Chris Joannou's Gear

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He can be seen playing the bass in this video.

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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.

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Chris Joannou, bassist for Silverchair, owns a black G&L SB-1 Bass, as reported by Tom Williams in Music Feeds.

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Chris Joannou used this bass to record Freak Show.

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Chris Joannou used this bass during the Freak Show tours.

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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.

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Ampeg SVT810AV cabinets used for touring across Australia

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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.

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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."

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In this picture you can see Chris playing a blue competition bass to record Abuse Me

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In this old pic from the Innocent Criminals era, you can see Chris holding a Eko 995 bass

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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