Frank Infante

At the moment Frank is the proud owner of three Les Pauls. This is the tale of one of them… “I had this gold guitar and I put paint remover on it and melted the thing! The paint remover was so strong the pick-ups and knobs melted. Now it’s a natural finish and I put on Di Marzio pick-ups and now that’s the guitar I like the best. “I have another one I like too, but I broke the neck on it three times. On stage I use two Les Pauls. I use one for most of the songs and the other one I use for ‘Victor’ because it has an open tuning. For me to tune the other guitar down to G would be ridiculous. I’d never get it back in tune again in time to do the next song.”

“I was using Marshall but it got to be a problem because it was too heavy for what we’re doing. So now I’m using a Twin. I went through ever amp there is in this band – Marshall, Burman, Boogie but now I’m just back to a Twin Reverb. That gets all the sounds you want. Well, I can get any sound I want out of it. I don’t need any electronic gadget to do it.”

“I was using Marshall but it got to be a problem because it was too heavy for what we’re doing. So now I’m using a Twin. I went through ever amp there is in this band – Marshall, Burman, Boogie but now I’m just back to a Twin Reverb. That gets all the sounds you want. Well, I can get any sound I want out of it. I don’t need any electronic gadget to do it.”

In Blondie Picture This and many other Blondie music videos in the late 70s, you can see Frank plays an ebony/black Gibson Les Paul but in this video you only need to look from 0:04 to see this.

In this photo, Frank Infante is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Triumph bass. There’s another picture more clear of Chris Stein holding it in a group photo including Frank Infante behind him when Frank was the unnamed bassist during the Plastic Letters album but this is better proof he played this instrument.