Matt Smith

"And then this guitar (pulls out a red SG), this is an 81 SG firebrand, and this was Matt Sherwood, our old guitar player’s guitar. And he bought it off our bass player Garth’s brother."

in Senses Fail, we had a hookup with ESP for a while, and I got this one here (holds up an ESP E-II Eclipse). It’s one of those E-IIs and this guitar; I mean I always wanted one of those Les Paul Custom Lites because they’re thin. Teppei from thrice had one and a couple of people I knew had them, and I always wanted one, but they were kind of expensive, and I never could afford one.

And then I mean this guitar honestly plays and sounds great, I’ve used it like once or twice with Strike, but whenever I take it out, the other guys in the band are like “bring the SG man, what are you doing? That’s your guitar; you got to bring that one”. And I really do love that guitar; I mean it’s my favorite guitar.

"Yeah! So (pulls out a black Les Paul) this is a 77; it’s a Les Paul Pro. And it was P90s, but it’s been routed for humbuckers. And I played this a little bit in the Exit English era, but it’s just a little bit heavy."

my buddy Ryan Shulkin, he was in a band that I was also in called liars academy in Baltimore, he was a band called Cross My Heart, and this (holds up the yellow SG) was his, the yellow SG was his, and it has been broken. The neck has been completely off this guitar multiple times. It’s had a full refret, a partial refret; the neck has been broken and fixed. You can see there are cracks running through the guitar.

But this one man I don’t know. There’s something about this one. Like I’ve got 12 guitars now and I’ve probably had another six or seven over the years, maybe ten that have come and gone. And this one, this is it. I don’t know why. I love it.

I mean the back of it. It’s just destroyed (turns it over – it’s destroyed). But it just sounds better; it just feels better than the other ones, I don’t know why.

KGR: I love a guitar that’s had the living shit kicked out of it.

Yeah I mean people look at it like “oh my god what year is it”, I’m like “it’s 81, it’s just destroyed”.

At 21:10 in this Rig Rundown, Matt Smith says:

Like I said before, I've got this Bogner Ecstasy that I'm using, which is a two channel boost that I like a lot.

"This is that junior you were talking about. This is one of those Gibson “guitar of the week” series. It’s the Les Paul Junior Nashville, and I got a Duncan to make a custom mini humbucker that’s under the P90 cover. I did use that for a while, I took that on like a Japan tour, and I used it just for maybe a little bit of the Iron Front era."

At about 18 minutes in Matt discusses and shows off his Dr Z Maz 38 Sr no reverb head in tasteful vox/hiwatt black basketweave, I might add.

Right around 9 minutes Matt details his JCM800. its shown in the video and is a horizontal input 100 watt single channel still equipped with 6550s like it shipped with (north america bound marshalls were equipped with 6550s at the time by the importer because they shipped without tubes due to a dearth of robust EL34s that could make the transatlantic journey without failing, many were modded back for 34s). So its a 2203, later version. Watch out for those PCB mount jacks, Matt... one day they'll just come loose LOL

Matt Smith has done demos for the Supro Ozark, and is shown here holding it in one of his own videos.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZyyOTXLS7s4?feature=share