 PODxt Live."

Bob Mothersbaugh used an Ibanez Tube Screamer while performing live with Devo in 2011.

"On the latest album, I used a WEM Dominator combo. It’s an old British tube amp that sounds incredible. Other than that, I just used a Line 6 PODxt Live."

Bob Mothersbaugh's room at Mutato Muzika studio features a Mac G5.

A Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra can be seen in Devo's guitar rack, and it is labeled as being Bob Mothersbaugh's ("Bob 1").

Bob states in this interview that his first guitar was a Coral Sitar.

"But at the same time, Bob 1 [Bob Mothersbaugh] and Bob 2 [Bob Casale] were still using Performer and are kind of happy with it. "