Johnny Bond's Gear

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In this interview you can see that Johnny Bond Uses a 2002 Gibson Les Paul that has been equipped with a Bigsby. Artist Quotes ""I literally bought this [a Bigsby-equipped Gibson Les Paul] the other day, in Nashville, towards the end of the American tour. It's a 2002, and our roadie fitted the Bigsby for me, because I do quite a lot of mad dive-bombing stuff."

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In this article Johnny states he uses a Holy Grail pedal.

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in this picture of Johnny's pedalboard you can see an EHX POG2

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In the bottom right hand of the board you can see a strymon Flint. The pedal is used alongside his holy grail to get the reverb tone he uses. This is a new addition to his board but it can be heard on the bridge of the song anything. Where he plays single strummed chords with a tremolo effect.

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Artist explains his amp setup at the 14:00 mark. Includes an AC-30, JCM800 and a Bad Cat Hot Cat 50 head

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In a MusicRadar interview, Johnny Bond mentioned using the ZVEX Vexter Series Fuzz Factory.

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'a Whammy pedal for lunacy' he can be seen using this pedal a lot during their song, Tyrants.

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Very visible throughout the video but if you want a timestamp check out 6:52, top right corner of the board, I mean you can't miss it. Explained in the video by Bondy that it was one of the many pedals introduced to him by jackknife. He demonstrates at 04:26 how instrumental it is to songs on The Balance and plays part of the Fluctuate solo with it for the camera. Used for that 'Scratchy fuzz' tone.

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Clearly can be in the source inbetween the OCD V.2 and Green Rhino. Making an appearance during the winter UK leg onwards of 2019’s The Balance tour possibly being used for the new setlist edition ‘Basically’ for the octave fuzz tone.

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In this picture of Johnny's pedalboard you can see a Way Huge Green Rhino Overdrive

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YOU CAN SEE THE PEDAL NEXT TO THE GREEN RHINO ON HIS BOARD BEING CHECKED BY HIS ROADIE. IT SEANS TO BE REPLACING THE MXR MODIFIED OD.

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In the 2all music video by the Bottlemen, Bondy can be seen playing this starting 1:48 . It is then in shot a few more times after this.

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In response to my comment asking whether he was using the new plasma coil pedal for this he edited the description to read ‘1968 Teisco Telecaster into an audio kitchen big trees...’

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Johnny Bond, known as Bondy, used the Fender Jazzmaster before acquiring his 2002 Les Paul. He owns both black and sunburst versions of the Jazzmaster, notably using the black version during performances with Oasis. This is demonstrated in the live performance of "Cocoon" by Catfish and the Bottlemen for triple j's Like A Version.

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The amplifier head on the right hand side stack of Orange 4x12" cabs as seen at 2:58 in this video of Catfish and the Bottlemen playing at Reading 2015 is a Marshall JCM900 as denoted by the just visible name stamp, but also more obviously by the number of controls on the face of the amplifier head.

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as you can see body is playing a gibson les paul with two p90 pickups in the bridge and the neck.

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In the video for "Twice" by Catfish and the Bottlemen, Johnny Bond is seen playing a Gibson ES-137. He frequently uses this guitar during live performances, including notable appearances at Glastonbury and T in the Park.

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In an Instagram post by catbmusic, Johnny Bond is shown playing a black Fender Stratocaster during an acoustic session with Van McCann.

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You can see the Russian big muff just to left of his flint tremolo/reverb. By the looks of it, it has some replaced knobs.

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Top left corner of bondy’s board (from bondy’s perspective) above the Space Echo. Not the first time this has been pictured but anyway here it is. First HQ pic of The Balance pedalboard

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Johnny Bond uses the Catalinbread Echorec pedal for a second type of delay during performances, as seen in the Imgur gallery "CATB Live - Maida Vale 2019 - The Balance." The pedal is located on the bottom row, second from the left, next to the Space Echo, and is activated during "Longshot" and various verse sections. Please update the item to reflect this.

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You can see at the 2:00 mark the Gibson logo with the Lucille truss rod cover. Excellent guitar.

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Farthest left pedal on board replacing the previously used Space Echo RE20 which has been on the board since Bond joined Catfish in 2014.

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Teisco Telecaster named in video description and is the guitar played in the video

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In this article you can see that Johnny states he uses a Fender Super Reverb. Artist quotes "I've got a Fender Super Reverb"

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In this Article you can see that Johnny states he uses a Keeley- Modded Tube Screamer. Artist Quotes "Keeley-modded Tube Screamer for cutting through"

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In the video linked you see Van and Bondy performing an acoustic verion of '7' as you can clearly see Bondy is using a Gibson SJ-200 Acoustic Guitar.

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the pedal can be seen on the bottom right hand side of the board next to the TS9.

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Holy grail plus can be seen at 4:19 in the pedalboard breakdown. Used for the swampier Reverb tones whilst the flint is used for the more subtle Reverb. - The previous submission of the holy grail Max can be deleted as it’s incorrect. The holy grail plus is the replacement for the original holy grail.

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Explains his amp setup at the 14:00 mark. Includes an AC30, JCM800, and a Bad Cat Hot Cat 50.

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This is a community-built gear list for Johnny Bond.

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