Got a PRS CE-24 from East Coast Music Mall that was a massive disappointment compared to the Custom, which I traded for an Ibanez AE800MS acoustic and Fender Am Std Strat. Ditched the Ibby acoustic and in a trade for the PRS Custom got and Gibson Gospel and another Am Std Strat.Īll of the above got me through college and bit beyond.

I’m gonna skip my first guitar and amp, my rig with my first “band” that never played outside our dump of a shared rental house and any number of guitar and gear stragglers that drifted in and out. My first band: Univox HiFlyer with a Univox Gimme LP copy as backup. Cry Baby and a Westbury distortion pedal in front of my Peavey Bandit 65 with an Ibanez multi-effect (flanger/chorus, compressor and never-used auto-wah in one box with multiple switches) and a Digitech delay/sampler in the FX loop. Second band: (skipping some interstitial projects) Schechter hardtail kit Strat, Guild Thunderbird as backup, same Cry Baby wah and a Sovtech Big Muff in front of a Marshall JCM 800 combo run as a head through a 4x10 Marshall cab. I ran an MXR Phase90, a Boss DD7 and a Boss Tremelo-Pan pedal in the FX loop. Third band, Schechter kit Telecaster with a borrowed guitar as backup (either a MIJ Strat or 76 Les Paul.) Same amp setup as above, but no fuzz in front, just the Cry Baby and the same DD7 with the Boss Tremelo and the Phase90 switched out in favor of a Boss flanger. I also used an EBow.įourth band: (This was a departure from the earlier bands all of which played some variation of Punk/Indy Rock with varying amounts of psychedelia. It was an Alt-Country Indy Roots-Rock project.) Telecaster, a variety of small amps, Stonebridge 00- style acoustic, a Donmo Rustbucket steel resonator guitar and a Harmony electric lap steel. No FX except for an Earnie Ball VP Jr.Ĭurrent rig: I’m tired of typing. Pretty much hasn't changed even though I've added tons of stuff. I got my first real electric guitar and map in the late 1980s.ġ980 Les Paul Standard, 1968 Vibrolux and an MXR D+ - $250 (all used). In '89 I bought a used USA Telecaster (which I had to go to about 10 stores to find back then as living in Massachusetts there weren't many around). In '90 I bought myself a '67 Gretsch Nashville for $450. I also bought a BF Tremolux head for $125. Again, I was a weird kid in that none of my friends were playing this stuff but I was young and stupid and was wasting my time playing blooze. By this time I was working a real job and not just cutting lawns and delivering papers. First I bought a cherry SG then I traded that for a white one, then I bought a singlecut TV. I was getting Guitar Trader at this time. I also bought a '59 Special TV with a neck repair that I traded for a TV Junior. In 93/94 I really started buying a lot of stuff because my band won a Rock Hunt thing and we got $5000 in cash and prizes.

Jay turser copy of a rickenbacker 325