Dave Gregory

Now if you want to talk guitar, ask Dave Gregory. He was crushed that he couldn't take his entire guitar harem (over 20) with him for Oranges and Lemons, but he made do with his faves: a 1953 Gibson Les Paul gold-top; a Schecter Telecaster-style ("quite versatile"); a 1963 Stratocaster; a semi-hollow 1964 Epiphone Riviera with miniature humbuckers, heard on the "Pink Thing" solo ("It has a nice Beatley sound"); and one of the first 25 Rickenbacker 12-strings shipped to England in the wake of A Hard Day's Night. Gregory uses Ernie Ball strings "out of force of habit," but creates his own gauge set: .011-.013-.016-.024-.038-.050. He has a Roland JC-120 amp "for those rare occasions that I go out of the house," and a Japanese Fender Sidekick 30 amp for home practice. Effects include a MIDIverb and D1500. For keyboard dabbling he keeps a Roland JX3P with MSQ-100 sequencer, and "an old acoustic piano."

Dave is listed on Matchless Amp's Artists page for his use of the DC-30 Combo Amp

"At the moment I'm just using a Carr Rambler amp, which is just a single channel with a switchable pentode-triode thing, but I use it on the pentode thing all the time. It's a big clean, beautiful tube-y, clean tube-y sound." (01:18:54)

On his time in the band Axelhouse, Gregory says "We made our TV debut on Swindon Cable channel Viewpoint in May. Marshall 100-watt amp head added June 1974 – WAY too loud – I sold it 3 months later and replaced it with a 30-watt 1962 Fender Tremolux piggy-back amp, which I use today with my Fender 6-string bass. '61 Stratocaster traded for new stock Telecaster November 1974. "

"I've already mentioned the '62 Fender Tremolux (in my autobiography section); the cabinet now houses two heavy-duty Celestion 10" speakers to cope with the bass frequencies. I also have a 1963 Fender Super 2x10" combo, and a new-ish Fender Pro-Junior (which you can just see in the background of the inner "Upsy Daisy" photo), a gift from Lyle Workman and a great little amp."

"I've used a tiny Japanese Fender Sidekick Reverb 30 practice amp on any number of projects since 1986 (when I bought it), and is actually one of Andy Partridge's favourite recording amps! I've also a Roland JC-120 combo and a Korg A2 Digital Processor that is useful for recording at home. "