Josh Menashe

Featured in this May 2, 2018 Instagram post.

Woke up here with a new member of the family

Visible in this July 5, 2020 Instagram post by Frankie and the Witch Fingers bandmate Nikki Pickle, which was reposted on Frankie and the Witch Fingers' Instagram on January 16, 2021 with the caption "FUN FACT: The guitar solo on MEPEM was recorded through a moog grandmother. Miss all you sweet freaks! 👽🖤". An image of a Moog Grandmother is also edited into two Instagram posts by Menashe himself, in which he shares synth covers of Beach Boys songs.

@nikkipickle, July 5, 2020

Happy birthday to my grandmother, Josh! 🎹

January 31, 2021

Recorded an all synth cover of my favorite beach boys song. This was really fun to make. Listen in 🎧 or 🔈 to hear that oh so important bass.

February 1, 2021

Pure analog synth cover of my other favorite Beach Boys song. 🎧 or 🔈 recommended!

An image of a Minilogue is edited into this February 1, 2021 Instagram post sharing a synth cover of the Beach Boys, indicating the use of a Minilogue for the cover.

Pure analog synth cover of my other favorite Beach Boys song. 🎧 or 🔈 recommended!

Featured in this September 20, 2013 Instagram post.

Visible in Instagram posts dated February 7, 2014, October 17, 2014, and April 4, 2017.

Visible in Instagram posts dated February 7, 2014 and October 17, 2014.

Specified in this November 19, 2017 Musician’s Friend The Hub interview and featured in Instagram posts dated March 6, 2016 and September 9, 2022.

Josh: The first guitar for me was a Gibson SG. I got it as a gift because I was obsessed with Angus Young of AC/DC. I love the way it sounds and looks and I still play it a lot.

The HUB: What particular SG model?

Josh: A 2004 SG Standard, red.

Visible in this May 30, 2022 Instagram post.

Visible in this May 30, 2022 Instagram post.

Visible in Instagram posts dated January 14, 2014, October 17, 2014 and April 4, 2017.

Visible Instagram posts dated January 14, 2014 and October 17, 2014. According to Frankie and the Witch Fingers bandmate a Dylan Sizemore and Glenn Brigman, it was used to record Sidewalk and the eponymous Frankie and the Witch Fingers.

It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, “Frankie And The Witch Fingers interview with Dylan Sizemore, Alex Bulli and Glenn Brigman” by Roman Rathert (September 16, 2014)

Dylan: So far there are only 40 Sidewalk cassettes floating around, but we’re supposed to have a new batch soon. The tape came along in a very organic way. I saw Glenn at a show and he said, “You should come over and record some tracks”. The next day we had the title track “Sidewalk” fully recorded. A couple of weeks later we had the whole tape. They were just supposed to be demos we dumped off of the Tascam 488. It was super fun, and I haven’t stopped hanging and recording with them since.

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Glenn: “Revival” is part of a new record that will be coming out on Permanent Records later this year. I recorded it with help from Josh Menashe in my bedroom onto a Tascam 488 last fall. It features a 12-string electric that’s actually a knock-off Rickenbacker and a Farfisa Compact Duo.

Musician’s Friend, The Hub, “Vibing with Frankie and The Witch Fingers” (November 14, 2017)

Glenn: On the first couple of records we used Tascam 488 cassette machines. We switched to a Tascam 388 quarter-inch machine for the third record, Brain Telephone. We are currently starting to record with a Tascam 38, which is a half-inch tape machine.

Josh Menashe uses the Boss RE-20 Space Echo as his main delay/reverb pedal. This is evident from a photo posted by PJams_ on Reddit, where the pedal is clearly visible. Additionally, Menashe confirmed its use in an interview with The Hub: https://www.musiciansfriend.com/thehub/vibing-with-frankie-and-the-witch-fingers

"Then I have a [BOSS] Space Echo and I’m borrowing a friend's Keeley Dark Side. I’m always switching things out depending on the sets we’re playing."