Johnny Bond
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Johnny Bond's Guitars
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."
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.
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.
as you can see body is playing a gibson les paul with two p90 pickups in the bridge and the neck.
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.
In an Instagram post by catbmusic, Johnny Bond is shown playing a black Fender Stratocaster during an acoustic session with Van McCann.
You can see at the 2:00 mark the Gibson logo with the Lucille truss rod cover. Excellent guitar.
Teisco Telecaster named in video description and is the guitar played in the video
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.
''In 2019 Bondy started to use an Eastwood Sidejack Baritone DLX live''
In the video you can see Bondy plays the Gibson ES-175. He is also seen playing it on live versions of the song 7. He uses it at Glastonbury and T in the park along with many other live shows.
In this Youtube video at 0:33, Johnny Bond can be seen playing the Maton Blackwood series EBw808. The pickguard has the signature on it and the body is in the dark blackwood color.
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Discography
That Wild, Wicked But Wonderful West (Original Starday Records Recordings)
1961
Country and Western
1997
The Home Recordings
2002
Ten Little Bottles And 15 Other Starday Recordings
2005
Songs That Made Him Famous
2005
His Best
2007
Oklahoma Waltz
2009
Oklahoma Hills
2010
Hot Rod Bond - [The Dave Cash Collection]
2011
Johnny Bond Rides Again (Remastered)
2011
My Oklahoma Waltz
2021
Nobody's Business
2025