Steve Stevens

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 7:32 Steve says about his Godin guitar "this is the nylon string Godin which is - I only play during my solo, I do semi pseudo flamenco solo but I use it...I've used these for well over twelve years now. And I like this - this one they were kind enough do the neck with lacquer...which the standard ones aren't. I like the feel of it, like a classic neck. So, I only play that during my solo and this is their LGXT."

Steve also has a second LGXT that he talks about at 8:17 in the video "this is all standard except for my goofy little pink thing - reminds that is the synth volume. So, synth volume, guitar volume and guitar tone and this one does have coil tapping on it. So, I'm able to drive synths - in "Flesh for Fantasy," I'm triggering some horns and horns stabs, as well as full on Humbucker and obviously these are Seymour Duncan’s".

Steve can be seen 0:34 into this video…

"I was brought to Roland Corporation and in that meeting they've brought out the GR-707. I refused to leave the office without taking it and bringing it back to the States with me. The deal I struck was that we would use it in the next video which was Flesh for Fantasy. And I still get e-mail and facebook questions: "What was that guitar for Flesh for Fantasy?" I'm proud to say that I toured the entire Rebel Yell tour which was ten months long, with one of GR-707 and the floor unit. I still have it, and I have it because it is a bit of history to me. There's not many instruments that I held on to that long but that really meant something to me, to be the first in the Unites States with that ( Roland GR-707) instrument and to maybe help promote guitar synthesizers. I've always been a big synth fan."

Steve posted the attached photo on Facebook with the following caption: “My pedalboard i built when joining Billy Idol. Used to record Rebel Yell album and touring up until 1987.”

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 1:58 in the video, Steve talks about his Goldtop Les Paul saying "this Les Paul kind of taught me a lot of things that I really liked about having a one piece wraparound bridge. It's got a big chunky neck on it. So I kind of took my cue from this guitar, and we have developed some ideas about this. I like a - I'm not really into chambered guitars, especially at the volume I play at. Chambering is something that - it's okay in the studio, but once you're up here, the guitar starts ringing - there's nothing you could do with it".

In the accompanying article Shawn writes "His main recording axe for the last few years has been this goldtop Les Paul, which has the same aluminum wraparound bridge and Motor City PAF-style pickups".

At 16:32 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar we get a great shot of Steve's amp heads. According to this accompanying article "For most of his dirty and semi-clean tones, Stevens relies on his 2-channel, EL34-powered signature Friedman Amplification head."

At 18:20 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve mentions the FloorQ saying "my Joemeek compressor which, all of my clean stuff goes through that.”

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. When asked about his Motor City pickups Steve says "They just sound good, I don’t know there's some mojo going on with them. But, I think it's the same thing - each guitar I found works better with a specific pickup. And sometimes you have hunt and peck for the right pickup for that guitar and Bare Knuckles have been such a good company with me".

In the accompanying article Shawn writes "His main recording axe for the last few years has been this goldtop Les Paul, which has the same aluminum wraparound bridge and Motor City PAF-style pickups".

"I also brought out of retirement my old my old San Dimas Charvel ... the guitar really needed to be re-setup so I thought that would be a good opportunity to throw a Bare Knuckles in there, so that’s what we put the Van Halen pickup in."

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 2:55 in the video Steve says "this is actually the Knaggs that's publicly available, and it has their bridge on it. Which is like a tune-o-matic here on a one piece. So it's got a one piece plate on it".

In the accompanying article Shawn writes "Stevens’ “main rock ’n’ roll” guitar—the second prototype of his Knaggs signature model—weighs about 8.6 pounds and features a maple-topped mahogany body, a solid-aluminum bridge, and custom, vintage-voiced Bare Knuckle pickups".

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 5:43 Shawn points out Steve's tuner on his Knaggs guitar. Steve says "it does the job it's - all you do is just roll off the - it's tied to the neck pickup, just roll off the volume, hit your switch and you do silent tuning and it's-- Once again, really simple, but it works".

At 10:58 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve says "any of the old school Idol stuff like 'Rebel Yell' or 'Blue Highway' or any of the super whammy bar stuff - this guitar gets used. And it's a Suhr Modern and it is a 24 fret guitar string, stainless steel frets."

At 24:33 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, we're shown Steve's 27-footswitch system controller.

Guitar Geek shows in this diagram that Steve uses a Godin Multiac with a natural finish.

At 5:13 in this promo for his signature amp Steve Stevens discusses his 1969 Marshall "Plexi" superlead when referencing the tour he did with Vince Neil in support of Van Halen.

"I'm proud to say that I toured the entire Rebel Yell tour which was ten months long, with one of GR-707 and the floor unit. I still have it, and I have it because it is a bit of history to me. There's not many instruments that I held on to that long but that really meant something to me, to be the first in the Unites States with that instrument and to maybe help promote guitar synthesizers. I've always been a big synth fan."

In this video Steve Stevens shows his current pedalboard. The Digitech Whammy Ricochet is in action at 0:23.

In this video Steve Stevens shows his current pedalboard. The Alter Ego Vintage Echo x4 is in action at 2:39.

In this video Steve Stevens shows his current pedalboard. The Drybell Vibe Machine is in action at 5:42.

Steve Stevens on Instagram:

Being stuck inside is a great opportunity to learn a super cool new piece of gear from Fractal Audio. Thanks Mark Day for helping out.

This was his first signature guitar when he began endorsing Hamer guitars in 1984. It was originally called the "Prototype SS" but the name was changed to the "Steve Stevens Model" in late '84.

Steve posted the attached photo on Facebook with the following caption: “My pedalboard i built when joining Billy Idol. Used to record Rebel Yell album and touring up until 1987.”

Steve posted the attached photo on Facebook with the following caption: “My pedalboard i built when joining Billy Idol. Used to record Rebel Yell album and touring up until 1987.”

At 12:46 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve mentions this guitar saying "this was done by Robert Kanter, this started as a meager Les Paul silver burst that on the last Billy Idol tour, I - through facebook I saw the guitars for - Lady Gaga had one of these done up. So I, I said to him, "Is it gonna affect the weight?" And he said, 'No it won't and doesn't affect the tone or anything. Guitar still sounds great.' And it's just - it's ridiculous but..."

At 13:25 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar Steve shows us his equipment racks starting with the DSR700. Steve says "AKG wireless, this is a digital wireless that I'm really happy with. I was, myself and Billy Morrison, second guitarist in the band both jumped on board these, and been really happy with them."

At 15:15 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve talks about these power amps saying "these are Matrix which I switched to about two years ago. And I was using H&H's when they'd weigh a ton, and they have to be recapped every so often."

At 17:19 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve talks about the SL-20 saying "the other effects in that signal chain is this slicer, which is locked midi clock - which we have a Pro Tools rig out on the road with us. So, our drummer is on in ears, and he plays to a click. So I'm locked, no matter what tempo he's at, I can do slicing and stutter effects - live in time with my drummer which is really cool."

At 18:30 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve mentions this fuzzbox saying "I use in conjunction with the clean channel. For like the, there's that middle drop down of "Rebel Yell", which people think is a synth, but it's actually DI'd fuzz guitar. So then I use this guy for that, and he's in the same chain as this 'cause I like to EQ the fuzz as well."

The Fulltone official website lists the Tube Tape Echo as part of Stevens' setup.

The Fulltone website lists Steve Stevens as user of the Fulldrive2 Mosfet.