James Dean Bradfield

JDB is listed as artist on Blackstar website

Boss CE-5 can be seen on James's Pedalboard at Newport studio [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6iKOEDM-A/ P.S. keep scrolling right]

It is noted on the Shed Pickups site that the Hot Bastardos Pickups were seen at Glastonbury, and pictures of James Dean Bradfield are used as reference. As of September 5, 2014, noted by James on MusicRadar, these pickups were installed in James' 'Faithful' Gibson Les Paul Custom.

In this photo gallery interview, James Dean Bradfield says, “I won this in a bet with [record producer] Mike Hedges. During one session in his Normandy studio for This Is My Truth... we were ragging each other over a rugby score. So we had a bet!

I used it on, among other songs, If You Tolerate This... for the solo. My Les Paul Custom and the Thinline weren’t quite working. Quite an interesting solo - it went through both my Marshall and Vox and then got returned through a Moog synth. It’s a simple solo, but I like to think it’s elegant."

In this issue of Guitarist magazine, they mention a 1982 black Gibson Les Paul with Angus Young pickups as one of James' many guitars.

James mentions in the last paragraph of this article from Acoustic Magazine that he played a Cole Clark Fat Lady.

In this performance of Slash N Burn The Manics frontman can be seen using a gibson LP junior.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Zakk Wylde overdrive is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The V-Booster is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Welsh Flag pedal is depicted in James' pedal collection. Bradfield has called it his "secret weapon" in the past; anyone who knows what it is or does isn't telling.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Twin Reverb is depicted in James' amplifier collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. A 1969 ES-330 is depicted in James' guitar collection.

EHX Pitch Fork can be seen on James's Pedalboard at Newport studio. [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6iKOEDM-A/ P.S. keep scrolling right]

In one of the images accompanying this article, we can see two Drop pedals on James' studio table.

In one of the images accompanying this article, we can see two M100 pedals in the front row, center position of James' studio table (identifiable by its clear, block lettering).

In one of the images accompanying this article, we can an LT Dual pedal in the front row, center position of James' studio table.

A Boss FZ-3 can be seen on his pedalboard in photo 13.

He can be seen playing one on instagram, and it can be seen in some photos of his guitar rig.

James can be seen playing one live in 2014 at Sziget Festival (https://youtu.be/6Lo7LB2HKug?t=1474) and in Paris (http://www.merseyside.fr/manic-street-preachers-bataclan-live-report-setlist-paris-23-mai-2014).

In this photo gallery interview, James Dean Bradfield says, “Bought in a car boot sale by Sean [Moore, Manics drummer] for £400. This is all over the Rewind The Film album. It’s got a beautiful, snub-nosed, woody sound, used especially on Running Out Of Fantasy and Manorbier.”

In this interview, In Guitarist Magazine, it lists some of Bradfield's amplifiers, which include a Watkins Westminster.

Bradfield mentions his Diesel VH4 in the section on his Gretsch Chet Atkins in this interview.

In an interview with Acoustic Magazine, James Dean Bradfield discusses using his Guild JF65-12 12-String Acoustic guitar, as highlighted in the final paragraph of the featured page on Foreverdelayed.

In the final paragraph in this article from an August 2014 edition of Acoustic Magazine James mentions that he played a Cole Clark Angel.

In this interview with Guitarist magazine from September 05, 2014, Bradfield discussed his Mosrite Ventures guitar. "I tend to use Line 6’s Amp Farm with this one," he said. "I do that quite a lot to be honest, to get the best tone."

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Switchblade is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The FX-5 is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Deluxe Memory Man (boxed, top left) is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The TU-2 is depicted in James' pedal collection.

This photo-article from MusicRadar/Guitarist magazine details all of the gear Bradfield used during the making of the Manic Street Preacher's 2010 album Postcards From a Young Man. The Micro POG is depicted in James' pedal collection.