Matt Sharp

"Matt then bought a new Jerry Jones hollow body 'longhorn' bass, in celeste green. Unfortunately he soon found out that it wasn't useful in live performance ... This is when Matt made the trade for the Warmoth neck. This is a Telecaster Bass style neck, but a little different. A similar but not identical model is still made, but this particular one was an early model and made from a very interesting swirly kind of darker wood, that newer ones just don't have. Though the trade recipient got the whole Explorer Hamer for the neck, he was still quoted as saying, "You're ripping me off!" The neck was that nice! This neck was grafted onto a vintage black Fender Jazz Bass body he got as a gift from Johnny of El Magnifico. Matt got some Schecter pickups and the 'Frankenstein' bass was complete." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"After getting signed, Matt got a rare Fender Telecaster bass from the early 70's. This one didnt work out too well. "Too much low end," said Matt. "It just sounded like a big fart." It was sold. Then Matt tried to replicate the black bass, which was quickly becoming established as an extremely cool bass." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"Matt started out in Weezer with some gear that he later called 'awful and embarrassing'. His amp ... was a Gallien-Krueger 800RB. He had it since he was a teenager and it served him well right up through the mid-90's Rentals era. Where it is today is unknown." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"He also got a new main amp, a vintage 1967 (?) 200-watt Orange Matamp. However this did not end up on the Blue Album due to its constant fuse popping (later we figured out that it needed a bigger size fuse than what it said on the back).

Later, in 1995, Matt got a second Orange Matamp, which was very similar to the '67, except it was from approximately 1975. It looked almost new, but this was before they started re-issuing them, so we knew it was old.

On 'pinkerton' and on stage for later Weezer and Rentals tours, Matt went back to the GK, with a Sovtek Big Muff pedal for distortion, and used the Orange just for recording clean sounds and for a back-up. Eventually both Oranges were severely damaged - the '67 from the "Rhino Lad" incident during a '97 show in Richmond VA, and the '75 from a bad freight shipping incident. Their whereabouts and current condition are unknown." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

Apparently, one of these amps was auctoned off Ebay in 2010.

"...He [Matt Sharp] bought a brand new Mexican-made blue Fender Jazz Bass, replaced the neck with a new Telecaster bass Warmoth model, and popped in some new Schecter pickups. This became his backup touring bass, and the black and blue "hybrids" were his two Weezer basses until he left the band." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"Additionally, in 1996, Matt bought a white vintage Music Man bass, which saw use on about 1/3rd of a typical show's set from then on." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"Matt went through a number of borrowed basses, trying to get closer to what he wanted. ... an early 60's sunburst Fender P-Bass (Justin's of Nerf Herder) ..." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"Matt then bought a new Jerry Jones hollow body 'longhorn' bass, in celeste green. Unfortunately, he soon found out that it wasn't useful in live performance, as it wasn't possible to intonate it to "E Flat" tuning, and thus had to be tuned to E Flat 'against its will'. So it went out of tune fast." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

"MS: And then I bought a Jerry Jones bass at some point. It was a Danelectro copy, a Longhorn type of thing. There was like a little group of bass players from bands that Weezer was playing with, local bands in LA. And those guys would all give me a little bit of a hell for the Jerry Jones bass cause they would go like ‘ Oh, that’s not a man’s bass!’. You know, it’s a teal-looking, very fragile kind of thing. It sounded really cool but it didn’t take a lot of abuse, you know. And so they would stand right in front of me when Weezer was playing and they were like, kind of like, back when 10 or 15 people that would come out, and they would just stand right in front of us and go, ‘Come on!’ And kind of challenge your manhood or your something, or whatever. And there was always this kind of an inside joke about taming the instrument, you know, kind of doing that Mike Watt kind of style of just being really… just really, taking that bass, and taming it, and all that kind of stuff. Cause we were all just a bunch of barbaric sort of, you know, cavemen-like bass players." - Matt Sharp

"Matt went through a number of borrowed basses, trying to get closer to what he wanted. ... and a Gibson Ripper (Brian's, of Black Market Flowers)." - Karl Koch, weezer.com

In this picture, Matt Sharp is seen using Fender Deluxe Jaguar Bass.

In the video "Weezer - Undone -- The Sweater Song" on WeezerVEVO's YouTube channel, Matt Sharp is seen using a Marshall Vintage 8x10 Cabinet that has been converted to a 4x12. This cabinet is paired with the renowned Mesa Mk.1 head.

In this Twitter post, Matt Sharp responds to a question regarding what bass strings he used during the recording of Weezer's Blue Album and The Rentals album "Return of the Rentals". Matt Sharp response by sharing a picture of GHS H3045 Bass Boomers Roundwound Electric Bass Guitar Strings and stating that he's used those exact bass string during the recording of those albums

i've always used the same bass strings. essentially telephone wire

In a photo from a tour of a Weezer "museum," Matt Sharp's Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi pedal is visible. This was confirmed by Karl Koch, the band's historian, who specified that it was indeed a Big Muff pedal, not a Sovtek model. Koch also confirmed that the pedal was used on the track "In The Garage."

In this photo, Matt Sharp is playing a red fender stratocaster that belonged to Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, he played this show in November 1993 to test out songs that would appear on The Rentals debut album alongside Pat Wilson, Adam Orth and Justin Fisher.

A photo of Matt Sharp's rig clearly shows him using the SWR Golight 4x10.

In the picture, Matt Sharp is seen with a Clayton USA .80 mm pick in his mouth, confirming his use of this specific gear.

In a photo from a Weezer concert on May 19, 1997, Matt Sharp is clearly seen using an Ampeg SVT-VR bass amplifier head, located in the bottom right corner. This usage indicates a shift from his previous use of an Orange Matamp during the January shows of the same year. It is noted that he continued using the Ampeg SVT-VR until his last performance with Weezer on August 15, 1997. This change in equipment may have also influenced the recording of The Rentals' second album, "Seven More Minutes," during the spring of 1997. The proof for this is visible in the photograph provided by Nick Lavallee.

On February 12th 2004, Matt Sharp (of Weezer and The Rentals) would perform a solo concert at The Pub at Titan Student Union at California State University. He would perform 6 songs before being joined by former bandmate Rivers Cuomo. Throughout this concert Sharp would mostly use an acoustic Gibson guitar (unknown model).

In the YouTube upload of Weezer's DVD "Video Capture Device," from approximately 24:58 to 25:28, Matt Sharp can be seen using fellow Weezer bandmate Brian Bell's Gibson SG Melody Maker. This footage appears to be from a rehearsal for Weezer's January 1995 TV performance on the British music show "The Word," during which all the members swapped instruments. The source of this footage is credited to the YouTube channel Weezer Uploads.