Chris Joannou
Chris Joannou's Gear
a late-’70s white Fender Precision bass guitar named ‘Whitey’, and a 1975 Natural Fender Precision bass guitar named ‘Phil’, which were his main guitars while Silverchair were touring their fifth and final album, Young Modern.
Chris Joannou, bassist for Silverchair, owns a black G&L SB-1 Bass, as reported by Tom Williams in Music Feeds.
Chris Joannou used this bass to record Freak Show.
Chris Joannou used this bass during the Freak Show tours.
Chris Joannou can be seen playing this G&L L2000 in this picture. It looks like it has been modified with EMG soapbar pickups instead of MFD pickups.
Ampeg SVT810AV cabinets used for touring across Australia
Chris Joannou, bassist of Silverchair, owns a Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo, as mentioned in an article by Tom Williams on Music Feeds about Joannou selling items from his personal gear collection.
In a user-uploaded photo from the Royal Easter Show in 1996, Chris Joannou appears to be using a yellow Boss ODB-3 Bass OverDrive pedal. This is suggested by the distinct distortion heard in the bass during the intro of "Israel’s Son."
In this picture you can see Chris playing a blue competition bass to record Abuse Me
In this old pic from the Innocent Criminals era, you can see Chris holding a Eko 995 bass
During the Radio City Music Hall concert in 1995 in New York, Chris can be seen using an Ampeg SVT-2 300-Watt at 3.03.
In this photo you can clearly see the Ampeg B-15 behind Chris from this concert. He started using these amps in around about 2007 when ampeg released the reissue version.
In a photograph from the 2007 Lollapalooza performance in Chicago, Chris Joannou of Silverchair is visibly using Dunlop Tortex Standard 1.0mm Guitar Picks, as documented by Alamy Limited.
Chris Joannou, along with his bandmate Daniel Johns, has been a long-time user of Schaller Security Locks for Guitar Straps since the 1990s, as evidenced by a photograph taken on December 4, 2007, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Chris Joannou used the Leo Quan Badass II Bass Bridge on most of his basses during the 2000s, as evidenced by a photograph taken on December 4, 2007, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Chris Joannou used a Spector NS-2 bass equipped with the EMG PJ Set Active Ceramic PJ Bass Pickup Set Black during the Freak Show tour, as evidenced by a live performance at Pinkpop 1997, documented by the Pinkpop Archive on YouTube.
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