ex-name gear you've owned

Funkfingers · October 2020

HarrySeven said:

ex-Funkfingers

Well, that's my fifteen minutes, been and gorn. (I'm already a has been. B-dum, b-dum.)

skullfunkerry · October 2020

That orange Performance that I had was owned by a guy called Martin Shellard who has been in a couple of NWOBHM bands, and also did session work (including using my guitar on The Simpsons' Yellow Album).

I swapped the EMG85 in it for another 81 with Karl 'Egghead' Morris from The Exploited.

lustycourtier · October 2020

A good friend of mine is Elvis Costellos TM, so I had dibs on his entire US live rig lock up when he consolidated it all about 3 years ago.

We brought over a few amps, /13 x 2, Blues Jnr from memory and DRRI he used at Woodstock 94 (Which I kept).

daveyh · October 2020

daveyh said:

octatonic said:

Do girlfriends count?

An ex girlfriend of mine used to belong to the drummer from Dead or Alive.

Well, she did not speak highly so maybe ....

she was married to him, so in archaic terms Yes, she did belong.

DavidRees · October 2020

a Shure Unidyne 3 [the model before the SM57] from the drummer in Ultravox ...

Jalapeno · October 2020

Just wondering has anyone got anything from @HarrySeven

Jetfire · October 2020

Jalapeno said:

Just wondering has anyone got anything from @HarrySeven

Covid

InactiveX · October 2020

EricTheWeary said:

InactiveX said:

Fender Twin owned by someone in Blue Aeroplanes. Cost me £120 c.1990.

Colorsound Wah owned by Innes Sibun (he sold it to me for a fiver).

I still have them both.

I am jealous of the wah. I saw Innes play in a club many years ago and the next day I went out and bought a Crybaby so I could sound like him, just loved his use of wah.

Unfortunately it turned out not to be that simple and I didn't really sound like him, the wah went largely unused, it developed a fault over time, it got sold on here to someone who needed a shell for a project.
But for about 12 hours in 1990 Innes Sibun's wah was my dream pedal.

Innes was lovely. I was a rookie guitarist, 15 years old, and he let me use one of his Strats to try the pedal out. He was so encouraging to me as a young player that I've always tried in turn to be good to up-and-coming guitarists (now that I'm an old fart).

Both the Wah and the Fender Twin came from the listings in the Bath Evening Chronicle. I used to check the music equipment as soon as I could get my hands on the paper. It was around that time when people were selling nice old gear off cheap in order to buy the latest LED-laden digital boxes. I didn't have much money, being 15, so the Chronicle was a great source of cheap gear. Good times!

riffpowers · October 2020

skullfunkerry said:

That orange Performance that I had was owned by a guy called Martin Shellard who has been in a couple of NWOBHM bands, and also did session work (including using my guitar on The Simpsons' Yellow Album).

I swapped the EMG85 in it for another 81 with Karl 'Egghead' Morris from The Exploited.

There must be a million ex Karl Morris guitars / amps / pickups / pedals out there , he loves his gear !

YellowLedBetterMan · October 2020

Still own the Jekyll and Hyde that was used to record Temper Traps first 2 albums.

Funkfingers · October 2020

Jalapeno said:

Just wondering has anyone got anything from HarrySeven

I have quite a few H7 rejects. Some of these are about to return to him in exchange for some other tat.

Adey · October 2020

I've got a Lzzy Hale Epiphone Explorer played by Lzzy Hale at Ally Pally last year.

I won it in a Planet Rock competition!

usedtobe · October 2020

My mates drummer once owned the bloke from Queens old kit..

impmann · October 2020

Jalapeno said:

Just wondering has anyone got anything from @HarrySeven

Actually yes, I have... the latest being a fantastic Shergold Meteor.

Hes also had a few of mine too!

Fez · October 2020

I have a Gordon Smith that used to belong to the guitarist in the Salford Jets

Aidanspaghetti · October 2020

Used to own a groove tubes trio that apparently was used on recording "songs from the big chair " by tears for fears.

robdynamite · October 2020

my jcm 800 was owned by Dickie Hammond of Leatherface back in the day.

Parker · October 2020

I sold a Gibson Firebird V to the guy from EMF. I bought an amp off the band Embrace (and nearly launched a lawsuit because it wasn't theirs to sell apparently!). I also have one of the early prototypes (#2) for the Burns Red Special that was with Brian May / Pete M. for extensive R&D tweaking and has been certified as played by him.