Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro

The guitar I’ve been using for years is a 1952 Les Paul. It’s one of the prototypes. Actually I have two of them. Just through blind luck one day all of our gear was on its way to Europe and Neil wanted to rehearse, so he told the guys to dig out some equipment for us. The guy handed me this guitar and it was another gold-top Les Paul prototype, but with a Bigsby on it. So Neil gave it to me and now I have two of them. Neil never used it because it had some problems. Whoever put the Bigsby on it missed by an eighth of an inch, so it was hard to keep in tune and it sounded terrible. But I got that all straightened out. The one I use most, though, is my original, which sounds a little hotter to me.

I had a 1956 Fender Deluxe, and I played through the Mic channel.

You can see Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro playing his black Gibson es-335 throughout the whole song.

Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro is associated with a mid-1960s gray panel Vox AC-50 amplifier, featuring silicone diode rectifiers, as detailed by Mercury Magnetics. This model, often found in vintage auctions, highlights its historical and technical significance in his setup.