Jimmy Vivino

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—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…

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

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)

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…

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

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.

Starting at 8:31 you can see Jimmy Vivino with a Republic Guitars Palm Resonator.

At the 0:05 mark of the video titled "Ray Liotta on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' - 4/22/03" by Inflatable Conan on YouTube, Jimmy Vivino can be seen playing a Gibson Flying V.

At the 25:20 mark in the YouTube video "Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers with Mike Zito, Albert Castiglia & Jimmy Vivino," viewers can observe guitarist Jimmy Vivino playing a Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar. This video is provided by Premier Guitar.