Peter Kember
Peter Kember's Gear
Peter can be seen here playing a Vox Starstream VI, which he infamously used to great length on Spacemen 3's final two studio albums as well as in his early solo career.
In this video, Peter can be seen playing a Vox Phantom XII 12-string guitar.
Peter can be seen here playing an Airline guitar.
On the cover of The Perfect Prescription you can see a Vox conqueror 35 watt head, which Peter used throughout his career in Spacemen 3.
Kember, in particular, managed to coax some highly unusual sounds out of the EMT 250 digital reverb — only one example of which survives on the finished album, partway through 'Siberian Breaks'. In the album credits, it is jokingly referred to as the "first documented use of the EMT 250 reverb 'glitch'”.
In this photo for the album cover of The Perfect Prescription, Peter can be seen holding a Fender Jaguar.
Brought in as much for his production experience as his talent for steering the proceedings into unexpected waters, his arrival instantly enlivened the sessions. "He makes the party really flow,” Goldwasser laughs. "When he first arrived, he opened up one of his suitcase synthesizers, the [EMS] Synthi A, and started making weird sounds. All of us were just crowded round this synth.”
According to Eastwood guitars official website "Kember has in more recent times also turned to his Airline 59 2P."
In this Pitchfork album review, it obseerves that the liner notes on All Things Being Equal has the gear used on the album saying:
In each case, the personnel was less the focal point than the sound and the equipment making it: vintage ’60s and ’70s analog synthesizers, the odd guitar, and racks and racks of gizmos to oscillate and phase and flange. All Things has all of these—some 11 machines are listed in the liner notes, including two vocoders and a toy called Thumbs Up Music—and they perform Kember’s pop songs but also become them, as veins both determine a leaf’s survival and define its shape.
A prototype given to Kember by John Curl of Acid Fuzz was listed on Reverb.com in 2020.
"I was given this pedal by John at Acid Fuzz when he was first prototyping this pedal based on the Dick Denny designed VOX effects built into my VOX Starstream guitar which I used extensively on Playing With Fire LP and Recurring LP in the lates '80s. The fuzztone and treble booster were featured heavily on the song "Revolution" and the repeat percussion 'tremolo style' effect was used extensively on "Honey", "How Does It Feel", and "Let Me Down Gently", amongst others. This pedal gives more parameter control than the VOX originals, allowing much more detailed and complex variation of the effects." - Pete Kember
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