Steve Marriott

In this picture, Steve Marriott poses with his 1960/1961 Gretsch G6121. It features thumbnail inlays and a horse shoe on the headstock. During his years with Small Faces, he would have it repainted many times exept for the orange headstock. It can be seen in white in many videos with the band.

On the official Rocket Series Octavia product page, Octavia inventor Roger Mayer reports that Marriott received one of five late 1968 wedge enclosure Octavias.

Rocket Series Octavia Product Page

[15.] At the end of 1968 I decided to build a limited run of 5 or so Octavias and 5 Distortion Pedals all housed in the wedge enclosure.

[16.] EMP and Tychobrahe derived clones.

All the clones I know come from this later series of pedals.

This latest series Octavia configuration used a driver section comprising of complimentary NPN PNP low noise silicon transistors driving a commercially obtained iron audio driver transformer. The biasing used for these units were also varied to provide evos that were designed for up to 24V operation for recording studio work to a version that would use an internal 9 Volt battery.

This series of pedals used the type of knobs you can observe on the EMP example.

[17.] These units were completed in early 1969 and went to guitar players like. Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd Steve Marriot - Small Faces, Peter Frampton - Small Faces. Keith Relf - Yardbirds and Jimi of course.

In 1966, Steve Marriott started to play a sunburst Fender Telecaster. It is clearly seen here from the biggning of the clip throughout the performance of "Itchycoo Park" in1967. For a period in 1967, Steve played this guitar without the neck pickup (as seen here) and later it was replaced by a P90 pickup.

In a clip of the Small Faces performing at the Marquee Club, Steve Marriott plays a Gretsch G6120 Tennessean guitar with fake f-holes. The guitar is clearly seen at 1:35.

In this photograph from Thank Your Lucky Stars, circa 1967, Steve Marriott is seen with an acoustic-electric Gibson J-160E.

On the front cover of the Humble Pie album “Live ‘81” Steve has a 1971 Custom black Gibson Les Paul with a cream white pick-guard and gold trim/hardware. The humbucker plates are removed.

In this lip-synced performance of "Itchycoo Park" on Beat-Club in 1967, Steve Marriott is seen using a Gibson ES-335 with block inlays and without a pickguard.

In this photo here, Steve is using a Gibson Les Paul guitar

In this YouTube video at 1:15, Steve Marriott can be using Epiphone FT-110 Frontier. Judging by the pointed pickguard with rope & cactus design, it is the 1963-1964 version of the Epiphone FT-110 Frontier.

During a Q&A session about Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, featured on udiscover, it was confirmed that Steve Marriott utilized a Marshall Plexi Super PA Amp Head, which he acquired during the Small Faces era. Frampton specifically mentioned, "Steve, he had a Marshall Plexi PA, his was from the Small Faces era. Mine was just a regular Super Lead Plexi." This statement directly attributes the use of the Marshall Plexi Super PA Amp Head to Steve Marriott, corroborating its use through firsthand testimony.

used a lot during the early days of humble pie. you can hear it in this live performance of "I Don't Need No Doctor" live at The Forum in 1973

During the performance of "30 Days in the Hole" by Humble Pie on the Midnight Special, Steve Marriott is clearly observed utilizing an Ampeg VT-22 2x12 100w combo amplifier, as his Les Paul Custom guitar is connected to this specific amp. This evidence is documented in the provided video footage from the show, confirming Marriott's use of the Ampeg VT-22 amplifier during this performance.

Steve Marriott is confirmed to have used a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty" as his main guitar during his tenure with Humble Pie and throughout his later career until his passing in 1991. He modified the guitar by removing the middle PAF humbucker pickup, covering the route hole with a tortoise-shell plate, and changing the black plastic parts to white. This information is supported by footage from the YouTube source "midnightspecial," which documents his performance with the instrument.

Steve Marriott is confirmed to use the Ibanez Artist 2629, as he is featured in an advertisement for the guitar.