Jimmy Vivino

At 4:12 in this video of Jimmy Vivino's guitar rig setup in Conan's Basic Cable band, he mentions his Dual Tap Delay pedal by Visual Sound. He says, "...the Visual Sound Dual Tap Delay which is great. It says 'Lonnie' because that's the Lonnie Mack sound - it makes the sound of that vibrato that sort of bends the note like on Wham - then a short delay, just a rockabilly delay in the other stage."

Jimmy Vivino talks about the two amps he has on stage with him when he plays on set with Conan's Basic Cable band. He uses them in parallel, at the same time. One of them is his Vox Hand-Wired AC15HW1X 15W 1x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp. It can be distinguished as the Hand-Wired AC15HW1X version due to the fawn colored vinyl. Starting at 5:31:

“…Two amps. Both on, both in - not switching, just both on. A Vox-AC15, new, brand new, Vietnamese made. Who would have known, in 1968, that we’d be having Vietnamese amps [laughs]. But this is a great amp. 15 watt amp.”

Jimmy Vivino talks about his take on the Epiphone Riviera Custom P-93 in this video. He says, "The fact that had P90s on a riviera body basically was really weird. I had never seen anything like it... I had never seen a production model Sheraton, or actually it's a riviera actually, riviera with P90s and then this guy came along. And to have three of them! I'm personally going to have this pickup a reverse wound so that i can do the T-Bone Walker thing. Right now they're all wound the same and it gets humbucked in the middle, so it's quiet but i'm going to go for the old ES-5 thing, which is reverse wound middle pickup and just do a little work on it. But it just came out of the box beautiful, playable, and sounds great. There's certain features I really love, like the small buttons in gold, which you'd never see. For me, Epiphone really went all out on making this a beautiful instrument. It feels great and I'm proud to play it."

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster…

Used with the Basic Cable Band and Fab Faux, as mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What amps are you using right now?

JV: The minute I got to California it was like getting to Fender heaven. I got a '53 Tweed Deluxe, a '64 Blackface Vibrolux, a 4x10 Bassman. My go to amp for recording right now in a '61 brown Princeton with a 10" speaker, one tone and the greatest vibrato. On Conan I am using a wonderful Magnatone Twilighter (1x12) that is just stellar. I've also got a Longhorn Texas Tru Tone (Tweed 1x12) from Austin, Texas that is a really great amp. I use pedals on Conan, and in the Fab Faux because I am simulating record sounds in that gig, but if I am playing a blues gig or playing with Al Kooper or Lee Rocker I just plug straight into the amp - I call that playing unsafe guitar, nothing between you and the amp! I won't try a guitar in anything but a small tube amp. I use my '61 Princeton every time I test a new guitar out. It's important to have a consistent amp when trying out a guitar.

Mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What amps are you using right now?

JV: The minute I got to California it was like getting to Fender heaven. I got a '53 Tweed Deluxe, a '64 Blackface Vibrolux, a 4x10 Bassman. My go to amp for recording right now in a '61 brown Princeton with a 10" speaker, one tone and the greatest vibrato. On Conan I am using a wonderful Magnatone Twilighter (1x12) that is just stellar. I've also got a Longhorn Texas Tru Tone (Tweed 1x12) from Austin, Texas that is a really great amp. I use pedals on Conan, and in the Fab Faux because I am simulating record sounds in that gig, but if I am playing a blues gig or playing with Al Kooper or Lee Rocker I just plug straight into the amp - I call that playing unsafe guitar, nothing between you and the amp! I won't try a guitar in anything but a small tube amp. I use my '61 Princeton every time I test a new guitar out. It's important to have a consistent amp when trying out a guitar.

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster—and the day’s guitar roster includes a reissue Guild M-75 Aristocrat, a Gretsch G6120RHH Reverend Horton Heat signature model…

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster—and the day’s guitar roster includes a reissue Guild M-75 Aristocrat, a Gretsch G6120RHH Reverend Horton Heat signature model, a ’66 Epiphone Casino…

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster—and the day’s guitar roster includes a reissue Guild M-75 Aristocrat, a Gretsch G6120RHH Reverend Horton Heat signature model, a ’66 Epiphone Casino, a ’60s Gibson ES-330, and Vivino’s treasured ’52 Telecaster. Behind his podium is a Dunlop wah, a Korg DT-1 rack-mount tuner, and several Visual Sound stompboxes, including a Double Trouble…

Day 3 #fabfaux in #nyc '57 #Gretsch Duo Jet #Guitar Warming up in style!

Volume Pedal at 4:03

Installed in Vivino's Epiphone Casino, as mentioned on his ThroBak artist page.

Q: What kind of Beatles gear are you using to recreate the songs live?

JV: The Fab Faux are forensic musicologists. We're archeologists, anthropologists, everything (laughs). I've got a historic copy of George Harrison's '57 Les Paul nick-named "Lucy", made famous by Eric Clapton using it on the solo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a Black '57 Gretsch Duo-Jet, a Gibson J-160E strung with flatwounds and played through an amp for the absolute sound of "I Fell Fine", a '90s Rickenbacker 325 V-59 with a Bigsby like John's, a copy of George's famous "Rocky" Fender Strat, an Epiphone Casino with newly installed SB-Special Soap Bar pickups strung with 10-49 flat wounds, plus a whole bunch more electrics and acoustics.

Mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What amps are you using right now?

JV: The minute I got to California it was like getting to Fender heaven. I got a '53 Tweed Deluxe, a '64 Blackface Vibrolux, a 4x10 Bassman. My go to amp for recording right now in a '61 brown Princeton with a 10" speaker, one tone and the greatest vibrato. On Conan I am using a wonderful Magnatone Twilighter (1x12) that is just stellar. I've also got a Longhorn Texas Tru Tone (Tweed 1x12) from Austin, Texas that is a really great amp. I use pedals on Conan, and in the Fab Faux because I am simulating record sounds in that gig, but if I am playing a blues gig or playing with Al Kooper or Lee Rocker I just plug straight into the amp - I call that playing unsafe guitar, nothing between you and the amp! I won't try a guitar in anything but a small tube amp. I use my '61 Princeton every time I test a new guitar out. It's important to have a consistent amp when trying out a guitar.

Mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What amps are you using right now?

JV: The minute I got to California it was like getting to Fender heaven. I got a '53 Tweed Deluxe, a '64 Blackface Vibrolux, a 4x10 Bassman. My go to amp for recording right now in a '61 brown Princeton with a 10" speaker, one tone and the greatest vibrato. On Conan I am using a wonderful Magnatone Twilighter (1x12) that is just stellar. I've also got a Longhorn Texas Tru Tone (Tweed 1x12) from Austin, Texas that is a really great amp. I use pedals on Conan, and in the Fab Faux because I am simulating record sounds in that gig, but if I am playing a blues gig or playing with Al Kooper or Lee Rocker I just plug straight into the amp - I call that playing unsafe guitar, nothing between you and the amp! I won't try a guitar in anything but a small tube amp. I use my '61 Princeton every time I test a new guitar out. It's important to have a consistent amp when trying out a guitar.

Jimmy Vivino can be seen holding a guitar that closely matches a Fender Custom Shop 1964 Closet Classic Jazzmaster Electric Guitar, in Sonic Blue finish with a matching headstock, and rosewood fingerboard (the tremolo arm appears to be removed on Vivino's guitar). The Instagram is captioned, "Jimmy Vivino will be rocking his new #fendercustomshop Jazzmaster tonight on @TeamCoco !" (posted Nov 2014)

New AD! 1st POST! #visualsound #route66 #guitar #conan #teamcoco #basiccableband #jimmyvivino #music

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster—and the day’s guitar roster includes a reissue Guild M-75 Aristocrat…

Over on the bandstand, Vivino’s TV rig features two new combo amps—a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Twinolux and a Colby Dual Tone Booster—and the day’s guitar roster includes a reissue Guild M-75 Aristocrat, a Gretsch G6120RHH Reverend Horton Heat signature model, a ’66 Epiphone Casino, a ’60s Gibson ES-330, and Vivino’s treasured ’52 Telecaster. Behind his podium is a Dunlop wah, a Korg DT-1 rack-mount tuner…

J160E and hats in dressing room

Today's dressing room guitar #Loar LH-700 VS new old style archtop "Sweet & Lowdown"

Dressing Room guitars today '53 #Gibson ES175

Liquid Chorus at 4:35

Angry Fuzz at 4:42

Supa-Trem at 4:47

Dunlop Cry Baby at 5:15

He uses Gibson Special SG (dots on freatboard typical for Special ; normal SG pickguard) on stage with Conan O'Brien show's band.

Used with Fab Faux, as mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What kind of Beatles gear are you using to recreate the songs live?

JV: The Fab Faux are forensic musicologists. We're archeologists, anthropologists, everything (laughs). I've got a historic copy of George Harrison's '57 Les Paul nick-named "Lucy", made famous by Eric Clapton using it on the solo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a Black '57 Gretsch Duo-Jet, a Gibson J-160E strung with flatwounds and played through an amp for the absolute sound of "I Fell Fine", a '90s Rickenbacker 325 V-59 with a Bigsby like John's, a copy of George's famous "Rocky" Fender Strat, an Epiphone Casino with newly installed SB-Special Soap Bar pickups strung with 10-49 flat wounds, plus a whole bunch more electrics and acoustics.

A copy of George Harrison's "Rocky" predating the masterbuilt limited edition was used with Fab Faux, as mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What kind of Beatles gear are you using to recreate the songs live?

JV: The Fab Faux are forensic musicologists. We're archeologists, anthropologists, everything (laughs). I've got a historic copy of George Harrison's '57 Les Paul nick-named "Lucy", made famous by Eric Clapton using it on the solo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a Black '57 Gretsch Duo-Jet, a Gibson J-160E strung with flatwounds and played through an amp for the absolute sound of "I Fell Fine", a '90s Rickenbacker 325 V-59 with a Bigsby like John's, a copy of George's famous "Rocky" Fender Strat, an Epiphone Casino with newly installed SB-Special Soap Bar pickups strung with 10-49 flat wounds, plus a whole bunch more electrics and acoustics.

Used with Fab Faux, as mentioned on Vivino's ThroBak artist page.

Q: What kind of Beatles gear are you using to recreate the songs live?

JV: The Fab Faux are forensic musicologists. We're archeologists, anthropologists, everything (laughs). I've got a historic copy of George Harrison's '57 Les Paul nick-named "Lucy", made famous by Eric Clapton using it on the solo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a Black '57 Gretsch Duo-Jet, a Gibson J-160E strung with flatwounds and played through an amp for the absolute sound of "I Fell Fine", a '90s Rickenbacker 325 V-59 with a Bigsby like John's, a copy of George's famous "Rocky" Fender Strat, an Epiphone Casino with newly installed SB-Special Soap Bar pickups strung with 10-49 flat wounds, plus a whole bunch more electrics and acoustics.

Vivino's "#1 guitar", as featured on his ThroBak artist page.

Jimmy's #1 guitar: '53 Goldtop Les Paul.