Daniel Kessler
Daniel Kessler's Guitars
In the photo provided, Daniel Kessler is shown playing an Epiphone Casino in Cherry finish. He has removed the pickguard, added a Bigsby Vibrola, and changed the stock golden knobs to black knobs.
Daniel Kessler plays a 1967 Epiphone Casino in a burst finish with a Frequensator Tailpiece. He can be seen playing it in this video of Interpol performing Leif Erikson live. Around the 3:15 mark the guitar can be seen pretty clearly. Kessler's Epiphone has black knobs and nickel hardware.
One of the indicators of this guitar's particular model year is the 19th fret neck/body joint.
In an article, he confirms it's a 1967: "I have a 1967 Casino for some of our older songs. I’ve been using Casinos since Turn On The Bright Lights. That and my 1960 Anniversary are basically the only two guitars I’ve played throughout my entire tenure in Interpol." (original source here, article dated March 31, 2015)
In this photo of Daniel Kessler playing at Frequency Festival, Austria, he can be seen with a Gretsch G6117T Anniversary electric guitar with Bigsby in a sunburst finish. Photo courtesy of Marina Ravizza, taken on August 18, 2011.
In an article Kessler says, "I played my 1960 Gretsch Anniversary on almost every song on the latest record and a good deal of the eponymous fourth record, too. But like most of the guitars I own, the Anniversary has a very weak signal. If I didn’t dress it up with effects in a certain way, it would sound very weak. But I’m also very lazy with effects. I use a couple of overdrives, a Boss DD-5 and an Eventide Space pedal, which is a new thing that I like. It’s better than any analogue." (original source here, article dated March 31, 2015)
In the picture above, Daniel Kessler can be seen using a cherry red Gibson ES-330.
This guitar first made an appearance on the "Our Love to Admire" tour in 2007. Kessler mainly used it for the slightly heavier, and for more of his "riffier" songs, such as "The Heinrich maneuver", "Rest my Chemistry", as well as "PDA" and "Narc".
This has more recently been a backup guitar for his Epiphone Casino.
In the early days of Interpol, Daniel used a telecaster. 11:33
Daniel Kessler used a Gibson ES-335 standard guitar for the song 'Roland' on the Antics tour. In the video above, a clear picture of the guitar can be seen about 1:55.
Very little is known about this guitar. Is it actually Kessler's? What has happened to this guitar? This is clearly an ES-335 as it has humbuckers and not P-90's a pickups and a Gibson, as it doesn't have the Epiphone (which he's known to use) 'E' on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGcm8M4DcQc&ab_channel=LuisMiralles Can be seen 0:21 into this video...
In the video above, a nice view of the guitar can be seen around 0:20.
In the pre-Turn on the Bright Lights days, Kessler used a range of guitar's and one of these was a burgundy red Epiphone Casino from 1967.
"They had a beautiful red burgundy Casino. It was actually for a pretty good price considering it was from 1967 or something. The guy was a friend of the band and gave me a really good deal. It was the guitar I used for all of Turn on the Bright Lights."
Kessler also talks about how his 1967 Epiphone Casino was stolen in a 2004 interview with Nardwuar.
In the provided image, Daniel Kessler is seen using a Gretsch G6122 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman Electric Guitar in 2019.
Daniel Kessler is confirmed to use a Fender Telecaster Deluxe, as evidenced by a photograph from Interpol's performance at The Blackbird in Portland, Oregon, in September 2002, credited to u/NotEvenSpecialist.
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