Mike Campbell

"Rich Robinson had this out, or had a new Mason from Duesenberg. So he got this guitar to me to let Tom check it out and it stayed in a case for two weeks, we were at the Hollywood Bowl, and Nathan came back and said 'Hey, what about that guitar?' and I said 'Well I don't know Tom hasn't said anything. Let me take it in to Mike.' I took it in to Mike and he said he played it that night and this is what became the Mike Campbell model. So the story on this is, I think, is it was made as a prototype made for Ford, the Shelby, the Shelby Cobra, but Ford didn't want to do anything with it because it was not American-made. Duesenberg is from Germany, so that's how it became the Signature model," explains Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Duesenberg Mike Campbell Signature Guitar.

"'64-'65 SG. He's had it for years and years and years, but he's just really fell in love with it for this tour. Angus Young, Malcom, you know, whatever, it's just solid as a rock. He plays it pretty much in the set. Loves the long road and on through the set," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Gibson SG Electric Guitar

" '64 Firebird lll, His tech is mistaken; it's not a VII. this is what he uses for 'Running Down a Dream.'" says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Gibson Firebird Vintage Electric Guitar. Pictured here is a sort of reissue Firebird V.

"This Les Paul is tuned down a whole step for 'I Should Have Known It," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Gibson Les Paul Traditional Electric Guitar.

"This one, '59 B-Bender, it's tuned for 'American Girl.' Here's another thing about Mike: if you clean the necks you're fired, haha, especially on a maple! He likes that," mentions Mike Campbell's guitar tech while talking about the Fender 1959 Telecaster B-Bender Electric Guitar.

"Sherwood green Strat. This is for 'You Wreck Me,' which is tuned up to F, half step up," explains Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Fender American Vintage '59 Stratocaster Electric Guitar in Sherwood Green.

"This '54 Tele - it's a favorite Tele. I prefer to have the Broadcaster out but for whatever reason he'll take it out. I like the Broadcaster just because the way it is, I mean that's what was done on American Girl and all the first recordings was all Tele sub. This is really solid and it's for Women in Love. That's what he's playing on this," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Fender 1954 Telecaster Electric Guitar. The Tele pictured here has a black Rainbow pick guard. the guitar that mike always refers to as his broadcaster is actually post-55 Telecaster with a replaced pickguard and decal. both pickguard and decal had already been replaced when Mike bought the guitar 1976.

"Rickenbacker, 370, 360? I don't know. Maple Glow. 65, or 66. This is 'Free Falling.' It's what he plays on 'Free Falling," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech while talking about the Rickenbacker 360 Electric Guitar.

" '67, 375. This is for everything else for 12-strings," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Rickenbacker 1967 375 Electric Guitar.

"'59 Falcon, Stereo, and this is pretty much a backup for the Tennessian," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech.

"So this is for Rebels. Just a standard Tennessean, I don't know, mid-60s," explains Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Gretsch Guitars G6119-1962HT Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose Electric Guitar.

"This is Coral Sitar. This is tuned up to F for 'Down Come Around Here No More.' The second part of 'Down Come Around Here No More,' the solo, is where the Strat comes in," explains Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Coral 3S19 Electric Sitar.

"Barney Kessel, probaby '54 or '55. This one he was playing in the set but he's not really playing it now. He's used it on 'I Just Want to Make Love To You', 'Muddy Water' so of course it's okay," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Barney Kessel 1954 Electric Guitar.

"StratoTone. This is tuned down a whole step. This is a backup for that Les Paul just in case he does anything or it breaks up," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Harmony StratoTone.

In this source video Mike Campbell is playing a Rickenbacker 325 Capri in black. He tunes the guitar down a whole step, and has been using it on the Hypnotic Eye tour for "American Girl".

At 1:19 in this Dunlop TV interview, Mike Campbell's guitar tech talks about his late 1955 Les Paul. "This is no re-issue. This is a '55. Late '55 cause it's 6 digit on the back." Yeah, his stop tailpiece custom is a 55... I sold it to him.

In a Video from Rolling Stone.com, "Campbell talks about the Rickenbacker sound and the various styles he's used throughout his career, including the first one he ever owned – the same one slung over Petty's shoulder on the cover of Damn the Torpedoes. 'That shot the price up quite a bit, I'm glad to say," jokes Campbell. "I'm sure it's worth more than the 120 bucks I paid for it.'"

In this 1985 live footage, Mike Campbell plays a red Fender Telecaster with Gibson Humbuckers and a Bigsby vibrato. He is quoted as saying "I have a Fender Telecaster I call Red Dog. It has two Gibson humbucking pickups and a normal Telecaster pickup in the bridge."

Campbell used this guitar for "The Gorge" concert with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the concert happened in 2010.

In this photo, Campbell is seen playing the mapleglo Rickenbacker 330.

Designed in collaboration with Campbell.

Designed in collaboration with Campbell.

“Runnin’ Down a Dream” was done at my house, and I had a setup at the time where I was using a little Ampeg Rocket out in the garage, and wide with that in the studio I had a GrooveTube preamp which was overdriven, so between the two we blended it together, and I used an SG Junior with the one P90 through it and we came up with that sound." says Mike on page 6 of an interview in The Tone Quest Report (Vol 9 #5 published March 2008).

On page 3 of his interview in Tone Quest Report Vol9 #5 published March 2008 Mike Campbel states "We love them because we love the Beatles and we assumed that they were using AC30s. During the middle years of the band, that was pretty much all we used. In terms of maintenance, nothing major, occasionally a tube will give out. I’m not technical, but our guitar techs keep an eye on things, and sometimes they’ll say, “Sounds like your tube is getting weak” and I’ll say, “OK, change it!” and that’s as involved as I get (laughs). My AC30 is a brown one, and it’s been especially roadworthy."

I just put up a generic AC30 since Mike's fawn AC30 could be a black panel with an EF86 pentode input OR it might be a non-top-boost (or rear mounted top-boost factory retrofit) copper top in a fawn box like George Harrison's first Vox.

In his interview with The Tone Quest Report (Vol9 #5 published March 2008), on Page 3 Mike Campbelltells the interviewer "We went to a store out in the Valley that had a bunch of Super Beatles, and we didn’t care if they were solid state or tube, we just wanted that look, and we got them, we really liked the sound of them and started using them on tour, and that became our live sound for several years."

"That's a custom tweed. That Excelsior, because they have the green one and other ones, but Nate White, at Fender, when these came out Mike did something with Danny Harrison at A&M and that Green Fender amp was there and he asked about getting it. Mike got us a green one and then we brought it into rehersals. Mike liked it. Then Scott and Tom, one of the two, said something about a tweed - I mentioned it to Nate - and then that became a custom tweed model that Mike is playing, which may possibly become a heartbreaker model depending on how things work out. It's a pretty cool-looking amp," explains Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Fender Excelsior Pawn Shop Tube Guitar Amp.

"The Deluxe is probably a '54 or a '55," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Fender Deluxe Amp.