St. Vincent's Guitars

"There really wasn’t any live playing in terms of being a band recording in a room together. I stuck with a pretty consistent guitar tone compared to the other records. I played a ’67 Harmony Bobkat through a Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver Supreme pedal, usually straight into a late-’70s Fender Princeton— not lots of pedals, more driving the amp pretty hard".

– St. Vincent, via an interview with Guitar Player, about the recording process of her record 'Strange Mercy'

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This picture from Annie's performance at Coachella 2015 shows her using the Lead II. Originally a Fender Lead II Circa 1980. It has a lots of changes: 2 EMG pickups, refinished green, added Roland synth pickup with pin output as well as regular output. Neck has considerable wear but she plays and sounds great.

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St. Vincent uses a black Ernie Ball Guitar Man Albert Lee HH with black pick guard during this performance as part of the Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2014 Collection during New York Fashion Week.

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"...the Bobkat and Silvertone have this amazing vibrato bar that’s super sensitive—you can dive bomb on it and it will stay in tune," says St. Vincent in this Premier Guitar article.

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"The only other guitar I play on stage is a 1980 Hagström Swede. It’s like a Les Paul but it’s lighter and Swedish. That’s the only difference that I know of. It has two humbuckers." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jv4lgFrL7U)

also listed in Premier Guitar magazine, Oct 2011, in the article "St Vincent: All Star Dropout".

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Annie used this guitar extensively during the Actor era. Here she is shown playing this during the Marrow Cemetery Gates performance.

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"I was playing this guitar that [producer] John Congleton had, the Thurston Moore edition of the Fender Jazzmaster. It’s super chopped—just a volume knob. You either like the way it sounds when you play it, or you don’t. I really like that on/off kind of thing. You don’t mess around with a million permutations. So I was using that a lot on the record, but I don’t play it live," says St. Vincent, in this interview.

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"I lost count exactly, but i think it's around 20! love those old harmony bobkats, but have also been playing a black musicman this tour...and a 55 guild aristocrat" - St. Vincent in this reddit thread & from this article directly from Guild's official site.

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In this picture, one can see Annie Clark playing an Epiphone Sheraton II.

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In this picture, Annie Clark can be seen with a Gibson SG Special.

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St. Vincent has been seen using a Fender Telecaster Nashville Deluxe from her "Marry Me" era to the present, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Flickr.

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In this picture, Annie Clark can be seen playing a black Guild S-100 with a Bigsby.

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Jet Black WL-12, Fear The Future Tour 2017 acoustic performances.

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At 2:05 in this performance of Actor Out Of Work, Annie can be seen playing a black Rickenbacker 620.

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In this picture from 2009, a Gibson ES-335 Dot Plain-top Electric Guitar can be seen right next to Annie.

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Played at the "Down and Out Downtown" live stream. Playing the track "Down and Put Down Town"

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When Annie was playing with the Polyphonic Spree, she used to play a Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar as we can see in this picture.

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While Annie has never played this guitar on stage it was a present gifted to her by Cara Delevingne. What makes it special is that it's been signed by David Bowie

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At the end of this interview an Epiphone Masterbilt AJ-500M is listed among St. Vincent's guitars.

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In this picture from 2006, Annie can be seen playing a Vox Bossman V265.

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This intimate performance of Annie in 2009 during the french festival La Route du Rock, she used a Blueridge BR-43 Contemporary Series to play two of her songs: Actor out of Work and The Strangers.

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At 12:01 and throughout this video Annie can be seen playing a 60s Kay Truetone guitar during this intimate performance of the songs Bang Bang, Marry Me and Paris Is Burning in 2007. She only played shows with this at the begining of her carreer and doesn't play it during live performances anymore.

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About two weeks later, I delivered the first playing prototype in Hollywood. The guitar looked killer, but was a tad small in the body and it needed balance work. We made about 20 prototypes in all, dialing in all of the adjustments in size and balance, electronics, pickups and most importantly – tone. After some back and forth and soul searching, Annie signed off on her prototype. It’s Fall 2015 at this point and we’re locked in. We plan to announce the guitar at Winter NAMM 2016 in Anaheim – Plenty of time to create the marketing program and really launch this one right? Wrong! Taylor Swift was in the middle of her residency at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and each night she was featuring special guests. Annie texted me “I’m going to bring the guitar to the Taylor Swift show I’m doing with Beck and I’m going to play the guitar in public for the first time.” I think that is pretty cool, but don’t think too much about it…. until the next day. Taylor Swift tweeted to her 65 million followers and instagrammed her 45 million followers pictures of Annie and her on stage with the guitar, and another pic of her and Beck checking out the guitar with Annie holding it. It was a proud moment for Annie and the family at Ernie Ball Music Man.

http://blog.music-man.com/artists/when-22-equals-a-lot-more-the-ernie-ball-music-man-st-vincent-story/

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On August 25 2015, at the Staple Center, St Vincent appeared as a guest at Taylor Swift's concert. Swift, Beck and Annie performed "Dreams" and Annie played for the first time her signature model prototype.

As we can see on the brand's website http://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/st-vincent.html this guitar will be available in black or blue, it has 3 mini humbuckers, all rosewood neck, a whammy bar, her stylized name on the headstock and this pattern is also reprodused on the fretboard.

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Annie Clark playing this guitar with the Polyphonic Spree.

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In this picture from 2009 Annie can be seen playing this guitar wich is the only time she's seen playing it. It seems that she took off the pickguard.

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Annie used this bass in the making of her Beatles cover for Tiffany's seen here

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St. Vincent uses the Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent HH Signature Guitar, a dual humbucker version of her signature model. This guitar is available in several colors, including Charcoal Sparkle, Blue Dawn, Stealth Black, and Sea Breeze, as noted on the Ernie Ball Music Man website.

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this is the sterling by music man version of the st. vincent signature. "The Sterling by Music Man model features a perfectly balanced African mahogany body, a rock-maple neck with a bent steel vintage style tremolo and an oversized 4+2 headstock, for a perfect combination of style, balance, versatility and playability. The St. Vincent is available in Stealth Black and Vincent Blue."

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Throughout this video from 2009, Annie can be seen playing a Epiphone EJ-200CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar.

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