East Bay Ray

I use the same thing as in Dead Kennedys. Right now, I’m putting together a Stratocaster-style guitar, although there’s not many Fender parts left on it. I like Seymour Duncan pickups and I’ve been using a Schecter S-1, Marshall 2000 DSL amp, Echoplex tape unit and Line 6 DL4. I don’t use a lot of pedals and I don’t use channel switching in Dead Kennedys, but sometimes in Killer Smiles.

The guitar was also featured in 2022 Premier Guitar rig rundown

However, for this headlining run through the U.S., Ray brought a single Schecter S-1. He mentions in the Rundown that he still owns all his old Fenders and Japanese knockoffs but doesn’t want anything to happen to them. To soup up the doublecut, he typically swaps in a Seymour Duncan SH-1 ’59 (neck) and Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB (bridge) for the model’s standard Schecter Diamond Plus humbuckers. (Although the S-1 on this tour still has stock pickups.)

In this picture you can see East Bay Ray playing a Fender Stratocaster on stage

In the recording secessions for “In God We Trust Inc”, East Ray Bay can be seen using a Fender Stratocaster modified to have two Humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions and no single coil in the middle. This is a different Fender than his other blue one and the HH Standard is the closest I can classify it as.

In the Rig Rundown, East Ray Bay says in the recording for Holiday in Cambodia he used a Japan Knockoff Telecaster that he put a Humbucker in the bridge and a Stratocaster Single Coil in the neck

Quoting the article. “Interviewer: And you have that gray Strat. ERB: Yeah, that’s a Frankenstein Strat.

Interviewer:Was that also a Japanese knockoff? ESB: I would not spray paint a real Stratocaster [laughs]. At the time I had a sunburst Stratocaster, but that [gray guitar] was basically Frankenstein parts. I bought the body, neck, and pickguard, and put it together. I may have taken the neck and the parts off the real Strat and put them on that guitar.” Was used on most of the albums and the Hoilday In Cambodia Music Video and according to East Ray Bay Rig Rundown, he still owns it.

Seen in this Live Photo from 1981.

In the YouTube video titled "DKS - I Fought The Law - Live Olympic Auditorium 1984," East Bay Ray is seen playing a Micro-Frets Spacetone guitar, most clearly visible at the 2:20 mark. The guitar appears to be either black or dark red. This video was uploaded by jerryguzmanvideos.

In the video titled "Bleed For Me - Dead Kennedys - Urgh! A Music War - 1980 - DKs - Best Quality Live Performance" on YouTube, East Bay Ray is seen playing a Supro Martinique Electric Guitar. The video is provided by MJmcnult and features a live performance by the Dead Kennedys in Los Angeles in 1980.