Matt Pike

"I was hanging out with Bill Kelliher one night, and we thought about how cool it would be to have a nine-string guitar. We both called them in the same week, and they were a little pissed because we didn’t have a design. They told me that I had to design it. So I had to go to the drawing board, and I thought to myself, “So, I get to design it, and Bill gets to play it. Cool!” [Laughs] I always really liked those Yamaha SGs that Santana played years ago, but I wanted a thicker guitar. I’m a man, I’ve got man hands, and I’m a big dude, so I need some weight and durability—because I’m gonna throw it around and beat it up or whatever. So I had them make it a half-inch thicker than a Les Paul Standard. I wanted a baseball bat neck, because I wanted to have big-ass strings on it—I need to punish with it. The pickups are from Kent Armstrong, and are really strong."

In this live video we can see Matt Pike playing his ’92 tobacco sunburst Gibson Paul.

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Matt can be seen in the video playing a Kramer DMZ 650G during this early High on Fire live radio session in 1998.

His Artisan is loaded with his newly released Dragonaut Pickups by Lace and In the second pic Matt and Sammy trading guitars

As seen on this Lace Pickups video, Matt is using Schecter Solo-6 loaded with Dirty Heshers. Further down the comments ther is one from Lace Pickups stating this.

At the beginning of the video, Matt Pike is playing the "Some Grass" interlude on a Takamine Guitar.

Matt Pike is playing a 12-string Taylor 150e guitar for "Some Grass".

Here Matt is seen playing a custom Seger YG model, touring in Mexico with Sleep (3/3/2018)

Here Matt is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty

In the article: "I actually used a Les Paul Recording model extensively on Sleep’s The Sciences ... more than on High on Fire’s Electric Messiah"

Here is seen playing the Ibanez 2680, mostly known as the Bob Weir signature model.

Here is a really rare photo of a young Matt using a superstrat, which it seems to be an 80s Platinum Series B.C. Rich ST3 MIJ (circa 1991).

At 1:26 it can be seen in the corner

At 0:21 this item is seen

Matt and Al both used Matamps during the recording process of "Jerusalem" or "Dopesmoker" and had these amps made especially for them with the money advancement they had gotten from their record label. Although, they don't use them anymore for a reason no one knows

At 1:13, Pike says he uses 2 Dual Dark Oranges. He notes that they are a higher gain, metal amp.

"I'm using four thunderverb" [...] "They producing a loud clear mid range overdrive"

During the 2016 tour, an Orange Micro Terror was used to put the guitar sound into the PA of house.

You can see 4 rockerverbs on the left side of this photo, 3 standing. One on its side. You can tell its a rockverb because it has a big volume and a treble/bass/mid/. Usually the thunder has 2 big knobs, a smaller one then a big one. It may be a 2 or a 1. I can't remember which had all 3 controls.

"Interviewer: I know that live you’ve used the Frank Zappa trick of close-miking either a small Pignose or Orange Micro Terror in an iso cab and blending that with your larger heads. Is that something you do in the studio, too? Matt Pike: Oh yeah, it’s all over the Sleep record. When you hear the chainsaw parts with tons of sustain [laughs]—that’s when I’m running three Pignoses, daisy-chained, with a Soldano G.T.O. driving the front of them all. It fucking rules!".

"Everyone loves some thunder". According to Blackstar amps he uses a Series 100 head.

Here we see Matt Pike in front of some stacks of BlackStar series one 200 amp heads.

Matt Pike is in front of a wall of Orange 4x12 cabs and heads

Welcome home, Matt Pike. High On Fire Sleep

#Rockerverb100 #OR50 #Thunderverb200

In this picture we see Matt pike is standing in front of an OR 50 head.

The Thunderverb 200w head is located behind Matt Pike.

Matt Pike is pictured in front of a couple Emperor 4x12 cabinets.