Richard Lloyd

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Lloyd has his own signature Classic 6 guitar.

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.