Phil Manzanera

In a Roland UK video, Phil Manzanera expresses his enthusiasm for experimenting with the Roland VG-99 V-Guitar System, highlighting its versatility in his music creation process.

From December 2022 Guitar World interview, answering what is his favourite piece of gear.

When we started Roxy Music, [Brian] Eno and I had — as part of our setups — a Revox tape recorder that had a thing called Sel-Synch and Varipitch where you could change the pitch and echo repeats by changing the speed. I had it linked to a DeArmond volume pedal that controlled the speed and Sel-Synch functions on the Revox and provided weird echo effects that linked into Eno’s [EMS VCS3] synth. This was a completely different and revolutionary way of working that Eno and I used in 1972 and 1973.

Listed on page 44 of Musician No. 28 (November 1980), as part of an interview with Bryan Ferry.

Phil Manzanera's guitars are a Red 1963 Custom Firebird Black Beauty and a 1957 Les Paul Custom. His amps are a Mesa Boogie and a Gender [sic] Twin Reverb, both with Electro Voice K 120 speakers and he uses a Conn Strobotuner. Phil's effects are Eventide Harmonizer, Roland Chorus Echo Unit, Roland Analog Echo, Mutron Wah-Volume pedal and a Schaeffer Vega Radio Mic System.

Listed on page 44 of Musician No. 28 (November 1980), as part of an interview with Bryan Ferry.

Phil Manzanera's guitars are a Red 1963 Custom Firebird Black Beauty and a 1957 Les Paul Custom. His amps are a Mesa Boogie and a Gender [sic] Twin Reverb, both with Electro Voice K 120 speakers and he uses a Conn Strobotuner. Phil's effects are Eventide Harmonizer, Roland Chorus Echo Unit, Roland Analog Echo, Mutron Wah-Volume pedal and a Schaeffer Vega Radio Mic System.