ex-name gear you've owned

John_A

Inspired by @ICBM who said in another thread

"I actually owned the MXR Stereo Chorus pedal formerly belonging to Nick Beggs, and possibly used on it . A friend of mine does now... "


My contribution - a Marshall 6100 & cab formerly owned by Giuliano "Jools" Gizzi of Scottish rock band Gun

StefB

John_A said:

Inspired by @ICBM who said in another thread

"I actually owned the MXR Stereo Chorus pedal formerly belonging to Nick Beggs, and possibly used on it . A friend of mine does now... "


My contribution - a Marshall 6100 & cab formerly owned by Giuliano "Jools" Gizzi of Scottish rock band Gun

Gun (and Jools in particular) were so loud on the two occasions I saw them that I'm surprised the speaker cones in the cab are still intact.  When they played at Bootleggers here in Kendal (when Toby Jepson was singing for them) the guitar & bass were that loud that the sound engineer didn't have them running through the PA at all and struggled all night to achieve a balanced FOH mix as a result.

Back on topic, I used to own a Matrix PA power amp that once belonged to Mark King of Level 42.

mikem8634

One Shure 545 as owned by Mungo Jerry. BOOM... drops it and leaves the room.

Just close the thread now.

Hattigol

Nothing. But my mate has Nick McCabe from The Verve's Strat.

octatonic

Bought a Fender Prosonic from Peter Green.
Bought a load of hardware synths from DJ Sasha when I worked for him, in lieu of getting paid.

Jalapeno

Bought the Hodson 503 maccaferri Hank Marvin (allegedly) played at the Samois Django festival - sold it on as the neck was like a log. 

EricTheWeary

I was in a band that included an ex Herman Rarebell drumkit ( or part of it anyway). I know he's a big name with all the kids these days. 
Another band had Mike Sanchez's old electric piano. If I have to explain who these people are this isn't going to work...

John_A said:

Inspired by @ICBM who said in another thread

"I actually owned the MXR Stereo Chorus pedal formerly belonging to Nick Beggs, and possibly used on it . A friend of mine does now... "


My contribution - a Marshall 6100 & cab formerly owned by Giuliano "Jools" Gizzi of Scottish rock band Gun

I did live around the corner from Nick Beggs for a short while. Never found the reason to go knock on his door. Can I look at your Chorus pedal might have been one of them.      

CMW335

Little Hiwatt amp owned by Noel Gallagher

Strangefan

I have owned a white 335 which belonged to the dude out of golden earing, and babylon zoos guitarists fender early 80s bullet 
That's about it really, 

octatonic

Do girlfriends count?

jeztone2

I used to borrow an amp. Weirdly enough another Marshall 6100, at a rehearsal place in Brixton that belonged to Bic Hayes (Levitation/Dark Star). Oh and I sold Jonas Hellborg a distortion pedal. 

Jason

I've got Butch Walker's Greco V

daveyh

I used to have a Plexi that was supposedly once Jake E Lees.

timmypix

My recently-moved-on PRS Singlecut Satin was owned by a guy from a Welsh band called Fireroad. Couldn't say I'd ever heard of them but researching them seemed to show a fairly decent local following and they'd done a couple of stadium tours supporting Stereophonics, which I thought was kind of cool - the guitar certainly looked and felt like it had done a few tours, which is partly what drew me to it.

Never quite gelled with it and my brother-in-law fell in love with it so he's got it now.

Whitecat

A Knaggs Keya that was owned by Jon Gutwillig of the Disco Biscuits. Played onstage at Madison Square Gardens apparently, which is probably going to be the high point of its’ existence. 

joeyowen

I had a pedal by Emma electronics, which was also the name of my ex

is that what you were looking for?

Stevepage

I had a prototype Randall 4 x 12 that was made for George Lynch. He'd used it and signed it after a clinic and it made its way to me via Jonathan at Feline. Great sounding cab

John_A

octatonic said:

Do girlfriends count?

Spill the beans!  I had a mate that was in a Jam tribute band where the singer was married to Paul Weller's ex, all a bit odd if you ask me

GavRichList

An Oberheim Matrix 1000 formerly owned by Massive Attack. 

John_A

daveyh said:

I used to have a Plexi that was supposedly once Jake E Lees.

If that's true, you win

Flanging_Fred

I bought a Source Audio programmable EQ from Neil Murray (Whitesnake/Black Sabbath etc) on ebay. He was very nice and sent me a signed photo when I realised it was him.