Jeff Mangum

Jeff using his Gibson ES-125 during a Neutral Milk Hotel performance in 1998

This video of Jeff Mangum from September of 2009 clearly shows him playing this 1960's Silvertone parlor guitar.

Mangum can be seen playing a Fender American Standard Stratocaster Olympic White in this photo.

Mangum can be seen playing a Martin 000-15 in this photo.

In this video, Jeff Mangum can be seen playing his Silvertone 619 in the first two songs, I Will Bury You In Time & Holland, 1945.

Jeff uses a smaller Martin 0-17 from either the late 40's or 50's. He uses this guitar frequently live during the band's final tour.

Jeff is seen playing this guitar at the Knitting Factory in NYC, 1998 and is shown promenintly in the live video preformance

in this photo he uses one

in the fall of 94, jeff returned home to ruston to make his first attempt at recording “on avery island", alone on his 4-track, (which was a tascam 424 portastudio, with sm57, just in case you were wondering) anyway he finished these two songs, and although loving what he had made, decided he needed his friend robert to record with if he were to ever have any hope of completing an entire album (which they proceeded to do, on a fostex A4 reel to reel 4 track)

in the fall of 94, jeff returned home to ruston to make his first attempt at recording “on avery island", alone on his 4-track, (which was a tascam 424 portastudio, with sm57, just in case you were wondering) anyway he finished these two songs, and although loving what he had made, decided he needed his friend robert to record with if he were to ever have any hope of completing an entire album (which they proceeded to do, on a fostex A4 reel to reel 4 track)

If you zoom in on the picture of Jeff Mangum, you can see that his strap has the Levy's Leather logo.