Wayne Sermon's Guitars

In this photo of Wayne Sermon playing with Imagine Dragons at SXSW music festival in 2012, he's wielding a Fender Big Block 66 Jazzmaster in 3-tone sunburst. The block inlays on the neck give it away as this particular model. The pickguard looks to have been swapped out for a Gold Anodized Jazzmaster Pickguard.

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At 1:19 in the video you can see Wayne playing a black Fender Strat.

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He used a golden version of this guitar at Glastonbury in 2014. It can be seen best at 2:32 and 2:55.

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Wayne uses this guitar live on the song I'm so sorry.

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In this Instagram picture, you can see Wayne Sermon using the submitted item.

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In this video of Imagine Dragons performing "Stand By Me" in a tribute to Ben E. King, Wayne Sermon is seen using a Gibson L-5 with a double cutaway, which can be clearly seen throughout most of the video, especially during the solo starting at 2:10

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"Wayne Sermon plays several different BiLT guitars throughout the set. These offset beauties are highly customized with features Sermon specifically needs to create certain sounds from ID albums. His No. 1 is a gold-plated Volaré loaded with a pair of Lindy Fralin Twangmaster humbuckers. Each guitar is strung up with Elixir .011–.052 strings and Sermon uses Dunlop 88 mm 50th Anniversary Gold nylon picks."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

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For the acoustic tunes, Sermon grabs either his Gibson J-35 or Gibson LG-2 American Eagle (shown here), both flattops have LR Baggs M1 pickups. The LG-2 is kept in standard tuning and used on “Trouble,” “Thief,” and “Release,” while the J-35 is tuned a half-step down and is featured on the bridge to “I Bet My Life.”

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

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For the acoustic tunes, Sermon grabs either his Gibson J-35 or Gibson LG-2 American Eagle (shown here), both flattops have LR Baggs M1 pickups. The LG-2 is kept in standard tuning and used on “Trouble,” “Thief,” and “Release,” while the J-35 is tuned a half-step down and is featured on the bridge to “I Bet My Life.”

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

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In the video posted by Imagine Dragons on Facebook, Wayne Sermon is seen playing a Kramer 450G electric guitar at the 3:13 mark.

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In this Tape Notes Podcast at 54:10, Wayne Sermon mentions the use of Fender Telecaster.

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In this interview, Wayne Sermon mentions using the Gibson ES-5.

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In this interview, Wayne Sermon mentions buying this guitar.

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In this interview, Wayne Sermon mentions buying this guitar.

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In this performance and during the Mercury Tour in songs "Believer" and "Whatever It Takes" Wayne used this guitar. The guitar is glitter-gold color and and probably was made specially for him.

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At this photo from 2010, from his wife's Facebook profile, you can see Wayne Sermon using a Fender Jaguar. (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=763164235769&set=pb.17829358.-2207520000&type=3 )

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In this performance Wayne used this guitar

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In this performance of "Whatever It Tales" Wayne used such Stratocaster.

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Wayne used this guitar to live performances of some songs since 2017.

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In an interview with Guitar World, Wayne Sermon mentioned that he used a 1964 Fender Fiesta Red Stratocaster to record the "Loom" album.

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In the description of a photo on Pinterest, it is stated that for Wayne was made a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Reissue with a Bigsby Tremolo System and a Freebird Mini Humbucker in the bridge position. He used this guitar for the song "Natural" during the Mercury Tour.

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