St. Vincent

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.

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.

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/

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.

Annie Clark playing this guitar with the Polyphonic Spree.

An EP-3 can be seen in this photoset of St. Vincent's live rig from 2012.

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

"The RJM Music MasterMind GT-10 Controller is used in a “home page” fashion with one page of buttons assigned as presets with some audio functions revealed in “IA” mode. Each of the next 15 pages of buttons is assigned as Instant Access switches to provide quick access to routings in the Audio Matrix & favourite presets in the 2x H9?s." - Nice Rack Canada.

St. Vincent uses a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner in her two part custom built pedalboard.

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.

In this promotional picture made by Ernie Ball, it is refered that Annie uses these guitar strings.

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

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.

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."

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

At the end of this interview, it is said that St. Vincent uses Fender Medium picks.

According to this article, St. Vincent uses a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power.

Premier Guitar mentions that St. Vincent uses Ernie Ball .010 and .012 sets. Source.

St. Vincent uses these custom cables according to this Premier Guitar article.

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

As we can see in this picture of one of Annie's old pedalboard, she owns a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner.

During a 2006 show in Dallas, Texas which she co headlined with the band Birdmonster; Annie can be seen using a Metropolitan Glendale.

At 3:50 we can clearly see Annie playing a Gibson SG Standard 120 Heritage Cherry during this performance of the song I Should Watch TV on Letterman to promote her's and David Byrne's album Love This Giant.

St. Vincent uses the Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500M, as noted on the Epiphone website, which highlights this model rather than its cutaway version.

St. Vincent is associated with the Sterling by Music Man St. Vincent HH electric guitar. This model includes a double humbucker configuration and features a balanced mahogany body, a rock maple neck, and a bent steel vintage-style tremolo. It was introduced with new finishes—Fiesta Red and Daphne Blue—in 2019, as detailed by Sterling by Music Man.

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

According to St Vincent's official Reverb shop, this was among one of the items that was sold in the shop.

The unit is attached to one of Annie's guitars, as pictured.