Ray Toro
guitarist
Ray Toro's Guitars
In this image of a "My Chemical Romance" concert, Ray Toro is using a Gibson Les Paul Standard.
My main guitar right now is a Gibson Les Paul Standard that I think is either from ’91 or ’93 which I picked up while on tour. I have Seymour Duncan Phat Cat (SPH90-1) P90-style pickups in it which are the size of a humbucker. They’re amazing. I’m really psyched about them. I have another Les Paul Standard which is probably from ’93 and it has a Seymour Duncan JB (SH-4) in the bridge position and the neck pickup is whatever came on the guitar. My brother was the person who had turned me onto the JB. It was the first after market pickup I bought because he said that I had to get a Seymour Duncan JB!
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/backstage-pass/ray-toro-of-my-chemical-romance
In this photo, Ray Toro is visible with Gerard Way. He is playing some kind of reddish Stratocaster.
The CBS-era look-a-like Stratocaster was given to him by "Michael", who suppposedly works at Fender. This guitar also converts notes into MIDI, as said by Toro. But that's whole lotta different guitar.
A Strat can also be seen in this photo which as posted to Ray Toro's Twitter.
In this video you can see Ray playing the Epiphone Wilshire Phant-o-matic Frank Iero Signature
Ray is using a red Fender Telecaster HH in this photo, taken when he and Mikey played with Fall Out Boy at Warped Tour 2005. The neck pickup appears to have been removed.
In this video of Teenagers live you can see Ray playing the Les Paul Junior by Gibson
This is one of the videos in which you can see Ray Toro playing his "Black Royale" Epiphone Wildkat
Ray Toro, lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance, is seen using a 1958 Yellow Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar in a fan-uploaded photo on Fanpop.
Ray uses a Gession Les Paul knock-off guitar in this video. He used this guitar during Bullets era. The headstock of the guitar can be seen easily at 2:30 into this video.
At 2:09 in this video we can see Ray playing a Epiphone Les Paul Standard as we see the classic Epi style headstock. Toro is noted to play this model from at least 2004, as he says in this interview.
In this photo, Toro's guitars are shown, with one being the black Epiphone Sheraton II.
He didn't have a real Gibson Les Paul Custom during the Bullets era because they were too expensive. Instead he had a Gession, which is a copycat. However, on October 2, 2022, Ray posted a picture of a real Les Paul Custom to his Instagram page, and later played it live during the 2025 MCR tour.
Played during the Revenge Era. Guitar is identified in an ad for Epiphone: "Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance and his Elitist Les Paul Standard"
In a user-uploaded photo from Hellfest 2003, Ray Toro is seen playing a Gibson SG Standard.
In this video of my chemical romance playing in 2003 at iMusicast you can see ray playing a black epiphone sg-400 pro.
Ray is using a red Gibson SG Junior in this photo.
Ray uses an epiphone emperor regent in this video. It can be seen best at 0:9 in.
In this music video for "The Kids From Yesterday", at the 2:04 mark, you can see Ray playing a Gibson Firebird. I apologize, for I do not know the exact model
In this user-uploaded photo from Whicdn, Ray Toro is seen playing a Harmony Bobkat guitar. The guitar's design is reminiscent of Ibanez Talman and Fender Jazzmaster models.
Here you can see Ray Toro playing on Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Standard. Revolution, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 10/10/05
Ray played Epiphone Les Paul Standard in "I'm Not Okay" music video. Face it, he really can make it nice
In this photo, where Toro is seen performing in The Hollywood Tower concert in 2011, he played Taylor 514ce.
Ray plays the Silhouette starting around the 44:01 mark during the song "Teenagers" in this video of the final performance of The Black Parade World Tour in Mexico City. It's especially clear while he's playing the solo starting at about 45:30 into the video.
In this video you can see My Chemical Romance performing Fake Your Death for the first time ever while Ray Toro plays white Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster
In this photo by Jane Bush, Toro can be seen playing a Burny RLC-70 in black, with a JB pickup in the bridge position and the neck pickup is removed. There also appears to be gaffers tape covering the neck position and the toggle switch. It has also been modified to only have one volume control.
Ray is playing one in a recent Instagram story from Mikey Way
In the YouTube video titled "My Chemical Romance Rig Rundown with Frank Iero, Ray Toro & Mikey Way" by Premier Guitar, Ray Toro's technician, Josh, is seen holding Ray Toro's Gibson '78 Les Paul Standard (Black) at the 22:21 timestamp, confirming its use by the artist.
In the official music video for "Welcome To The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, Ray Toro is visibly using an Epiphone WildKat during specific shots, as seen in the video provided by My Chemical Romance on YouTube.
In this video, at 29:35 to 29:15 Rays guitar talks about the Harmony H1260 Acoustic Guitar. It’s primarily used during the first set for The End. And The End (Reprise). The pick guards seems to be off and added a LR Baggs M1 active pickup.
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