John McGeoch

Detailed in this April 1986 issue of International Musician: http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/tinder-is-the-night/5160

"John McGeogh 1980-83. Played on Kaleidoscope, JuJu and Kiss In The Dreamhouse Equipment Yamaha SG1000 12 String Ovation (Usually DI'd) MXR Flanger MXR Dynacomp Compressor Yamaha Analog Delay Two Marshall MV50 combos* Roland JC120*"

John can be seen playing the guitar during this performance of 'Shot by Both Sides' with Magazine on the Belgian TV series Follies in 1979.

John talks about his MXR pedals in this November 1986 issue of Guitarist Magazine. "All the effects are MXR except the Overdrive. I use an MXR rack compressor/limiter which isn't here at the moment. It's so good that our sound guy knicked it and put it on the PA and I haven't got it back yet! Two Flangers, so I can have them at two different settings..."

In the first paragraph on this page of this interview, John McGeoch says, "After that I shopped around for a vintage Strat and checked out some new ones and of all of them I preferred the Squier '57 Strat."

According to this scanned copy of the publication The Armoury Show, John is shown as using an "Ibanez SM9 Super Metal" in his setup.

John McGeoch says in this article he uses an Ibanez overdrive pedal that is "basically a glorified fuzzbox;" the OD-850 seems to be the only pedal fitting that description.

John McGeoch says, in this interview, "The output is a split mono line which goes to a Marshall 100w stack, a JCM800 on one side and the other side is a Roland JC-120. The Marshall gives me the power and the Roland has a nice clean-ish sound without being weak." John can be found pictures with his Marshall JCM800 here

John can be seen throughout this video playing a Ibanez AE410BK.

John used a Fender Twin in the early days of Siouxsie and the Banshees. You can clearly see a black panel Fender Twin behind John at the beginning of this performance from 1979.

According to this scanned copy of the publication The Armoury Show, John is shown as using a "Stereo Chorus" in his pedalboard. In this article from the same publication John says "All the effects are MXR except the overdrive" which proves John's use of the MXR M134.

In this article, John talks about his stage setup. He says, "Anyway, on stage, these guitars go to the rack, into an MXR Dual Limiter..."

At 2:35 of the music video for "Disappointed" you can see John playing a Carvin DC400.

at 0:34 McGeoch can be seen with a white Washburn Tour 24 with black binding and a rosewood neck

John's first electric guitar was an Aria 1532T (but sold under the brand name Commodore). You can see him play it on this photo from an early concert with Magazine.

In a 1986 article from The International Musician, John McGeoch is noted for using an MXR compressor, specifically the MXR Custom Shop CSP028 Vintage Dyna Comp.

"They've changed the design over the years -- it's about 3/4" thicker, three times as heavy, and the sound if anything is a little thinner [referring to his original '77 model]. These newer, lighter ones are a little warmer sounding."

1985 interview in The Guitarist.

From 39:25 in this video of "Spellbound The John McGeoch Story" with BBC 6 Music, they mention John's use of the Gizmotron on the recording of "Into The Light" on the Juju album.

The E1005 is visible on top of the Roland JC120 behind John. The E1005 is also mentioned on page three, paragraph 1 of this article from Guitar and Bass magazine.

In the Getty Images photo, John McGeoch can be seen with a Gibson Les Paul Standard. He also played a white Gibson Les Paul in the "Happy House" music video.

In this image John can be see playing in front of a Marshall JMP MKII 50 Watt amp.

In the last paragraph of this interview, John McGeoch mentions that he uses Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings.

John can be seen playing the Ovation 1618 Glen Campbell 12-string in this image. The guitar can also be seen with Siouxise and the Banshees in the official video for "Spellbound" at :30s.

According to this scanned copy of the publication The Armoury Show, John is shown as using an "Ibanez HD1000" in his setup.

through out this music video you can see john with a white les paul coustom

According to this scanned copy of the publication The Armoury Show, John is shown using an "Ibanez HD1500" in his setup.

John played a Coral Sitar on the 28 September 1980 concert in Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) as can be seen here on photos by Philippe Carly.

In the video for "Public Image Ltd - Seattle," John McGeoch is seen using a Jackson Flying V Randy Rhoads guitar throughout the performance.

According to this scanned copy of the publication The Armoury Show, John says "The signal from all of this, and the clean, goes into a Loft four-way parametric EQ..."

In [this page from the February 1983 issue of Guitar Heroes magazine], John is depicted with his Heritage VTX. Later in the accompanying interview, he says he's recently been "very impressed" with the Peavey combo.

In this Muzines interview conducted by Jon Lewin with John McGeoch in 1985, John McGeoch says "I had money when I was in the Banshees, so I was able to experiment with equipment. But my favourite set-up, one which I used for two years, was two Marshall MV50 combos and a Roland JCS120. One Marshall clean, one dirty, and the Roland miked in stereo, with the chorus on all the time. And with the DI, that gave me five inputs. It sounded great. I still like to do that occasionally wherever possible, miking in stereo."

You can see the JC120 on the right side of each of the two photos included in the article.

"This is a real favourite, which is also quite new, an Ibanez AE100," John says in this article, adding, "It's a solid bodied acoustic—a weird little thing, sounds woody and plonky like a real acoustic."