Chris Foreman
UK musician, aka “Chrissy Boy”
Chris Foreman's Gear
Foreman was also seen with this guitar. His Fender Telecaster is in white colour, it has humbucker and a PAF pickup.Getty Images say :
Chris Foreman guitarist of Madness performs on stage at 'An Evening With Suggs & Friends' in aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK at Emirates Stadium on March 12, 2015 in London, United Kingdom.
Foreman used the white Gibson Les Paul Custom during Madness' modern days. He used this guitar for "Our House" live at iTunes Festival, The Roundhouse, on September 27, 2012.
On Madness’s performance on The Young Ones, he is using a Black Strat with a black pickguard
C: "...like a cassette radio, and it had a little drum machine in it with different rhythms. And you could record two tracks on it. A great idea, but they didn't market them right.
"I had that for a while, then it broke and I got a Portastudio — the one that records on all four tracks at once — which was really useful. I had that for a long time, until we did a deal with Fostex, and I got an eight-track. I have been thinking of getting a 16-track... I think that whatever you pay for it, if you write a song you can use on it, and it earns you enough money to pay for the machine, then it's worth it.
"I've got a little mixing desk..."
W: "He's got a Fostex 350."
C: "The funny thing is, after Mike left, we all started buying keyboards; me, Mark, Carl, we've all got JX3Ps, and I've got a Yamaha MK100, which is really good, as you can record chords and melodies on it. I've started playing keyboards all the time — I hardly ever play guitar — and all the songs I've written lately have been on keyboards. I was getting quite good at the guitar, but I'm not... er... very good anymore. Thing is, when you're playing keyboards, you can hear all the different notes and inversions, whereas on guitar, it's all C, F, and G. I finally decided I like piano best, so I've bought a Yamaha upright piano."
C: "The funny thing is, after Mike left, we all started buying keyboards; me, Mark, Carl, we've all got JX3Ps, and I've got a Yamaha MK100, which is really good, as you can record chords and melodies on it. I've started playing keyboards all the time — I hardly ever play guitar — and all the songs I've written lately have been on keyboards. I was getting quite good at the guitar, but I'm not... er... very good anymore. Thing is, when you're playing keyboards, you can hear all the different notes and inversions, whereas on guitar, it's all C, F, and G. I finally decided I like piano best, so I've bought a Yamaha upright piano."
C: "We've all got Yammy RX11 drum boxes. I had a Roland TR808, but I sold it, and I wish I hadn't. It's got some good sounds on it — those claps!"
C: "We've all got Yammy RX11 drum boxes. I had a Roland TR808, but I sold it, and I wish I hadn't. It's got some good sounds on it — those claps!"
C: "I used to use a Tele, then I bought a Strat from Woody's brother when we did the second album, and I liked the old wanger bar; then I bought a Fender The Strat, which is about the best guitar I've got. I've used that on this LP, and a Dobro.
"Clive and Allan (Langer & Winstanley) are always whinging at me to use a Marshall and a Gibson, so I did use a Les Paul on a couple of songs. I've bought a Gretsch, but I don't use that much, and I've got two Teles now. And a Vox Les Paul copy which cost £30 on tour, and won't stay in tune. As for amps, I've got a Boogie, a Fender Twin, and an HH, which Woody's probably got. I bought that HH cheap while we were doing the first LP, and I had it in the studio — they kept saying to me 'use the Fender, not that old HH', but when they went back into the control room where they couldn't see me, I used to plug back into the HH — they never knew...
Can be seen playing Framus Super Yob from 1:58 in this music video.
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