Tim Armstrong

Rancid guitarist and singer, Tim Armstrong, often used a red Gretsch Guitars G5191 Guitar during shows.

In honor of Rancid’s eighth album, …Honor Is All We Know, Fender has teamed up with the renowned West Coast punk band’s vocalist/songwriter, Tim Armstrong, to release a Limited Edition version of his signature Hellcat acoustic-electric guitar in a unique Honor Green finish. Ideal for bashing out punk, pop, rock and more, this guitar offers all the inspiringly cool features of the original.

Throughout this video of Tim Armstrong perfroming the song "Big River," he can be seen playing his own signature model Fender Tim Armstrong Hellcat Acoustic-Electric Guitar. The distinguishing features include Tim's signature on the headstock and the cat inlays in the frets.

In this interview with Guitar Center, Tim Armstrong says, "I played Gretsch guitars for a long time before the people at Gretsch got in contact with me. They wanted to reissue the '70s Country Club that I play, which they stopped making in 1981. I've always loved that guitar because I play a lot of clean-sounding punk guitar, and it always sounds very full-bodied. Even when I play it through a distorted Mesa Boogie, you can still hear every note in a chord. It's always been my favorite guitar"

In this photo, Tim Armstrong can be seen playing the Limited Edition Ghost White Hellcat Acoustic Guitar. This is further confirmed on this page of Fender's website.

Rockstar Tim Armstrong, the lead guitarist and vocalist for Rancid and Transplants, used a Grestch White Falcon Electric Guitar

vocalist and guitarst for Transplants "Tim armstrong" . used a Hagstrom Viking White Colour

According to this pic, Lars is using an SG. He has been extensively using these guitars.

This is a guitar that Tim Armstrong used during the recording of Indestructible

This is said to be what Rancid used in studio for certain songs

Inspired by “Ruby Soho”, Fender released a special edition Tim Armstrong Hellcat in Ruby Red.

At exactly 0:27, in this live performance of Ruby Soho, Tim Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist of the Berkeley based punk band Rancid, is seen holding his legendary Gibson Les Paul Standard. It is rusty black and has a few stickers applied to the front of the guitar. He used this guitar until Indestructible.

In the vide he talks about his 1970s Baldwin Era Gretsch Country Club and how it is his best guitar that he has ever owned

This is the guitar that Tim Armstrong used in Operation Ivy. I believe it was a sunburst Seville Strat copy, left handed, that was modified with Fender single coil pickups.

You can see in this video that Tim Armstrong is playing off a Mesa Triple Rectifier and a Mesa 4x12 in the background, he has a sign that says 'Armstrong Ave.' on top of his amps

This is the Mesa Cab that Tim Armstrong uses- In this video he is playing out of a Mesa Triple Rectifier Guitar Head and using the Mesa 4x12 Rectifier Cab

11 seconds into this video, you can see two of Tim's Mesa Mark 5 heads. He has been using these amps since Trouble Maker, parting from the Triple Rectifiers.

You can see Tim using a JCM900 here live. Eg: 10:45.

Here's a picture of Tim in a rancid rehersal. he has 2 mesa boogie dual rectifiers set up. one for use and another for backup.

At 0:23 in this brand new video of Telegraph Avenue you can clearly see a PUNK pedal on the floor. He used it to make his acoustic guitar sound like an electric guitar. He uses this effect on the brand new album Trouble Maker which was released on 9 June 2017!

Tim Armstrong says he's used an AKG C 12 in this interview with Guitar Center.

This is what Rancid uses for picks when they record in studio, you can buy these picks off Ebay there is a seller who sells, Tim's Lars' and Matt's studio picks

Seen in the "It's Quite Alright" At: Guitar Center Video