Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd

American guitarist and singer, Television

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In 2003 Richard Lloyd told Vintage Guitar Magazine that "I’ve been using a TS-808 Tube Screamer and a Boss SD-1 for years."

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On the Punk Turns 30 website in every picture of Richard Lloyd he is seen playing a Fender Stratocaster, the model guitar he still favors to this day. In the following interviews, it is specified to be from 1961.

Musician, December 1986, "Richard Lloyd" by Bill Flanagan, pg. 26

On Field of Fire Richard Lloyd played the same Stratocaster he's used on every record since Television's debut: "It's a '61, stock as far as I know. I had them put jumbo Les Paul frets on it; the ones that were on there were just too small—I needed something for my fingers to grip. That's my main guitar.

In the January 1988 Guitar Player interview "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery, a 1961 Stratocaster is specified to have been used on Real Time.

The pop-eyed, breathless solos on his latest album are no exception. Recorded onstage at dank, beery CBGB in New York, Real Time is 10 tunes' worth of swaggering rock, from slow burners such as 'Misty Eyes' to the jump-starters 'Spider Talk' and 'Lost Child'. Nearly every cut showcases an honest-to-God lead break, too: wistful, free-falling solos, as well as the scraggy, biting kind that sound like a set of fingernails screeching down a rockface. You can almost hear Lloyd's '61 Fender Strat gasping for breath, wheezing out dry-throated melodies.

"A Stratocaster is a guitar you can make a fist around," says Lloyd. "A Strat asks you to play a certain way; it demands a certain grasp. It's just the way the neck is shaped, I guess. That kind of neck is really conducive to a certain kind of string-bending that you can't get on most guitars; it's really a narrow neck, with a slightly curved fretboard. And one of the first things I was told, and that I've held on to, is that what makes the electric guitar a special instrument is the bent note."

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Richard's stripped-down approach to mixing applies to his guitar gear on Real Time, as well. No souped-up signal processors or pawnshop oddities here – just a few scuffed-up pedals, that trusty '61 Strat, and some workhorse amps. [...]

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Lloyd runs his Strat into a Cry Baby wah-wah and then a Boss Super Overdrive with the tone set at three o'clock and the overdrive at one o'clock. That feeds into a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay set at 400 milliseconds: [...]

Guitar Player, January 1993, "Back on the Air: The Return of Television" by James Rotondi

Richard Lloyd still plays the same '61 Stratocaster with jumbo frets that he played on Marquee Moon and Adventure, although he takes a '62 reissue Strat and Tele on the road.

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In this early photo of Television Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine can both be seen plugged into blackface Fender Super Reverb amplifiers. While there is a slight chance they are using the unpopular and short-lived 4x10 blackface Fender Concert it is highly unlikely due to the rarity of that amp compared with the ubiquitous (and superb sounding) Super Reverb.

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A mainstay of Lloyd's rig, particularly his live one, according to the following sources:

Musician, December 1986, "Richard Lloyd" by Bill Flanagan, pg. 26

"Onstage I use my Stratocaster and my JC 120 with a Boss Super Overdrive distortion device and a Korg SDD 2000 digital delay. I just traded an acoustic guitar for this little Acoustic amp to play at home and I've lately been using that onstage, too. Because the JC 120 is not giving me what I need. When we're in Europe we use Marshall amps, because they do something with the electronics of Fender amps in Europe and they're not as good. I'm probably going to switch to either Fenders or Marshalls, because the JC 120 has transistors and it's driving me crazy. It doesn't contain enough threat—it's too damn stable. Very pretty color tone. I mean, Adrian Belew swears by it—but he uses so many boxes he doesn't know what it sounds like anyway."

Guitar Player, January 1988, "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery

Lloyd runs his Strat into a Cry Baby wah-wah and then a Boss Super Overdrive with the tone set at three o'clock and the overdrive at one o'clock. That feeds into a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay set at 400 milliseconds: "I keep it at about eight repeats, to get that old Echoplex-type effect. That goes into the high channel of the Roland JC-120, and there's a small cable going into the Acoustic, which has its own overdrive, preamp thing, which I use. I like to have things so they're just at the point of bursting – just this side of overload – but I get quite a clean signal. The Boss Super Overdrive is not that dirty an effect, and the wah-wah pedal doesn't overdrive. I tried different orders, but the signal-to-noise ratio was the cleanest this way, with the digital delay closest to the amp."

Vintage Guitar, 2003, "Richard Lloyd: Still Broadcasting" by Kathleen Johnson

I’ve been playing through a Vox AC-30 live and a blackface Fender Deluxe. The AC-30 is from about 1980, and the Deluxe is a ’65. I use the same thing with Television. I’ve been using a TS-808 Tube Screamer and a Boss SD-1 for years.

www.richardlloyd.com, Ask Richard

q: Hello Richard, I saw at guitargeek that you use a boss super-overdrive together with a Ibanez Tube Screamer. How do you use both (knob settings)? One for boost and the other for distortion?

Best regards! Fl�vio Campos

a: Hello Flavio,

While the knob settings might change depending, when I use both pedals I will normally use the Ibanez as the main pedal and all most of the time. The Boss would be used as a volume boost and to add a little more grit to leads/ Lately I have been only using the Ibanez, and using the volume controls on the guitar for differentials. More work perhaps, but a more stable tone.�where they both would be all out would be for something like the beginning of Rocket, which wants feedback and convoluted tonal turns.

Best regards, Richard Lloyd

Premier Guitar, "Richard Lloyd: The Alchemist" by Tzvi Gluckin (December 25, 2018)

What pedals do you bring on tour?

I had a Tube Screamer TS808 that I used for a long time. It and a couple of other pedals got lost by Air Canada, which really upset me. They only pay by the pound when they lose your luggage. They don’t pay the value, so I lost that. I wasn’t able to replicate it. The new ones, the reissues, even if they say they have the same chip in them, for some reason they just don’t sound the same comparatively. I had one from the first year that they came out. I also have a Boss overdrive, the yellow one, that Overdrive OD-1 [sic], which had the same chip as the Tube Screamer. That’s a pretty good overdrive pedal. Lately, I’m using a Vertex T Drive. I have an Echoplex preamp, which adds up to 8 dB to the signal and softens it a bit. And some kind of delay. On one tour I took an actual Echoplex around the world and, surprisingly, it kept up. They’re infamous for breaking and it didn’t break. I was lucky.

Guitar Player, "Electric Lloydland" / "“People Talk About the Good Old Days, but the Good Days Are Today”: Television Guitarist Richard Lloyd Reflects on His Highly Influential Career in Music" by Richard Bienstock (2019, republished February 23, 2023) (about The Countdown)

Pedals were minimal as well – an Echoplex, an “old Boss overdrive,” an MXR Carbon Copy and a DigiTech FreqOut, which, Lloyd says, “is essentially a feedback machine. I used that specifically on the song ‘The Countdown,’ because you can be at a low volume and still get good feedback. I didn’t have to turn the amps on 10 and be in a room with earplugs and, uh, you know, flying saucers.”

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Richard can be seen playing with this guitar at CBGB's in New York City on March 14, 1980. There are no quotes from the guitarrist about, and no other images of him using it beside the ones from that performance.

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Lately, I’m using a Vertex T Drive. I have an Echoplex preamp, which adds up to 8 dB to the signal and softens it a bit. And some kind of delay. On one tour I took an actual Echoplex around the world and, surprisingly, it kept up. They’re infamous for breaking and it didn’t break. I was lucky.

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During an interview on thewonder.co.uk during the first Television reunion tour in the 2000's, Richard Lloyd revealed the elements of his tone both live and in the studio. "Richard Lloyd still plays the same '61 Stratocaster with jumbo frets that he played on Marquee Moon and Adventure, although he takes a '62 reissue Strat and Tele on the road. On the new album's "Rhyme", he played a rare black f-hole Gretsch. Lloyd tends a stable of vintage Fender amps, including a '50 Deluxe, a '52 Pro, a '55 Tremolux, and a '56 Princeton. He also uses a '59 Ampeg Jet, a Vibraverb reissue, and a '65 Supro. Live, he relies on Vox AC30s: "You can change the current wherever you are without a transformer, so they're good the world over, and they have a nice high-end bite." Save for a few dinosaur pedals, Lloyd avoids effects, citing the dangers of "processors that make your guitar sound like Velveeta." And though he's a die-hard fan of amp distortion, he admits, "I'm always fighting to get a combination that won't really distort the tonality of the guitar, but will just give you the edge you're looking for."

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According to Guitar World's interview, Lloyd uses the Dunlop Echoplex preamp pedal.

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An interview originally published in a 1993 issue of Guitar Player magazine states that, 'Richard Lloyd still plays the same '61 Stratocaster with jumbo frets that he played on Marquee Moon and Adventure, although he takes a '62 reissue Strat and Tele on the road. On the new album's "Rhyme", he played a rare black f-hole Gretsch. Lloyd tends a stable of vintage Fender amps, including a '50 Deluxe, a '52 Pro, a '55 Tremolux, and a '56 Princeton. He also uses a '59 Ampeg Jet, a Vibraverb reissue, and a '65 Supro. Live, he relies on Vox AC30s: "You can change the current wherever you are without a transformer, so they're good the world over, and they have a nice high-end bite." Save for a few dinosaur pedals, Lloyd avoids effects, citing the dangers of "processors that make your guitar sound like Velveeta." And though he's a diehard fan of amp distortion, he admits, "I'm always fighting to get a combination that won't really distort the tonality of the guitar, but will just give you the edge you're looking for." '

The reissue vibroverb mentioned can only be a garbled reference to the Fender Custom Shop hand-wired Vibrolux Reverb of the 90s which were very much in the spirit of the vibrolux and vibroverb amps of the original backface era though not precisely a reissue of either.

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In '03 Lloyd told Vintage Guitar Magazine that "Mostly, I’ve been playing through a Vox AC-30 live and a blackface Fender Deluxe. "

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Pedals were minimal as well — an Echoplex, an “old Boss overdrive,” an MXR Carbon Copy and a DigiTech FreqOut, which, Lloyd says, “is essentially a feedback machine. I used that specifically on the song ‘The Countdown,’ because you can be at a low volume and still get good feedback. I didn’t have to turn the amps on 10 and be in a room with earplugs and, uh, you know, flying saucers.”

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Pedals were minimal as well — an Echoplex, an “old Boss overdrive,” an MXR Carbon Copy and a DigiTech FreqOut, which, Lloyd says, “is essentially a feedback machine. I used that specifically on the song ‘The Countdown,’ because you can be at a low volume and still get good feedback. I didn’t have to turn the amps on 10 and be in a room with earplugs and, uh, you know, flying saucers.”

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In this photo from the Punk Turns 30 page hosted on Flickr you can clearly see Lloyd plugged into an ampeg V4 guitar amp with tis matching V series 4x12 cabinet. Wow that must have been loud!

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His main guitars were a Supro Black Holiday, a Vintage Guitars Strat-style model and an Epiphone Casino, which he plugged into a Vox AC30 and a Supro Black Magick.

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His main guitars were a Supro Black Holiday, a Vintage Guitars Strat-style model and an Epiphone Casino, which he plugged into a Vox AC30 and a Supro Black Magick.

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During an interview with Guitar Player magazine in the 90s Richard Lloyd revealed some of his gear refrences live and in the studio. 'Richard Lloyd still plays the same '61 Stratocaster with jumbo frets that he played on Marquee Moon and Adventure, although he takes a '62 reissue Strat and Tele on the road. On the new album's "Rhyme", he played a rare black f-hole Gretsch. Lloyd tends a stable of vintage Fender amps, including a '50 Deluxe, a '52 Pro, a '55 Tremolux, and a '56 Princeton. He also uses a '59 Ampeg Jet, a Vibraverb reissue, and a '65 Supro. Live, he relies on Vox AC30s: "You can change the current wherever you are without a transformer, so they're good the world over, and they have a nice high-end bite." Save for a few dinosaur pedals, Lloyd avoids effects, citing the dangers of "processors that make your guitar sound like Velveeta." And though he's a diehard fan of amp distortion, he admits, "I'm always fighting to get a combination that won't really distort the tonality of the guitar, but will just give you the edge you're looking for." '

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In this photo of Lloyd's rig from a solo tour you can't miss the Supro 1x15" combo amplifier next to one of his distinctively painted 62RI Stratocasters. Additionally, a Guitar Player Magazine interview in 1993 stated "Lloyd tends a stable of vintage Fender amps, including a '50 Deluxe, a '52 Pro, a '55 Tremolux, and a '56 Princeton. He also uses a '59 Ampeg Jet, a Vibraverb reissue, and a '65 Supro." That would be the 1x15" pictured here which, if it is genuinely a 65, can only be the notorious Thunderbolt Bass Amplifier. The amplifier is explicitly confirmed, however, by the following sources:

Guitar Player, December 2009, "'Scuse me while I hit this guy: Why Jimi Hendrix punched Television's Richard Lloyd – and why he didn’t mind" by Charles M. Young (published online on May 13, 2024)

The four of us—me, Richard, drummer Billy Ficca and bassist Keith Hartel—were riding in a Honda compact SUV. Even with the clubs furnishing the “backline” (bass amp and most of the drum kit), the car was dangerously overloaded, with two Stratocasters, two Precision basses, an ancient Supro Thunderbolt amplifier, Billy’s snare and cymbals and kick-drum pedal, all our bags, souvenirs that Richard bought in every truck stop, half-consumed bottles of prescription and nonprescription medicine that Richard bought in every drug store, half-consumed bottles of herbal elixirs that Richard bought in every New Age emporium, and a boggling array of books on occult weirdness, brain science and the sexual habits of tribal peoples around the world.

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The Jamie Neverts Story is a great album. All the guitars were recorded through Richard’s Supro Thunderbolt, which is turned up to 10 for a taste of distortion, though most of the tones are pretty clean. You can hear the lyricism that sometimes gets buried in the guitar wash on Jimi’s own albums. There are minimal overdubs, just Jimi’s slashing style married with Richard’s slashing style.

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Richard Lloyd from legendary NYC band Television (band), with his trusty Supro Thunderbolt!

Premier Guitar, "Richard Lloyd: The Alchemist" by Tzvi Gluckin (December 25, 2018)

**Do you get your gain from letting the amp break up naturally?

Yeah. I mean, I am using some pedals live and I have been for a number of years. Lately, I’ve been using a Supro reissue. For a while I was using a Thunderbolt, and now I’m using a Black Magick. They break up pretty good, pretty early. You can pretty much get your tone out of the amp. I had about eight of them at one time. I sold a bunch off in the ’90s, but I kept my ’65 Thunderbolt. I’ve kept a number of others. They’re numbered; I don’t know the names of them. I am a big fan of Supro.

That’s what you’re using on those first two Television records?

On the third one [1992’s Television]. For instance, the solo on “Call Mr. Lee”—that’s through my Supro ’65 Thunderbolt, straight in, turned all the way up.

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In a 2003 interview with Vintage Guitar magazine Lloyd commented that his currently "I’ve been playing through a Vox AC-30 live and a blackface Fender Deluxe. The AC-30 is from about 1980, and the Deluxe is a ’65. I use the same thing with Television. I’ve been using a TS-808 Tube Screamer and a Boss SD-1 for years."

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Today, Richard Lloyd remains an active musician, often playing Television classics using his greenburst Sidejack DLX guitar, and also giving guitar lessons for aspiring guitarists - including well-known names such as Jeff Tweedy of Wilco!

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Used live and on The Countdown, as stated in December 25, 2018 Premier Guitar interview and in this 2019 (republished February 23, 2023) Guitar Player interview.

Premier Guitar, "Richard Lloyd: The Alchemist" by Tzvi Gluckin (December 25, 2018)

Do you get your gain from letting the amp break up naturally?

Yeah. I mean, I am using some pedals live and I have been for a number of years. Lately, I’ve been using a Supro reissue. For a while I was using a Thunderbolt, and now I’m using a Black Magick. They break up pretty good, pretty early. You can pretty much get your tone out of the amp. I had about eight of them at one time. I sold a bunch off in the ’90s, but I kept my ’65 Thunderbolt. I’ve kept a number of others. They’re numbered; I don’t know the names of them. I am a big fan of Supro.

Guitar Player, "Electric Lloydland" / "“People Talk About the Good Old Days, but the Good Days Are Today”: Television Guitarist Richard Lloyd Reflects on His Highly Influential Career in Music" by Richard Bienstock (2019, republished February 23, 2023) (about The Countdown)

His main guitars were a Supro Black Holiday, a Vintage Guitars Strat-style model and an Epiphone Casino, which he plugged into a Vox AC30 and a Supro Black Magick.

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Nowadays, I use ribbons and a great combination of the Royer 121 and something called a Turner. Turner was a company in the 1930s. First they made headstones, then they made PAs for funerals—and they also got into shortwave radio mics—but they had two or three that were high-end mics. But they’re not very high end.

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Lloyd has his own signature Classic 6 guitar.

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Mentioned in the January 1988 Guitar Player interview "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery.

Despite his lean attitude toward gizmos, he does have a soft spot for two old gadgets – the long-vanished MXR Blue Box octave divider and Vox' renowned Tone Bender (used by Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds). "The Vox Tone Bender, which I used on the studio version of 'Field Of Fire', is really hard to find. That particular one was in the studio in Stockholm. It's a very unusual device. It's like a distortion pedal, although it doesn't so much distort as squeeze the bandwidth, giving you a real silky, sustainy, bright tone. My Blue Box is one of the original octave dividers. It's really great, but you can't use it live. It makes the top of your fretboard sound like a bass!

"In the future, I want to get away from effects. I've found that when you record with effects, they fill up every available space in the record and then you have no air. And so many people are looking for something that's as magical as the classic rock records, without recognizing that it doesn't come from technology per se. You have to develop a sense of balance."

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The in-house Vox Tone Bender at Mistlur Studios was used for the solo on "Field of Fire" as stated in this December 1986 Musician interview and in this January 1988 Guitar Player interview.

Musician, December 1986, "Richard Lloyd" by Bill Flanagan, pg. 26

For the solo on 'Field Of Fire' I used a Marshall 50-watt self-contained box through a Vox Tone Bender. A Vox Tone Bender is what Jeff Beck used in the Yardbirds. They're very hard to find, and Mistlur had one; every musician that went in there would touch it, but people are very honest over there so it's still there. I didn't rip it off; I don't know how I feel about that." Other than that tempting Tone Bender, Lloyd avoided devices and effects: ."It's mostly straight through the amps, turned up as loud as endurance could take.

Guitar Player, January 1988, "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery

Despite his lean attitude toward gizmos, he does have a soft spot for two old gadgets – the long-vanished MXR Blue Box octave divider and Vox' renowned Tone Bender (used by Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds). "The Vox Tone Bender, which I used on the studio version of 'Field Of Fire', is really hard to find. That particular one was in the studio in Stockholm. It's a very unusual device. It's like a distortion pedal, although it doesn't so much distort as squeeze the bandwidth, giving you a real silky, sustainy, bright tone.

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Used on Field of Fire, as stated in this December 1986 Musician interview

"On Field Of Fire there's eleven different amps, mostly Ampegs—the JT 22 and the JT 40. There's a Peavey Heritage, a Peavey Studio Pro 40. [...]

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Used on Field of Fire, as stated in this December 1986 Musician interview

"On Field Of Fire there's eleven different amps, mostly Ampegs—the JT 22 and the JT 40. There's a Peavey Heritage, a Peavey Studio Pro 40. [...]

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Used for Real Time, as stated in the January 1988 Guitar Player interview "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery.

"Real Time was recorded at CBGB on weekday nights. It was open to the public, and we just set up and played. We took everything D.I. [direct input] so that we were able to run the signal into new amplifiers in the studio if we didn't like the sound that we were getting. For instance, the rhythm guitar had the wrong reverb on certain things, so we just sent the signal out to a Marshall JCM-800. It's the same performance, but the sound is cleaner. We mixed the album and didn't really do that much – hardly any overdubbing."

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Used live and for Real Time, as stated in this December 1986 Musician interview and in this January 1988 Guitar Player interview.

Musician, December 1986, "Richard Lloyd" by Bill Flanagan, pg. 26

"Onstage I use my Stratocaster and my JC 120 with a Boss Super Overdrive distortion device and a Korg SDD 2000 digital delay. I just traded an acoustic guitar for this little Acoustic amp to play at home and I've lately been using that onstage, too. Because the JC 120 is not giving me what I need. When we're in Europe we use Marshall amps, because they do something with the electronics of Fender amps in Europe and they're not as good. I'm probably going to switch to either Fenders or Marshalls, because the JC 120 has transistors and it's driving me crazy. It doesn't contain enough threat—it's too damn stable. Very pretty color tone. I mean, Adrian Belew swears by it—but he uses so many boxes he doesn't know what it sounds like anyway."

Guitar Player, January 1988, "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery

Richard's stripped-down approach to mixing applies to his guitar gear on Real Time, as well. No souped-up signal processors or pawnshop oddities here – just a few scuffed-up pedals, that trusty '61 Strat, and some workhorse amps. "Television used Fender Super Reverbs almost exclusively, with no effects at all," he notes. "I tried a number of different amps. Everybody was hawking this Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 for its color and tone, so I got one. The JC isn't giving enough of the midrange 'honk' that I need, but financially I'm in the position where, if I buy something, I have to use it [laughs]. I have this cube-shaped Acoustic amp that I stick on top of the JC-120, and I run into that, too. The Acoustic's reverb has a lot of midrange. It has a lot more of what I call 'nose' – that quality your voice gets when you have a cold. I like the tone that's created when something's almost going to feed back, but just doesn't quite. It's very colorful. Occasionally, I turn the JC's distortion on – but not up – because it just gives a little boost, makes the speakers jump a little."

Switching effects on but not turning the dials up has become something of a Lloyd trademark. "Yeah," he nods, "I'm using a wah-wah pedal now, and when I put the wah on, I don't want to hear the phasing. I just want to use it as a tone control. That way, you can get tenacity, starting a passage in the bass frequencies and slowly moving it toward the treble. A lot of times, I use it to get extra midrange."

Lloyd runs his Strat into a Cry Baby wah-wah and then a Boss Super Overdrive with the tone set at three o'clock and the overdrive at one o'clock. That feeds into a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay set at 400 milliseconds: "I keep it at about eight repeats, to get that old Echoplex-type effect. That goes into the high channel of the Roland JC-120, and there's a small cable going into the Acoustic, which has its own overdrive, preamp thing, which I use. I like to have things so they're just at the point of bursting – just this side of overload – but I get quite a clean signal. The Boss Super Overdrive is not that dirty an effect, and the wah-wah pedal doesn't overdrive. I tried different orders, but the signal-to-noise ratio was the cleanest this way, with the digital delay closest to the amp."

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Used live, as stated in the January 1988 Guitar Player interview "Richard Lloyd: The 6 String Alchemy of Richard Lloyd" by Mark Dery.

Switching effects on but not turning the dials up has become something of a Lloyd trademark. "Yeah," he nods, "I'm using a wah-wah pedal now, and when I put the wah on, I don't want to hear the phasing. I just want to use it as a tone control. That way, you can get tenacity, starting a passage in the bass frequencies and slowly moving it toward the treble. A lot of times, I use it to get extra midrange."

Lloyd runs his Strat into a Cry Baby wah-wah and then a Boss Super Overdrive with the tone set at three o'clock and the overdrive at one o'clock. That feeds into a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay set at 400 milliseconds: "I keep it at about eight repeats, to get that old Echoplex-type effect. That goes into the high channel of the Roland JC-120, and there's a small cable going into the Acoustic, which has its own overdrive, preamp thing, which I use. I like to have things so they're just at the point of bursting – just this side of overload – but I get quite a clean signal. The Boss Super Overdrive is not that dirty an effect, and the wah-wah pedal doesn't overdrive. I tried different orders, but the signal-to-noise ratio was the cleanest this way, with the digital delay closest to the amp."

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In a December 1986 Musician interview, Lloyd states (on page 26) that he borrowed Keith Patchel's Jazzmaster "mostly for rhythm parts—on ' Watch Yourself and 'Lovin' Man.'"

There's also a lot of a Jazz Master that Keith Patchel, the other guitarist on Field Of Fire, owned. I played the Jazz Master mostly for rhythm parts—on ' Watch Yourself and 'Lovin' Man.' I like them very much. That was the Television combination—a Stratocaster and a Jazz Master.

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