ex-name gear you've owned

meltedbuzzbox

John_A said:

daveyh said:

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

If that's true, you win

More impressed with the massive attack oberheim personally 

yorkio

I used to own Eric Johnson's old Analogman chorus pedal. I never realised until I came to flog it and screwed the back off for a pic and saw that Mike P had written it on the inside.

I also own one of Rick Allen's old drumsticks from back when the Def Leppard tub-thumper had two arms. So there's a 50/50 chance that my drumstick was played by an arm that no longer exists!

Oh, and a Boss power supply that may or may not have been owned by John Kay of Steppenwolf.

JohnPerry

I had an early '80s Schecter Strat which Frank Dunnery took on an It Bites Japanese tour.

I still have a Schecter Tele which was one of a batch of about half a dozen made by Chandler's for Pete Townshend when he was first getting into them.

jimmyguitar

Jetfire said:

jimmyguitar said:

I’ve owned the Foo Fighters white falcon from the Monkey Wrench video, Gary Moore’s stoptailed ‘66 es-335, bonehead from oasis’ studio mics and a fuzz pedal from Andy Gill (Gang of Four)

That is really flipping cool. Pics or not true 

https://www.atbguitars.com/store/product/1990s-gretsch-white-falcon-90swhitefalcon/

Sold it very reluctantly to fund me through the lockdown, thank god I had it as I lost all my income for the whole year!!

Blueingreen

I still have a MusicMan 65 Combo I bought long ago from Dave Flett (ex Manfred Mann, Thin Lizzy). MM gave it to him as a freebie.  I intend to sell though because it's cosmetically in poor condition (it was stored in a damp cellar for years) it's taking up space and although I think it sounds magnificent lower back problems mean it's too heavy for me to lug around these days.  Unfortunately it's not worth very much.

darcym

FelineGuitars said:

I have Matt Bellamy's Egnater Rack - had the Randall power amp too but sold it to @sweepy ;

Anyone want the 6U shock mounted flightcase?

very possible @FelineGuitars ;

darcym

I have an amp that was used by John Mayer on the battle studies album, don't think he ever 'owned' it though. 

koneguitarist

Not sure anyone will believe this but here goes. 

A mate from the Navy, quite a bit older than me gave me a fuzz face which was broken, didn’t want anything for it, but it was only a small lead broken so I repaired it. 

Played it for a bit of fun but not my thing. 

Now bearing in mind I worked in a guitar shop, (the rock and pop shop in Yeovil) it was always gonna go up for sale. 

A Collector guy from London bought it off me for a good price and when I saw my mate Roger I said sold the pedal and tried to give him some cash which he refused. 

Anyway talking afterwards I said where did you get pedal and he said quite matter of factory “Noel gave it to me”. 

Noel? Noel who? Noel Redding they went to school together and every time he came home from gigs with the Experience he always had gear That was broken or needed a repair and would often give stuff away. Also gave him a Vox head. I said so that could have been Jimi’s pedal? 

He said yeah probably. When I asked why didn’t he tell me, he said he couldn’t prove it and no one would believe it anyway. 

springhead

I've got a "Robin Trower" named plectrum that was found on the floor of the rehearsal room he was using. 

andrewaward

I owned a 65 Jazzmaster which was used to record Staceys Mom, by Fountains of Wayne.

And one of Marty Willson-Pipers Rickenbackers.

riffpowers

I had Preston from the ordinary boys’ flightcased Marshall 2104. 
I didn’t realise until it turned up with all the stencils and stickers on.

i had the flight case up for sale for ages . Not even a sniff of a sale. 
i cleaned the stencils off with paint stripper and someone bought and collected it the next day .
Coincidence?!!

koneguitarist

My Gibson 335 with Bigsby was used to record solo to Breakaway on Colin Blunstones album Echo Bridge. 

Even got a name check on album. 

Also had a HiWatt head with Stackridge stencilled on it. 

Funny one was owning an old Vox ss stack, which looked like the ones the Beatles used, Guy came to buy it with a part ex of a Marshall Bluesbreaker combo. 

Great, done the deal and he said “Oh by the way, Noel Gallagher used this amp on Tele, not sure if it was Top of the pops or something. Forgot the song but you could see amp as it had a small grill cloth tear in exactly same place. Apparently amp was rented a lot, he didn’t own it. Sold it on straight away without telling anyone as I never liked Oasis ;-)

tone1

I’ve had a few pedals from @Gassage ;

Offset

I have a plectrum belonging to Slim from The Hamsters.  And a crumpled packed of Peter Stuyvesant fags I got from Pat Travers about 40 years back.  I've had a beer with Steve Cropper in a bar in Nashville, but I guess that doesn't count...

sammysaber

A Peavey Tele from Bob Weston - he even waited a few weeks for me to come up with the cash. RIP.

Seziertisch

A flight-cased rack that used to house The Scorpions choir sampler 

rlw

PRS CE24 from some geezer who played in Paul Weller's band.

ManWithoutSkin

I can’t remember if I still have this or sold it, but a guitar case that the GLC used to carry their drug stash in.

Trude

I owned the Hiwatt amp that was used on that hallowed 2nd album by Amy MacDonald...

SimpleSimon

My vintage 1965 Epiphone Casino used to belong to one of the Everly Pregnant Brothers if that counts....