- Instruments: Bass
- Years playing: 21 years
- Hometown: Aston, PA
- Living Now: Aston, PA
Rickenbacher Bass, Danelectro Bass, Ampeg cabinet and head, as well as a Genz Benz bass head
- Band(s): it depends on the year; Lisa Lorenzino Trio; Vortex Jazz Flute Summit; various concert choirs; concert bands, pit orchestras, etc.
- Instruments: flutist
- Years playing: decades- too many to count; probably 40 years
- Hometown: Originally, from Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada
- Living Now: Montreal Quebec Canada
My gear! As a jazz flute and sometimes classical player, my gear is myself, my Sankyo flute, that I have had for 30 years, and that is about it. My addition gear includes a great bass player, and a wonderful piano player.
- Band(s): Um, no way I'd remember this! WAY too many to list here
- Instruments: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Harmonica some keys and drums
- Years playing: since I was 6 - piano, singing
- Hometown: Shreveport LA
- Living Now: Austin TX
Hmmmm, this changes quite often as I play so many instruments. Fender basses, Larrivee and Alvarez and a very old Kay acoustic guitar, Ampeg, Bergantino, Ashdown amps and speakers for bass. Tons of PA gear depending on the type of gig I'm going to do. EV mics.
- Instruments: vocals, wurlitzer,rhodes, guitar
- Years playing: 10 yrs
- Hometown: Portugal/Cape Verde
- Living Now: United Kingdom
Wurlitzer and Rhodes, and acoustic guitar Takamine (steel guitar) and nylon guitar from a portuguese luthier called Antonio Santos, and a Jazz guitar from an English luthier Westfield.
- Band(s): Classical: the Versailles Quintet, The Fine Arts Trio, many other chamber music groups in college. Not as classical: the Momos, Roja Rouge and the Solid Gold Pieces, The Nihilists, many others...
- Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar, cello
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Chicago
- Living Now: New Orleans
I am on the road about 9 months out of the year, and I travel with a 2 speaker Yamaha sound system and mixing board, although I usually use whatever (sketchy at best) system is available in the venue that night. I play on a Roland FP4 keyboard (love it), a Martin acoustic/electric guitar or an Ibanez George Benson hallow body electric guitar, and sometimes I play the keyboard and an audion (cross between an accordion and harmonium I found at a flea market for $5) simultaneously so I can "solo" with myself. But I call it my circus organ. If I record myself it's with a 2 channel mbox running through an imac.
- Band(s): Not counting camp bands I've been in 2: Rank + File, Charlie Belle
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Right now I would say I was from Pennsylvania. We moved from just outside Philadelphia 2 years ago. But after a little while I think I'll feel like I'm from Austin
- Living Now: Austin TX
I play a blue metallic Danelectro 2-PU when I'm plugged in, and a blue flowery Daisy Rock acoustic.
- Band(s): I've had long-term contracts with the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Colorado, and have worked on a number of occasions with several other organizations.
- Instruments: Classical soprano
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Long Island, NY
- Living Now: New York, NY
Make-up and hair. Occasionally wigs. Costumes ranging from very simple to very elaborate. Performance gowns and clothing for less formal affairs.
- Band(s): many different opera companies and orchestras
- Instruments: opera singer
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: montreal quebec
- Living Now: montreal/new york
"lives in my body
the voice I was born with
the body that houses it"
- Band(s): 5-Sara Renner & the Elements, The Peder Eide Band, The dB Network Band, Jearlyn Steele, The ABC Youth Choir
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Performing as a solo artist for 10 years
- Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Living Now: Minneapolis, Minnesota
I have recently acquired two Peavey PA speaker cabinets and rack mount case..so I guess i now have "gear". I'm trying to assemble a small PA for my smaller acoustic shows. Other than that, it's just my voice box and my body. :) My band members, officially called "Elements", are constantly talking about their "gear" so I feel like I know a lot about it. I can BS my way thru any gear conversation and manage to sound impressive. At least that's what I've been told. What a strange question!
- Band(s): my own band under my name, and also Peter and the Wolf
- Instruments: vocals and guitar
- Years playing: i guess about 10 years
- Hometown: Dearborn, MI
- Living Now: Austin, TX
i play a nylon string guitar (ibanez). gina dvorak sings and plays a floor tom, which we run into a boss rc20 looping pedal. she also occasionally plays a banjo. lauren mcmurray sings and plays keyboard. sometimes we add other experimental instruments like coffee beans and crumpled paper.
- Band(s): Lisa Otey, Diane Van Deurzen & Lisa Otey, Lisa Otey and the Desert Divas
- Instruments: piano, voice
- Years playing: 25 years performing
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Living Now: Tucson, Arizona
Technics keyboard, Yamaha PA and speakers, Sennhaiser and Shure Beta mics
- Band(s): Lou Hickey (Solo) and Codeine Velvet Club. I used to sing for a Jazz band as well
- Instruments: Vocals, piano
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
- Living Now: Glasgow, Scotland
"For Codeine Velvet Club, I mostly sing, and occasionally play percussion.
For my solo work, I play a Roland RD 300GX
I also have a piano in my house
I've also got in-ear monitors. "
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, national slide, mandolin
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Ambrose, ND, Silver City, NM Austin, TX
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I built my acoustic guitar with luthier Don Musser and I play a National Estralita resonator guitar.
- Band(s): I am a solo artist who performs regularly, and I also do backup vocals for Comandante Zero.
- Instruments: vocals, use computer to make music, also play flute and guitar
- Years playing: 18 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: New York City
Mac, m-audio interface, midi controller keyboard, Reason, Garage Band.
- Band(s): In music: The Gypsy Nomads
- Instruments: vocals, percussion and drums
- Years playing: In the Gypsy Nomads-5 years (I started performing at an early age, I started dance when I was 4 yrs old/played piano in my teens...)
- Hometown: Born in France, lived in England as a kid (with a short time in Brazil) moved to U.S. when I was 10 (our new CD has a song about that called "Yes! I'm French")
- Living Now: I'm based in New Paltz, NY but spend most of the time on the road touring
"Mic: Shure beta 58
Percussion: Sabian cymbals, various LP percussion (tambourines, maracas, shakers, castenets...), Djembe (I bought when I was in the Ivory Coast), string with bells, chestnut shaker, seed pod, zills,
Drums: Pearl drums"
- Band(s): 3. High Places, Transformation Surprise (my solo project), The Bridge Over River Qua
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, bassoon
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Los Angeles via Brooklyn via Plainwell, Michgan
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Teisco guitar, Roland 404 sampler, Rat distortion pedal, Digiverb reverb pedal, Shure beta 57 vocal microphone, Roland keyboard amp, homemade telephone speaker microphone, effects rack, Fox Renard 220 bassoon.
- Band(s): God's Own (G.O.)
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 16 years
- Hometown: Camden, New Jersey
- Living Now: Sicklerville, New Jersey
I'm a songwriter and vocalist. I've produced a gospel CD titled "No Greater Force" featuring the legendary Dorothy Norwood and other great talents.
- Band(s): three
- Instruments: drums
- Years playing: about seven years
- Hometown: long island, new york
- Living Now: brooklyn, ny
I have an old Japanese drum kit. It's red and sparkly, pretty tiny, and doesn't even have a brand name on it. It's super easy to fit into a van (or SUV for that matter), and there was always one piece missing so someone had to make me a special custom part to connect my rack tom to the kick drum. it always impresses me, seriously, every time!
- Band(s): Garland of Hours, Benjy Ferree, Mary Timony, Tsunami, Jenny Toomey, Edith Frost, Rebecca Gates, played cello on record for Fugazi, TEd Leo, Bob Mould and more
- Instruments: cello, voice, sometimes keyboard
- Years playing: I started piano lessons at 5, so 31 years I guess!
- Hometown: Northern Virginia, more or less (air force brat)
- Living Now: Arlington, VA
Quintus carbon-fiber cello, electro-harmonix loop station, non-affected vocals. My husband plays drums with me, but I also play solo or with my friends Mary and Jonah on guitar and bass.
- Band(s): jazz singers work with many different "groups"-not Bands with names
- Instruments: vocals-singer
- Years playing: performing-27yrs-studying-longer
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
"For a gig if I need my own equipment:
EV microphone, yamaha self powered monitor, EV speakers, Mackie mixer, power amp, speaker stands, fold up music stand, cart (at times), music bag with charts, Alessis reverb unit, assorted cords and power strips, stand for monitor"
- Band(s): Musique Noire, several community orchestras, Detroit Jazz Orchestra with Strings
- Instruments: violin and flute
- Years playing: since I was a child--over 40 years
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: Same
Violin is a 100-year old "step-up" student instrument. Flute (which I don't play as often anymore) is an Armstrong 800B. I use Fishman pickups and pre amps and I have a Kustom brand acoustic amp.
- Band(s): Emily Rodgers Band
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, viola
- Years playing: 7 years
- Hometown: Elkhart, Indiana
- Living Now: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I play a telecaster with a Fender Blues Jr. amplifier
- Band(s): just this one
- Instruments: sing and play bass
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: small town Florida, Land O'Lakes
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
"I play a Gibson Thunderbird bass through a Mesa Boogie 400 head and 2x15 cabinet that I bought 8 years ago when I switched from guitar to bass. I also use a MXR Bass DI that really boosts my tone and has a nice distortion option too.
My favorite live mic is a Shure Beta 58.
That's pretty much it. I play rock n roll so... it's not too complicated. Although some people find a way to do it!"
- Band(s): just mine!
- Instruments: vocals
- Hometown: LA originally
- Living Now: Nashville
I am plain jane--boring! I have KSM 9 and 57! That's all I need! Oh ya, and I started running Pro-Tools when I was 12. I got my own Mbox and Expert Mouse when i was 14.
- Band(s): just mine, The Franc Graham Band
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 30 yrs
- Hometown: Durham, PA (Bucks County)
- Living Now: Boston
Fender Pro-reverb silver face amp, seafoam green Fender strat, tangled cords, a beer holder that clamps to the mic stand which i let my bass player use, boots.
- Band(s): Rebecca Martin and Once Blue (w/Jesse Harris)
- Instruments: Voice/Guitar
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Maine
- Living Now: Upstate, New York
"Taylor cut away guitar
Fender Princeton Amplifier"
- Band(s): 4: girth, partman parthorse, butts, eardumbs
- Instruments: Partman Parthorse: Bas, Keyboards. Butts: vox, guitar
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: San Luis Obispo, CA
- Living Now: Seattle, wA
"Bass: Fender Musicmaster
Guitar: 1980s Hondo
Keyboard: Moog Rogue"
- Band(s): 2 - Catherine Dupuis group and Russ Kassoff Big Band
- Instruments: Jazz Vocal
- Years playing: 35+ years
- Hometown: State College, PA
- Living Now: New York City
Mike and stand, chords, speaker and stand, extension chords, music stand and stand lights. I'm also my own librarian and handle all the music for my group.
- Band(s): 1- Bari Koral Family Rock Band- also play solo
- Instruments: vocal and guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Long Island
- Living Now: New York City and Long Beach, NY
gibson and martin acoustic guitar, jay turser electric guitar, fender amp
- Band(s): Only Tortilla Factory
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 35yrs
- Hometown: San Angelo Tx
- Living Now: Austin
I'm a vocalist so I am the gear lol
- Band(s): Virginia Mayhew Quartet, Virginia Mayhew Quartet featuring Norman Simmons, Virginia Mayhew Septet, Duke Ellington Legacy, Carl Thompson and Friends, Howard Williams Big Band, Lou Caputo Not-So-Big Band
- Instruments: tenor saxophone
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Redwood City, CA
- Living Now: West Orange NJ
Selmer saxophones, Buffet clarinet and Sonore' flute
- Band(s): John Ferrari and Friends, Allison Iraheta and the Gurus
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
- Years playing: I have been performing since the age of 5.
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Besides my voice, I play a Gibson melody maker - Joan Jett, Les Paul, and Ovation.
- Band(s): 5: Knightmare, AKA, Cheryl Hill, Zach Robbins & Rollin' Thunder, One World (R)evolution
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 25+ years
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Austin
Taylor acoustic guitar, Jackson custom Soloist electric guitar, Daisy Rock Elite Special electric guitar, Charvel Model 2 electric guitar, MacBook for recording, several microphones, Guitar Research amplifier, Schecter electric guitar, Alesis QS8 keyboard, bongos
- Band(s): It's my band but members vary
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: over 25 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: New York City
Mic, mic stand, speakers, mixers
- Band(s): 2. On Air Library and School of Seven Bells
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: musically 20 or so years, in bands about 11, in School of Seven bells about 3
- Hometown: born in Guatemala City, raised in D.C. and South Florida
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Hagstrom F-200p guitar (w/ p90 pick-ups), Memory Man pedal, Pigtronics ADSR, Way Huge Pork Loin distortion pedal, Moog Freqbox
- Band(s): I perform with my own group exclusively.
- Instruments: Voice and some piano
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: Houston, Texas
- Living Now: New York City
- Band(s): dozens!
- Instruments: recorder, piano, sing (mostly classical)-also compose, conductconduct
- Years playing: about 60 years (really!)
- Hometown: north east
- Living Now: rural Long Island
- Band(s): Old bands: The Flys, The Mugshots
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: Kylesa has been together since 2001
- Hometown: Greensboro, NC
- Living Now: Savannah, GA
"1989 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top, Custom made aluminum neck guitar by Electrical Guitar Co., Guild Polara S-100
Marshall JCM 800 100w master lead, Orange OR50, Laney GH50
3 4x12 cabinets (Orange, Mesa Boogie, Krank)
Fender Super Reverb Re-issue
loads and loads of guitar effects pedals (delay, phaser, chorus, wah, flanger, etc)"
- Band(s): one band regularly and constantly - jucifer
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: performing 17 years in current band
- Hometown: rural georgia, USA
- Living Now: in my tour vehicle (24/7/365 - really!!)
wall of amplification!! over the years has manifested as anywhere from 10 to 20 cabinets... currently 14 cabinets, mostly bass gear although i play a guitar. lots of ampeg cabs and some other oddities... lots of gallien kreuger and peavey heads along with an ampeg 5-pro and a marshall monoblock.
- Band(s): Sidewalk Cafe
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 21 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Minneapolis
2 PA systems, one portable Fender. Several microphones including one Elvis Mic and a Sure Beta 57. Baby grand at home.
- Band(s): Very few
- Instruments: vocal
- Years playing: Since I was 14--I'm now in my 6th decade, although I hate to say that out loud.
- Hometown: Austin
- Living Now: Austin
- Band(s): i am a solo artist
- Instruments: vocalist
- Years playing: 15 years
- Living Now: Nashville
I own a monitor rig and all of my mic's
- Band(s): at least 10
- Instruments: classical singer
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
In everyday living, I would describe my look as classic-casual, with a twist of sophisticated funk. My performance wear is sometimes formal (i.e. dress or gown), or in constume if I am participating in a staged opera production.
- Instruments: conductor
- Years playing: 55 years
- Hometown: Ottumwa, Iowa
- Living Now: St Paul, MN
- Band(s): Anthony Braxton Quartet- 10 years, Reggie Workman Ensemble 10 years, Barry Guy BGNO (10-piece ensemble in Europe)- several years; many other performances with musicians in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: playing since I was 7- performing since age 30
- Hometown: Born in Phila., PA- grew up there and in Baltimore, MD
- Living Now: Woodstock, NY
No gear- I play acoustic piano, and at home I have a Yamaha electronic touch-sensitive piano I can play with headphones since I live in an apartment underneath another tenant.
- Band(s): I've performed mainly with three groups: Madder Rose, Saint Low, Mary Lorson and the Soubrettes. I've also scored several films.
- Instruments: vocals, keyboards, guitar
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: Ithaca, NY
I rock a pre-CBS Frankenstein Fender telecaster (mauve in color) through a Fender Vibroverb re-issue that looks original now, it's so beat-up. I like the sound because it's warm, clean, and versatile. Recently I acquired my first plug-in acoustic, and I enjoy it immensely too. For keyboards: at home I play a yard-sale spinet, and I have sweet collection of old and new organs, etc., including a vintage Fender Rhodes which is a bit too delicate now for travel, so I tend now only to play at venues with in-house acoustic pianos, or to skip my keyboard songs if the venue doesn't have one.
- Band(s): 1 - The Lopez
- Instruments: vocals / cowbell
- Years playing: approximately 4 years
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
Personally, I just use a microphone and the cowbell. Our band also uses an electric guitar, a bass guitar, and a full drum kit.
- Band(s): me/ solo
- Instruments: vocals and piano
- Years playing: since a kid
- Hometown: australia
- Living Now: LA
"me with dancers, or me with acoustic set up, guitar or piano
change it up for diff shows"
- Band(s): 2- "Danika Holmes" and "The Remains"
- Instruments: piano, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: Studying- 20 years, Performing 1 1/2 professinally
- Hometown: Bettendorf, Iowa
- Living Now: Davenport, Iowa
I play a Taylor 614ce and LOVE it! In terms of amps and the rest, my band mates take care of that part thank goodness and I'm really thankful to them for that.
- Band(s): tracy bonham, wayfaring strangers
- Instruments: vocals, violin, guitar, piano
- Years playing: 36 years
- Hometown: Eugene, OR
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
violin with electric pick up. Epiphone Coronet guitar with Fender Princeton amplifier. Guild acoustic guitar, and Martin D-15 acoustic guitar.
- Band(s): 1, Pearl Harbor
- Instruments: Vocals, bass
- Hometown: Los Angeles
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I sing, play bass, program the drums, and come up with the keyboard parts. My sister is 15, so I pretty much call the shots as far as business goes.
My sister has a nice gold glitter '69 taesco guitar, I have a pretty boring standard black fender p-bass, a pretty aged yamaha keyboard for psychedelic sounds & drums, roland sp-404 sampler.
Well, my sister plays guitar, and we kind of needed the other instruments to write songs, haha.
- Band(s): 2- the cherry valence, and birds of avalon
- Instruments: guitar
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: originally india, then the bronx
- Living Now: raleigh, nc
i currently mostly play a late 70's guild guitar (S-300D) through a klipp amp, marshall cabinet and also a fender deluxe... i use lots of effects- Electro Harmonix Memory Man, POG, Microsynth, an old Mutron phaser, self-made fuzz/phase pedal, yarbox, ibanez echo chamber, and a very early ibanez digital delay/ mutieffects unit. i also own and use a les paul guitar, a fender telecaster deluxe, among others.
- Band(s): One Dove, Massive Attack, Babyshambles, Pete Doherty, Slam
- Instruments: vocals, keyboards, guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Edinburgh
- Living Now: London
"Logic 9, Mac Book, Yamaha Keyboard - Weighted Keys, SM58, AKG mic, Mackie 16 channel console, Soundcard, 001, Zoom FX, Takemine guitar, Tangle wood 6 string,"
- Band(s): Salaam, Safaafir, Craig Brenner and the Crawdads, Krista Detor, East West Music Group
- Instruments: violin, viola, joza and 'oud
- Years playing: 31 years (since I was 6!)
- Hometown: Chicago, IL
- Living Now: Bloomington, IN
Most of my gear is my instruments, though I do bring a condenser mic with me, and I own a PA. My house is crammed full of musical instruments from all over the world; Hammond M3 organ, 3 drum sets (my husbands) a harp, and lots of Hand drums.
- Instruments: Vocal/guitar
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Belarus
- Living Now: Atlanta
"Fender twin amp, fender mustang guitar, tuner. The band consists of guitar, bass, keys, and drums."
- Band(s): Always performed as "Catie Curtis"
- Instruments: Guitar and Vocals
- Years playing: 29
- Hometown: Saco, Maine
- Living Now: Newton MA
"I play a Martin 000-28 guitar, and a Gibson LG2 (1947)
I use Boss tuning pedals, Digitech JamMan Looping pedal, Diaz Tremodillo Tremolo pedal, LR Baggs pre-amp. I use Elixir Strings.
I have a home-made foot stomping board with a Fishman pick-up in it for creating a kick-drum sound while playing solo. "
- Band(s): "Just Blessure Graves"
- Instruments: vocals, synth, guitar
- Hometown: San Diego
- Living Now: San Diego
" Yamaha DX-17 Synth
Fender Jazzmaster Guitar, its our guitarists but it took a while to get used to, because I'm small and its a bit bigger."
- Band(s): 2. Beat the Devil and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
- Instruments: Vocals, Harmonium, Keys
- Years playing: 24
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Brooklyn
Harmonium, lavalier wireless mic through a Galleon Kruger bass amp. I use a beta 57 for my vocal mic.
- Band(s): Winds of Time recorder consort, and freelance
- Instruments: oboe, English horn, recorder
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Long Island, New York
- Living Now: Virginia
oboe, English horn, full consort of recorders, desk top pc computer for composing, amplifier, mic, effects pedal for composing and performing electro-acoustic works, and also lots of music, books, and a music stand and metronome, and reed-making equipment, of course.
- Band(s): Sincola/Scarlitt/Lucille/Rebecca Cannon and Thor/The Texas Sapphires
- Instruments: Vocals and Guitar but for my band I am a lead vocalist only
- Years playing: 18
- Hometown: Houston, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
My vocal chords, a 58 Shure mic, my dance moves, my merch, my personality, my BOSE PA.
- Band(s): solo stuff {cherish alexander}, the Painkillers, Moby Chick }an all girl led zepelin band}, maxi-tit, and a bunch of jam bands as well.
- Instruments: Vox, Bass, Piano, Guitar
- Years playing: since i was 7 years old.
- Hometown: dallas, texas
- Living Now: los angeles
"I have about 6 electric guitars ranging from telecaster to strat to les paul. 3 acoustics. one ovation the rest takamini. I also have a few basses {acoustic and electric} fender jazz bass.
2 keyboards. my baby is the roland. we have 2 upright pianos in our house and a drum set just for jamming. then all the other amps.
marshalls, line 6 etc."
- Band(s): solo artist- my first band was called Ruby James and then i kept the name
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano
- Years playing: singing since i was born, started playing guitar around 20
- Hometown: i was born in thousand oaks, CA.. i've lived all over the place though
- Living Now: currently living in Austin, Tx one of the coolest cities in the world
my favorite guitar i have is a blonde thinline tele and i play it through a blues jr. i also have a cool martin 00 series acoustic that sounds amazing w/ slotted headstock. i have a beautiful two -toned green gretsch hollow body that's pretty sweet and very cool unique, custom made Aquila guitar that's made out of purple heart wood.. that guitar is really beautiful and sounds amazing.. i have some other toys as well but those are the main things.. and a Vox AC 30 but that doesn't get played much!
- Band(s): 3, Avenue in high school, Rachele Eve and Deanna Devore
- Instruments: vocals, acoustic/electric guitar, songwriter
- Years playing: 7 years
- Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Living Now: Chicago, Illinois
I have an Acoustic Taylor 110, Baby Taylor for travel, Boss RC-20XL Loop Station RC20X, Korg Chromatic Tuner Pedal, ProTools MBox, MXL Recording Condenser and Room Mic Set, and a Yamaha 6 Channel Mixer and Two Speaker/Monitors
- Band(s): many supporting ensembles under my name. Blaring exception with MTV 'Cutting Edge' punk band in the 80's called Dino Lee & The White Trash Review & His Jam & Jelly Girls (think Ricky Ricardo & Band on acid)
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, dulcimer
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: gulf coast and west Texas
- Living Now: Wimberley Texas
"Instruments: a hand made 2004 Collings Om1 acoustic guitar, a 1997 Taylor 510 acoustic guitar, a 1986 yamaha FS-350S acoustic guitar and a hand-crafted dulcimer.
Sound Equipment: a Bose sound system w/Mackie board for submix, an L.R. Baggs para acoustic DI, a SansAmp para driver DI, a Sure Beta 87A mic and ALWAYS D'Addario strings (no promotional deal ,just love their strings.)"
- Instruments: vocals and percussion
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Austin, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Myself, tambourine, guiro, shaker.
- Band(s): (I'm a solo artist/songwriter)
- Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: St. Louis, MO
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
We have a studio in the backyard, very simple set-up...a collection of guitars, a set of bells, Nord keyboard, an upright piano, a half a dozen good mics, and pro-tools. We are self-sustaining. It pays the bills and keeps us out of trouble. It's sort of our own version of a family farm.
- Band(s): 2: My Compass Spins (no longer) and Betty Iron Thumbs
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, bass, viola, violin, piano and attempting the floppy saw
- Years playing: Piano since I was 5, violin since I was 10 and the rest just fell into place along the way
- Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
Fender Strat electric, Taylor Acoustic/Electric
- Band(s): usually 4/year. My regular groups are the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra and the Chicago Opera Theater
- Instruments: bassoon
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: small town in Michigan
- Living Now: Chicago area
Benson Bell bassoon. Heckel bocal.
- Band(s): Rasputina, Van Gogh's Daughter, Alfred, Laughing Stock...also toured as accompanist with Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls, Imogen Heap, Paolo Nutini
- Instruments: cello
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Guelph, Ontario
- Living Now: San Francisco
Cello + microphones + preamp + computer + midi foot controller
- Band(s): 1 band, "Ruby Blue" now I am a solo artist
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: on and off for 24 years
- Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Living Now: LA, CA
I have two Collings acoustic guitars and a neuman mic
- Band(s): Many--I can't remember them all easily--but the main ones have been: Elisa Randazzo, The Red Krayola, Northern Lights, Fairechild. Those are the ones I have spent time at--I have also played live with Spiritualized, and have guest appeared on many records.
- Instruments: Some guitar but mostly violin and vocals.
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Nyack, NY.
- Living Now: Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles
Remy violin from the 1800's, martin acoustic, fender custom tele electric
- Band(s): My own groups Sokolov solo through quartet and recently a 18 voice group I ahve been writin for chorally plus a few collaborative projects with other singers
- Instruments: vocals, keyboards, piano
- Years playing: 32 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Nyack, New York
Vocals, real piano and if there isn't one then a yamaha P80
- Band(s): lots...Currently: Fearless Dreamer, Hazmat Modine, Metropolitan Klezmer, Isle of Klezbos, Black Rock Coalition Orchestra, Bill Lee's Natural Spiritual Orchestra, ...also, Natalie Merchant, Burning Spear, Maxi Priest, Burning Brass, Sass-a-Brass, various wedding bands, OLV Church Orchestra...
- Instruments: trumpet, flugelhorn
- Years playing: aprox. 32 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
"Marcinkiewicz Bb Trumpet
Benge Bb Trumpet
LA sax Black Bb Trumpet
Benge Flugelhorn
Kudu Shofar
Conch Shells
Various synths, piano, percussion"
- Band(s): I don't know. none of them were serious or lasted along enough to mention.
- Instruments: Baritone ukulele, bass guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 14
- Hometown: Rappahannock County VA
- Living Now: Murfreesboro TN
I have been playing a Baritone Ukulele that is a piece of junk with a contact mic inside of the body. I was playing a Kala but it is on the fritz right now and needs some work. blah. I play though a Fender Acoustic Amp that is also in need of some repairs. man I really gotta get it together!
- Band(s): Sonny & Perley, Sonny & Perley's Jive Five, Bossamba Jazz,
- Instruments: vocals & percussion
- Years playing: 27 years
- Hometown: MA & NH
- Living Now: Albany, NY
"Sennheiser microphone, Peavey powered mixer, EV and JBL
speakers, various persussion (shakers, rain stick, bells, claves, etc.),
cordless Shure Beta Microphone, Yamaha monitor, speaker poles, lighting
poles and lights."
- Band(s): my compositions have been performed at opera companies (NYC opera, American Chamber Opera Co., Lake George Opera Festival), dance companies (Dance Alloy of Pittsburgh, Arangham Dancer Theatre of India) and chamber ensembles (NeoLit Ensemble, Azure Ensemble) and have been commissioned by musicians including violinist Airi Yoshioka and trombonist Monique Buzzarté.
- Instruments: classical composer/classicalsinger
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: Manhattan
- Living Now: Manhattan
Steinway "L" piano, IMAC, ProTools, Finale and other software, Genelec speakers, several externals hard drives.
- Band(s): I perform under my own name
- Instruments: piano, vocals
- Years playing: 50 years
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: San Francisco
Casio Privia 88 key keyboard, Alesis Nano Piano module, Yamaha Stagepas 300 P.A., Shure SM58 mic
- Band(s): I have been in 6 bands. None are really worth mentioning except Pistolera which has been the most successful.
- Instruments: lead vocals, band leader, songwriter, guitar, guiro, jarana
- Hometown: Born and raised in San Diego, CA. Moved to NYC in 1999 to be a musician.
- Living Now: Brooklyn
I play a small mexican guitar called a Jarana that is from Veracruz, Mexico. It uses fishing line as stings. I play guiro which is a gourd and rake set used in a lot of merengue music. I play a gibson standard electric guitar. I sing lead vocals and write all the songs. I am left-handed.
- Band(s): many, chamber music, rock and jazz
- Instruments: flute and sax
- Years playing: many years
- Hometown: argentina
- Living Now: mendoza argentina
- Band(s): Grant Street String Band, Phantoms of the Opry, God Ol' Persons, Blue Rose, Laurie Lewis and Grant Street, Laurie Lewis and Her Bluegrass Pals, Dick Oxtot's Golden Age Jazz Band, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
- Instruments: vocals, fiddle, guitar, bass
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Berkeley, CA
- Living Now: Berkeley, CA
fiddles, guitars, string bass. All instruments are acoustic., so I own some good mics as well.
- Band(s): just my own
- Instruments: vocals, autoharp, marxophone
- Years playing: performing for 5 years, studying since I was 10 years old
- Hometown: Los Angeles
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Upright Steinway piano from the 1800's. Autoharp from the 1940's. Marxophone from the 1920's. Kay Kraft guitar from the 1930's.
- Band(s): Mainly BERETTA76, have done the occasional back up vocals with other bands and contributed vocals on others albums
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, songwriter
- Years playing: 26 years
- Hometown: Arlington, TX
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
Right now my set up is a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop played through a Marshall 50 watt '77 JMP 2204 2x12 combo.
- Band(s): 2 beside my own, not counting high school bands (Jargon Society, and Hatestick) and now I play under my own name, but I have a band
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, banjo, Rhodes, mandolin
- Years playing: been playing in bands for around 20 years, and with my own material for 12
- Hometown: Connecticut
- Living Now: Shelton, CT
"At the moment I'm switching between a parlor Larrivee acoustic guitar, and a '72 Fender Mustang electric. I've been using a vintage Fender Deluxe amp live, and I have a Gibson Minuteman amp for practice. I play a burgundy Kalamazoo lap steel from around 1940.
I have a banjo made by a friend of mine, and another from around 1910. I play a lot of other stuff on my recordings (Fender Rhodes, mandolin, bells). "
- Band(s): One, called "Marzuki"
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Living Now: Seattle, Washington
I play an Edwinson guitar, handmade in Seattle from local trees. And I have a voice. My band consists of a guitar/banjo player, a pianist and a bassist, plus drums when I can afford them.
- Band(s): Kitten Forever, Daisy's Compact Mice, Pocket Pussy
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: South Suburbs MN
- Living Now: Minneapolis
I play a super minimal drum kit, kick drum, floor tom, snare, and crash cymbal. It's the kit I learned how to play on when I was 15 and it always just seemed like all you really needed.
- Band(s): This is my first real band.
- Instruments: Guitar/Bass/Vocals
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: Born in nashville, raised in Kentucky/Tennessee/Indiana
- Living Now: Murfreesboro, TN
I play a blonde epiphone casino guitar through a 70's fender pro reverb with 2 12" speakers. I also play a black hofner bass though an ampeg rocket bass.
- Band(s): Balmorhea, Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, The Album Leaf, university orchestra
- Instruments: Cello, Vocals
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: El Paso, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
Cello, 2 bows, L.R. Baggs DI, Barcus-Berry pickup and preamp
- Band(s): Frente, Four Hours Sleep, Holidays On Ice, Splendid
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 22
- Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
- Living Now: Melbourne, Australia
I use the Garageband program to write on, I play a Maton acoustic.
- Band(s): Indepently team up with about 3-4 musicians. Nothing permant
- Instruments: Vocals/guitar
- Years playing: 40 +
- Hometown: Worcester, MA
- Living Now: Worcester, MA
Guitar/amp/microphones. Also have a Boss digital recorder & professional mics
- Band(s): A dozen. Christian! Teenage runaway. Fight bite. Dirty diamond. Neon Indian.
- Instruments: Synthesizer
- Years playing: Various instruments in different bands for ten years
- Hometown: San Antonio texas
- Living Now: Brooklyn
I own multiple guitars but my toy keyboard collection is my real pride and joy. I own tons of casios. My best piece though is not a toy but a Juno 6 synth. eBay.
- Band(s): FM Belfast, Hairdoctor
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Iceland
- Living Now: Iceland
- Band(s): 3, Flying, Fertile Crescent, WOOM
- Instruments: drums, vocals, percussion
- Years playing: 6 years
- Hometown: Springfield, PA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
I use a lot of different percussion instruments, mbira, claves, peruvian seed pods, etc, as well as a traditional drumset, but lately I've only been playing MPC (sampler/drum machine) and singing so I can move around and dance and interact with the audience more.
- Band(s): 20 or so? depends on def of "regularly" -- incl Tucson Symph, Eugene Symph, Aspen Festival Orchestras etc
- Instruments: cello, some piano
- Years playing: since age 5 (over 30 years)
- Hometown: born in Sacramento, CA
- Living Now: San Francisco, CA
My "gear" is a 1995 cello by Thomas Schmidt and a 1989 bow by Greg Gohde. Occasionally, I also use the Realist brand acoustic transducer.
- Band(s): I direct several college ensembles
- Instruments: College conductor - choirs, bands, orchestras
- Years playing: at least 12 years as a conductor (but only 2 yrs as a college director)
- Hometown: Lived all over the country. Born in Quincy, Illinois
- Living Now: Jacksonville, IL
Not sure if this applies. My choirs wear tuxedos and dresses, often have black folders and sheet music. We sometimes use a piano or organ, and sometimes a full orchestra. Occasionally, we put together a small band for more popular selections.
- Band(s): All current and active The Breeders, The Carrions, Tsk Tsk, Exene Cervenka
- Instruments: Guitar, some vocals
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: "Cheryl from Florida!&" bad nickname
- Living Now: Los Angeles
a red 1960's modified Marshall Head, Hiwatt cabinet and a beautiful tobacco burst Gibson Les Paul..
- Band(s): 2. Mosquitos. Undersea poem.
- Instruments: vocals, tambourine, harmonica
- Years playing: "I danced my way right out of the womb."
- Hometown: Brasil / New York City
- Living Now: New York City
One cordless microphone. Two hand painted tambourines and a cheap C harmonica.
- Band(s): many! most recently, Dertonnz, American Gladiators UK, Jenifer Jackson + her Secret Agents
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, drums
- Years playing: since age 4 or 5?
- Hometown: born in NJ
- Living Now: Brooklyn NY + Austin TX
"1964 Epiphone Caballero guitar
tuner"
- Band(s): 100's: The Washington Chorus,Cypress Quartet, Borremeo Quartet, CIncinatti Symphony, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, etc
- Instruments: composer/pianist
- Years playing: 43 years
- Hometown: Houghton MI
- Living Now: Brookline MA
Boston Baby grand piano, pencil, paper. mac.
- Band(s): I've performed and recorded with 3 bands, Ettison Clio, gameboygirl, and Beekeeper
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: I've been singing in bands for over 7 years, I've studied voice and have been performing as a vocalist for 15 years.
- Hometown: I'm originally from Michigan.
- Living Now: I currently reside in Brooklyn, NY.
I had an Audix Om 5 microphone with my past bands (I recently broke it and had to sell it). Other than that I have the standard PA system for practicing. I also have some other random instruments; a Fender strat guitar, a keyboard, tambourine, etc. that I use at home, but have not performed with them onstage.
- Band(s): National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Anuna, ChristChurch Cathedral Choir,
- Instruments: lots of instruments including singing, producer, conductor, composer
- Years playing: forever
- Hometown: Galway, Ireland
- Living Now: Dublin, Ireland
Full Protools system for studio. For live shows I either play with 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, or with full orchestra depending on the show. I re-orchestrate for the different numbers.
- Band(s): 3 main groups, 2 side projects
- Instruments: guitar, vocals as a weapon
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Washington, DC
- Living Now: Western Ma
Hondo Formula One and a Peavy Bandit 65...My first and only guitar and amp. No foot pedals except for the built in distortion. They sound great so I stay loyal. I like sound not gear.
- Band(s): just myself, Megan Reilly
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: fifteen years
- Hometown: Memphis, TN
- Living Now: Montclair, NJ
I play a Fender Bullet guitar and a Fender Princeton Reverb amplifier. I found my guitar at a consignment store in Memphis when I was eighteen. Jeff Evans of the Gibson Brothers saw it and told me I should go see it. People comment on it a lot. It's the only electric I've ever played. I love the sound of it. And I love the sound of my amp.
- Band(s): Just Sick Puppies
- Instruments: Bass / Vocals
- Years playing: 12 years
- Hometown: Sydney Australia
- Living Now: LA - California
I play Warwick basses ( Streamer stage 1 ) and I play through Ampeg Amps ( SVT Classic through 8 x 10 Cabinets)
- Instruments: vocal
- Years playing: my whole life
- Hometown: Houston
- Living Now: Austin
"Sure 58 mic
boom stand
cord "
- Band(s): Here Comes Everybody 25+ years, Sophia Starlight 1+ year, freelance drummer for Lea Kruger, Nicole Campbell, Currently I'm the new director of the Rex Putnam High School Kingsmen Thunder Drumline
- Instruments: Piano, keys, drums, vocals
- Years playing: 25+ years
- Hometown: Portland
- Living Now: Sellwood (Portland)
Keys: Korg Triton, Alesis QS8 keyboard, Kohler & Campbell 5'3" baby grand. Drumsets: (2) DW 5-piece drum kits, one is a cocktail kit, (1) Ludwig 4-piece kit, several snares (Tama, Yamaha, DW, Ludwig). (1) Djembe and a whole boatload of small percussion. Studio: Protools and an assortments of high end microphones. We record ourselves and others (Funny Farm Studios). Little Martin Guitar. I teach full time private lessons as well as do clinics in the schools, so I have a full drum studio. We rehearse a band so we have a complete mid-size PA.
- Band(s): Lovespirals is my main band, but I also collaborate with The Grooveblaster regularly and am collaborating with other artists including Nick Murray, Falling You, Karmacoda, and TwiztedNation on new songs coming out this year.
- Instruments: Vocals, sampling, programming, production
- Years playing: 15 year more or less professionally, but since I was a kid I've been writing songs and singing
- Hometown: Los Angeles
- Living Now: Long Beach
I have always been more of a studio musician and recording artist than a live performance one, though I do perform live from time to time. I own many mics including a vintage Neumann, and a whole host of gear for recording in my own home studio. I actually have two studios, one for podcasting/vidcasting, and the other for music.
- Band(s): "Miles Anthony Benjamine Robinson", "Amazing Baby", "Spider"
- Instruments: Guitar/Vocals
- Years playing: 21 years
- Hometown: NJ
- Living Now: Brooklyn
"1960 Les Paul Jr, electric guitar (Mahogony)
1958 Les Paul Jr. amp (beige)
Martin acoustic guitar
Parlour guitar of unknown origin. Given to me by an ex-boyfriend. May be as old as 1930s.
1980's Harmony bass - got it for 100$ - added Fender pickups - now it's awesome
1990 Fender sidekick amp - 15th birthday present from dad when I first started playing.
"
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, keys
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Laguna Hills, CA
- Living Now: Seattle, WA
acoustic guitar with pick-up and vocal effects board
- Band(s): Many through the times
- Instruments: upright bass
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Denmark
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
5/8 size Austrian upright bass from around 1870.
- Band(s): My own Contamporary Ensemble at UW Madison 5 years. Orchestras during students years 7
- Instruments: Composer
- Years playing: I'm a Prof. of Music: 37 years
- Hometown: Berkeley, CA
- Living Now: Madison, WI
Piano, flute, Apple computer
- Band(s): Beyond Words, Love Riot, Milkshake. Before that, some fun cover bands
- Instruments: voice, electric guitar & uke
- Years playing: since I was 16, so...many years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Baltimore
I play a 1980 Ibanez guitar I call Creampuff. A black hardshell case covered in bumper stickers from places Milkshake has played keeps Creampuff safe when I travel. My ukelele is a bright green Makala I received as a gift from fellow woman musicians Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. I also have a Sony wireless hand held microphone which allows me to move freely on stage and off into the kiddie mosh pit that seems to be a fixture at a Milkshake show.
- Band(s): Irish music is weird - there aren't many of us so it's the same people in multiple configurations.
- Instruments: Irish flute, tinwhistle, uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes), some vocals
- Years playing: Flute since 4th grade - OMG, 36 years?! Irish music for about 15 (8 seriously).
- Hometown: Bridgeport, CT
- Living Now: Shelbyville, KY
"LOL! My instruments represent the best 1850 had to offer (they're all reproductions of 19th-century instruments):
1/2 set of irish uilleann pipes made by James Wenham, Roscrea, Ireland.
Irish flute made by Sam Murray, Galway, Ireland.
Irish flute made by Patrick Olwell, Massies Mill, VA.
Too many tinwhistles to count, made by various and sundry people all over the world.
Classical flute: Mateki 9-Something Or Other (doesn't get played much anymore)"
- Band(s): too many to count. Some: Texas Sheiks; Del Rey & Suzy Thompson; Any Old Time; California Cajun Orchestra; Bluegrass Intentions; Backwoods Band; Blue Flame String Band; Klezmorim: Aux Cajunals
- Instruments: fiddle, vocals, Cajun accordion, guitar
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: Mt. Vernon NY
- Living Now: Berkeley CA
Fiddle (1920s Italian); bow (Glasser carbon fiber); old Gibson acoustic guitar (probably 1940s); 2 Cajun accordions made by Marc Savoy.
- Band(s): too many to count
- Instruments: electric bass guitar
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: I grew up in Ann Arbor MI
- Living Now: Austin TX
"I own 6 bass guitars, 3 of which are vintage, also a vintage Telecaster guitar and a new acoustic guitar. I have an old Kay string bass (upright acoustic bass) I just bought a high end Genz Benz bass combo (amp and 2 speaker cabs).
I have a computer software system for making song demos."
- Band(s): just my own
- Instruments: composer/arranger/conductor (I write at the piano and am also a certified music teacher in NY State)
- Years playing: Since the age of one.
- Hometown: Born: Freeport, NY; most of grouwing years Andover, MA
- Living Now: Nyack, NY
I write on a "Steinway M" to paper with a pencil and an eraser. I copy parts with a calligraphy pen using ink on paper or hire out. Still haven't learned the computer thing,
- Band(s): The Texas Duet
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, percussion
- Years playing: vocals 11 yrs, guitar 3 yrs, percussion 9 yrs
- Hometown: Livingston Manor, NY
- Living Now: Bastrop, TX
Full Yamaha setup: 8 channel pa with 2 15" front speakers and 2 12" moniters. All guitar cables, mic cables, Shure mics. Alvarez acoustic guitar, 2 Takamine acoustic guitars. Custom drumset played by feet.
- Band(s): 2 Dmadness Project and Blue Blood
- Instruments: Vocalist
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: San Diego, Ca
- Living Now: Austin, Tx
Soulful, Melodies, and Jazzy nuances! Live with a 4 piece band!
- Band(s): Many - classical, jazz and world music alike. I currently tour with my own bands (The Biddies and Hey Sailor!) as well as with kids music star Dan Zanes & Friends. I perform in the NYC area with various other groups.
- Instruments: double bass
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I play on an upright Pollman bass, use a realist pickup and a GK amp. I also play electric bass, using an old 60s Hofner.
- Band(s): MEN, The Ballet, Boys of Now
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: Oregon
- Living Now: Brooklyn
I play an insane flying-V esque Silvertone KISS signature guitar that Chicks on Speed's Melissa Logan picked out with Tina Weymouth! I play through a Fender Ultra Chorus and sometimes a digital Marshall stack. I use a bunch a pedals--an octave shifter for playing bass lines in some songs live, an analog delay pedal and a RAT!
- Band(s): Just me solo and the Ettes, really
- Instruments: Lead vocals, songwriter, guitar
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: A swamp in Florida!
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
I play a knockoff Tele made by a company called Jay Turser, who repeatedly ignore my requests for a sponsorship, considering their guitars aren't made well and mine is so busted, it's on its last legs. But I like it, it's light and fits my tiny, tiny hands. They should totally give me a sponsorship, I'm the only person I know who plays their crappy ripoff guitars! I run that guitar through my baby, a vintage Sears Silvertone 1484. I don't like pedals, so that amp gives me everything I need, via tremelo and reverb, as well as cracking good gain. I'll be buried with that amp.
- Band(s): 2 - Les Saucy Pants and Lick Lick
- Instruments: vox and boobs
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: New York, NY
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I have a Shure Beta 58 mic, and a cord, and boobs.
- Band(s): Saskatoon Symphony, Kitchener Symphony, Lima Symphony
- Instruments: Violin
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Oregon
- Living Now: Ohio
Violins and bows. . pianos
- Band(s): Too numerous to count
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Berkeley, CA
- Living Now: Berkeley CA
Classical instruments, Chinese instruments, folkloric instruments of Latin America
- Band(s): several local chamber groups
- Instruments: piano, violin
- Years playing: 30+ yrs
- Hometown: Madison, WI
- Living Now: Edmonton, AB
- Band(s): Cristi and I have recently sung with Bear In Heaven and Hooray For Earth.
- Instruments: voice, keyboard, guitars
- Years playing: I've been performing with my sister, Cristi, since we were little kids.
- Hometown: NY
- Living Now: NYC
vintage synths, sampler, drums, bass, vocal effects, tiny amps.
- Instruments: sing+ machines
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Israel
- Living Now: Tel aviv
"on stage:
MPC
2 mics ( one plugged to a Kaos Pad)
Kaoscilator
@ home:
2 comps + Logic & After FX
Neuman Mic
Old microphones
Neve channel
External Reverb
Ohmforce plugs & more..."
- Band(s): Three. Eskimo & Sons, The Old Believers, Typhoon
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Five Years
- Hometown: Portland, OR
- Living Now: Portland, OR
A microphone! Pro Tools for recording.
- Band(s): I'm a solo artist
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano
- Years playing: 44 years
- Hometown: Pelham, NY and Boulder, Colorado
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
Gibson J-185EC acoustic guitar, Taylor 510 acoustic guitar, Gretsch electric guitar, Yamaha C7 grand piano, Neumann KM105 vocal mic (road), Neumann U87 vocal mic (studio), Roland VS2480 recording desk, various other stringed instruments (mandolin, vihuela, bouzouki, etc.)
- Band(s): So many! Currently, I play with my own groups, it depends how much money the gig pays for. I have several gigs booked now with theAmy London Quartet. We will be a the Blue Note in NYC on 5/30, I'll be at the Blue Wisp in Cincinnati, Ohio aftr that with a local trio quartet of excellent Cincinnati jazz musicians, then off to Europe for the summer, Italy and France.
- Instruments: vocals/piano
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Living Now: Teaneck, NJ
I travel with a small sound system, a four channel Sunn amp with PeeVee speakers, plus I have used Electro Voice microphones since my senior year in college, 32 years ago.
- Band(s): lots of good affiliations for the history books; most notably Georgie James
- Instruments: vocals & keys
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Washington, DC
- Living Now: Omaha, NE
I'm not a gear head or a very technically savvy person. If I could single-handedly carry an old upright piano or fender rhodes everywhere I go, I would. But I'm not gonna win any strongman competitions anytime soon. So I play a Nord Electro through a Fender Twin amp. I've tried vintage-electric-guitar-up my sound as much as possible -- with the least amount of technical wizardry possible. I recently invested in a Neumann stage mic, but it doesn't do so well in most loud venues.
- Band(s): Any regular performances have been as a solo artist
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, percussion, some strings
- Years playing: Since 4th grade, formally
- Hometown: Toledo, OH
- Living Now: Toledo, but relocating soon
I have a computer I use for recording, as well as a 4-track cassette. Instruments include: Fender Jaguar electric guitar, 12-string electric (custom-made hybrid Vox Phantom & fender Shenandoah), Fender Musicmaster bass, Ampeg Jet II guitar amp, Korg monophonic synth, violin, cello, recorder, various percussion instruments, etc.
- Band(s): Mascott, Juicy, Sparklehorse, The Spinanes, Helium, Jennifer O'Connor, Doug Keith
- Instruments: sing, guitar, keyboard, a little bass
- Years playing: 17 years
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: New York City
"Gibson ES 122
Wurlitzer Electric Student Piano
Fender Deluxe Reverb amp"
- Band(s): five. X, the Knitters, Auntie Christ, the Original Sinners, and solo artist
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 34 years
- Hometown: southern california
- Living Now: orange, california
1964 gibson j50 acoustic, audix microphones.
- Band(s): probably about 8... the Mammals, Underbelly, Golem, Girls in Trouble, and a bunch more ...
- Instruments: vocals, violin, viola, ukulele, guitar
- Years playing: 30 years (since i was 3!)
- Hometown: Baltimore MD
- Living Now: Brooklyn
the same violin i've played since i was 15; an array of pedals (loop, octave, delay); Kay acoustic guitars (i have an abiding love for them); an old Martin soprano uke; a few electric guitars (fender bronco, most recently); a red amp a friend built for me; a little vox amp my sister gave me.
- Band(s): 2 a number of years ago and solo for the last 10 years
- Instruments: Vocals, Piano, Violin
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Calgary
- Living Now: Calgary
"Kurzweil Keyboard SP88X
BOSE L1 system
Neumann KM 105 Microphone"
- Band(s): one
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano & anything else i can get my hands on.
- Years playing: 21
- Hometown: sacramento, california
- Living Now: sacramento, moving nto portland at the end of april.
just an audix mic & my parlor style pawn shop fender acoustic guitar.
- Band(s): a few, but mostly Earlimart, and now Admiral Radley
- Instruments: bass, piano/keys, voice
- Years playing: 15 years in bands
- Hometown: Reseda, CA
- Living Now: Silverlake, CA
Fender p-bass, Yamaha Motif keyboard, various other keyboards, ampeg amp, etcetc
- Band(s): The Pandoras, The Muffs, The Beards
- Instruments: Vocals/Guitars
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Los Angeles CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles CA
Gretsch BST guitar, Fender Vibrolux amp, Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal.
- Band(s): dozens! In addition to the aforementioned 5 or 6 bands I am currently happily jamming with, I have been super lucky to have played with a bunch of my friends and heroes along the way in bands like LASAS and Jerry Lightfoot's Band of Wonder, I have also been super lucky to see some of the world touring Japan with Shelley King, Slovenia and Italy with Ginger Leigh and teaming up with Guy Forsyth whenever and wherever we can!
- Instruments: guitar, lap steel, mandolin, ukelele, trumpet, piano, singer, songwriter
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Living Now: I moved to the land of free guitar lessons! (Austin, TX)
"There's a video of some of my gear here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vMahR5O5fc
My live set up is:
Custom made ValveTech amplifier 2x10 switchable ohms (4 / 8 / 16) and switchable rectifier (AX7 / AY7)...did I mention it is Sparkle red tolex?
Usually I plug everything in to the ValveTech. Guitars: Telecaster with the Joe Barden pickups (Tellie), Patty the Blueshawk, Leslie Pauline the Les Paul Goddess; Mandy the electric mandolin (hand made with Piezo pickups) and Lappy the Lap Steel (an early 40's Kalamazoo found in an East Texas pawn shop). I play a little trumpet, usually just off my vocal mic."
- Band(s): I have been writing music since college and have headlined a regular rock band and now a rock band for kids.
- Instruments: I sing vocals and play guitar, piano, uke. I am learing mandolin and banjo!
- Years playing: I performed for my entire birthday party when I turned 2 years old an never looked back. I'm 31 now so it's been quite some time performing. I studied musical theater in college at Syracuse University and moved to NYC right away writing and performing my own music in all the music clubs.
- Hometown: Miami, Florida
- Living Now: New York City !
I own have 4 mediocre guitars I use in schools but when performing at a live concert, I use my amazing acoustic Taylor Guitar (814 Grand Auditorium) which I have had for 10 years. It just got a nasty crack on the top of the wood but I am in denial about that. My first Taylor guitar was smashed on an airplane. That is quite the story and I haven't flown Airtran since. I usually work with the backline at the venue but for smaller gigs I use a Mackie 150 PA, a guitar bug and Shure wireless mic so I am wire free.
- Band(s): 2, Circuit des Yeux and Cro Magnon
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, bass, tape, etc.
- Years playing: 4 years
- Hometown: Lafayette, IN
- Living Now: Bloomington, IN
I have my own mixing board, 2 amplifiers, vocals, guitar, pedals, 4 track when playing live. I also use violin, bass, drums, and other instruments for sampling when recording.
- Band(s): 5. The Rag and Bone Men, White Fang, The Ocean Floor, Typhoon, Ah Holly Fam'ly
- Instruments: violin, vocals, percussion
- Years playing: Most of my life.
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Living Now: Portland, Oregon
"What I play regularly: violin with quarter inch pickup, harmonica, glockenspiel.
What I play at home: violin, viola, upright bass, acoustic guitar, banjo, electric guitar (an imitation les paul called ""the paul"")"
- Band(s): only The Handsome Family
- Instruments: vocals, banjo, bass
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: NY
- Living Now: NM
"Gold Tone banjo
Hofner bass guitar"
- Band(s): 2 - this group and Le Concorde
- Instruments: Electric piano, synthesizer, tambourine
- Years playing: whole life.
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Chicago
I have a Roland Juno-D keyboard and Roland KC 550 amplifier. Don't know the make of my tambourine.
- Band(s): The Whispering Tree and The Random Spike
- Instruments: vocals, keyboard
- Years playing: 14
- Hometown: Pelham, NY
- Living Now: Astoria, Queens
Casio px210 keyboard and Ibanez acoustic guitar
- Band(s): No regulars; always variety of different groups in different occassions
- Instruments: None
- Years playing: On and Off Two years
- Hometown: Philippines, originally. Used to live in Ft Lauderdale, FL for a while.
- Living Now: Roanoke, VA
My gear? Sorry, I am not sure what you are asking. :-)
- Band(s): I formed the band Think of England when I was in college, and we were together for about 5 years. Since then I have been a solo singer/songwriter.
- Instruments: Piano, guitar, and vocals
- Years playing: 23 years on the piano. 15 years singing and writing songs, 13 years playing guitar. Doing the whole singing/songwriting thing seriously for about 9 years.
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Yamaha P-120 keyboard and Yamaha FG-730s guitar. I also have a Pro Tools rig and hard drive, and I use a MacBook with Garage Band.
- Band(s): I performed solo for many years as Lisa Simpson and have been with Finn Riggins for four years now
- Instruments: voice and guitar
- Years playing: singing my whole life, playing guitar since age 15 so about 18 years
- Hometown: Belmont, NH
- Living Now: Boise, ID
I play a newer Gibson Les Paul Stusio. It's a dark red with silver hardware. I use a 1984 Fender Twin II amp. My pedal board has a tube screamer, a big muff, and two delay pedals, a tuner and a volume pedal.
- Instruments: Composer
- Years playing: 65 years
- Hometown: Baltimore MD
- Living Now: Storrs CT
- Band(s): Just solo, as Liz Fullerton, and with DUTCH
- Instruments: guitar and vocals
- Years playing: performing since i was a wee little, but taking it seriously for the past 3 years, no studying yet
- Hometown: San Miguel de Allende Mexico/ Califronia/soil and sun
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
1 acoustic Olympia, 1 electric danelectro, 1 glass of bourbon and 1 vintage dress.
- Band(s): The first band I ever joined was called "The Doxies" which was an all girl punk band I started when I was 16. Then I jumped from band to band for a while, started a solo project, and in the summer of 2008, I joined Freelance Whales.
- Instruments: Bass, Glockenspiel, Harmonium, Synth, and vocals, drums, piano and guitar.
- Years playing: I started singing as a kid, taught myself how to play the drums, guitar and bass in high school, and studied piano throughout college. I picked up the harmonium and glockenspiel in August of 2008 (when I joined Freelance Whales.)
- Hometown: Im from Astoria, Queens, New York City.
- Living Now: When I'm not touring I live in Astoria Queens, New York.
I play a Fender precision bass out of an Ampeg combo amp and sometimes run it through a Boss overdrive pedal. A Micro Korg synthesizer, a glockenspiel, harmonium and a Roland JP8000.
- Band(s): Many, among them (most recently) "Music Go Music", "She & Him", "Harper Simon,"
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboards, percussion
- Years playing: my whole life... :) (family of musicians)
- Hometown: Piermont, NY (and Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY)
- Living Now: Los Angeles
5 year old Martin Guitar - in the repair shop at McCabe's in santa Monica right now because the airlines (jet blue) broke it in transit, but it should come back together nicely. I play my dad's old banjo (he has a newer one)...
- Band(s): classical ensembles
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: all my life
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Boston
I play whatever piano is in the room.
- Band(s): The Gypsy Moths, Raina Rose, Raina Rose Trio, SQUINTO
- Instruments: guitar, mandolin, vocals, percussion
- Years playing: studying for 17 years, playing professionally for 5 years.
- Hometown: Portland, OR
- Living Now: Austin, TX (they give musicians free health care!! it's amazing!)
"1980's shure SM 59 vocal mic
custom made Bayard Blain acoustic guitar with an LR Baggs pickup
mid-missouri brand mandolin (i'd love a nicer one)
a hardware store bucket with a strap and brushes (makes a great drum)"
- Band(s): dorilevine trio,dorilevine/virg dzurinko trio, Over Easy
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 30+ yrs
- Hometown: NJ
- Living Now: NY
- Band(s): only this one
- Instruments: bass
- Years playing: performing live since 98'
- Hometown: Cape Cod/Boston/SF Bay Area
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Mesa Boogie 200+ tube amp, Mesa cabs, Richenbacker bass, Tri OD, phaser, and whammy pedals
- Band(s): 2 (Panda Riot, architecture)
- Instruments: Panda Riot- vocals, keys, guitar; architecture- vocals, guitar, MIDI keyboard, mini glockenspiel, tambourine
- Years playing: 22
- Hometown: Batesville, AR/ Burlington, NC
- Living Now: Chicago, IL
"Panda Riot- vocal loop pedal, Danelectro ""Dead on 67"" reissue guitar, Fender Stage 185 amp, Yamaha Magicstomp guitar effects pedal, 61 key MIDI controller, Apple MacBook Pro
architecture- Danelectro ""Dead on 67"" reissue guitar, Fender Stage 185 amp, Yamaha Magicstomp guitar effects pedal, Angel glockenspiel"
- Band(s): about 4-5 (the main one is my own-Anat Fort trio)
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: over 20 years
- Hometown: Israel
- Living Now: Israel/NYC
I am a pianist, so I play any good instrument that's available at the venue I perform in!
- Band(s): This is my first one
- Instruments: I sing, and play keyboards
- Years playing: "I've been singing since I can remember, and I've been in this band for about 2 years"
- Hometown: I'm from Houston, TX
- Living Now: Still in Houston, TX
I play a Roland Juno-D, beat up old floor toms, and sing.
- Band(s): just one, Morningwood
- Instruments: vocal chords
- Years playing: 9 years!!
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Los Angeles
- Band(s): My own eponymous band has featured a rotating cast of supporting musicians and we've been playing around NYC since 2005.
- Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar
- Years playing: 32
- Hometown: I'm from Winnetka, IL on the North Shore of Chicago
- Living Now: Brooklyn
I have a Korg keyboard that I bring to gigs but I prefer to write on my slightly out-of-tune old upright Lester spinet piano in my apartment. I also like to sit in my garden and play my acoustic guitar (an Olympia), armed with a stack of notebooks filled with lyrics and an old 8-track recorder to capture song ideas. I'm not really a digital girl- you won't find me creating loops on a laptop or anything like that. I guess my 'gear' also includes some very handsome guys with a proclivity for the technical and digital to help execute my recording ideas! Are fishnet stockings and stiletto heels considered 'gear'? Because I don't perform without them.
- Band(s): John Mellencamp, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Petra Hayden, The Wallflowers, United States Three, The Prom, Invisible Jet
- Instruments: vocals, piano, xylophone, guitar, harmonium, drums, cello
- Years playing: I have been singing since I was able to make sound. I have been playing piano for 30 years, studied cello for 8 years, and I have been playing the other instruments since the age of 16.
- Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
We use a small customized drum kit (everything fits into itself which is needed since we our in a Toyota Prius), two acoustic guitars (both Gibson's from the 50's and 60's), two Princeton reverb amps from the 70s, a Dulcetina (which is similar to a Harmonium), one Orff metallophone, children's glockenspiel and chromatic glockenspiel, muff pedal, home made tremelo pedal, and the most important which is a battery powered milk frother.
- Band(s): Evie Ladin Band, Stairwell Sisters, Crosspulse, Rhythm In Shoes, and lots of pick-up bands and one-offs for gigs
- Instruments: banjo, guitar, vocals, feet, body percussion
- Years playing: 35
- Hometown: Born in New York, lived all over the country - I think of myself as from the East Coast
- Living Now: Oakland, CA
Banjo, guitar, tap shoes, square dance calling cards, stomp box, cords, sometimes the whole PA system, dance board, merchandise, instrument stand.
- Band(s): Just the one mention before
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Four Years
- Hometown: Mexico City
- Living Now: Saint Paul MN
My gear being my voice, is powerful one. One that speaks out how I feel when I peforme and one that gets the point across
- Band(s): I've been in one other band called Skort, and done some minor collaborarations
- Instruments: Keyboards and vocals
- Hometown: Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Living Now: Vancouver, British Columbia
I play a Roland JX-3P and a Super Jupiter. I use a Roland Jazz Chorus amp.
The best thing you can do is know your stuff. Know your gear, know your instrument, know what you want in business, know what's important to you and what your values are.
- Band(s): Paul Winter Consort
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, piano, violin
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Minnesota
- Living Now: Orcas Island WA
- Band(s): about 5 or 6
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: White Plains, NY
- Living Now: Nyack, NY
"Guitars: 1975 Les Paul (blonde) and 2005 Fender Resonator
Amp: 1975 Fender Twin Reverb; 1960 Fender Tube Amp"
- Instruments: I am a composer, pianist, music technologist, conductor
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Taiwan
- Living Now: Montana, USA
- Band(s): David and Nicole Binion
- Instruments: vocal
- Years playing: 13 years
- Hometown: Portage, Indiana
- Living Now: Dallas, TX
Travel with my husband, but just recorded my first solo project. Travel with tracks or full band and bgv's
- Band(s): just me. Simone White
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: all over. born in hawaii. lived west coast, east coast, london
- Living Now: venice, california
I play a 1964 Guild M20 guitar with a Dearmond pickup
- Band(s): 3 Oh Those Pants/The Doncasters/Martha and the Muffins (aka M+M)
- Instruments: vocals and some guitar and keyboards
- Years playing: 40
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada
- Living Now: Toronto, Canada
I share a home studio with Mark Gane. I have a Wurlitzer electric piano, Acetone organ and about 4 or 5 guitars. I got my first guitar when I was twelve. It is a small acoustic Hofner and I still have it. I also own a mandolin. I recently bought a 3/4 size bass at a thrift store and had it fixed up. I play it a lot right now.
- Band(s): My own project for 15 years. I also do a Carol Channing impersonation and get hired to play 'her' with random Variety shows a few times a year.
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: my entire life. toddler onwards...
- Hometown: NYC (born in London)
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I sing. My favorites microphone to record with is theTelefunken U47. Live shows: throat spray and water!
- Instruments: vocals, guitars, keyboards, etc.
- Years playing: 17
- Hometown: Decalb, Illinois
- Living Now: Dubuque, Iowa
"Martin acoustic guitars, Vox and Ampeg amp. Roland RD-700 Keyboard. Mini Moog,
Woodpecker Mic."
- Band(s): mostly just my own band
- Instruments: Piano & Voice
- Years playing: about 12 years professionally
- Hometown: Norman Oklahoma
- Living Now: New York City
Hmm....well I'm a straight-ahead Jazz musician so I don't have alot of "gear" in terms of electronics. I prefer to play on a piano (as opposed to a keyboard or electronic instrument) and when I sing I pretty much sing through whatever system is provided. I'm a pretty acoustic musician. At home I have an upright Sohmer piano on which to practice.
- Instruments: Piano
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Walnut Creek, CA
- Living Now: New York, NY
- Band(s): Judy Niemack Band, Peter Duchin Orchestra, Larry Elgart Orchestra, Various big bands and small jazz groups.
- Instruments: vocal
- Years playing: 40 yrs
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: Berlin, Germany
Neumann 105 microphone, Lexicon jam-man
- Band(s): Bright Eyes, She and Him, Azure Ray, Maria Taylor, Orenda Fink, Mc Carthy Trenching, Tin Kite
- Instruments: Bass Guitar, Vocals, keyboards
- Years playing: 16 years
- Hometown: Los Angeles
- Living Now: Omaha NE & Los Angeles
I have two Aria Pro 2 basses. I am in love with them! They are the only basses I have ever played at a live show. They are both a shade of red and have long skinny necks which works great for my super small hands. My amp is the same amp I have had since high school. My band mates make fun of me for it. I have a Hartke head and an Ampeg cabinet. The cabinet is torn to shreds from traveling around the world on a Bright Eyes tour and the head is good as new because of a case I had made for it in Omaha. I'm not a very big gear head as you can tell.
- Band(s): Four - The Swear (my main group, vocals, guitar, songwriting), Ghost of Summer Suns (solo project), Granville Automatic (guitar, songwriting), Supervisor of the Loveless Average (bass)
- Instruments: Guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals
- Years playing: almost 20 years
- Hometown: Army brat
- Living Now: Atlanta, GA
"Guitars: two Gretsch duo jets, one Gretsch white penguin (I'm endorsed by Gretsch); Les Paul Standard, Epiphone Les Paul, Telecaster, Takamine acoustic
Bass: 1978 Fender P-Bass
Amps: Marshall JCM800, Sovtek Mig 50, Vox AC15"
- Band(s): Elgin Sym., Chicago Philharmonic, Grant Park Symphony, Florida Symphony, Omaha Symphony , Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sioux City Symphony, South Dakota Symphony
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: 39 years
- Hometown: Sioux City, IA
- Living Now: Elburn, IL
"1981 Helmut Keller Violin, Tubbs Bow
1985 Whedbee Viola"
- Instruments: keyboards, guitar, flute, clarinet
- Years playing: 12 years
- Hometown: Maine
- Living Now: Athens, Georgia
Korg Radias, Kurzweil KME 61, Epiphone Dot semi hollow body guitar, early 1970's Fender reverb deluxe amp, multiple effects pedals, 2 Roland JX3P Synths
- Band(s): Sunset Rubdown, Pony Up!, Secret Choir
- Instruments: vocals, keyboards, Q~Chord, glockenspiel, percussion, melodica
- Years playing: 8 years or so
- Hometown: Edmonton, AB
- Living Now: Montreal, QC
I play an old Yamaha keyboard that we found in the trash, a Suzuki Q~Chord (which is a digital autoharp), two cymbals (chinese & small splash), a glockenspiel, sometimes a melodica, and I also use a small vibrator for playing the cymbals and glock. I run the keyboard and the Q~Chord through a four-channel mixer to a bass amp.
- Band(s): Lots of local bands growing up, none professionally until Those Darlins, but I'd say about 7.
- Instruments: Guitar, bass, vocals
- Years playing: 12
- Hometown: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Living Now: Murfreesboro, TN
I play an Epiphone Casino, Fender Telecaster 72 Reissue, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Amp, Ampeg Rocket Bass Amp, and a Gretsch bass
- Band(s): Mostly just stick with Clare and the Reasons, I do quite a bit of collaborating with Van Dyke Parks...But I sing on some sessions etc. as well.
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, banjo, kazoo, washboard, foot tambourine
- Years playing: 8 years
- Hometown: Martha's Vineyard
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Oh! We use a deconstructed drum set for ages 2-4, the bass drum has "kaboom" written on it. I play a 1959 225 Gibson through a 1972 fender vibro champ. I also play a 1959 0018 Martin guitar that I inherited. Apparently, I have a connection with the year 1959... I also play a tambourine mounted onto a kick, so I can play it with my foot. My "boys" play cello, violin, clarinet, french horn, euphonium, keys, bass, percussion, and sing their hearts out. I prefer to sing through a beta 58, the bit of extra brightness makes my little voice cut more. I can't believe you asked about gear, what a fun question... I could go on and on.
- Instruments: I'm a composer of concert music
- Years playing: I've been composing for nearly 30 yrs
- Hometown: AKron OH
- Living Now: Ellicott City MD
Tho this is geared to popular music, I hope you'll consider including writing about ALL genres of music and how women figure in them. I compose computer music using various software and often using source material from everyday sounds and speech). I synthesize sounds at the computer. I compose for acoustic instruments in a chamber music setting and I compose for instruments with computer music. My latest DVD listed above published by Everglade is a compilation with 6 women composers on it entitled Sounding Out. All the composers are lesbians. It's a typical format for classical music to have several composers on one CD or DVD.
- Band(s): This House/ Emerald Sun/Fruit/ Mel Watson solo/ Corbin & Mel
- Instruments: Vocal, Trumpet, Saxophone, Guitar, Tenor Horn, Flute, Percussion
- Years playing: 22
- Hometown: Australia
- Living Now: Seattle
Takamine Acoustic Guitar,Yamaha Trumpet, an old Lyon Healy Soprano Sax, Yamaha Flute, Werl Tenor Horn, various percussion pieces. I use a mac set up to record my own music.
- Band(s): La Promessa, The East Side Trio, Many small opera companies,
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: over 30 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
Just a Fender portable amp and mike if needed (and cable) Lots of music books! Lyrics! I guess I am my gear.
- Band(s): was in a cappella group in high school; choir in college. bands: sang with friends, "The Jupiters," in college, afterwards founded the Popsicles with four other ladies. We were a band for about a year; Kate and I have been performing at Gracious Calamity ever since. Have also been add-on to Manners and Peace, Loving
- Instruments: ukulele and vocals
- Years playing: singing all my life, three years with the uke
- Hometown: Providence, RI
- Living Now: Boston, MA
Gracious Calamity = uke + guitar +vox. Sometimes other things.
- Band(s): 2: Melting Hopefuls & currently in Elk City
- Instruments: Vocals, piano, keys, fender rhodes piano bass, drums (drums, not played well!)
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Elmwood Park, NJ
- Living Now: Elmwood Park, NJ
An upright piano, an old Casio keyboard from the 80s, a Fender Rhodes piano bass (that used to belong to Tom Verlaine of the amazing band, Television) and boxes of broken analog tape recorders that I keep replacing due to too much songwriting!(I've tried to get into digital recording - I even purchased an M-Box and Protools, but can't get into it.) I love writing onto tape recorders that much.
- Band(s): Under my own name, Luke Doucet, Sarah Mclachlan, Blue Rodeo, Jesse Cook, Ladybird Sideshow
- Instruments: vocals & guitar, sometimes piano
- Years playing: performing since I was a kid. Professionally for 13 years.
- Hometown: Born in Park Ridge Illinois. Grew up in Canada.
- Living Now: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Martin D18 1973. Telecaster 1966. Pedal board with distortion, reverb, tremolo. Custom made amp built from a bell & howell film projector, called a Bernie.
- Band(s): Psalm One, Nacrobats
- Instruments: Vocals, Drums
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: Chicago
- Living Now: Chicago
My gear consists of Ableton and a MPD32. Very sleek and allows me to do some awesome stuff to an already cool rap show.
- Band(s): several
- Instruments: guitar/vocals
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Dallas
- Living Now: Austin
- Band(s): Worked/recorded with jazz great Frank Wess, Ruaaell Malone, Renee rosnes, Warren Vache, Howard Alden
- Instruments: vocalist
- Years playing: performing 25 years. i began relatively late in my life.
- Hometown: Chicago
- Living Now: Chicago & New York
Shure SM58 Mike, Audio Technica Artist Elite 3300 Mike
- Band(s): multiple chamber groups
- Instruments: piano. organ
- Years playing: 25+ years
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Living Now: Upland, CA
- Band(s): 2 soaring rhino / Tone
- Instruments: labtop/vocal
- Hometown: Denmark
- Living Now: In Denmark
Labtop, sometimes different instruments, Microphone, midi controllers.
- Band(s): Damocles Trio, Modigliani Quartet, Botticelli Duo, Catnap Treadmill, LES Ensemble, BachWorks
- Instruments: cello
- Years playing: 26 years (if you count studies as a child: 38 years)
- Hometown: Switzerland
- Living Now: New York City
- Band(s): Mostly my own (I am a solo artist), but I have also performed in Mascott
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, piano, bass
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: Danielson, Connecticut
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I have a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar. A Guild T-100 electric guitar, and a small Fender princeton amp.
- Band(s): Many Big Bands in Toronto & San Diego as well as The Chicago Six & Maple Leaf Jazz Band
- Instruments: vocalist
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I mostly just use the club sound system but I do have Mackie board and some JBL speakers.
- Band(s): 20 (+) The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, The IJQ, Project O (with Gary Versace and Seamus Blake), The George Schuller group, Circle Wide, The Mingus Big Band, DIVA, The Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, Darcy James Argue and Secret Society, The Vienna Art Orchestra, The Jensen Five, The Terri-Lynn Carrington group, The Beata Hlavenkova band (Prague), Nordic Connect, The Maggi Olin Quartet, The IJQ West, featuring Dawn Clement, the Jazz Rainbow Coalition, the Christine Jensen Quintet.
- Instruments: Trumpet.
- Years playing: 30 years. (+)
- Hometown: Nanaimo, British Columbia
- Living Now: Astoria, NY
"A custom made Monette (gold plated) Bb trumpet. hand craftet by Dave Monette himself.
TC Helicon voice processor,original VOX Wahwah pedal, line 6 delay unit and a number of very good mics. "
- Band(s): Crowd, Live Wire, Tx Ladybugs
- Instruments: Bass, Keys, Vocals
- Years playing: 30+ years
- Hometown: San Antonio, TX
- Living Now: Boerne, TX
Have 8 bass guitars - favorites Fender 60th anniversary P-Bass and Ibanez semi-hollow-body. Have several amps -- small Ampeg and small Peavey - large rig is Hartke head and cabinet.
- Instruments: guitar
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: Portland, Or
- Living Now: Portland, Or
I dont have much on my own, I usually travel with an acoustic guitar and use a DI at the club. I will sometimes use pre recorded beats to play along with, or play Piano.
- Band(s): solo artist
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, mandolin bass
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
- Living Now: Cape Cod, MA
I have 2 acoustic guitars built by Jim Olson, a 1946 Martin D-18, an 80's Fender Stratocaster, a Telsco 1970's electric Baritone guitar, various mandolins, keyboards, a P bass, a Harmony semi hollow electric. Main instrument is the Olson. I play through a Pendulum pre amp setup, (parametric EQ and pre amp). I use a 1960's or 70's Fender Princeton for the Strat.
- Band(s): Ruckus
- Instruments: composer
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Pennsylvania
- Living Now: Baltimore
- Band(s): I freelance. There have been less than 10 groups I have performaed with regularly.
- Instruments: bass
- Years playing: studying: 32 years. working professionally: 10+ years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
"An acoustic bass. Its bow. No pickup.
An electric bass. No pick.
Two small combo amplifiers. "
- Band(s): 4- Human Cock, The Look Ahead, Teith, Let's Pet
- Instruments: Drums, keyboard, flute, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 28
- Hometown: Military child so- South Carolina, Hawaii, New Orleans, Va Beach, Chicago
- Living Now: Chicago
"4 piece Slingerland Drumkit, Chimes, Flute, Roland TR-505 Drum Machine, Singing Bowl
Martin acoustic guitar"
- Band(s): 4 - Kitty Litter, The Last Forever, The English System, She Keeps Bees
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, drums
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Wheaton Maryland - outside of Washington DC
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
"1979 American Strat - Antigua Hardtail
4X10 Hot Rod Fender Deville Tube Combo Amp
Maxwin by Pearl set"
- Band(s): I have been in 4 actual bands: Radio Activity, Venus, Mellow Yellow and ReBelle
- Instruments: vocals and guitar
- Years playing: 13
- Hometown: The Hague (the Netherlands)
- Living Now: The Hague (the Netherlands)
"I have an american, dark green Fender Stratocaster, and I use .011 - .048 nickel wound strings by Ernie Ball.
The effect pedals I use are:
- an OCD ( =obsessive compulsive drive ) by Fulltone
- a Jemini distortionpedal by Ibanez
- a Cry Baby wahwahpedal ( model GCB-95 ) by Dunlop
- a Chromatic tuner TU-2 by Boss"
- Band(s): Janis Ian
- Instruments: vocals, guitars, keyboards, some banjo, some psaltery
- Years playing: 56 years
- Hometown: East Coast
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
"On stage:
Two ""Janis Ian model"" Santa Cruz guitars, one in standard tuning, one detuned, each with D'Addario strings and Planet Waves headstock tuner.
Pedal Board - Boss PS-2 A/B pedal, Boss delay pedal (old), original Dunlop Wah-Wah pedal, Boss phaser, occasional Boss chorus, TU-12 tuner, Baggs DI, Planet Waves cables.
Shure KSM-9 or Shure Beta 87-C microphone; tripod mic stand with double-telescoping boom; bar stool to hold flowers, water, tea, picks.
D'Addario/Planet Waves flatpicks (custom); Yamaha Japan thumbpicks (custom).
At home/in storage:
Numerous guitars, including 1975 Les Paul, D'Aquisto, Bozo, Martin, Kevin Ryans
Yamaha electric keyboard
Old Steinway upright piano
Various other pieces of gear for studio use (inc. percussion, banjo, bowed psaltery, Evo autoharp, mandolin, National Steel, harmonicas)"
- Band(s): 1. BettySoo
- Instruments: vocal, acoustic and electric guitars, accordion, a little piano, various other...
- Years playing: 6 years
- Hometown: Texas
- Living Now: Texas
"Taylor 714c acoustic guitar
Brasilia (east German vintage) electric hollow body guitar
various guitar pedals (Two Timer, Tuna Melt, POG, Hardwire tuner, etc.)
Carter pedal steel guitar
Yamaha upright piano
Italian accordion (brand...?)
Fender Woody Pro Jr amp"
- Band(s): one
- Instruments: guitar, vocal
- Hometown: Clinton, NJ
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Guitar (acoustic or electric), amp, mic (for vocals), mic (for amp sometimes)
- Band(s): ICE, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), American Repertory Theater, Radius Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Portland Symphony Orchestra
- Instruments: viola
- Years playing: 26 years (since I was 5)
- Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
- Living Now: Ithaca, NY
viola (have owned since I was 16), 3 bows, various accessories, sheet music. carry in one case.
- Band(s): Bellevue Philharmonic, Tacoma Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Mid Washington Opera, Wenatchee Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Sylvan String Quartet, Swan String Quartet, Federal Way Philharmonic, Spokane Opera, Seattle Rock Orchestra
- Instruments: Violin and Viola
- Years playing: 47 years
- Hometown: Seattle, WA
- Living Now: Shoreline, WA
"Italian Violin made in 1794, maker unknown
Modern Italian Viola made in 1967, maker Umberto Lenaro"
- Band(s): 4 (Alyse Black, Thursty Love, No Jive Five, Purple Unicorns - my band when I was 11)
- Instruments: voice, piano, kazoo, tambourine, guitar, violin
- Years playing: Since I was 5.
- Hometown: Seattle, WA
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Nord Stage EX 76. Senheiser e935.
- Instruments: soprano
- Years playing: 18
- Hometown: boston, ma
- Living Now: ny
Just me and my vocal chords
- Band(s): Diane Moser's Composers Big Band, Diane Moser Quintet, Diane Moser Trio, and countless others
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 47 years
- Hometown: Iowa
- Living Now: New Jersey
- Band(s): recitalist of classical music and music by women composers
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: sixty five years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
My body and my soul, plus years of study and teaching.
- Band(s): 4 different bands.
- Instruments: Vocals/Guitar
- Years playing: Dropped out of school and started my first band 15 years ago. Have made a living from it for about 8 years.
- Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Living Now: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Fender telecaster, Duesenbrg guitar, Martin guitar, 1960 vintage Hummingbird, Vox AC30.
- Band(s): My Band, Slingshot Dakota and with my best friend, Donna and Carly
- Instruments: Keyboard, piano and vocals
- Years playing: Since I could reach the piano keys! twenty-five years I think!
- Hometown: Long Island, NY
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
"I am obsessed with Yamaha keyboard. I own a Yamaha p80, but I broke the keys off of it too regularly from playing it really hard on tour. For Slingshot Dakota, I play a Yamaha CP 33 Keyboard through an Ibinez Tubescreamer, a Boss Bass overdrive pedal and a delay pedal. I run these to a Morely AB switch, which goes to 3 amps. The distorted keyboard sounds come out of 3 Roland amps: 2 KC550 amps and a Roland Subwoofer.
My instrumental music is recorded on the Yamaha P80 that I can no longer tour with and a Yamaha MM8 Synthesizer."
- Instruments: One string guitar, classical piano,melodica, organ
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: London
- Living Now: On areoplanes
Moniter, Mic, bass,guitar, melodica, megaphone, drums, vintage mics, vocoda
- Band(s): 1, Dark Dark Dark
- Instruments: accordion, piano, vocals
- Years playing: I started playing piano 18 years ago
- Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
- Living Now: Minneapolis, MN
I have a Technics keyboard that is full-size and has weighted keys. I have a nice Silvio Soprani 120-Bass accordion that I mic with AKG condensor mics.
- Band(s): Carol Heffler Trio: St. Andrews Choir, Brasilia
- Instruments: vocals; piano/keyboard
- Years playing: Performing: 36 yrs: studying: over 40
- Hometown: Summit, NJ
- Living Now: Lambertville, NJ
Korg digital piano, Peavey amp, keyboard stand, mike stand, EV N/D367s microphone, stand for Peavey amp, Steinway grand piano in home studio.
- Band(s): Rose Polenzani, Edie Carey, Anne Heaton, Meg Hutchinson
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano
- Years playing: 10 yrs
- Hometown: Prince Edward Island Canada
- Living Now: Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
"Martin Guitar
Yamaha Piano
Flatiron Mandola"
- Band(s): Just the one
- Instruments: Upright bass and vocals
- Years playing: 8 years
- Hometown: Vermont
- Living Now: Vermont
I play a sunrise san clemente 1/2 size bass with a K&K Bassmax pickup through a ampeg svt 450 solid state head and an aguilar 2 12 cab. Its not the most acoustic sound you can get but it is consistent and is less prone to feedback issues than other set ups I've tried.
- Band(s): 3, The Art Of Shooting, Patrick Bower, and Mystery RKO
- Instruments: Vocals/Guitar
- Years playing: 17 years
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I play a Gretsch Electromatic guitar, a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amplifier, and an assortment of effects pedals.
- Band(s): 5. Bearfoot, Syran, The Woolwines, Laura Veirs, Black Praire
- Instruments: fiddle/violin and vocals
- Years playing: 24
- Hometown: Anchorage, AK
- Living Now: Portland, OR
I have a beautiful fiddle from the late 1700's. I think it is gorgeous. For amplification I use a realist pick-up. I use an LR bags DI along with the Pre-Sonas tube pre-amp and when I play with drums I will add a volume pedal...:)
- Band(s): I put my own units together each weekend and they are always different.
- Instruments: vocalist and a little piano
- Years playing: Performing since 1971
- Hometown: Stamford CT
- Living Now: Stamford CT
I own Bose speakers both 802s and 402s. Have a Mackie mixer, a Walter Woods amplifier, a Lexicon reverb unit. A tri-cart to transport gear. I also own an electric piano.
- Band(s): Drasco, Jed and Kelley, The Trishas
- Instruments: Vocals, mandolin
- Years playing: 19
- Hometown: Memphis, TN
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I play a Kentucky Mandolin F-style, with a Fishman pickup. I use a Boss stomp tuner and an LR Baggs Preamp. Vocal mikes vary depending on the gig.
- Band(s): fronted my own bands w/ various members
- Instruments: vocals/guitar
- Years playing: 15-20 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Austin, TX
2 acoustic guitars. I play slide on one of them. I also have a full PA which I often use for gigs.
- Band(s): one
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Montreal, Canada
- Living Now: Toronto, Canada
"Live Mic - Shure, KS79
Recording Mic - Milab, can't remember the number
Mic Stand - Hercules, grip lock
Inner Ears - Ultimate Ears, UA10s
Side Table
Flowers"
- Band(s): Many in many different towns. The list would very long. I have at least two bands that are 'mine' and then I play with so many people in their bands.
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, types of violins
- Years playing: I've been writing songs and teaching myself to play instruments since the age of six. I am untaught.
- Hometown: Houston, Texas
- Living Now: Brooklyn
I generally play instruments that are about 50 years old. I have 3 amps, 2 usable acoustic guitars I mostly use to write on, a sparkly gold electric guitar I never play, 2 great guitars (each other's back-up) that I play on stage. That's the flat-black (pre-Gibson) Epiphone from 1948, restored by Keith Cary, and the Guild with the P-90 pickups from the early 50's, which is a truly sweet guitar. I have a Krakauer piano from the 1940s, ebony--shining gorgeous thing, needs new bass strings which is an expensive job. I have an erhu from China with a (farmed) pythonskin drumhead. I have a violin made in one day on a dare by my friend who had never made a violin, Stefan Jecusco. He makes really magical instruments. I have a museum quality Stroviol from 1905, made by Stroh, my 'nicest' instrument. It sounds like a crazy dream. I have a sweet old Cohn cornet I can barely play. I have a banjo I hardly play. I have a cute old autoharp, and god knows how many other instruments. I loaned out a pack of ukuleles that may never come home to roost.
- Band(s): 3: Standard Fare, The Daisies, Persons Unknown
- Instruments: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: York, England
- Living Now: York, England
Fender Mustang Bass. Japanese hollowback electric guitar. Steel string electric guitar. Nylon string electric guitar. Mandolin. Entry level short scale bass.
- Band(s): I have only performed wit Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
- Instruments: Keyboard, Back-up Vocalist
- Years playing: I, like most musicians, played some music in middle school and high school but I have been in a band for three years.
- Hometown: Syracuse, NY
- Living Now: Seattle, WA
I use a Frafisa Combo Compact, the same keyboard Ray Manzarek and Richard Wright used.
- Band(s): Mostly solo
- Instruments: voice, 12 string guitar, mountain dulcimer
- Years playing: 36 years
- Hometown: Michigan
- Living Now: Northern Michigan
Guitar, dulcimer, me. .a small sound system when I need it, one spreaker and 4-channel mixer. .usually my venues have sound or I don;t need it.
- Band(s): Just one
- Instruments: piano/vocals
- Years playing: a long long time
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: BK
Helpenstill Piano(portable hell of a piano, VERY heavy)
- Band(s): Mary Louise Knutson Trio, JazzMN Big Band, Debbie Duncan, I freelance a lot so there are a lot of other groups I play with now and have played with in previous years.
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: I've been playing for 40 years, though I'm only 44. Classical piano from age 4 through college - age 22, then jazz for the last 22 years
- Hometown: Originally, Wausau, WI
- Living Now: Minneapolis, MN
I own a Kawaii grand piano 5'10". I use whatever piano a venue has, though I bring a Kurzweil PC 2X (88 weighted keys) keyboard if no piano is available. With that, I lug a Roland KC-350 amplifier, a keyboard stand, a music stand, a bench, and a bag of chords.
- Band(s): I've only ever been in Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, but we had several names before we settled on GPN. "Nocturnal Grace" but we had to change it when we found out there was a Christian rock band with the same name.
- Instruments: I sing and play the Hammond B-3 organ and guitar.
- Years playing: I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
- Hometown: Waitsfield, VT
- Living Now: Waitsfield, VT
My Hammond B-3 organ was built in 1961. I had it overhauled 5 years ago to fit my style of playing, giving it a very smooth low-end crunch. It's loud! Gibson just gave me an incredible chestnut 70's SG with a whammy bar and all kinds of magic tricks. It's one of a kind.
- Band(s): 2: Slowgun, Picastro
- Instruments: guitar, violin, piano, vocals
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Toronto
- Living Now: Toronto
2 acoustic Seagull guitars, an upright piano, a violin with Barcus Berry pick-up, a Music Man reverb amp, a loop station, reverb unit, Macbook with Garageband and Live software for recording, Shure mircrophone.
- Band(s): I used to perform with mum, Slowblow, Storsveit NIx Noltes and Hudson Wayne. Now I perform mostly my own music but I also play with Skuli Sverrisson.
- Instruments: voice, guitar, charango, violin and various string instruments I collect
- Years playing: Started classical training at 6 (in 86), played with different pop/rock bands from 15, finished a BA in music and new media in 2006 and released my first solo album a year after.
- Hometown: Reykjavik, Iceland
- Living Now: Reykjavik, Iceland
When playing alone I have one nylon string guitar, one small parlor steal string guitar, one charango. When my friend David Thor Jonsson joins me at the stage he adds a bigger steal string guitar, kalimba and piano (preferably grand piano) to the equation. If he's around I like to play my violin-viola too.
- Band(s): Diamonds Under Fire
- Instruments: My main instruments are vocals & guitar but I also write & play bass, drums & a little bit of piano.
- Years playing: Since age 11 (16 years)
- Hometown: I split my time between Hawaii with my Mom & the San Francisco Bay Area with my Dad.
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Gibson & Epiphone guitars, Fender Deville combo amp, Boss overdrive & distortion pedals, Ernie Ball strings (Skinny top, heavy bottom), Dunlop guitar picks, & audix OM5 vocal mic.
- Band(s): I am solo. worked w/ 5+ groups over the years
- Instruments: Vocals - I rap
- Years playing: 20+ years. no joke.
- Hometown: Toronto, CANADA
- Living Now: NYC
I don't make music, I am more of a songwriter / vocalist. I do own an mbox 2 Mini at home with a rhode mic and Mac to record on but I prefer to record at other studios rather than my own bedroom - I'm oldschool I guess.
- Band(s): Shanna Carlson Quartet, Hugo Wainzinger Ensemble
- Instruments: Vocals/Piano
- Years playing: 35+ years
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: Castro Valley, Ca.
"Prefer acoustic pianos to play, have a Yamaha P120...88 weighted keys
Shure Dynamic Mic AXS2"
- Band(s): just my own projects long term... but I have sat in with many friends
- Instruments: vocals, piano, ukulele, accordion
- Years playing: 30 years (since I was 5)
- Hometown: Cheyenne, WY
- Living Now: Austin, TX
An upright piano I bought when I was twenty. A soprano Lanakai ukulele, and a small light weight Titan accordion. For gigs where no piano is available I bring a full size, weighted key, Yamaha keyboard.
- Band(s): fanshaw and the choir practice
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Hometown: vancouver BC
- Living Now: vancouver BC
"All of my gear is always broken so it is constantly changing depending on which friends are willing to lend me their stuff. I always play a fender guitar..I prefer telecasters but lately i've been borrowing a fender jag because my tele is all messed up.
"
- Band(s): 6. Of these the most important are Stripmall Architecture and Halou
- Instruments: I sing
- Years playing: Since 1991
- Hometown: San Francisco Bay Area
- Living Now: San Francisco Bay Area
"On stage I use a mic and a kaoss pad to cut up my vocals and a bunch of percussion.
In the studio, I have a fantastic super fancy mic and pre-amp. "
- Band(s): mostly my own projects under my name- Mia Doi Todd
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, ukulele, piano, drums, tampura, harmonium, tin whistle...
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Mostly I play a 1969 Martin nylon string guitar. Live I sing into a Sure beta 58. I own a Neumann mic and Universal Audio preamp for recording. My ukulele was made in Java by a Hawaiian company called Pono. Tanpura by Rikhi Ram Music of Delhi.
- Band(s): Two: my own and Jennie Lowe Stearns and the Fire Choir
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano
- Years playing: 12
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Montour Falls, NY
Red Yamaha steel string guitar. Roland FP 500 keyboard.
- Band(s): The Veynz, The Diamond Star Halos, Emily Jane White
- Instruments: Guitar and Piano
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: Fort Bragg, CA
- Living Now: San Francisco, CA
"1962 Gibson J-45
1955 Gibson ES200
Fender Tube Amps
Roland Digital Piano"
- Band(s): 3 - Bucketfunk, E Serenes (now E Muzeki), Vanessa Lively band
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
- Years playing: 16+ years vocals, 10 years guitar, 3 years performing professionally
- Hometown: San Antonio, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I own two Alvarez Acoustic guitars, a Kustom PA system, vocal mics & stands, cables, etc. I have percussion instruments (mostly shakers) from around the world. My husband, who plays with me, owns a charango from Bolivia, a few guitars & a bass.
- Band(s): Mother Banjo Band
- Instruments: Vocals, Banjo
- Years playing: I have been singing and playing music my whole life, but I've been playing and performing on banjo for the last 5 years.
- Hometown: New Haven, CT
- Living Now: Minneapolis, MN
My gear is simple--I simply mic my banjo and my voice.
- Band(s): many chamber ensembles and solo recitals over the years
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 58 yrs.
- Hometown: Dallas, TX originally
- Living Now: Winston-Salem, NC
I am primarily a composer of religious and classical music for choir, solo voice, or 5-10 instrument ensembles, and also perform as a pianist sometimes when my music is performed.
- Instruments: guitar
- Years playing: 16
- Hometown: wildwood, florida
- Living Now: nashville tn
acoustic guitar, cable, headstock tuner, capo, strap, clogs.
yeah people told me to not change, but i've definitely changed. i would tell them its okay to change and its okay to let a man carry your gear.
- Band(s): Red Aunts, The Screws, Beehive and the Barracudas, Two Tears
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 18 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
I play a 1964 Melody Maker modified with humbucking pickups and a Fender Super Reverb.
- Band(s): Emm Gryner, David Bowie, A Camp, The Cardigans, Hot One
- Instruments: bass, piano, vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 31 years
- Hometown: Canada
- Living Now: St. Marys, Canada
Yamaha P-90 in a custom built cherry piano shell, Hagstrom bass, Fender musicmaster '77, Seagull guitars (several).
- Band(s): Thrust/The Peacenicks
- Instruments: Guitar/bass/vox/keys
- Years playing: Age 3
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
"Fender strat, takamine acoustic electric
fender squier bass"
- Band(s): I have played with other people's bands (Bob Dylan, for one) but have had this band since 1997
- Instruments: I play the violin/fiddle and sing
- Years playing: since I was four
- Hometown: Grew up in Prairie Village, KS (basically Kansas City)
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
I play the same violin I have had since I was about eight years old. It's a Mittenwald, which means it was made at the Mittenwald School which is on the border of Austria and Germany. It was made in 1962 and my mom was the original owner and handed it down to me. It's the only violin I have owned/that I play since being big enough to play a full-size violin. I play through an AER amplifier with no direct box. All my gear info is visible on my website and myspace page, if you want more info. I use Dominant strings and have six bows that I travel with at all times and get them rehaired often.
- Band(s): Concord Orchestra, and other community orchestras
- Instruments: horn, piano, homemade percussion, voice
- Years playing: 40
- Hometown: Lexington, MA
- Living Now: Lexington, MA
I'm more a composer than a performer. I am also a recording engineer. Paxman French horn, Kurzweil 2000 synth, Digital Performer DAW, Sound Devices recorder, various microphones, various sound libraries, Sibelius music notation, Macintosh with OSX
- Band(s): Mostly, I have performed in various incarnations of my own solo work, which I do under my name, Anna Rose. Usually, with myself as the frontwoman and anywhere from 2 to 4 other players in my band. I also do work as a vocalist for other composers.
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitars, Piano
- Years playing: Since I could open my little mouth
- Hometown: Upstate New York
- Living Now: New York City
Basically, my setup is very simple, I primarily play my acoustic Taylor guitar and plug in through a DI box. I don't carry my own mic around, but I probably should! In the future I plan to be using more of my other guitars in my live shows, which include a National Steel, various hollow-body and solid-body electrics and other acoustics.
- Band(s): Only God-Des & She
- Instruments: I am a rapper & drummer
- Years playing: I started playing cello at 3, violin at 7, and moved to percussion at 10. I have been rapping for 14 years and have been in God-Des & She for 10 years.
- Hometown: My dad was the trombone professor at University of Michigan so I grew up in Ann Arbor.
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Ha-ha, our gear is REALLY simple. We bring a CD and the venue's provide our microphone’s, monitors, and a PA system
- Band(s): 1- Six of Hearts
- Instruments: Vocals/Piano/Guitar
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: England
- Living Now: England
Pro Tools LE - Mac Book Pro - Piano - Taylor Guitar - Shure SM 58
- Band(s): I perform (and compose) with Marcy Heisler regularly. We are a songwriting team who performs our own songs.
- Instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Vocals
- Years playing: Performing 30 years
- Hometown: New York (lived half of my life in Los Angeles).
- Living Now: New York City
"I have a Mac Pro, with Logic
I use East West soft synths, plus ""Ivory"" synth piano
I have a Digi 002, plus a variety of plug ins that I use for recording.
I record vocals at home often, but will also go out to a studio to complete projects."
- Band(s): Marah, Jesse Malin, Crash Test Dummies, Ryan Adams, and many others you haven't heard of including my old band Alowicious!
- Instruments: Piano, organ, drums and percussion, vocals, accordion, autoharp, guitar, bass, fiddle, xylphone, harmonica
- Years playing: Performing in public since I was 6 years old. Studied piano from age 4 - 16. Self taught everything else.
- Hometown: Born and raised in Queens, NY, lived in London, England from age 19 -30.
- Living Now: Central PA
Live I use a Roland RD700 keyboard, 88 weighted keys (a must). While playing that, I sing background vocals, add percussion by playing a tambourine on the floor with my foot, and I sometimes strap on a harmonica harness as well. Occasionally I step away from the keyboard and play the accordion.
- Band(s): Martha Munizzi
- Instruments: Vocalist
- Years playing: 20 + years
- Hometown: Florida
- Living Now: Florida
- Instruments: guitar/keys/vocals
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Living Now: Portland, Oregon
"Acoustic Taylor guitar
Les Paul Gibson electric guitar
TC Helicon (vocal processor)
Nord Electro
Fender Blues Jr.
some cool pedals (delay, phaser, tremelo and tube screamer)
Jamman (used as a playback station for programmed beats)"
- Band(s): Pop groups? Just two: Secret Cities and Haley E & the Rydells.
- Instruments: Vocals, piano, cello, French horn, guitar
- Years playing: I started playing piano 16 years ago and picked up the other instruments as I went through school.
- Hometown: Williston, North Dakota
- Living Now: Moorhead, MN (right outside of Fargo, ND)
All I own personally is a horn, a cello, a computer with Sibelius notation software for our string arrangements, and a crappy old guitar that we don't use when we record or perform. Between the three of us, we also have electric guitars, a drum set, electric keyboards, some microphones, a couple of Digital Audio Workstations, and even a little bit of analog recording equipment.
- Band(s): Susan and the SurfTones
- Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Drums
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: Hudson, New York
- Living Now: Portland, OR
"Fender Stratocaster
Hofner bass (Beatle bass)
""No name"" drum kit"
- Band(s): Coosh, Slow River School, The Cookers, and many more loose amalgamations
- Instruments: keyboards and vocals
- Years playing: 14 years, 5 with this band
- Hometown: Ireland
- Living Now: Dublin, Ireland
three Synthesizers: MicroKorg, Roland 201, Korg Prophesy.
- Band(s): My band has had at least 12 iterations and members over the years
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, keys, percussion
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Philadelphia
- Living Now: Jersey City
Guitar(s), cables, effects box for guitar, microphones and mic stands, bass, shekere, often a cellist and keyboard also accompany
- Band(s): 1 (my own)
- Instruments: vocals, guitars, ukulele, drums
- Years playing: 3 years
- Hometown: nuuk, greenland (yup, north pole!)
- Living Now: nuuk, greenland. studied in Canada, then London. Now pendling between the North and Montreal. But Nuuk ´s where my base is.
"I have a bunch of live gear - and then studio gear (in greenland there ´s not much see, so I did lots of stuff myself by trial and error - and soldering a lot)
* live: 2nd hand nice taylor acoustic, little red ukulele with bottle cap PU, hagstrom I and silvertone U1, old beat up Kay jazz bass, oliver amp and dynacord jazzII amp. All through small mixer, boomerang II, and a bunch of stomp boxes
* studio: my favorite guitar is my kay jazz II, and I also love to use my hagstrom Impala. For acoustics it´s the taylor still. I have some stuff from the streets that we restored - bunch of amps, a hohner pianet, eko bass pedals, an old pump organ. I share a small ludwig jazz drum kit. Have a bunch of cheap mics (rode N1, some SM57s, and a couple old AKGs I got from the local radio station). Slowly fixing an old broadcast telefunken 50s mixer - otherwise I use my apogee duet (2nd hand also - I have no newly owned stuff yet) with sometimes a super sweet preamp I got from a friend who stopped recording. I ´m a not-so-technical musician I ´m afraid so I use a lot of crap gear and instruments and just look for a specific sound. Use quite some effects -analog mostly- and I spend a lot of time figuring out what ´s wrong with them hehe."
- Band(s): at least 10 (including Damage from Bob, Swing Set, Sixteen Deluxe, The Pretty Please, The Witches of Mendocino, and Elevated Lines)
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Austin, TX since 1989- grew up in Manhattan, KS
- Living Now: Austin
"Sixteen Deluxe (currently- used to have more!) : Daisy Rock Rock Candy guitar, Kay hollow body guitar, 1980's Marshall Artist series head through a Marshall (celestions!) 2x12, overdrive pedal, Big Muff, Double Muff, mxr octave pedal, cry baby wah, analog reverb pedal, electroharmonix memory toy, electroharmonix chorus, boss tremolo...
Elevated Lines: Kay Hollowbody, smaller fender amps (deluxe or blues jr) fuzz pedal, delays, variety of keyboards and midi synths, and lots of tea for singing"
- Band(s): Earplay New Music Ensemble, Sonoma City Opera
- Instruments: conductor, ondes martenot
- Years playing: 32 years
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: San Francisco
conducting baton, ondes martenot
- Band(s): 1- "Captured" (college band)
- Instruments: vocal, guitar
- Years playing: 17
- Hometown: Chanute, KS
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
"Currently running lean. Taylor Acoustic 810ce, Boss Tu-3 tuner, sometimes carrying my own Demeter Tube DI. Microphone: Audio Techinica 4055.
General goodies box: Monster Cables, Dunlop Tortex .60mm picks, D'Addario strings, almost exclusively EJ16's. Calton Road case custom made for my acoustic, as well as Mono case gig bag that is a champ! Shub capos."
- Band(s): too many to count... right now, main projects are "Pangaea", "ARG Sextet", duo with pianist Anat Fort, "Mycale" - John Zorn Vocal Quartet, and "Shiv'a" project with Ethel String Quartet and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi...
- Instruments: vocalist / composer
- Years playing: since I was a little girl...
- Hometown: Israel
- Living Now: Tel Aviv / New York
my gear? or my band's? my gear is my voice, my microphone (just ordered my neuman 105...) plugged into the local PA system where I play that night...
- Band(s): various orchestras, choral groups when they have a harp part...basically, I'm a solo artist
- Instruments: harp
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: born in Godfrey, IL
- Living Now: St. Louis, Missouri
- Band(s): in 30 years I have performed in multiple groups: MISS BLISS, QUIVVVER, AUGUSTA FURNACE, LUCKY 57, THE SWINGIN' SUEDINES, MOTORHONEY, KREWE DE ROUX
- Instruments: guitar, accordion, vocals, songwriting
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Haverstraw NY
- Living Now: Providence RI
"70s Fender Deluxe reverb (modded)
1960 Airline electric guitar
multiple acoustic guitars and accordions including a Hoehner and Giulietti
recording gear, microphones, live sound gear, misc musical instruments"
- Band(s): The Postmarks
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, keys, accordion
- Years playing: Since I was little
- Hometown: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Living Now: South Florida
Fender Jazzmaster guitar, Vox amps, various effects pedals, Roland synth, tambourine, melodica, toy echo-phone
- Band(s): playing with backing bands for 15 years
- Instruments: vocals, acoustic guitar
- Years playing: 33
- Hometown: Arab, Alabama
- Living Now: Nashville, Tennessee
"Primary acoustic - Gretsch Historic Series G3700 - spruce top, mahogany sides and back, with pick-up
Taylor 512 - spruce top, mahogany back, rosewood neck, with pick-up
Hand-made acoustic, out of old Martin wood, made by an old Martin guitar-maker. Sounds like a cannon. Spruce, rosewood, with no pick-up
"
- Band(s): Always under my own name
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: since 1962
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: West Orange, NJ
My voice and my body and my dancing shoes.
- Band(s): as of the past 5 years, i only perform with PACIFIKA, but over the years i have performed with about 6 other acts...
- Instruments: voice, cajon, tambourine, shakers, keys...
- Years playing: i started studying music at 3 yrs, performing at around the same time...
- Hometown: originally from lima, peru
- Living Now: vancouver, canada
"i travel with my own microphone, a cajon, a tambourine and some shakers...
my wardrobe is also gear, as i dance throughout most of the performance. "
- Band(s): Just my own.
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Kalimba, Piano, Percussion
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: San Francisco Bay Area
- Living Now: New York City
1950 Gibson Accoustic guitar with Cutaway
- Band(s): current: The Wooden Birds, Matt Pond PA, former: Aero Wave, Western Keys, Black Lipsick, Tanworth-in-Arden, future: Leslie Sisson (solo)
- Instruments: guitar, voice, piano, bass, flute, cello
- Years playing: since first grade
- Hometown: Dallas/Austin, TX
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Fender Tele Thinline guitar, Fender Blues Jr amp, assortment of Boss pedals including Tremelo, Delay/Reverb, Overdrive, EQ
- Band(s): too many to count- that list up top is a starter. i also recently filled in for the bass player of of montreal, and recorded with animal collective
- Instruments: cello, bass, guitar, violin if i hold it like a tiny cello
- Years playing: 25ish years
- Hometown: cleveland, oh
- Living Now: athens, ga
cello, same one i have had since 6th grade, swr california blonde amp, lr baggs acoustic di w sweepable mid, music man ernie ball electric bass, american made from when i used to play punk rock stuff when i first got to college. borrowed upright bass, ampeg 60s b15 portaflex amp, i also play a small bodied guild acoustic guitar, and i recently acquired a girls gone wild electric guitar from my times with lil wayne.
- Band(s): Merl Saunders, The eights, Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, Sidepocket, Pamela Rose, Pamela Rose with Wild Women of Song
- Instruments: vocalist, composer, bandleader
- Years playing: 35
- Hometown: Los Angeles
- Living Now: San Francisco
This new show I'm performing in right now tells the story of the women songwriters of the class jazz and blues era (Alberta Hunter through the early 50's), and we project slides of the women on a screen while I tell stories and we performn their songs. So....these days I need a laptop and projector, and I've never been too proud to haul the p.a. system.
- Band(s): Organ Donor, Mixed Company, The Graces, Gia Ciambotti, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Walsh..
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: a LONG time
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
"My voice.. a few microphones.. including a Beta 57 (Sure) and a Neuman mid level
"
- Band(s): The Mammals, Sometymes Why, Mike & Ruthy
- Instruments: vocals, fiddle, guitar, uke
- Years playing: 12
- Hometown: Woodstock, NY area
- Living Now: childhood home
As a duo, Mike and I sometimes perform in a very acoustic style around a condenser mic. But sometimes I play electric guitar and fiddle thru his old Ampeg tube amp and he plays kick drum and hi-hat while strumming his plugged-in acoustic. That's more of a big sound.
- Instruments: drums/ vocals
- Hometown: Atlanta GA
- Living Now: Decatur GA
- Band(s): I've been a recording artist for 21 years under my own name on major and indie labels.
- Instruments: Guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 40
- Hometown: Grew up in Houston, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I have a Takamine endorsement, so I have about six acoustics. I also have a turquoise Wildcat (electric hollow body) from my Gibson endorsement. I just got a new pedal made by Mark McQuilken that I've yet to try----he's getting different artists to try them and give feedback. I have a 1960's blonde Guild hollow body that I've had about 25 years, and I utilize a Martin, the limited edition 150 year celebration model signed by C.F. Martin, in the studio.
- Band(s): MIchelle Malone Banned, Band De Soleil, Indigo Girls
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Atlanta
- Living Now: Decatur, AL
"I play electric and acoustic guitars - i started playing slide guitar in 2003. Since then, it has become somewhat of a signature for me. I play vintage Supro guitars through vintage Supro amps when i play slide. My favorite slide combo is a 1959 Supro Dual Tone through the matching amp...i bought them on ebay about 4 years ago- LOVE, LOVE , LOVE them!
I also regularly play a mid 90-s Martin HD28, a late 90's Gibson Chet Atkins, a Gibson Everly Brothers reissue, a 73' Strat, and a few Hamer Duotones....they are both electric and acoustic."
- Band(s): Two. My band & a band called Fools for April
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Piano
- Years playing: 24
- Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA
- Living Now: New Orleans, LA
"Guitar: 1959 Gibson ES-330. Amp: Carr Rambler
Martin Travel Acoustic Guitar"
- Band(s): Cowbelles, Harmony Grits, Luke & the Drifters, Bill & Audrey, Audrey Auld, Crocodile Banshee
- Instruments: vocal, acoustic guitar, djembe
- Years playing: since 6 years of age
- Hometown: Tasmania, Australia
- Living Now: Nashville, TN, USA
Beta 58 Sure mic, DI, Taylor guitar, Q lighting personal light system.
- Band(s): See above for recent regular groups. Many other groups in Boston area, where I lived before this.
- Instruments: Primarily a conductor. Also a classical soprano and pianist.
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Indianapolis
- Living Now: Portland, Oregon
As a conductor, my main gear is my baton; I have a case with several batons that travels with me. As a singer, I don't need much gear! But as a rock musician, I do carry my keyboard and keyboard stand.
- Band(s): Always my own groups.
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 52 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Neumann and Shure Beta condenser microphones, Mackie mixing board, QSC amp, graphic equalizer, Lexicon reverb, custom cabinets, power conditioner, direct boxes...much more...full sound system for smaller performances where no sound reinforcement is provided.
- Instruments: Vocals/keys/guitar/programming
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: UK
- Living Now: UK
Me, keys, a Mac which is old and needs updating, software which I don't entirely understand and lots of wires.
- Band(s): Self in concert, also with Jitano & The Desert Prophets, Luna Morena and various string quartet ensembles
- Instruments: opera singer
- Years playing: 30 years studying/ performing 20 years
- Hometown: Originally from Colon, Panama, raised there and also Kaiserslautern Germany and El Paso, TX USA
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
- Band(s): Seven 1) The New York Chamber Orchestra, Suburban Symphony (NJ), 3) The Virtuoso Strings, 4) Riverside Orchestra, 5) Bronx Concert Singers, 6) The Orchestra Celebrate!, 7) Boricua College Chorus
- Instruments: Conductor
- Years playing: 30+ years
- Hometown: Michigan
- Living Now: New York, NY
"Very large collection of scores and records/tapes/CDs.
Computer w/ Finale and Sibelius software."
- Band(s): 6 - Agent 99, Rock band. Maniacal Choir - World music. Concert Choir - classical music. Javanese Gamelan. Flute/Harp duo - classical music. Chamber Orquestra - Classical Music.
- Instruments: Flute/voice
- Years playing: 34 years
- Hometown: Bailey, Colorado
- Living Now: Maceió, Brazil
Sonaré flute, Novation ReMOTE keyboard controller, AKAI EWI, MacBook Pro with Pro-tools M-Powered, MOTU digidesign, Reason, Native Instruments Komplete/Kore 5.0, Finale 2010, Sibelius 6.0, , two Shure KSM-32 microphones, 1 Avantone Microphone, 2 Shure SM-58 microphones, M-audio microtrack, M-audio keyboard controller, M-audio firewire solo, M-audio fast-track pro, Apogee, Yamaha SY77 and TG77 keyboard/module, flutes and percussion from various cultures, didgeridoo, tamboura
- Band(s): Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band; The Travelin Light Duo Series (vocal/guitar); my own group
- Instruments: vocalist
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: New York City
Shure Beta 58 microphone/Roland AC-60 amp
- Band(s): i write the music!
- Instruments: i'm primarily a composer
- Years playing: 55 years!
- Hometown: born in israel, grew up in RI
- Living Now: boston (after many different cities)
pencil, paper, computer, keyboard, cello
- Band(s): The Warblers, The Blue Hit
- Instruments: vocals. guitar, piano
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Austin, TX
- Living Now: San Marcos, TX
I sing with a Shure Beta 58 mic. I take it to every gig so I do not get sick from using random microphones. I play a Martin 000-C electric-acoustic guitar, and I have a Yamaha P-80 keyboard.
- Band(s): I am mostly a solo-artist.
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, drums
- Years playing: for twenty-five years
- Hometown: Lancaster, PA
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I've been playing mostly the same Seagull guitar for about nine years. I've enjoyed using BPM microphones. That's about it. I now have an electric piano, mostly for home-use, that replaced the Kranich & Bach spinnet I played for five years and could no longer move with.
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- Band(s): Only the Measure [sa], currently have a new band called Worrier
- Instruments: guitar and vocals
- Years playing: piano since I was 7, so 19 years - in a band for 5 years
- Hometown: Martinsville, New Jersey
- Living Now: Brooklyn, New York
I play a '72 Fender Telecaster Reissue through a Vox AC30 head
- Band(s): Several. Most notably is Celticana.
- Instruments: I'm a producer. I play several instruments.
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: Manor
I have a full production studio with an arsenal of equipment for both live performance and recording.
- Band(s): A PERFECT CIRCLE TIL 2002- ZWAN TIL 2003- THE ENTRANCE BAND TIL PRESENT
- Instruments: BASS
- Years playing: NOT SURE...LONG TIME FOR SURE
- Hometown: ARGENTINA
- Living Now: IDYLLWILD/LOS ANGELES
'69 P BASS..I ALSO MADE MY OWN BASS CALL THE PAZ BASS..IT'S RAD..BUT I LOVE MY P BASS...I ALSO LOVE MY MESA BOOGIE COMBO WALK ABOUT..15" SPEAKER..ALL I NEED REALLY..BUT I ALSO HAVE A CLASSIC AMPEG 8X10..BUT I GOT SICK OF LUGGING THAT THING AROUND..I USE AN OCTAVE PEDAL TURNED WAY DOWN FOR WHEN I PLAY REAL HIGH..WE ARE A 3 PEICE SO IT FILLS A GOOD SPACE...I'M GOING TO START USING A CHORUS PEDAL SOON...IF IT SOUNDS GOOD..I GOT A BUNCH OF RECORDING GEAR TOO.. FUN
- Band(s): Cotton Jones & Page France
- Instruments: Vocals and Keys
- Years playing: 6 years
- Hometown: Cumberland, Maryland
- Living Now: Athens Georgia
I play a Hammond Piper II Organ, xylaphone, and Omni Chord.
- Band(s): 2- Detalles, Kate Simko
- Instruments: Piano, composer, electronic music producer, DJ
- Years playing: 25 years piano, 10 years producing, 12 years DJ'ing
- Hometown: Chicago
- Living Now: Chicago
Roland Juno 106 keyboard, Dave Smith Poly Evolver keyboard, Roland TR-707 drum machine, Roland TR-505 drum machine, Elektron Machinedrum drum machine, MFB-522 drum machine, Logic Audio, MOTU 828 sound card, Mackie HR-824 monitors
- Band(s): Chop Chop, Pagoda Red, Larkspur, Ounces of Bounces
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, but mostly the computer
- Years playing: singing since 5, piano since 7, guitar at 19-20
- Hometown: Cleveland
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I work in Protools 8 with Reason on an Imac. I play a Gibson SG - I also have an array of drum machines and musical toys I've gleaned from craiglist and ebay.
- Band(s): 1990 to 2005: Jimmy Butts and the Cajun brunch group. 1986 to present: Carol Sudhalter's Astoria Big Band/Astoria Jazz Band. 1980 to present: Carol Sudhalter quartet/sextet. 2008 to present: Madame Pat Tandy's Nu Taste Ensemble. 1997 to present: Sarah McLawler's Les Femmes Jazz. 2000 to present: Peter Silver's Big Band
- Years playing: 47 years
- Hometown: Boston, MA
- Living Now: Astoria, NY
- Instruments: flute and piccolo
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Savannah, GA
- Living Now: Atlanta, GA
Powell Boston Conservatory Flute, Jupiter di Medici Piccolo, Finale 2009, Digi ProTools
- Instruments: Classical Guitar
- Years playing: 15 Years
- Hometown: Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada
- Living Now: Vancouver British Columbia Canada
"Classical Guitar, Shure 58 Mic, Boss RC 50 Loopstation, Petal Board,
Band:
Upright Bass, Drums, Keys
Extra:
Cello, Viola and Violin"
- Band(s): over the years? probably 20 or so -- too many to list individually. Includes theatre and opera companies, school and church choirs, professional vocal ensembles and community choirs
- Instruments: voice (mezzo-soprano); also conductor and composer
- Years playing: 55 yrs (since I was 3 yrs old)
- Hometown: Kansas City, MO
- Living Now: Bellingham, WA
?? I sing -- so I suppose my voice would be my "gear." I also compose using a MacBook Pro and an M-Audio midi keyboard with Finale notation software.
- Band(s): (self)
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: voice: since I was 4. guitar: since I was 9 years old.
- Hometown: Austin, Texas
- Living Now: Nashville, Tennessee
Greenfield Guitars - acoustic (preamps, cables, pedals), Microphone (cables, eq)
- Band(s): The Nudes, Dar Williams Band, Richie Havens Trio and many others
- Instruments: cello
- Years playing: 39
- Hometown: I grew up in Levittown, NY.
- Living Now: I have an apartment in Manhattand and boyfriend in England and split my time between the two places
A 18th century Italian cello my grandfather bought for me 30 years ago, a newly minted carbon fiber cello made in Arizona that I amplify , and a cello from 2001 made in Chicago. A beautiful modern Beglian french bow for my Italian cello, a carbon fiber bow for my carbon fiber cello, and a french made baroque-style bow for my Chicago cello that is set up Baroque style. Various amplification and selection of cello cases and other gear.
- Band(s): Miss Babs & The Kickin' Boogie Band, Wray Band, The Clare Cooper Band
- Instruments: Keyboards, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: New York
Korg M50 keyboard, Ibanez guitar, Mac laptop
- Band(s): The Decemberists, Calobo, Caleb Klauder Band, Black Prairie, Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, From Words to Blows, Lewi Longmire Band, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
- Instruments: Piano, Organ, Accordion
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Portland, OR
- Living Now: Portland, OR
"Petosa Accordion
Hammond B3 Organ
Nord Stage Piano"
- Band(s): Just my own really, I've done various string session work for Carla Bozulich, Rilo Kiley, and Electrelane among several others.
- Instruments: viola, keyboards and vocals
- Years playing: 21
- Hometown: Minnesota
- Living Now: Chicago
I have a viola which I play as a rhythm/lead guitar most of the time. I have 2 pickups on the instrument, one electric guitar pickup and one string pickup. I usually play the viola through a fender twin or a silvertone amp. I also use analogue synthesizers - the rogue moog and a juno.
- Band(s): My Band: Megan Burtt & The Cure for Love, Ayo Awosika, J.E Borgen
- Instruments: Guitar/Vocals/Piano
- Years playing: 10ish years
- Hometown: Denver, CO
- Living Now: Denver, CO
I play an OM 28V Martin Guitar with a K&K pick up. Sing through a Newman KMS 105. I often play a '94 reissue of a 60's Strat (Fiesta Red!) through a custom made amp design after a Fender Deluxe (2, 12s)..it's really heavy, or a Fender Blues Jr (much easier to carry).
- Instruments: vocals; guitar
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina
- Living Now: New York, New York
"Martin Guitar
Fishman Loudbox amp
John Pearse Strings"
- Band(s): 5. Half Mann Band (ages 10-13), Chapter 12, Spy Gods, The Loved Ones, The Robin Renee Band, plus solo work
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, harmonium, keys
- Years playing: since age 10
- Hometown: Atco, NJ
- Living Now: same, once again (after several moves)
Right now my gear is pretty simple. I play a Taylor 612CE guitar and a Bina harmonium most of the time. I use various percussion instruments and play through a small acoustic amp. I like the stripped-down sound and it is easy to tour that way, but I miss the full sound of the recordings and want to produce something bigger. I am currently working on expanding my live sound to incorporate a mix of natural samples and electronica using a laptop and midi.
- Band(s): Bunches, including Angels of Epistemology, Dish, Shark Quest, Dem Chocklodytes, Shark Quest, Regina Hexaphone, backup musician for Tres Chicas, Jeffrey Dean Foster and the Birds of Prey, Lud, Dana & Karen Kletter, Anders Parker...
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, banjo, mandolin, bass
- Years playing: 35
- Hometown: Raleigh, NC
- Living Now: Durham, NC
I have a Yamaha studio upright piano and a Wurlitzer electric piano at home, but use a Nord Electro for playing out. I usually play a Fender Jazzmaster but sometimes use a Gretsch Rock Jet for electric guitars, and have a Gibson J-45 acoustic that sounds great but is fragile so for shows I play an old Takamine that has a bridge pickup. For electric guitar I have a pretty simple rig: Boss Overdrive Pedal, Rat Fuzz Pedal, and a Danelectro Digital Delay through a Fender Princeton amp. My bass is a Gibson EB-2, and I am looking for an Acoustic B200 bass head to replace one that was lost... I have a Deering 5-string banjo, a mandolin custom made in the mountains of North Carolina by Paul Graybeal to emulate a Gibson F-5, and and a tenor banjo from probably the 1920s of unknown provenance! The acoustic instruments all have Sunrise pickups, and sometimes I play them through a Fender Twin Reverb amplifer.
- Band(s): 5: Humblebums, Liquid Stereo Project, Mud Luscious & the Blood, The Coveters, & Suzanna Choffel
- Instruments: voice/guitar
- Years playing: most of my life have been singing/writing, but performing out for about 12 years
- Hometown: Austin, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Creamy Yellow Epiphone Wildcat Electric Guitar, Tweed Peavey Classic 30 remod with vintage tubes, Carbon Copy delay pedal, Supa Trem tremolo pedal, EV ND/367 vocal microphone
- Band(s): 3 - Wish (96-99), Saving Face (00-04), Gardening, Not Architecture (08-present)
- Instruments: Bass, vocals, guitar, piano
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Baraboo, Wisconsin
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
I perform live playing bass and singing through two different mics, one running through a distortion pedal, with a MacBook running backing tracks through Logic, as well as controlling a hand-made LED light wall that is programmed with a series lighting cues for each song.
- Band(s): Timbuk3, Barbara K with various musicians
- Instruments: i love to play guitar, bouzuki, and i sing
- Years playing: 42
- Hometown: Wisconsin, Alaska, Colorado, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
"Guitars: Gibson Chet Atkins (2), Gibson Howard Roberts, Gibson Nighthawk, Martin Acoustic, Alvarez Yairi Acoustic, McGill Acoustic, Greek Bazouki, 1920's German fiddle,
Studio: Soundcraft Spirit console, Genelecs, Yamaha NS10Ms. Tube Tech mic pre, compressor, eq, Various effects, ADAT multitracks, Neumann microphones.
Beta-tester in late 80's for what became Pro Tools.
Guitar Amplifier: Dumble"
- Band(s): see above, but formerly in Galaxie 500 (1988-91) and since 1992 in Damon & Naomi
- Instruments: electric bass, vocals, keyboard
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Cambridge, MA
"Bass: 1968 cherry red EB-2 Gibson bass.
Amps: Ampeg B-12, B-18 fliptops and for travelling Phil Jones Suitcase amp.
Keyboard: Nord Electro 3"
- Band(s): so many, VIVIAN GIRLS< CRYSTAL STILTS and now DUM DUM GIRLS and of course my own band
- Instruments: Guitar, Drums and I sing
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: New York city
I have a sometimes wonky 64 fender mustand guitar. I love it even though it notoriously wont stay in tune. I have a fender deluxe reverb reissue amp, I wish it was the real deal. Alas , maybe when i win the lotto.
- Band(s): Just one. My current band
- Instruments: voice, guitar, omnichord
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Living Now: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
I usually travel pretty light when on tour. I play a Collings parlor guitar. I also use a sampler to supplement some of the beats in my songs. I play the Omnichord which is an instrument that is like an electronic auto harp from the 80s. It has it's own little set of beats and sound effects.My husband is my guitar player. He also uses pedals and other "noise makers" to supplement what is on my record The Cricket's Orchestra.Sometimes we travel with an upright bass player. He just brings his bass.
- Instruments: Acoustic Guitar, Piano
- Hometown: Orust, Sweden
- Living Now: Stockholm, Sweden
"I have a red Marina guitar that I've had since I turned 18.
I play live on a Guild guitar from -84"
- Band(s): Clock Work Army, Indian Moon, The Muslims, Calico Horse
- Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Walnut Creek, CA
- Living Now: SF Bay Area, CA
"Live:
-Fender Telecaster
-La Patrie Motif parlor nylon string
-Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
-Boss DD-6 Digital Delay Pedal
-Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive Pedal
-Boss RC-2 Loop Station (used for vocals)
-Roland FP-7 Digital Piano
Recording:
-Shure SM-58 (haha)
-M-Audio Fast Track (haha)
-Garageband (haha)"
- Band(s): Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble, The Truth, Painted Pictures, Ed Stone, Brian O'Neal, Musique Noire, Maggie Brown
- Instruments: percussion
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: Chicao, IL
Cajon, 13" Sabian Neil Peart Signature Hi-Hats, DW Remote Hi-Hat, Gretsch 6 piece drumset, Sabian 20" HHX Ozone Ride, Tree Works Wind Chimes, Hansenfutz Pedals, Meinl Conga, Tumba, and Quinto, Deagan Vibraphone, LP Bongos, Shakers, and other auxiliary percussion
- Band(s): I am a solo artist!
- Instruments: Vocal and Piano
- Years playing: 15 Years!
- Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts.
- Living Now: New York City!
I currently am rehearsing for shows this summer! I also use a cordless mic and my own TV tracks for live performance. I always have my male dancers with me, usually atleast two, and we perform anywhere from one to three songs!
- Band(s): Judi Silvano's Women's Work, Judi Silvano's Cleome, Joe Lovano groups, Kenny Werner group, Adam Kolker group, Stefan Bauer Voyage
- Instruments: vocal and flute
- Years playing: since 1961
- Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
- Living Now: New York
Beyer mic and a healthy set of vocal cords
- Band(s): Nancy Falkow, Sunflow, The Dirty Triplets(defunct), Slo-Mo, Fran King Band
- Instruments: vox, keys, guitar, bass
- Years playing: long ass time! 30ish years>?
- Hometown: Margate, NJ / Philadelphia, PA
- Living Now: Kilcoole, Co WIcklow, Ireland
"1950 Gibson LG 1 Fender Pro Junior Amp
Ibanez bass
Crappy yamaha keyboard
Shure Beta 58a
Shure 58
"
- Band(s): mostly just been focusing on my project which has changed names from OLD SOL to just my name MEGAN JACOBS. i have also played with my friends bands off an on. about 5 different bands i've played in.
- Instruments: vocals and keys * i prefer the Wurlitzer
- Years playing: started playing when i was 5. started writing songs in college and have been going at it as serious songwriter for over 10 years now.
- Hometown: los angeles
- Living Now: still in LA. west hollywood specifically
well i'm a singer - so i have to keep my body and voice in tune, in shape and warm all the time....if i'm being good to my instrument that is : ) I also play the Keys. If i had the choice- i'd always pick The Wurlitzer- and electric piano from the 70's. I lug that baby around with me as far as i can. If i'm flying somewhere i'll take my carry on NORD keyboard which sounds close enough.
- Band(s): I have been performing my own songs in various formats/band changes through the last ten years
- Instruments: Guitar, piano, vocals and just about anything that makes noise
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Oregon
- Living Now: Tucson, Arizona
I play both electric and acoustic guitars. I started out playing bluegrass and country on a Taylor acoustic dread-knot guitar. I also have a 1956 Gibson L-5 archtop guitar, an Airline archtop from the 1960s, a couple of old Silvertone cowboy guitars and a beloved Fender Telecaster that I play live a lot with. I collect other odds and ends--banjos, autoharps, toy pianos and any other noisemakers. I have an old spinet in my house that I love to play too. I use some pedals--a Boss distortion pedal, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, a reverb pedal and a Head Rush Looping and delay pedal. Mostly I use these at home for recording and messing around.
- Band(s): Anne's Cordial
- Instruments: vocals, keyboard, organ, baroque recorder
- Years playing: 28 years
- Hometown: Massachusetts
- Living Now: Rhode Island
I play a Yamaha YPG625 for my band.
- Band(s): 6 or 7
- Instruments: percussion, vocals
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Kerrville, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
currently, LP congas, DW snare, Bosphorus cymbals, tons of small hand percussion. Shure SM 58 vocal mic, rolls 4 ch mixer, Audix drum mics, Korg MX50 keyboard/synth.
- Band(s): Jennings, Rachel Epp, Sarah's Redemption, Dominic Sinesio
- Instruments: Piano, vocals
- Hometown: Nashville, TN
- Living Now: New York and Nashville
When I am just playing solo I perform with an 88 weighted key keyboard and a Boss loop station. But I also have a drummer, bassist, backup singer and synth player.
- Band(s): I couldn't begin to recall, but mostly solo these days or with a contracted group
- Instruments: voice and piano, formerly a jazz & classical double bassist
- Years playing: Since I was four years old
- Hometown: Born in New Haven, CT, raised in the South-East of England
- Living Now: Manhattan
Yamaha P-85, or acoustic piano, mic set up.
- Band(s): Various jazz combos, musical revues & cabaret, musical comedy - Currently performin multimedia conert "JAZZ AVIARY" with the Soaring Sextet.
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: Baltimore, MD
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
amp, speakers, microphone
- Band(s): Jonas Sees In Color is the first band I've been in.
- Instruments: Piano and vocals.
- Years playing: 14 years.
- Hometown: Downingtown, PA
- Living Now: Greensboro, NC
I play a Nord Stage 88-key piano. It's bright red and beautiful.
- Band(s): I perform mostly as a singer/songwriter with musicians and solo
- Instruments: piano, guitar, voice
- Years playing: all my life
- Hometown: The Bay Area, California
- Living Now: Albany, California (Berkeley area)
I have a keyboard for performing, a Breedlove acoustic guitar, a couple of 58 shure mics, and some recording equipment for home (including condenser mics, preams and computers).
- Band(s): a bunch. they were all pretty bad.
- Instruments: vocal/guitar/keyboard
- Years playing: 18
- Hometown: mostly pennsylvania.
- Living Now: nashville TN
various...mostly my acoustic guitar and a tiny keyboard of some sort....like an old casio with hot beats on it...my vocal chords...hand clappin and finger snappin...the usual...
- Band(s): Mostly I am a solo performer. I am a guest vocalist in a bunch of different bands, but my group's name is my name, Marissa Nadler.
- Instruments: vocals, 12 string guitar, six string guitar, banjo, uke, appalachian dulcimer
- Years playing: about 14 years. I started playing guitar when i was 14.
- Hometown: Massachusetts
- Living Now: I recently moved back to Massachusetts after living all over the place and being on tour for the better part of the last decade. I have lived in New York city and LA most recently.
"I have a Martin 12 string guitar dreadnought style. My prized possession is a handmade guitar a French Luthier named Florent made for me with a mother of pearl bird inlay on it's headstock. I also still play one of my first guitars, a really beat up and tinny sounding Tachamine that I have some Neil Young lines drawn on in sharpy. To be exact ""don't let it bring you down, its only castles burning."" Mostly, I play a Taylor six string with lots of cracks in it from flying and having to glue it back together so many times. (Once, in Mallorca, I had to buy some woodglue and clamps and literally glued my broken guitar back together).
I use Rare Earth Humbucker pickups that work on magnetic resonance because live, I find they give the most natural sound to the acoustic instruments.
I have a Vintage Framus banjo on lone from guitar virtuous Glenn Jones that I have been playing a lot lately. Also, a baritone ukelele I bought at an antique shop, and a similarly purchased and beat up autoharp.
I use a TC Helicon voice live unit so that I can control my own vocal reverb and delay on stage. I used to get in a lot of fights with soundmen (most of them are men) where they would tell me how my music should sound. I just decided to start controlling it myself. I am very happy with the TC and its pretty user friendly. I also use a ton of Boss Pedals for my guitars."
- Band(s): razia said
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: about 10 years
- Hometown: Madagascar
- Living Now: new york
drums/bass/2 guitars/keys or accordion/vocals
- Band(s): Dayenu, The Shucks, Kitchen Couch, Krimp
- Instruments: Saxophone, Bass,Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Uke, anything you put in front of me
- Years playing: 17 years
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Upstate NY
I have a Cannonball Tenor Sax, Yamaha Alto Sax, Cort Custom Fretless Bass, Fender Strat, Yamaha Acoustic, HiLo Ukulele, harmonica, various keyboards. I run logic 9 on a MacBook pro with an Alesis io26 firewire 8-in interface
- Band(s): 4-5/ Wench/ Nightfall/ Evolution of Fury/ American Speedway
- Instruments: Guitar
- Years playing: over 20 yrs
- Hometown: Long Island NY
- Living Now: Philadelphia Area
"Schecter strat/ Handmade Les Paul/ BC Rich Strat
Randall half stack"
- Band(s): just PIT ER PAT, for the last 8 years, so far
- Instruments: keyboard, guitar, drums, vocals, etc
- Years playing: piano since I was 3
- Hometown: I was born in Vermont, but haven't lived there for 15 years
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Nord Electro 73, Roland EP30, 71 Guild Natureboy, Fender Twin, black four piece found trapkit, various pedals.
- Band(s): mostly solo, but was in folk duo The Nonchalants from 1997-2000
- Instruments: guitar and vocals
- Years playing: semi-pro for about 12 years
- Hometown: Born Baltimore; raised Lancaster, PA
- Living Now: Austin, TX
"Main guitars: Gibson acoustic songwriter series; Martin acoustic HD-28. Other guitars: 1953 Gibson 3/4-size hollowbody electric; Guild classical; Les Paul epiphone electric.
The PA is an assemblage of gear I've picked up over the years. I generally use a Shure 58 mic for gigs. I use an A/B pedal on stage to switch between guitar signals, a pretty typical DI box, and, of course, a Boss stage tuner. Otherwise, I'm pretty effects-free.
My husband's a professional musician (full time) and recording engineer, so I like to play w/ some of his gear when he's not looking.
For composition (in addition to guitar), i often turn to the upright piano in the house or my Korg X5 keyboard."
- Band(s): 3 or 4 plus teaching
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: 44 years
- Hometown: Bellingham, Washington
- Living Now: Seattle, Washginton
My "gear" is a very nice 100 year old violin which I use to perform in a variety of venues: symphony orchestras, chamber music, back-up orchestras for singers who come to town. I am also a private violin teacher.
- Band(s): too many to count; most of the free-lance classical groups in NYC, and many odd new music ensembles
- Instruments: composer, and play flute, shakuhachi, and theremin
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Camden, Alabama
- Living Now: NYC
"Flute, alto flute, piccolo
shakuhachi - 1.8, 1.6, 1.9
Moog etherwave pro theremin"
- Band(s): Paul Keller Orchestra, Paul Keller Sextet, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, DIVA
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
- Band(s): Currently, I perform with Walking Sleep and my own project under my own name. Before that, I had a project that went by the name Calamity Magnet, I was in The Rentals, and I led the pop/punk group Lucy Loves Schroeder for 8 years.
- Instruments: In Walking Sleep, I sing and play guitar. In my solo project, I sing and play guitars, piano, and keyboards.
- Years playing: I have been singing in choirs since I was six years old. I started my first band 14 years ago, at the age of 17.
- Hometown: San Antonio, TX
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
My baby is my Martin OM28 acoustic guitar, followed by my Rhodes electric keyboard. I play a few different electric guitars, including a Schecter and a Danelectro. I play through a Fender re-issue DeVille amp. I have some other random guitars and effects I use, but the ones mentioned are the ones I mainly use.
- Band(s): 6 or so main groups: Subrosa, Violet Run, Stiletto, Red Reb, The Highrollers, Phono
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 25 years studying music, 15 years performing in bands
- Hometown: Ohio
- Living Now: Salt Lake City
A tube Peavey pre-Butcher VTM ($200). A handmade cab with Celerion speakers ($200). A Schecter Diamond Series guitar ($287).
- Band(s): 5 main ones: Abiku, Morgaine, Total Fucking Destruction, Plain Jane, Mother Courage
- Instruments: Keyboards (well, keytar) and vocals
- Years playing: 16 years
- Hometown: Philadelphia area
- Living Now: Baltimore, MD
"I have tons of gear! In Abiku, I play a Moog Liberation through an Ampeg V4B and an 8X10. We also use a 3200 watt PA for our drum machine (2X15 subs, and 2X15 mains with horns). In Morgaine I play a Roland Juno 60, a Sequential Circuits Prelude, and a Realistic (Moog designed) MG-1. I'm a serious keyboard collector.
I also have a Jackson Rhoads guitar, various beloved 90's Peavey amps (really beloved, one of them will be my next tattoo) a few Kustom Tuck n' Roll cabs and heads, an Arp Explorer, and well, a lot more. A collector, like I said."
- Band(s): 8/10/2010
- Instruments: vocals, keys, guitar
- Years playing: Over 20 years
- Hometown: PA, NC
- Living Now: NYC
We use all different bands but are trying to lean more towards a full set up of one brand. We have a guitar player, thus a guitar amp; a bass player, thus a bass amp; a drummer, thus a drumkit and lots of percussion; a pianist, thus a keybaord; and we are all vocalists so four mics. We also tote around a PA if needed.
- Band(s): I've performed with all majhor symphonies, practically, chamber music groups and my own show and band.
- Instruments: Used to play violin, piano,the term "vocals" is a pop term only. We classical/oriented and theater and pop people prefer "voice" rather than "vocals.
- Years playing: 75 years
- Hometown: From? You mean where was I BORN? California
- Living Now: New York City
Gear for what? Appearing on stage, concert, cabaret, personal appearances? It souds like whoever wrote this is 24 years old with NO background into music of any kind other than rock....Sorry to be so persnickety, but if you want "class" better get into the terminlology of a performing, theatrical, concert, operatic soloist.
- Band(s): 5+: Difference Engine, String Builder, Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores, Fern Knight, The Valerie Project
- Instruments: cello, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: upstate NY
- Living Now: Arlington, VA
Baggs DI for my Martin acoustic guitar with an I Beam pickup, my cello has a David Gage realist pickup.
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Cape Cod
- Living Now: Durham NC
larynx and other vocal paraphernalia
- Instruments: Guitar and vocals
- Years playing: singing all my life
- Hometown: San Antonio
- Living Now: Austin
I have a cheap Ibanez acoustic electric guitar. Working on getting a nice Martin if I could ever get the money to buy it. I use a SM 58 mic.
- Band(s): It varies. Anywhere from 2-8 at any one time.
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: I have been studying music since I was 9. I have been performing with bands for 8 years.
- Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Living Now: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I play violin. Sometimes I run it through a series of effect pedals (harmonist, octave, delay, reverb, loop station, etc).
- Band(s): mostly The WIlders - co-founded in 1996. Also perform solo
- Instruments: fiddle, vocals, viola, cello, tenor guitar
- Years playing: 35 years on the violin/fiddle
- Hometown: originally Fayetteville, AR
- Living Now: Kansas City, MO since 1986
My main fiddle, "Beloved", a French violin, is from ca. 1880-1920, from the school of Jerome Thibouville-Lamy. I've had it since I was 16 years old. It's not the prettiest fiddle in the world and when I first saw it, I didn't want to play it. It's missing some corners, has a dark varnish, plain back... but when I played it, I knew it was the one for me. I can't imagine being without it. Once I had to travel without it for a tour and was miserable (this was after the Heathrow airport scare in 2006, and the band was traveling to the UK). I own another unnamed French violin from the early 20th century, which I bought in Edinburgh, Scotland. I now own another Lamy fiddle, not as finely made as mine but a good "Compagnon" (the model name). I travel with two fiddles always as the music I play includes old time fiddle tunes, some of which need to be played in cross-tuning (open tuning). I own a decent viola and a funny little 1950's Kay cello, and a variety of tenor guitars, including a sweet 1930's Gibson archtop. I play these other instruments on recordings, for The Wilders and my solo projects as well as collaborations with other artists. Each one has a story. But Beloved is my true love.
- Band(s): I either play solo or with my own band that I've put together.
- Instruments: Aside from vocals, I also play guitar, piano, harmonica
- Years playing: I have been performing and studying for over 10 years.
- Hometown: I was born in Los Angeles, but I was raised sailing around the world due to my father's occupation.
- Living Now: I'm back in Los Angeles now.
I have a beautiful Taylor 714-CE that's been taking a beating onstage for a long time, my dad's 1965 Martin D-35 that he bought new, a very young cherry red Gibson 335, a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard, and various harmonicas. Plus an egg shaker or two.
- Band(s): several -- currently one, but have played with several including Tjovi Ginen (Haitian), Patrice Williamson (jazz), In the House (cover) -- played with many "sitting in" but not a "member" as well
- Instruments: percussion(including african and caribbean drums, african harps and "pianos"), flute, cavaquinho, vocals
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: child of the African diaspora (born in California)
- Living Now: Boston, MA
The gear that I use in Zili Misik: congas, bongos, a bag of smaller percussion (including different kinds of bells & rattles and flutes), udu (clay pot -- makes a water sound), flute, cavaquinho (a four stringed instrument from Brazil & Cape Verde), mbira (an African "piano" or metallophone), various stands to hold all the instruments, microphones & a full PA system (monitors, speakers, mixing board, stands, etc)! (but it all fits in my toyota 4runner!)
- Band(s): Over the years,many regional, local and international companies
- Instruments: piano, harpsichord
- Years playing: 30 yrs.
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: NYC
- Band(s): N/A
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 40 yhears
- Hometown: CANADA
- Living Now: Calgary, AB, Canada
"I am a classical composer, singing teacher.
In my studio I have a grand piano, simple recording equipment, sheet music."
- Band(s): 2 new music ensembles
- Instruments: piano/ composition
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Croatia
- Living Now: Boston
- Band(s): Many groups have performed my music.
- Instruments: Composer
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Winston-Salem, NC
- Living Now: West Palm Beach, FL
An acoustic piano (several other instruments including a soprano saxophone, violin, etc.), a MIDI keyboard, a MacBook Pro computer with Finale notation software and Digital Performer recording/sequencing software. Assorted mics, MIDI interfaces, mixers, etc. for acoustic recording.
- Band(s): I am a solo act mainly but am also in a band called Metasyn
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: london/singapore/italy
- Living Now: los angeles
"yamaha Clavinove
Pioneer - Pro DJ Division
Logic Pro [and all the plugins within]
Ableton Live
All Spectrasonics Plugins
Native Instruments
PSP Audio
Waves
and a few random other companies/plugs/gear... but these are the big/main ones"
- Band(s): 4 or 5
- Instruments: flute
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Westchester County NY
- Band(s): Many
- Instruments: saxophone, arranging, composing
- Years playing: I started piano when I was 4...
- Hometown: Italy
- Living Now: New York City
"PMauriat saxophone R66 Tenor
Selmer Mark VI Tenor
Keilwerth Soprano Sax
Jody Jazz DV 7* Tenor
Guardala Crescent Tenor (original)
On soprano I have a used prototype that I bought I don't know what it is."
- Band(s): ... lol! this is gonna take a bit of time ...
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 22yrs
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: NYC
... have mic - will travel! lol!
- Band(s): The Ettes, Aanchors Aaweigh
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 6yrs
- Hometown: Queens, NY
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
"Kirchoff Schlagwerk Drum kit in a cognac sparkle!
24"" kick drum
18"" floor tom
14"" snare
Sabian Cymbals
14"" AAX stage hats
16"" Xplosion crash
20"" AAX stage ride
Vic Firth Sticks 5B
Remo drum heads"
- Band(s): 4 Kobofoofaroo, The Redding Street Band, The Hudsons, The Belleville Outfit and well as have played with TONS more than that 20 or 30. Had string quartet in High School called The Acoustic Dreams String Quartet
- Instruments: fiddle, vocals, guitar, ukelele
- Years playing: fiddle- 20 years, vocals 6 ukelele 4 guitar 4
- Hometown: Austin, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
I play fiddle or violin (whatever you want to call it) through a simple pre-amp called the Red Eye, its unique in that it was designed specifically for the violin by a man who really wanted to hear violins (Darren Appelt) that sound like violins on stage, cutting out most of the high impedance frequencies. Plus it has a boost button, so I can have a solo boost and it is really small so it is super easy to travel with. For guitar he has made a double instrument version of the Red Eye. If and when I start using an electric guitar on stage, I am gonna want an amp probably a fender delux. I used to have a polytone that I used on my fiddle just like Johnny Gimble, but sold it when I got the Red Eye. Whew!
- Band(s): Drunken Boat, Ash Reiter
- Instruments: guitar/vox
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: Berkeley, CA
I play a Eastwood Airline electric guitar and use a fender blues junior amp. I record at home using a program called Reaper.
- Band(s): 10 - John Stafford Big Band, Herman Jones and the Exciters, Cattanooshoes, Blue Duo, Blues Connection, Mojomatics, Jaywalkers, Janiva Magness, Dark Horses,
- Instruments: Vocals/Percussion
- Years playing: 34
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Sure SM 58 Beta Microphone. Sure PSM Wireless In Ear Monitor System.
- Band(s): Just in War Tapes
- Instruments: bass and vocals
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Boston
- Living Now: Los Angeles
"1967 Fender Mustang Bass
2009 Fender Mustang Bass Reissue
Ashdown Amp"
- Band(s): Too many to list
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 57 years (off-and-on)
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: Yonkers, NY
GK vocal amp, amped JBL speaker, Roland vocal cube, several mics.
- Band(s): 13 years
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass
- Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
- Living Now: Chapel Hill, NC
Roland Jazz Chorus 120, Hartke amp w/SWR cab, Epiphone Les Paul, Fender Jazz master
- Band(s): Just Bowerbirds
- Instruments: Vocals, accordion, keys
- Hometown: Raleigh, NC
- Living Now: Half in Raleigh, half in the country outside Raleigh (but mostly on the road)
Vintage Italian accordion with electric microphone pickup, Nord Electro keyboard, microKorg keyboard.
- Band(s): Transister, Dangerous Household Objects, The Saddle Soars, None If Any, Slaw
- Instruments: guitar, gestural electronics, computer, synthesizer, nyckelharpa, waterphone, Casiotone, Stylohophone, ukelele, dulcimer, vocoder, etc.
- Years playing: most of my life
- Hometown: Portland, OR
- Living Now: Portland, OR
"Electric and acoustic guitars, nyckelharpa, clarinet, sax, synthesizers, handheld and gestural electronics (AirFX, theremin, Kaoss pads, etc.) Waterphone, uke, dulcimer, Omnichord, Stylophone - and multiple other percussion instruments, noisemakers and the like.
I own an operate a computer-based electro/acoustic music, sound and recording studio, which is also a project studio for my commercial work doing music and sound design for multimedia and performance."
- Band(s): work with major opera companies
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: over 40 years
- Hometown: Greenwich, CT
- Living Now: Philadelphia
Gear? I'm a professional pianist, working with national opera companies as an assistant conductor preparing opera productions and coaching singers. Gear is piano, music, pencil, and metronome. Plus opera scores, recordings, dictionaries, highliters, post-its
- Band(s): 4 bands
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: Ukraine
- Living Now: New York
"Computer,amp,speaker,monitor,mixer,microphone.
Bass,synthesizer,guitar, glockenspiel, percussions, melodica."
- Band(s): Growing up, too many to name...lately, my solo project and a trio project with Art Garfunkel and Buddy Mondlock
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, piano, saxophone
- Years playing: 28 years
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Los Angele, CA
I travel with a Nord Electro 2 keyboard for the killer Wurlitzer and Rhodes sounds, a Taylor 514 acoustic guitar that runs through a Tone Bone PZ-Pre pre amp, a Porchboard for stomping, a Selmer Mark VI soprano sax and 2 Neumann KMS 105 microphones. In the studio I use Vegas, a Yamaha 01V board and a slew of mics, mic pres, acoustic guitars that I would never take on a plane and random instruments everywhere.
- Band(s): two: Arum Rae and White Dress
- Instruments: vox, guitar
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: born in Colorado Springs
- Living Now: Austin TX
my guitars: a gold top Les Paul Re-issue through either a bassman amp or a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
- Band(s): 1, The Lost Pines
- Instruments: guitar, vocals
- Years playing: vocals-forever, guitar, 5 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Collings d2h guitar, sm58 mic, red eye pre-amp
- Band(s): Jesters of Jive, Joe Battaglia and the New York Big Band, High Society Rhythm
- Instruments: vocals/leader
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: Germany originally
- Living Now: NY
I own a Makie 16 channel mixer, and full PA
- Band(s): Oh god, 23yrs of orchestras, bands, string quartets.... too many names
- Instruments: fiddle/violin
- Years playing: 23yrs
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: Michigan
One old school violin. 1850s era German. That's it.
- Band(s): composer of opera, theater, film, and song
- Instruments: guitar/piano/composer
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Central Square, NY
- Living Now: New York, NY
Pencil and Paper, Sibelius music notation, m-audio midi keyboard, various instruments, garage band
- Band(s): At least 5. Marcus Belgrave, Straight Ahead, The McKinFolk Project, Allen Barnes,(formailly of Donald Bryd & the Blackbyrds) The McKinney Zone, and who ever calls and needs me to play. :-)
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 22 years
- Hometown: Detroit.
- Living Now: Detroit/Canton MI
I use Pearl Drums, Vic Firth Drum Sticks, Sabian Cymbals.
- Band(s): just Public Radio and Mark Mathis (my husband)
- Instruments: keys & vocals
- Years playing: i had a brief spell of piano lessons as a child, but have only been playing with Public Radio for about 4 years
- Hometown: i grew up in Orlando, Fl
- Living Now: Charlotte, NC
I play a Nord Electro 3 and an Alesis Micron
- Band(s): Tia Imani Hanna group,David Teske group, musique Noire,
- Instruments: violin,voice,piano
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
- Living Now: Lansing, Michigan
two acoustic violins with and without Baggs pick up / Musicary carbon fiber bows and D'Addario Heliocore strings. Trace Elliott acoustic guitar amplifier.
- Band(s): Seattle Pro Musica
- Instruments: conductor
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Seattle
- Living Now: Seattle
- Band(s): Panda, Looker, SAADI
- Instruments: bass/vox/keyboard/guitar
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: born in Damascus, Syria
- Living Now: East Village, NYC
I programmed beats in Garageband which I play live through Logic. I play bass and keyboards and sing while the beats are playing. Sometimes I have a guitarist too. I use a beautiful Apogee Duet for my interface, I play a P Bass (Road Worn) through Logic, and I use an M Audio midi controller.
- Band(s): Three, Lubbock Street Band, Jenny & the Whalers, Leonhardt Band
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, piano, violin
- Years playing: Since age of seven, performing own music five years
- Hometown: Fort Worth, TX
- Living Now: Austin TX
"Composite Acoustics Pro X acoustic-electric guitar;
Yamaha acoustic;
Roland keyboard;
nameless violin;
Pedal rig;
Fender tube amp"
- Band(s): nothing notable
- Instruments: vox, guitar, bass, piano, percussion and random others
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: california
- Living Now: albuquerque, nm
"don musser custom made acoustic guitar -
fender telecaster
fender p-bass
fender fretless bass
manu katchu drums...small kit
various percussion"
- Band(s): I sing with a lot of people/friends from time to time. Sharon Van Etten, Anna Ternheim, Sufjan Stevens, Joseph Arthur, Mark Gardener (from Ride), Robin and Joe Bennett (Dreaming Spires/Truckfest), Hopewell, recently sang with Gary Louris (Jayhawks), Dive Index (regular electro collaborator). My specialty is harmonizing and blending voices.
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Pianos, Casio, Omnichord, Percussion
- Years playing: My whole life
- Hometown: Long Island, New York
- Living Now: Brooklyn, New York
"Lately
I have been playing with my wurlitzer, guitars, and lucky loop pedals.
On top of the wurlitzer lies Casio & Omnichord. I have a 1934
Martin Pre-War acoustic and a borrowed 1970's Gibson electric. Sometime
all instruments are feeding into an 8 channel mixer, so I can feed
through an aux channel which ones I want to loop or other effects for
particular songs."
- Band(s): Räuberhöhle, Minipli 550, Minipli 225, Boulevard of broken dreams, deadlines 2000, Sundance, Goldstift, Prinzessin Prolo and more...
- Instruments: keyboard, electronic, vocals, toys...
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Karl Marx Stadt, Grrrlmany
- Living Now: Berlin, Grrrlmany
well, the most important thing for the live shows is a puppet theater. since i play all instruments in my songs by myself, but being not even able to play keyboard while i sing (genes!!!), i decided it's pretty clever to do a instrumental playback and dance like a crazy horse to it. and sing like a loopy stork.
in the puppet theater the bear and krawallmädchen (me) explain, how to become a popstar! so it's more of a workshop and everybody will learn something. maybe.
- Band(s): two. this one and Family Style
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: professionally 13 years
- Hometown: California, India and France
- Living Now: San Francisco
i have a gretsch JR 6120 guitar with a vox AC15 amp for electric. for acoustic, i have an esteve nylon string guitar with a regular guitar neck (good for small hands). i like BOSE chromatic tuners. and i use a sennheiser E835 mic on the road.
- Band(s): too many to name
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Long Island and DFW TExas
- Living Now: Denton, TX
- Band(s): 3 bands: Monterey Pop, Zambezi, Katie Gosnell duo/trio
- Instruments: voice, guitar
- Years playing: 8 years
- Hometown: Annapolis MD
- Living Now: Austin TX
I use a Mac laptop, have Pro Tools, use Garage Band and an Edirol MP3 recorder to record. I have my own PA. I don't know much about gear actually. My brother is a guitar player and knows tons about gear, collects it... I just focus on the music.
- Band(s): numerous - freelance and direct my own
- Instruments: viola da gamba
- Years playing: 30 years - yikes!
- Hometown: small town in Indiana
- Living Now: Cincinnati, OH
- Band(s): played with several bands around home from high school on through my early 20's, my 7th year with DBT's
- Instruments: Bass and vocals
- Hometown: Killen, Alabama (northwest corner, just outside of Muscle Shoals)
- Living Now: Killen, Alabama!
I play a Fender Precision bass through an Ampeg SVT/4-10 cabinet combo at our live shows these days. I love Fender and Ampeg!
- Band(s): bratmobile, frumpies, lois, peechees, love or perish
- Instruments: drums
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Washington, D.C.
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
various ludwig 4 piece drum sets
- Instruments: piano, flute
- Years playing: 55 years
- Hometown: Boston, MA
- Living Now: Charlottesvile, VA
IMac computer, Mackie 16-track mixer, metric halo, steinway grand piano
- Band(s): 1 - this one
- Instruments: drums
- Hometown: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Living Now: Vancouver, B.C., Canada when not on the road
5 piece Pearl Drum set, Sabian cymbals, Vater sticks
- Band(s): Bill Lee Big Band
- Instruments: trumpet
- Years playing: 22 years
- Hometown: Australia
- Living Now: Brooklyn
- Band(s): About 7: Ginger Ibex, Las Aboricuás, The Gobshites, The Milling Gowns, Los Hijos Unicos, Rev. Bob & the Darkness, The Beau Roland Band
- Instruments: viola & violin
- Years playing: 44 yrs minus a 20 yr hiatus after college
- Hometown: Lynn MA
- Living Now: Malden MA
"Depends on band, and if acoustic or electric gig.
Ginger Ibex (Rock/Classical crossover original instrumentals - gingeribex.com)
- 6 string acoustic mezzo viola with electric pickup - Codabow Joule bow
- tube preamp, Boss RV-3 reverb/delay pedal
- Fishman Loudbox 100 amp
- Shure wireless in-ear monitor
Las Aboricuás (Latin singer/guitarist & violin - myspace.com/lasaboricuas)
- standard 4 string acoustic violin with electric pickup, Codabow diamond GX box
- Fishman preamp & Loudbox 100 amp
- LP Aspire Jr Cajon
The Gobshites (Irish Punk - gobshites.com)
- Skyinbow 5-string electric violin with onboard powered preamp, Incredibow holographic (i.e. shiny!) bow
- Shure PGX wireless instrument transmitter/receiver
- Shure wireless in-ear monitor "
- Band(s): synagogue choirs, Duke U. choir, Zamir, Back Bay Chorale, Euphoria (a cappella jazz quartet), many musicals (musical direction)
- Instruments: voice, piano
- Years playing: since I was 3 1/2
- Hometown: The Bronx
- Living Now: Somerville MA
"Several good Shure vocal mics; an eight track mixing board; four high quality monitors; two high quality performance speakers
A 1923 Steinway A grand piano
An absolutely amazing unaccompanied vocal music library of printed music, of many genres and times."
- Band(s): The New Earth Ensemble
- Instruments: Gu Zheng (Chinese Zither)
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: China
- Living Now: Orange County, CA
"- 6 Gu Zheng (Chinese Zither)
-Pro-Tools/ Digidesign 003 Rack
-Yamaha Studio Monitor
-3 Microphones (AKG )
-Midi-Keyboard
-AKG studio monitor headphones
-Abeton Live 7 software
-Finale Notepad"
- Band(s): Mostly solo. I've supported a group named Michaelangelo, Emily Schiavi, Annie Dressner, Vicky Emerson, and others.
- Instruments: Guitar, Piano & Vocals
- Years playing: For as long as I can remember, really. I started performing seriously when I was 16. So - for about 15 years or so.
- Hometown: Northern Minnesota
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
When I go on my upcoming tour this fall, I plan to bring a simple PA system for house concerts (haven't bought it yet), My Martin D35 and Martin J15, and all of the lovely accessories to go along with them. I'm debating throwing my Roland EP9 in the car, but that might be more hassle than help.
- Band(s): 3, Lindsay Wells
- Instruments: Vocalist
- Years playing: 21 years
- Hometown: Austin, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Microphone, and rockin' stand!
- Band(s): Smegma, The Tenses, The Rodney Forest
- Instruments: Turntable, vocals, percussion
- Years playing: 31 years
- Hometown: Portland Oregon, West coast UAS
- Living Now: Portland Oregon
Old equipment from learning institutions, such as a Rheem Califone turntable ( I have four) or a Newmark portable (for overseas travel), A Boss Digital delay pedal, A volume pedal, assorted amplifiers, assorted percussion such as bells, whistles, flutes, music boxes.
- Band(s): my own touring quarter or quintet, Norman Hedman's Tropique
- Instruments: Vocals, Flutes
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: San Francisco, CA
- Living Now: Richmond, VA
Sealos, Sterling Silver Open Hole C Flute (with B foot) - this is hand made by Goerge Karegalos in Oakland, CA. Sankyo Prima, Sterling Silver Open Hole C Flute (with B foot.) Gemeinhardt Alto Flute(this is a wonderful older instrument). Microphones, Full arrangements of original music (with as much music as I write it has become gear).
- Band(s): Lindsey Buckingham's (from Fleetwood Mac) solo band, Michelle Shocked, Meredith Brooks, Air Supply, Precious Metal (all girl rock band from way back) and my own solo project: Janet Robin
- Instruments: vocals, guitar electric and acoustic
- Years playing: over 30 years
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA.
"Ah, well I am known for my guitar playing, having had some high profile gigs.
I use mainly my Taylor acoustic DCSM, Fender Tele, also I have a Fender Custom Strat, and a Custom Turner-Renaissance electric-acoustic that I co-designed. Turner makes all the guitars for Lindsey Buckingham. I have 17 other guitars. I play through a reissue Fender Blues Deluxe. And I have a custom pedal board that I built.
I am endorsed by Fender Guitars, Taylor Guitars, Turner, Martin strings, DR Strings, Clayton picks, Seymour Duncan, Daisy Rock, and Sennheisser."
- Band(s): only solo
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, drums, violin, piano
- Years playing: twenty years
- Hometown: Houston, Tx
- Living Now: nashville, Tn
A red Fender electric guitar and a Vox amp.
- Instruments: Classical Voice
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: New York
That can range from opera costumes to gowns for a recital performance. I always envy a man. He can just wear a suit and he looks great for a recital event. Where as a woman has to find the perfect dress that's not too tight around the waist so that you can breathe comfortably without anyone seeing how much your working. Then there are shows to consider, makeup, hair, nails, the list could go on and on. For opera I feel that the costumes always require so much more work for women than for men. However, in the end I personally enjoy the process of getting that dressed up. I guess it is the equivalent of getting dressed for one's wedding day. One wants to look perfect because everyone will be focused on just you.
- Band(s): I am a soloist and chamber musician
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: My whole life....
- Hometown: Southern California
- Living Now: Austin, TX
My 'gear' consists of a beautiful Stradivarius violin, made in 1730. It belonged to the King of Spain at one time and is called 'The Royal Spanish' Strad...
- Band(s): 8 - ford, Sven Erik, Blank Pile, M. Alice Foster, The Wendy Kroys, Dog Rats, The WoMentors
- Instruments: guitar, bass, drums
- Years playing: 19 years
- Hometown: Quincy, MA
- Living Now: Oakland, CA
"gibson SG, marshall amp
no-name fretless bass, peavey amp
whatever drums I can borrow"
- Band(s): Sara Hickman
- Instruments: Elec./acoustic guitar/some piano/vocals
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Houston
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Takamine, Elixir (strings/cables), Gibson endorsements
- Band(s): 5, THe BAcksliders, Vibrolux, Eleven Hundred Springs, Lithium Xmas, Princess Tex
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 27
- Hometown: dallas, tx
- Living Now: dallas, tx
- Band(s): I've composed for Entertainment Tonight, Extra, TMZ, Ellen DeGeneres, all the "judge" shows, ABC College football, America's Most Wanted and countless other television shows
- Instruments: Keyboards
- Years playing: 50 years
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: NYC
Mac and many soft synths, digital board I'm selling, some outboard gear (synths) and Kurzweil 6400
- Band(s): I worked under the name "astroPuppees" and now I go by my name: Kelley Ryan
- Instruments: Vocals and Guitar and anything that I can make a nice noise with.
- Years playing: Since I was 12.
- Hometown: Born in Portland, Oregon
- Living Now: Cork, Ireland & Palm Springs, CA
I have every guitar I've ever owned still with me. (12 of them). Two basses, two electric guitars, a Danelectro, an acoustic/electric Songbird, and 6 acoustic guitars. Oh, and a strum stick if that counts. I have various loop boxes and whistles and shakers and drums and little key boards and effects etc. A 24 track HD recorder in both Ireland and California so I can write and record all year long.
- Instruments: vocals/guitar
- Years playing: 16 years guitar/ 21 years vocals
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Los Angeles
"Gibson SG
Gibson Les Paul
Marshall JCM800 50watt head
Marshall Silver Jubilee 4x12 cabinet
Rocktron, Boss, Dunlop effects pedals"
- Band(s): Two bands, Night Winds & Helix, both of which folded. Mostly I've worked solo.
- Instruments: vocals, keyboard, guitar
- Years playing: Since I was 4
- Hometown: Born in Detroit, moved to New York
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Taylor guitar (410 CE), Kurzweill K 1000 keyboard.
- Band(s): Erin Barra (solo), Erin Barra and The Hitters, 3 PARTS ILL
- Instruments: Vocals/Keys
- Years playing: for about 21 years
- Hometown: Utah
- Living Now: Brooklyn
"These are the three different versions of my live set
Solo: I run a vintage Wurlitzer keyboard and my voclas through a Digi Tech loop station and effects processor. From there, I build loops live, effect and mix them - and the cornerstone of all my live sets is my Melodica which I solo on and add texture with.
Full Band: Drums, Bass, Keys, Guitar, Me on vocals and Melodica
3 PARTS ILL: DJ droping break beats and sampling records, Guitar player running an extensive pedal setup though both a guitar and bass amp (very tricky) and me on key, vocals and melodica. "
- Band(s): Collaborations with El Grupo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Martha Siegel
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, charango and light percussion,
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: USA (Argentina)
- Living Now: Henderson, Nevada
"I did it already
My new Takamine Guitar with its own amp etc. is being repaired broken by Delta Airlines in my last trip to Detroit "
- Band(s): various Jazz ensembles, let by pianist Charles Sibirsky, guitarist Mike Gellar
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 25+ years
- Hometown: Germany from birth, Brooklyn, NY for 26 years
- Living Now: Rockville, MD
Mackie 808S head, EV speakers, my old trusty Bayer mic, a Sennheiser mic for backup. Also a smaller, one-unit head and speaker that I take for small-room gigs and duo concerts, was sold by Sam Ash, a no-name Chinese product that serves me well.
- Band(s): Regularly and most notably: Fetus Farm, Daisy's Compact Mice, Baby Guts
- Instruments: Guitar, vocals, bass guitar
- Years playing: I've played guitar and in bandssince I was 15 (almost 10 years)
- Hometown: Burnsville, MN
- Living Now: Minneapolis
I generally don't invest a ton of money into nice equipment and a lot of gear I use is shared among friends in other bands. In Cadette I have a Palamino tube amp and a sparkly black Squire Stratocaster guitar. In Kitten Forever I use whatever bass guitar and amp is lying around the basement, along with a Boss Overdrive/Distortion guitar pedal.
- Band(s): Lots! Ryan Adams, Asleep At The Wheel, Dave Alvin, BeauSoLeil, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, more.
- Instruments: steel guitar, Dobro/various acoutstic slide guitars/ lap steel
- Years playing: 28 years
- Hometown: Woodstock,NY
- Living Now: Austin,TX
Various steel, lap steel, and slide guitars, both vintage and contemporary. Three different amps, (all Fender amps). Two pedal boards, one for Dobro and acoustic slide guitars with built in pickups, and one for the steel and lap steel guitars. I do a variety of music styles, so need variety with gear.
- Band(s): Cadillac Ranch, Maree McRae Band
- Instruments: keys, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 30 yrs
- Hometown: deNVER
- Living Now: deNVER
Digital keys, guitar, 8ch mixer,JBLS
- Band(s): 2. Meklit Hadero (solo project) and nefasha ayer (collaborative project)
- Instruments: vocals and guitar. i have just started learning the kerar, a traditional ethiopian instrument. i dream of piano too.
- Years playing: 29
- Hometown: i am from ethiopia. i was born there, though i grew up in the united states.
- Living Now: san francisco
"when i go to shows, i bring quite a lot of things with me. of course i take my guitar and my guitar stand. i set them up first. i have always loved the look of my guitar in its stand. it is a character on the stage. i also love the feeling of walking into a theater with a guitar. that sense of arrival, you know.
i take a quarter inch cable, an extra microphone, paper to write out setlists, a clip board for the email list (with many sheets of ""please print clearly"" written out), cds to sell, a capo, a tuner, an outfit to change into in the last moments before the show begins (that transformation moment), and high heel shoes that i will almost certainly take off after the first song. "
- Band(s): I have been in a bunch of bands, but my two current ones are listed above (TM and the DD Ensemble)
- Instruments: I play the drums!
- Years playing: 12
- Hometown: I am from Brooklyn, NY
- Living Now: Baltimore, MD
When I play a kit it's a marroon sparkely Gretch Kit, circa 1970's. However, in TM and the Ensemble, I play a mitigated kit made of: A high hat, cymbol, floor tom, roto toms, and sometimes some other things.
- Band(s): I am a solo musician.
- Instruments: SITAR
- Years playing: 40+
- Hometown: India
- Living Now: Westlake, Ohio
"Namaste!!
I am a COmposer, Performer and Educator of Music of India on SITAR. It is my vision to bring this ancient artform to all in the world."
- Band(s): Either solo acoustic or with a backing band under the name "Cynthia G. Mason"
- Instruments: voice and acoustic guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Philadelphia
- Living Now: Philadelphia
Martin acoustic guitar with Sunrise pick-up.
- Band(s): I have recorded with three bands: Nights of Key Largo, with Kenny Werner (piano), Billy Drummond (drums), Joel Frahm (sax), Jay Leonhart (bass), Romero Lubambo (guitar); Listen Love, with Freddie Bryant (guitar), Essiet Essiet (bass), Chembo Corniel (percussion) and Miles Okazaki (guitar); Obsession, with Jason Ennis (guitar), Gary Wang (bass), Conor Meehan (drums), Victor Prieto (accordion), Todd Reynolds (violin), Ansel Matthews (backing vocals). I have performed live with many great musicians including Howard Johnson (tuba), Gene Bertoncini (guitar), Don Braden (sax), Kahlil Kwame Bell (percussion), Joe La Barbera (drums) and many others....
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Eleven years
- Hometown: Born in London of English and Trinidadian parents
- Living Now: New York, New York
Mackie mini mixer. Digitech RV stereo reverb unit. AKH 535 microphone. Leads.
There has definitely been a huge increase in women instrumentalists. Nowadays when I tell people I am a musician, they ask "What instrument do you play?" But the assumption only five years ago was always "Are you a singer?" Having said that, there's still room for improvement: Carla Bley, the amazing American composer, bandleader and pianist who has been absolutely gigantic in Europe since the 1960s was billed in a serious newspaper that should have known better as "the singer Carla Bley" the last time she performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2009. Which isn't to say there's anything wrong with being a singer, of course, just that although they remain an important part of the jazz scene, they aren't the only thing.
- Band(s): The Cathi Walkup Quintet, Walkup & Backup, Blue Swing, Walkup, Burns & Zannini, Sentimental Journey, Almost Famous, Cathi Walkup & Shanna Carlson
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 32 years
- Hometown: Born in St. Louis, MO, lived in the SF Bay Area for 30+ years
- Living Now: Oakland, CA
SM87(C) condenser mic, Sennheiser 835 dynamic mic, hybrid (Countryman) headset wireless mic and the attendant accoutrement that goes with that.
- Band(s): just mine: Rykarda Parasol
- Instruments: Voice, electric guitar, piano
- Years playing: 8 years
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: I am a citizen of the world and spend my time in SF, Tel Aviv and Paris
I play a Gibson Melody Maker and am known for my wide vocal range, which can be quite low and smokey to very high. I am most often likened to a female Nick Cave, Diamanda Gallas, Nico.... My band performs live as a 4-piece with drums heavy on the toms, bass, backing vocals, and guitar.
- Band(s): I've performed with and opened for (as a solo artist) at least 40 groups, including George Clinton and P-Funk, Herbie Hancock, Sting, Josh Groban, Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
- Instruments: violin, vocals, viola, programming, iano
- Years playing: performing for 15, studying 25
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada and Los Angeles
- Living Now: Venice, California
"I have a 250 year old English violin, and a big pedalboard full of vintage effects pedals which enables me to rock out or create a soundscape, or build a quirky love scene, or ominous forshadowing for a movie that i might be scoring.
I also have a full recording studio, complete with a Pro-tools rig and microphones and lots of instruments and complicated software. "
- Band(s): I've played with songwriters and other bands briefly, this is the group I've been with the longest. I've recently joined a new band named Bad Girlfriend.
- Instruments: drums & vocals
- Years playing: I have been playing with this band for over three years. I began playing drums in junior high, more so "percussion".
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: New York City, but I've lived and played in New Orleans and Buenos Aires, which is where I started playing drums again.
Ludwig kit. with 22 " kick, in natural wood finish (very classy I think). I use zildjan custom A pros for cymbals, hi-hats, ride and crash. I have have a Tama snare that I recently broke, so I use a ludwig snare in the meantime. My set-up is pretty straightforward- I play heavy floor tom, snare, kick and ride primarily. I don't have an elaborate set-up because simple, straightforward, heavy drums complement the music I play.
- Band(s): Solo artist as Lynda Kay and my duo Lonesome Spurs (as Lynda Kay Parker)
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, suitcase kickdrum
- Years playing: Since age 3
- Hometown: Dallas, Texas
- Living Now: Venice, California
"I am a proud Gretsch endorsee, and I have two guitars that are my favorites: Gretsch Knotty Pine Roundup (semi-hollow mahogany body with beautiful tooled leather binding) and Gretsch Rancher Jr. (black lacquer acoustic with creme binding).
My friends at Shure keep me in microphones and the SM Beta 58 or 55H seem to work best for my deep contralto voice.
And when I'm hitting the road ramblin' roots style, I bring along my signature homemade Samsonite suitcase kickdrum with the double bass drum pedal so I can get that rolling train beat, compliments of the kind folks at The Duallist from Scotland. (normally, these pedals are used by the hardcore men of metal, but it seems that I am their only female endorsee) "
- Band(s): I usually perform under my own name
- Instruments: voice and piano
- Years playing: 30+ years
- Hometown: Cannon Falls, Minnesota
- Living Now: Upstate New York (near Woodstock)
I use the new compact Bose sound system and have a Yamaha electric full-size keyboard. We also have a recording studio on our property and have a beautiful Baldwin grand piano and work with Pro Tools.
- Band(s): Morrison Family Choir, Tri-Area Community Choir, Royal Ensemble
- Instruments: Vocals/sing
- Years playing: Since age 8
- Hometown: Frederick, MD
- Living Now: Atlanta, GA
My vocals & and microphone
- Band(s): none-composing is solitary
- Instruments: composer
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: Tennessee/Georgia
- Living Now: Philadelphia
computer (Mac), Xerox printer, Finale Software
- Band(s): 4 or 5
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 20years
- Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
- Band(s): my jazz group, the Chill Factor, Broken Reed Sax Quartet, Denis Leary Rescue Me Comedy Tour (2009 and 2010) Easy Star All-Stars, Hair band on Broadway show
- Instruments: soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxes, flute, piccolo, clarinet, penny whistle,some piano
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Palos Verdes, California
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Selmer Mark VI, Yamaha, and Yanagasawa saxophones, Miramatsu flute, Haynes piccolo, Buffet clarinet, custom-made mouthpieces by Francois Louis.
- Band(s): I am a solo artist
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 21 Years
- Hometown: Canada
- Living Now: Toronto, Ontario Canada
"Live gear is a Sure SM57
I co-own my own studio and we have the following gear:
Select Mixing/Mastering gear:
Monitors:
* B&W 803S
* Genelec 1032A
Monitor / Volume Controllers:
* Crane Song Avocet
* Dangerous Music Monitor Controller
* SPL Phonitor
A/D/A Converters:
* Crane Song HEDD-192
* Lavry AD122 96-MKIII
* Apogee AD-16X
* Lynx Aurora 16
Summing Mixers:
* Neve 8816
* Dangerous Music Mixer
Headphones:
* AKG K701
* Sennheiser HD 800
Dynamics:
* Manley Stereo Variable-Mu
* Crane Song STC-8
* API 2500 Stereo Buss Compressor
* Chandler Limited TG1
* Rupert Neve Portico 5043 (x4)
Equalizers:
* Cranesong IBIS
* API 5500 Dual Equalizer
* Avalon Design AS-2055
* Millennia NSEQ-2
* Inward Connections DEQ-1
Software:
* Sonic Studio soundBlade
* UAD-1 plug-ins
* Sonnox plug-ins
* SSL Duende plug-ins
* Algorithmix plug-ins
* Flux Mastering Pack plug-ins
* Weiss SARACON"
- Band(s): 2 (see above)
- Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, didgeridoo, hurdy gurdy, percussion, recorders
- Years playing: 50 years
- Hometown: Austin, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I use an ancient Conn bassoon; a Buffet Crampon A Clarinet built in 1905; an old metal Bb clarinet. I use a cheap medieval hurdy gurdy and an expensive French style baroque hurdy gurdy built in Hungary. I play a custom made agave LOW Bb didgeridoo, a LOW B didgeridoo made from eucalyptus by an aboriginal artist, and a cheap plastic didj in the key of D. My recorders are mid to professional range. I have a Yamaha keyboard that I use for work at home, but I need a stage keyboard. I have a ceramic dumbek and an assortment of ethnic drums and percussion instruments. I make some of my own percussion instruments from bone and wood. I have an Eb sousaphone that I'm learning at the moment, but I haven't played it with the band yet.
- Band(s): Currently just Jets Overhead
- Instruments: Bass & Guitar
- Years playing: Professionally for about 17 years.
- Hometown: Victoria, BC, Canada
- Living Now: Victoria, BC, Canada
"1978 Rickenbacker 4001 Bass
Ampeg SVT classic head
Ampeg SVT 8x10 cab
A couple of cool pedals"
- Band(s): Just Dengue Fever and sometimes I do a few shows in the Cambodian Community
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: Originally from Cambodia
- Living Now: Now residing in Long Beach, CA
My voice, make-up & wardrobes.
- Band(s): 10? Played in 3 in highschool with friends (mainly just singing, my girl band was called Cookie Cutter Wet Dream Fantasy!) then in "adulthood" I played in Hem, The Bandana Splits, occasionally with Doveman, The King of France, PoinsonTree, Ben Weaver, Felix McTeigue
- Instruments: guitar/vocals/keys/samples
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: Louisville, KY
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Live I play a BlueRidge Acoustic (w distortion pedals) Guild Starfire with flat wound strings through a Blues Jr. (with a Rvb pedal and occasional Distortion) and have a Boss Loop Station with pre-loaded samples. Sometimes I sample live too, if I'm feeling like it. I have a microkorg that I sometimes play and my drummer runs his vocals through a Kaoss pad to add effects. In the studio I work with all kinds of things. We have a Hammond x66 organ that sounds like it descended from outer space. A ludwig kit, a danelectro bass, I like to use M-tron plug ins for melotron samples and things. We have a rhodes and a wurlitzer, an accordion and a banjo. A few stringed instruments I cant even identify but have picked up in my travels and used in obscure ways on records.
- Band(s): Solo piano, Trio, Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Stanley Clarke Trio with Lenny White, Stanley Clarke Band
- Instruments: Piano
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Japan
- Living Now: New York / Tokyo / on the road
"Yamaha Concert Grand Piano CFIIIS.
Nord Lead 2.
Nord Electro 2.
Microkorg"
- Band(s): I've been in a series of rock bands. You may have heard of Skookumchuck, my first outfit. I was added as second guitarist. I could barely stand and play. I was epic.
- Instruments: I sing, and I play guitar
- Years playing: Since about 20 years old
- Hometown: Closter, New Jersey
- Living Now: Seattle, WA
I use a Fender Supersonic Pro head and matching cab. Play Gibson Les Pauls. SG's, Fender Jaguars. I use Heil vocal microphones.
- Band(s): Many! The Elgin Symphony, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, ESQ, the Lyra String Quartet, and several more
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: 41 years
- Hometown: Chicago, IL
- Living Now: Woodstock, IL
I currently own two violins, the one I mainly use and a back-up. I also own three violin bows, again one I mainly use and a backup plus an extra. I own a few violin cases and a bow case, as well as several music stands, stand lights, and various other paraphanalia. My music cabinet, like most other classical musicians, is pretty full... :)
- Band(s): solo artist
- Instruments: vocals and acoustic guitar
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: New Zealand
- Living Now: touring but based in Austin Texas
I have an Australian guitar, Maton acoustic. It is a fantastic sounding guitar .
- Band(s): I've always done my own thing
- Instruments: Guitar and Vocals
- Years playing: since i was 3..singing and dancing the little mermaid for my family counts.
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: The world..pretty much always traveling. When im stationed its either LA or Florida with my family
"Fender Tele,Acoustic Electric Taylor,Albert Lee HH,Fender Hot Rod amp, sennheiser wireless mic,in-ears,Silhouette Special White music man."
- Band(s): Cornelius Cardew Choir
- Instruments: Piano, Composition, Vocals, Drums, Conducting
- Years playing: 28 years
- Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
- Living Now: San Francisco
MacBook Pro, Sibelius, Korg keyboard, Yamaha piano, pencils, manuscript paper.
- Band(s): I used to always play solo (acoustic), but for the past year or two I have been playing with a band. Collectively, we go by Hailey Wojcik and Her Imaginary Friends
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, strumstick, ukulele
- Years playing: I've been playing and performing for about ten years
- Hometown: I am originally from DeWitt, Michigan
- Living Now: I now live in Brooklyn, NY
I play a Gibson SG (which I love!), through an Ampeg Jet II amp. I only have a few pedals so far (until about a year and a half ago I was all acoustic), but I currently use a Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz pedal, a Digitech Whammy pedal, and I am currently trying to master the Boss Loop station well enough to use at live shows. I also sometimes play ukulele (mine is in a sad state right now, after having been partly smashed on tour, I'm guessing by someone's foot or hindquarters. Its intonation is...charming). I also play a strumstick, which is one of the most fun instruments I've ever played. I encourage everyone to try one out.
- Band(s): Two. Queensboro Orch. Unicorn Sound
- Instruments: Cello guitar bass
- Years playing: Fourty years
- Hometown: NYC Texas
- Living Now: Ne tx
My guitars are now landfill in Bonham
- Band(s): Dyad, The Crooked Jades, The Abramson Singers, Octoberman
- Instruments: Vox and guitar
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Living Now: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hollow-bodied electric guitar (JMS/old framus) and Fender blue junior amp. Sometimes I sing through a line-6 delay pedal, sometimes I use an overdrive pedal with my guitar.
- Band(s): 1 my solo project
- Instruments: Piano, Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: Eureka California
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Yamaha Piano at home, Yamaha Clavinova for touring, Shure Microphones, Martin acoustic Guitar and Ukulele, Epiphone Sheraton Electric Guitar, Fender Deluxe Guitar Amp, Fender Wurlizter. I love my gear. I love each piece like it's an actual extension of myself because essentially it is. I'm a songwriter and the instrument truly outlines where the writing goes.
- Band(s): 3 - Living Bread Praise & Worship Team, Warren Symphony, Macomb Symphony
- Instruments: viiolin
- Years playing: 40 yrs
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Living Now: West Bloomfield, MI
Greg Alf violin, modeled on Guadagnini, circa 1984
- Band(s): 2, ÅSA and Francis
- Instruments: Vocal and piano
- Years playing: 13
- Hometown: Dalarna, Sweden
- Living Now: Dalarna, Sweden
I useally use an electric piano when we play live gigs beacause its easier, but recording I use a aucostic piano called RIPPEN. I use a shure beat 57a on my vocals on live gigs.
- Instruments: sing, guitar, accordion, banjo
- Years playing: I started singing and performing with my older brother's band, "Foxglove" when I was 16.
- Hometown: Mendocino, Ca
- Living Now: Mendocino, Ca
"I currently am performing with a '66 parlor-style guitar made by Framus (in the heart of Bovaria : ) My brother, Morgan Daniel is making me a custom guitar right now that I am really excited about and hope to be playing soon!
My partner, Monko performs with a variety of instruments including a The Kentucky Mandolin, Taylor GA8 guitar and a Gretch Hollow body electric through a Fender Blues Jr."
- Band(s): Just one - True Womanhood
- Instruments: Bass guitar
- Years playing: Three years
- Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
- Living Now: Washington, D.C.
"BASS GUITARS:
Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass
Gibson SG Bass
BASS AMPLIFIER:
1969 Blue Line Ampeg SVT
PEDALS:
Boss Delay; Boss Metal Machine; Whammy pedal; Death by Audio Octave Clang pedal"
- Band(s): Philadelphia Orchestra; Orlando Philharmonic; Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Instruments: Composer
- Years playing: 58 years (I started when I was 3)
- Hometown: Born in Tsingtao, China, daughter of Navy Officer
- Living Now: Maitland, FL (NE vorder of Orlando)
Finale 2008. Dell D630. Steinway D Grand.
- Band(s): too many to name
- Instruments: french horn
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: chicago
- Living Now: los angeles
- Band(s): just this one
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 6 years
- Hometown: abbotsford, briitish columbia, canada
- Living Now: abbotsford
- Band(s): Usually just my band, Ruth Gerson, but I've also played in Gloria Gaynor's band.
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Piano
- Years playing: Almost twenty years.
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: SF Bay Area
"I play a Guild. And if a venue is without a piano, I use a Roland Juno. Often will bring a beta 58.
And I created and use the Singingbelt, http://www.Singingbelt.com - it's a device that trains singers in diaphragmatic breath support."
- Band(s): I am a composer.
- Instruments: piano, voice, recorder
- Years playing: 55 years
- Hometown: originally, Kentucky
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I write music using Finale on my computer and send it to people who perform it.
- Band(s): Effervescent, Freeze Baby, The Deaf, Finger Pressure, Cadette
- Instruments: Bass, vocals
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: St Paul MN
- Living Now: St Paul MN
"fender jazz bass,
kustom amp head and cab"
- Band(s): 2, solo project with 4 albums and a duo project as a teen
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, songwriter
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Lake Charles, LA
- Living Now: Austin, TX
"I own and play a Taylor 614 CE and on the road i travel with a telecaster and a CA guitar (Composite Acoustic)
I also have an Ampeg Superjet Amplifier for the Tele"
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Years playing: 16
- Hometown: Metarie, LA
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I play a Gibson Melody Maker Reissue through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Amplifier
- Band(s): I had/have ensembles at Los Angeles Valley College and Lafayette College. I am also hired as a conductor for independent groups.
- Instruments: conductor of choral and instrumental ensembles, sing, piano
- Years playing: professional conductor - 12 years (also in academic settings), vocalist for 17 years
- Hometown: San Diego
- Living Now: Eastern Pennsylvania
My baton, my hands, colored pencils, scores, enthusiastic ensembles, scholarship on composers and performance practice, and a continued desire to learn.
- Band(s): Abilene Philharmonic, Nashville Double Reed Ensemble, San Angelo Symphony
- Instruments: oboe, English horn
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Chester, WV
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
"I have a small project studio.
computers: Mac G5 & Mac G4 & rackmount PC
2 MOTU firewire audio interfaces and a MOTU MIDI patchbay
1 Digidesign audio interface
Mackie 1604 mixer
Mackie Controller
six Glyph drives
Roland D series speakers
I use primarily Digital Performer, but also have Pro Tools, Logic, Waves plug-ins and a number of orchestral libraries, including the Vienna Symphonic Library. I use Finale for music notation of scores and parts."
- Band(s): Amy Cervini Quartet, Monday Off, Couples Therapy, Jazz Country
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Over 20 years
- Hometown: Toronto Canada
- Living Now: New York, NY
- Band(s): 40 years +
- Instruments: vocals/guitar/piano/bass/accordion
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Los Angeles
Martin guitar, Taylor guitar, G & L bass, Hohner accordion, various keyboards
- Band(s): Asylum Street Spankers, Jubilettes, Speakeasies
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, musical saw
- Years playing: 16
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Living Now: Austin, TX
all acoustic - 1960s Gibson six-string, Martin ukulele, Vega tenor banjo, Charlie Blacklock musical saw, 100 year old handmade tenor "parlor" guitar
- Band(s): I am mainly a solo artist, but I have led the Naad-Avaaz Ensemble, the University of Alberta Indian Music Ensemble, have played in the band The Gypsies, and currently lead Amie & Sangeet Millennium aka Sangeet Millennium Ensemble
- Instruments: sitar and some vocal
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Grew up in New Mexico, spent over a decade in India, have lived in Austin, TX, on and off since 1993.
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I own my instruments (sitar, tanpura, harmonium, esraj, tabla, electronic tanpura and tabla), have condenser mic, a dat recorder, and a video camera.
- Band(s): I am mostly a solo musician but I also sing vocals for the band Artificial Sea. In my life, I've also sung for 2 other bands: Emma La Reina and Dead Radar.
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, autoharp
- Hometown: I was born in Kharkov, Ukraine but grew up in Massachusetts
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
One Danelectro guitar that looks like it was made from a recycled formica countertop. A non-name brand classical guitar (that I play like a regular acoustic). A strumstick with a pick-up attached. An autoharp, also with a pick-up attached.
- Band(s): founding member of Togetherness, played a few shows with Young Dudes, All Strings University Orchestra at UW-Madison, orchestras at St Paul Central High and Ramsey Jr High, solo piano concerts (but haven't in a while)
- Instruments: keyboards, vocals, piano, viola
- Years playing: roughly 26 years
- Hometown: St. Paul
- Living Now: Minneapolis
Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, a vintage synth that my siblings and I got for Christmas in the mid-80s. I also have a mediocre viola for when I play in orchestras.
- Band(s): 3: My own stuff, Voices on the Verge, and Randy Weeks' band
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 17 years
- Hometown: Rochester, NY
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Gibson J200, vocal mic and D.I.
- Instruments: vocals, omnichord, percussion (scrap metal trash heap), clarinet, melodica
- Years playing: performing - 1 year
- Hometown: Ohio
- Living Now: Upstate New York
Two NPR SxSW tote bags from different years, one containing a tambourine, a trash can lid, and a clarinet case; the other containing a metal bucket, in which I keep drumsticks, an antique cowbell from a junk store, two flour-sifter-looking percussion instruments from the Dominican Republic. And my omnichord.
- Band(s): 3 - 8 Inch Betsy (2 versions and the Inpatients)
- Instruments: Bass guitar
- Years playing: 23
- Hometown: Connecticut
- Living Now: Chicago
Squier Bullet Bass and a Peavey TNT 130
- Band(s): The Rosebuds
- Instruments: guitar, keys, vocals, drums
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: North Carolina
- Living Now: North Carolina
"I play multiple instruments both live and in the studio. My gear ranges from a glittery gold accordion, to an Alesis keyboard, to a pink Barbie piano and beyond.
Creativity is the focus and that takes a lot of weird instruments."
- Band(s): lots! and many different styles from most to at least 3 times: DBR & The Mission, B'nai Jeshuran Musician in Residence, Djinn, 2VC, The Naming, Mike Errico, Kanye West, Adele.
- Instruments: cello
- Years playing: professionally, about 13 years, playing for 28 years
- Hometown: Skokie, IL (Chicago)
- Living Now: New York City
"cellos (3) - 200 year old French cello, modern amplified cello and baroque cello
peavy amp, although I usually go direct into the system if amplified, and if so often: baggs DI, boss DD3 delay, fatal tube distortion, T-Rex roommate reverb..."
- Band(s): KGB, Kellye Gray Band, Chat Lunatique, KG3, Scat, Fuzz, Special Interest
- Instruments: vox, percussion
- Years playing: 38 years
- Hometown: Texas (Austin/Houston)
- Living Now: Austin Tx
Audio Technica mike, Beyer Dynamic mike, various hand percussion instruments
- Band(s): Two: Jan bell and the cheap dates. The Maybelles.
- Instruments: guitar
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: Yorkshire, England
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NYC
Martin acoustic D0018 mahogany top guitar.
- Band(s): 3....Blue Night Express, Dixie Chicks, Court Yard Hounds
- Instruments: banjo, dobro, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: since I was 5
- Hometown: Born: Pittsfield, MA Raised: Dallas, TX
- Living Now: San Antonio, TX
I'm not a gear head....you'd have to ask my tech. ;)
- Band(s): always under my own name, different players
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Toronto
- Living Now: Vancouver
minimal. I have a vintage washburn parlour guitar, and a Gretsch Tennessee Rose hollow-body electric
- Band(s): just Mountain Man! I have also sung in The Wailing Wall and with Trevor Wilson
- Instruments: vocals
- Hometown: Cambridge MA
- Living Now: Bennington Vermont
a guitar, and our three voices. We usually do not use mics.
- Band(s): Gary P. Nunn, Sara K. and the Boys Without Sleep, Harvey and the Prowlers,solo
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 36 years
- Hometown: Dallas, TX.
- Living Now: Santa Fe, N.M.
Custom made Manzanita guitar, Roland bass cube, Shure 58 mic
- Band(s): Several when I was a teenager, but billed as Brigitte London for 15 years.
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
- Years playing: Since age 11
- Hometown: Born and raised in Wisconsin
- Living Now: Austin
Martin D28, Fender Acoustic Amp, Tele, Shure 58 mic and whatever else I may need.
- Band(s): numerous... i am a composer
- Instruments: piano, conduct, electronic instruments
- Years playing: 68 years
- Hometown: baltimore
- Living Now: baltimore
"Gear? I'm a composer. I compose music from solo electronic to full orchestra.
I also do performance art music in electronic (electroacoustic)music and in that use 4 portable CD players, on music stands and remote controllers. I move around the stage using the Vivian method."
- Band(s): 10-Longshot, Citizenz Band, Minor Miracle, Swingstreet, Stepsisters, Angel & the ReRuns, Divine Horsemen, 2 Leonard Cohen Touring Bands, Julie Christensen and Stone Cupid
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: vocals-34 years, guitar-1 1/2 years, piano 30 years (writing only)
- Hometown: Iowa City, Iowa
- Living Now: Ojai, California
"I have a Larrivee Parlor guitar (from around 2000- made in Vancouver) with an iMix pickup, and a Dean Markley practice amp.
My voice is a mezzo-soprano, and I had a successful vocal surgery last July (for a polyp caused by an acid problem). It's a joy to sing once more."
- Band(s): Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden, solo and currently in a new band called White Widow
- Instruments: accordion, drums, vocals
- Years playing: 20+ years accordion, 1 year drums, forever vox
- Hometown: Los Angeles, Ca
- Living Now: Portland, OR
1920's bejeweled dallape accordion, vintage drums, lots of effect pedals
- Band(s): Antoinette Montague Quintet, Jimmy Heath and the Queens Jazz Orchestra, Mike Longo and the New York State Of the Arts Orchestra
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 12 years Jazz as pro
- Hometown: Newark, New Jersey the home of legends
- Living Now: Fairfield CT
Jazz Blues, Standards, with a jazz and blues twist on whatever I do.Vocal, Piano, Bass, Drums Sax(wflute and clarinet)
- Band(s): Samantha Crain, Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers, Zeb Dewar & the Fed
- Instruments: vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, banjo, piano, drums
- Years playing: 5 years performing and writing music
- Hometown: Shawnee, OK
- Living Now: Shawnee, OK and the road
"I play a Martin 00-18 through an SWR Strawberry Blonde amp and a Danelectro Convertible through an Orange Tiny Terror tube amp (using a Tube Screamer pedal whenever I can)
I also have a Yamaha CP-70 (which is a type of electric piano that's also a small grand piano with actual hammers and strings) that was originally the piano used in my favorite band, Berry, but I bought it and, although its tough to travel with, I use it for recording."
- Band(s): wild colonials, telepopmusik and solo under my name
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: glasgow scotland
- Living Now: between nyc and la
- Band(s): 3 or 4
- Instruments: Piano
- Years playing: 45 yrs
- Hometown: Detroit
- Living Now: NJ
My preference is a Fazioli Piano
- Band(s): thouvenel string quartet; pro arte quartet; chamber music society of minnesota; festival der zukunft, ernen, switzerland; midsummers music festival
- Instruments: viola
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: oklahoma
- Living Now: madison, wi
old italian viola circa 1680; old french viola bow
- Band(s): I predominantly perform with String Of Pealrs, I also sang with vocal quartet, Mad Romance for 5 years and vocal quintet Group 5 for 4 years
- Instruments: vocalist and guitar player
- Years playing: 30 years and I still do self study, occasionally take a lesson with someone
- Hometown: Long Island, New York
- Living Now: Maplewood, NJ
I have an Electrovoice microphone (also some old Shure 58's). I have a 400 watt sound system (Yorkville head, Bose speakers), GK 100 watt amp for small rooms that I also use as a monitor. I have a classical guitar, hollow-body jazz guitar (custom made) and a travel guitar.
- Band(s): Gainesville Chamber Orchestra, accompanying various soloists
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 23 years
- Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
- Living Now: Gainesville, FL
I own a Kimball baby grand piano that was passed down from an aunt, a Yamaha P-200 and a Yamaha P-85. As I largely perform art music, I don't require much gear.
- Instruments: composer -- acoustic/electronic
- Years playing: first studies at age 7, so about 32 years
- Hometown: albuquerque, nm
- Living Now: concord, ma
My home studio currently is PC-based, with quad Genelec monitors, outboard effects processing and lots of software of various types. Field recordings use a Marantz digital recorder for external Mics and a Zoom H2 when I need something small.
- Band(s): 2 - mine, and Shane Simpson
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, six string banjo
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Ottawa
- Living Now: Ottawa
Oscar Graf guitar, Porchboard, Deering 6 string banjo, Woodskin (percussion instrument)
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 30 years plus
- Hometown: Detroit, MI
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
- Band(s): Wild Ones; Double or Nothin'; Inside Straight; Otter Space Band; 3rd Try Lefty; Good Goddess Almighty
- Instruments: vocals and learning bass
- Years playing: singing all my life, bass one year
- Hometown: Gypsy
- Living Now: Austin
- Band(s): One
- Instruments: Vocals (MC)
- Years playing: 17 years
- Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
- Living Now: Philadelphia, PA
I use a microphone to rhyme and sing lyrics, therefore I am a lyricist. Fortunately, I have achieved the status of "Queen of Hip Hop" having worked with legendary artists including The Roots, Sweetback (Sade's band), the British band Morcheeba, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill and many commercial / main stream artists. I am the female protegee of Gangstarr's Guru and have had a successful career as a female rapper in a male dominated genre of music in the industry.
- Band(s): two, Retarted elf and Scorpio Rising
- Instruments: vocals and moves
- Years playing: 21
- Hometown: Born in St Luois moved to Austin when I was 4 yrs old
- Living Now: Austin Texas
We are an elctronica band with live drums, bass and guitar with backing tracks. All backing tracks are our original works.
- Band(s): Soft Location & Glass Rock
- Instruments: Primarily:Vocals, Guitar Secondary: Keyboards, Drums
- Years playing: 9 years
- Hometown: Detroit
- Living Now: Detroit
I play an acoustic Takamine guitar, and play whatever keyboards, synth or rhythm is around the studio or practice space.
- Band(s): my band, The Ruby Jane Show, since I was 10
- Instruments: fiddle, vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, some keyboards
- Years playing: since I was 2 (I am 15 now)
- Hometown: Austin TX
- Living Now: Austin TX
Fiddle, guitar, mandolin. I need an electric guitar but cant afford one. mics, mic stands. Is that what you mean?
- Band(s): None
- Instruments: I am a composer
- Years playing: Formally for eight years
- Hometown: State College, PA
- Living Now: Oakland, CA
I use the notation program Sibalius to create all of my scores. Recently I have begin using the program SuperCollider to make my computer parts.
- Band(s): Just Girl In A Coma
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 9 years
- Hometown: San Antonio
- Living Now: San Antonio
I have a 4 piece teal Gretsch set, lead singer has a brent mason telecaster and fender deville amp,bass player plays on jack cassidy bass with ampeg amp.
- Band(s): Loveless, Special Guest, the Looprule, Tea Time Tragedy, The Insides, and present band
- Instruments: drums
- Years playing: 12 years
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon AKA rock n roll town
- Living Now: Smelladelphia, PA
the same crappy Sun drum kit i have had since i was 16, with an awesome maple Drum workshop snare. i need to upgrade soon.
- Band(s): 6- Zookeeper's Wife, Feyerabend, Aromatic, Casper & the Cookies, supercluster, Let's Bolt
- Instruments: Bass, vocals, guitar, keys, drums
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Columbus,, GA
- Living Now: Athens, GA
1982 Gibson Grabber bass, 1976 Fender Musicmaster bass with original contact paper artwork by Bill Doss, MicroKorg keyboard, Gretsch Corvette guitar, Ampeg 450 bass amp, SWR Megoliath 810 cabinet. I play on Sonor drums, but they belong to someone else. I also have a Harmony guitar my parents bought from the Sears catalog, and a Norma bass from the '60s.
- Band(s): far too many to name over the years
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Buffalo, NY, USA
- Living Now: Yoek, England, UK
not an issue for classical musicians
- Band(s): 1 - Schmillion
- Instruments: Guitar
- Years playing: Guitar
- Hometown: Austin TX
- Living Now: Austin TX
"Peavey Classic Thirty Watt Tube Amp
Gibson Les Paul Silverburst"
- Band(s): 4 - Slydell, Blackswan, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, and our current project The Watson Twins
- Instruments: vocals & guitar
- Years playing: 26
- Hometown: Louisville, KY
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Yamaha Acoustic guitar, Beta 58 Mic, some percussion (i.e. tambo, shakers, etc.), harmonica and vocal chords
- Band(s): Steeleye Span, Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, The Maddy Prior Band, and a few others.
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 48yrs
- Hometown: Lancashire, England
- Living Now: Cumbria, England
Whatever PA we are using. I use in-ears sometimes too. Otherwise I avoid gear!
- Band(s): MBird and several jazz groups
- Instruments: vocal and guitar/piano/fiddle
- Years playing: since I was three
- Hometown: Detroit, North Dakota, Kansas City
- Living Now: Nashville
I have the same fiddle I've had since I was 8...I play an 85' Fender Acoustic and an Alvarez. I use a Peavey Portable PA when appropriate. I have a Sennheiser mic a Shure 55S mic. I use a Blue Snowball series mic for Macbook webcam streaming for live videos. I use music stands I stole from my college shhhhh:)
- Band(s): Regularly, just one - Ellery
- Instruments: vocals, piano
- Years playing: 20+ years
- Hometown: Raised in NE Ohio
- Living Now: Greater Cincinnati area (Ohio)
"I generally write songs on the ancient, out-of-tune upright that presides over the hardwood floors of our Northern KY living room.
On tour, I play a Yamaha P120 - It was built for home-use, but it has a great piano sound. It's also light, and it has built-in speakers - A definite plus for in-studio performances at small radio stations!
My husband and music partner, Justin Golden, has been on a years-long quest to find the best travel-able microphone for my voice. After a Shure Beta 87, a Neumann, and a few others, we've landed with a Heil PR35, which feels like a solid fit. (Thanks, Heil!)"
- Band(s): over the years too many to mention . I now work mainly with my own group The Jane Stuart Quartet
- Instruments: vocalist
- Years playing: 50+ years
- Hometown: Originally Jersey City NJ/ New York City
- Living Now: Nutley NJ
I carry a PA head/amp, 2 speakers, speaker stands, cables, Mic, mic stand, music stand, promo materials, huge book of sheet music, huge book of lyrics and song lists
- Band(s): Ida, k., The Naysayer, Beekeeper
- Instruments: bass, piano, vocal
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: Brooklyn NYC
- Living Now: Brooklyn NYC
1 Fender Precision bass, 1 Gallien-Krueger amp.
- Band(s): This week: Lyric Fury Orchestra, Compared to that big band, Swing Era Big Band, Larry Siegal (party band), a Duo of improvised music, Audrarox (kids band)
- Instruments: Saxophones, flute, piano
- Years playing: 26 years in New York
- Hometown: Aurora, Illinois
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
3 saxophones, a flute, a clarinet, keyboards, microphones, stands, reeds, other instruments for rehearsals....
- Band(s): Zanana
- Instruments: trombone
- Years playing: 30 years
- Hometown: California
- Living Now: New York
Bach Stradavarius 42B trombone with Thayer valve and Minick leadpipe. For live processing: MacBook Pro with Max/MSP, Max for Live, and Ableton Live 8 software; RME Fireface audio interface; RFX MP1288 MidiWizard pedalboard, custom slide-mounted interactive performance interface see http://www.buzzarte.org/interface.html; 4 custom built spherical speakers,
- Band(s): John Mellencamp (18 months), My own group 6 years
- Instruments: vocals/piano
- Years playing: performing 9 yrs/studying 27 yrs
- Hometown: Oak Ridge, TN
- Living Now: Bloomington, IN
I perform on a Yamaha p90 Keyboard.
- Band(s): I perfrom with a different company every month. Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Theatre Des Champs Elysees, Teato Real de Madrid, Glyndebourne, Theater an der Wien, Netherlands Opera
- Instruments: voice
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: Born in Australia, grew up in Los Angeles from the age of 10.
- Living Now: I live in the world! I travel so much that I am practially living everywhere. I have two bases- one in New Jersey, and one in Sussex
My gear is my own body- probably the highest maintenance gear in the business! no repair shop for my gear!
- Band(s): Paper Bird is the only real band i've ever been in. We've been together almost 4 years
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: whole life
- Hometown: Boulder
- Living Now: Denver
Singing is the best because you never have to haul your instrument or leave it behind. I have it with me wherever i go.
- Band(s): 3. Gandhi, Aztech, The Latin Project
- Instruments: Voice Piano and Guitar. Bass and Percussion for fun
- Years playing: Piano since 4 yr old. Guitar since 12 Bass since 14 yrs old
- Hometown: San Jose, Costa Rica
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
"Keys: In the Studio and on the Road Yamaha S90XS and MO6. At home Yamaha upright piano.
Favorite acoustic guitar: Cordoba Nylon String. Electric: Danelectro."
- Band(s): Solo artist
- Instruments: piano, vocals
- Years playing: studying from K-college-16 years; touring and writing since--12 years
- Hometown: Jackson, MS
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
88-weighted keyboard; MacBook Pro; Garage Band and Logic Studio 9; M-Audio Pro Fire 610; M-Audio studio speakers; Various keyboard controllers; Several microphones of varying quality; acoustic guitar (occasionally);
- Band(s): I was in Slot with my late husband, Billy Rivkin, and am now in Luder.
- Instruments: "Vocals and bass"
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Various parts of Michigan
- Living Now: Detroit
Multiple bass guitars, a giant speaker cabinet, a head, a compression pedal and a tuner. I don't place a great deal of importance on gear like lots of rock guitarists do. Their effects pedals and toys seem to be such a distraction. I go simple. My basement contains the equipment of several bands on the Small Stone Records label, but we're the only ones who rehearse and compose there.
I might be able to give you an example or two, but I have to say no. Slot was aggressively courted by some major labels. All of them sat at their conference room tables with us looking for a way to market the pretty rock chick. They wanted to know if I'd ever been raped, if we had drug problems, tattoos, abusive family lives, broken homes...they wanted to find a hard-knocks story to frame us for the music market. We didn't lie to them. We all had families who loved us, no tattoos, no violence, no rehab, nothing the major labels could exploit like they did with someone like, say, Fiona Apple, the molestation victim. So no, nobody in the industry had much of anything valuable to contribute at all. We made our own way and did just fine. Nobody tells us what to do, and we enjoy that freedom.
- Band(s): metal pitcher, a careful workman is the best safety device, superchunk
- Instruments: bass guitar
- Years playing: 22
- Hometown: north carolina mostly, and atlanta
- Living Now: Durham, NC
I have a very old (from the 70's I bet) and beat up Ampeg 2x15" cabinet with EV speakers, an Acoustic 370 bass head from the 70's also I think, a Fender Precision bass from 1977 (candy apple red!), and a distortion pedal called "hot cake" made by Crowther audio in New Zealand. I found out about this awesome company because Denise from the 3d's had a hot cake and I loved her sound...we did some shows together and she let me in on the secret. Back in '93 it was really hard to find a distortion pedal that sounded good with bass.
- Band(s): I perform with 3 groups regularly
- Instruments: voice, piano, frame drums, clarinet
- Years playing: over 30 years
- Hometown: Rhode Island
- Living Now: New York City
Roland EP-9 keyboard, Carvin PA system & mic (like an SM-57), Remo Alessandra Belloni signature drums, Buffet Clarinet, mic stands, keyboard stand
- Band(s): Just my solo stuff
- Instruments: vocals and piano
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Louisiana
- Living Now: Nashville
Yamaha keyboard, Neumann microphone, and sometimes an Alesis Keyboard. I bring out other players with me as well such as drums, bass, lap steel, guitar, violins, cellos, harp, other singers.... all depending on the tour/show.
- Band(s): 1 (solo singer-songwriter)
- Instruments: voice, guitar
- Years playing: 30
- Hometown: Dedham, MA
- Living Now: Chicago, IL
I am not much of a gear "nerd." People in airports (99% of them men who are clearly so passionate about guitar) always ask me what model I play. I tell them that I have a small-body Martin 000-16 acoustic, and then they tell me what they play, and I nod and smile, but I truly have no idea what the model numbers mean. I also have a great Larivee guitar (don't know the model - typical :) - that my friend Melissa Ferrick gave me. It has a big crack down the front which is probably bad, but it looks badass. It's become my writing guitar since I stopped touring by car and started flying out for weekends, and therefore couldn't bring 2 guitars anymore. I think it feels dejected that I don't take it on tour with me anymore. It stares at me when I come home. As far as electrical gear, special pedals etc...I am pretty simple. I have a tuning pedal, and that's pretty much it. I think I have always been pretty intimidated by "gear." I'd love to get over that. When I walk into a music store as a pretty preppy looking woman to buy strings, picks, anything for my guitar, they usually always assume that I am a soccer mom buying stuff for my son's guitar lesson. It's hard not to feel like I don't belong in there.
- Instruments: Violin, Back-up Vocals
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Austin, MN
- Living Now: Chicago, IL
I have a Realist pick-up on my violin and I use the LR Baggs preamp. These give my violin a really warm tone. A lot of times venues don't have the greatest equipment and has made my instrument sound really tinny, so this has been a great combo.
- Band(s): four - Madison Symphony, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Wingra Quintet, and Cactus Pear Music Festival
- Instruments: flute
- Years playing: 35 years
- Hometown: Californi
- Living Now: Wisconsin
"flute
piccolo
alto flute"
- Band(s): Melanie Fiona
- Instruments: Vocal
- Years playing: 2002
- Hometown: Los Angeles, California
- Living Now: Los Angeles, California
Microphone, and My vocal Chords :-)
- Band(s): My main group is called Bomshel
- Instruments: Vocals, Fiddle, Mandoline, Guitar, Viola, Piano, Steel Drums:) And a horrible cello.
- Years playing: Since I was three. So, a LONG time.
- Hometown: Born in Creston, B.C. Was raised in Sandpoint Idaho
- Living Now: Nashville TN
I play on a variety of fiddles, my main two were built by friends of mine, one in Idaho, the other here in Nashville. I am a huge fan of PRS guitars. I have two, one is the most incredible hollow body. There have only been twelve made. I am a very spoiled girl. (Actually, I've practiced hard.) And I have play an Epiphone acoustic that is my FAVORITE!!! I'm still saving for the amp that I want. It's a Bogner. I sing through a Crown mic, and I have all Sure wireless gear. I play exclusively on Glasser bows, my favorite are his carbon fiber braid. Shall I start on my pedels? My new favorite is this Alv
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Piano
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Springfield, MA
- Living Now: Austin, TX
I rock an Italia Modulo Guitar into a Marshall Stack with an Acoustic Image head. My Pedals include: Boss DD-6 pedal, Boss CH1 Pedal, and few other fun ones that interchange. As far as keys, live I use the Micro Korg.
- Band(s): Just one, my own (Vienna Teng)
- Instruments: piano, vocals
- Years playing: Studied piano since age 5; started singing in choirs in high school; performing since 2001, professionally since 2003.
- Hometown: Saratoga, California
- Living Now: New York City (nominally; mostly traveling)
I play grand pianos whenever the venues have them, which is fortunately often these days. Other than that, I carry an Electro-Harmonix 2880 looper, which I hook up to a vocal microphone so I can create loops with my voice, the piano, hand claps, etc and bring them in & out of the song at different times. Sometimes I also travel with a Nord Stage 88 keyboard, which has organ, Rhodes and Wurlitzer sounds (as well as acoustic piano sounds, for the times there isn't a piano at the venue).
- Band(s): Colossus, Azeem ,dj Bella , eyezon, kiki (bpitch records)
- Instruments: Vocalist/emcee/engineer/producer
- Years playing: 18years
- Hometown: Oakland
- Living Now: Everywhere california
"Full band
drums
guitar
keys
synth
bass
two vocalist"
- Instruments: guitar and vocals
- Years playing: 2 years
- Hometown: Portland,Tx (originally)
- Living Now: Austin,Tx
I have a 2008 Breedlove Pro...she's my "purchase a NICE guitar so I'll play it more" purchase.
- Instruments: vocals, keyboard, guitar
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Whitby, ON
- Living Now: Toronto, ON
I play a Hagstrom Futura 1965ish guitar and a Harmony Rocket (1957ish) and a Yamaha DJ-X Keyboard. I sing through whatever mic is available but prefer just a straight ahead sm57. I sometimes use a TC Helicon Harmony GXT vocal processor for certain effects.
- Band(s): none
- Instruments: I am a composer
- Years playing: 40 plus years
- Hometown: London England
- Living Now: Seal Beach California
I use an electronic keyboard or piano, paper and pencil or Finale software to compose
- Band(s): Zion Epsicopal Church; the Maria Antonia Project (my own company); various opera workshops
- Instruments: voice--mezzo-soprano
- Years playing: Performing for entire life, studying formally 10+ years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: New York City
African-American woman, boyish build & youthful appearance (perfect for playing young men and boys on stage, which I do frequently); also have a MacBook Pro, Finale and a Roland Digital Piano for transcribing music [a research specialty of mine is operas composed by women, so I am in the process of making vocal/keyboard transcriptions of arias from some 18th-century composers]
- Band(s): I’ve sung with quite a few bands live and on recordings, but I’ve been a member of two bands. The punk band Zeitgeist Auto Parts, and Leslie and The Badgers.
- Instruments: Guitar, Piano, (Saw, Harmonica, sometimes Kazoo) and Vocals.
- Years playing: I’ve been playing and writing music since I was small. Piano started in elementary school.
- Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri.
- Living Now: Los Angeles, California
"Gibson Acoustic Blues King, Saw from Home depot. Alvarez Classical guitar.
Mexican Telecaster, Princeton Amp Nineteen Sixty Twoooooo!
Fender Twin Reverb Amp, Nineteen Seventy Six."
- Band(s): too many to list -- a few NYC rock bands: Unisex Salon, Les Fleurs Tragiques, Laptop, Imaginary Johnny, The Countess & the C.U.N.T. Revolution
- Instruments: drums, vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Years playing: drums (15 years), singing (7), guitar (5)
- Hometown: Philadelphia then Brooklyn
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
"Drumset-- old silver sparkle Slingerland I inherited from my uncle, 1969 vintage
Guitar-- acoustic is a rosewood Guild made in China; small bodied to fit me
bought on Matt Umanov guitars in NYC
Electric guitar-- red hot, small bodied music man guitar; purchased at an auction at the Goodwill near my house in Austin for $60"
- Band(s): I've performed with many groups
- Instruments: I am a composer
- Years playing: Since age 4
- Hometown: Chicago
- Living Now: Chicago
I own a Technics keyboard (and a trumpet from my college days).
- Band(s): Airway
- Instruments: Cello voice
- Years playing: 52 years
- Hometown: Guatemala/ Pasadena
- Living Now: California
- Band(s): Just The Naked Heroes and an awesome all girl band called Bad Girlfriend.
- Instruments: I play the drums.
- Years playing: I've had a drum kit for 10 years but I've been playing seriously for about 6 years.
- Hometown: I'm from Florida.
- Living Now: I live in Brooklyn.
I have a big, white, dirty Mapex. I'm definitely not precious about my gear. It would be cool to have some sort of vintage Vistalite but I think it's more punk rock to have a K-mart brand, ya know?
- Band(s): The Mama Doni Band!
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: New York, New York
- Living Now: Montclair, New Jersey
"My first 4 albums were recorded either:
1. In my kitchen
2. In my basement
3. In a home studio in Brooklyn
4. In a home studio in Jersey City
Recognized in The New York Times, LA Times, The Jewish Daily Forward, New York Post, The Star-Ledger, The Record, Time Out New York Kids, New Jersey Jewish News, The Jewish Week, Jewish Woman International Magazine, and more....Performed over 175 concerts since May 2008."
- Band(s): school, church, university
- Instruments: piano, organ
- Years playing: 76 years
- Hometown: MO
- Living Now: CA
gear? I have no gear. If you mean musical instruments, I have a Steinway piano model D (concert grand), clavinova, synthesizers, organs at church.
- Band(s): Cady FInlayson Band, Cady FInlayson & VIta Tanga, Police Pipes and Drums of Bergen County
- Instruments: violin (Irish fiddle)
- Years playing: more than 20 years professionally
- Hometown: Seattle
- Living Now: Brooklyn
"I play on a 5-string fiddle made by Eric Aceto, who is a maker from Ithaca New York.It is an electric-acoustic (can sound completely acoustic when amplified)
I also have a wireless system for the shows I do with the Police Dept. and that is a Sennheiser wireless system.
For band shows I have a pa system EV speakers and powermate board. "
- Band(s): 4 serious ones,two cover bands
- Instruments: Bass/Vocals
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: San Francisco
I play a shitty Ibanez Bass that is the only Bass I have ever owned. I've been wanting to upgrade for the past 7 years. I play an Ampeg combo amp that I love, which I bought for $80 at a flea market 6 years ago.
- Band(s): Mean Creek, Chris & Aurore, Age Rings
- Instruments: guitar, vocals, harmonica
- Years playing: 7 years
- Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon
- Living Now: Boston, MA
Fender Telecaster, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp, Boss + Electro-Harmonix pedals, and Hohner Blues Harps.
- Band(s): 2 - the New Drifts, and now solo as Catherine MacLellan
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 13 years
- Hometown: Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Living Now: Prince Edward Island, Canada
I play a vintage gibson j45 acoustic guitar. that's about it.
- Instruments: guitar, keys, vocals
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: San Antonio, TX
- Living Now: San Antonio, TX
Takamine 530cs, Taylor 114ce, Studio Les Paul, Gibson Epiphone... Ibanez TA35,
- Instruments: banjitar, guitar, vocals, harmonica, mandolin
- Years playing: 8 years
- Hometown: Apple Valley
- Living Now: Minneapolis
My band has a full sound-board and large amps. Our drumkit is homemade. My instrument is a banjitar(6 string banjo) which I play into a microphone.
- Band(s): The Great Danger
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Accordian etc
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: London, UK
- Living Now: London
A cheap black electro-acoustic guitar and a Fender telecaster thinline
- Band(s): Roscoe Freund Art of Swing, Rebecca Carlson Trio - currently
- Instruments: piano & vocals
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Vail, AZ (suburb of Tucson)
Yamaha YPG 625, Fender Passport PA, Shure 57 mic, cords, etc.
- Band(s): probably 30
- Instruments: Piano, vocal & string producer
- Years playing: 38
- Hometown: Memphis
- Living Now: Brooklyn
Lots of keyboard & recording gear. Now, most events I play rent a grand piano.
- Band(s): Lycia
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 16 years
- Hometown: Mantua, Ohio
- Living Now: Mesa, Arizona
Ibanez guitars, Kawai Synth, Acid 4.0, Anwida FX, Digitech, Boss, GSP fx
- Band(s): As a solo artist, Fat Bottom Girls, Gravity
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, bass, tuba
- Years playing: 25 years
- Hometown: New York
- Living Now: Brooklyn
Fender precision bass, SWR jr goliath cab/GK bass head, King BBb Tuba, Washburn Acoustic Electric guitar.
- Instruments: vocals and guitar
- Years playing: 20 years, at least
- Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
- Living Now: San Antonio, Texas
Martin guitar, Bose L1 sound system
- Instruments: Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: New Yrok
- Living Now: New York
Flute, piccolo, alto flute, tuner and microphone, metronome, music, pencil
- Band(s): Ginger Leigh Band (current), The Ginger & Sarah Band (1998-2002), Ginger Leigh & the Front Porch Swing (1996-1999), the Gospel Gang (when I was 9 to 13 years old).
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 24 years
- Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
"I'm not much of a gear geek. Ironically this should be one of the questions. I recently listed my Gibson SG electric guitar on ebay. A man who was interested asked me a few technical questions about it, but I was out of town and away from the guitar. I told him all I could and that it was a standard American-made SG. I later received a raging note from him about how as a GIRL I shouldn't quit my day job and try to be a musician, because obviously GIRLS don't know anything about gear! Ha ha. I thought it was hilarious because music is my ""day job"" and I just so happened to be far away from the guitar at the moment. It doesn't matter at all, but it struck me that there might be some serious resentment from a handful of males out there when women succeed at being musicians. Maybe it is a female characteristic, but I had a lot of emotions attached to the instrument so after my response, he apologized and offered to purchase the guitar. I, of course, refused his offer. The last person I would want owning my guitar is a guy with a phobia of female musicians!
That being said, I play a Martin D-16 Rosewood acoustic and a Schecter electric and a Fender Strat electric. My electric guitars are played through a Peavey Tube amp. I use a handful of guitar effects petals made by Boss and I also run my vocals through two effects boxes (one is a Digitech harmonizer and the other a Boss Delay). My feet end up tap dancing through most of my songs as they control all of the effects. Lately, I have played more of my acoustic guitars, but when I have the right venue for it, I love to bring out the electric guitars as well."
- Band(s): Two seriously, Ms Tree and Aimee Bobruk
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Melodica, Bells, Shakers/Tambo, Violin
- Years playing: Depends on which instrument. I began violin at the age of 3. Vocals at 8, serious through out high school with state choir. Guitar at 19. Melodica/Bells/Shakers and Tambo this past year. I'm now 29 yrs old.
- Hometown: Huntsville, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
"1956: Gibson J-50 bought in the parking lot of the San Jose in South Austin by a private seller.
1966: Epiphone Caballero
1974: Fender Telecaster bought by saving every penny in college
Fender Pro Junior Electrip Amplifier
Strawberry Blonde Bass Amplifier
1923 Golbransen Piano--I found a 1926 penny in the piano while searching for the serial number
1950's Melodica
Collection of Mexican whistles
Collection of Indian Bells
Angklung from Indonesia
Casio Realistic SK-1
2009 MacBook Pro with Logic and Garage Band
Presonus Interface
USB Mic and 58's
Boss Chromatic Tuner
Line 6 looper/delay/echo
Packaging Tape for Effects
My hands clapping
My pots and pans
tambo and shakers
My lips whistling
A few busted cases
One 1960's leather suitcase for chords
That's it
"
- Band(s): I can't count the groups I have performed with regularly throughout my career, because there would too many. The most notable groups being: Montclair State University Symphony Orchestra, University of Rhode Island Orchestra, rock group Verbana Darvell, and my current group, Those Mockingbirds. I have also performed with Grammy winning Native American artist Joanne Shenandoah, played guest violin on Hot Rod Circuits album "The Underground is a Dying Breed," and recorded with Producer/Engineer Tom Beajour founder and former editor in chief of Revolver Magazine.
- Instruments: Voice, Violin, Piano
- Years playing: 20 Years
- Hometown: Ridgefield, CT
- Living Now: Montclair, NJ
My acoustic violin for recording, quartets, and symphony orchestras is a Chinese Yang and Zu copy of Guarnerius del Gesu with a Brazilian D. Chagas Bow. My stage violin is an acoustic electric Barcus Berry with a red sunburst finish. I use a cheaper synthetic fiber bow for this violin because tour instruments usually succumb to damage. For both violins I use a Kun shoulder rest, and Pirastro Vision strings. I also play a Korg Dw8000 keyboard like many of the pianists in the rock word. When playing a live show I plug both instruments in direct. I don't have a preference of microphone or amp.
- Band(s): 1-Delia y los aminoacidos 2-aterciopelados
- Instruments: vocals and guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Bogota-Colombia
- Living Now: Outside Bogota
Acoustic guitar and a microphone
- Band(s): Tone'X, Unity Klan,
- Instruments: Rap
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: San Diego, California
- Living Now: San Diego, California
1950's style dresses, Baby Doll dresses, Urban-Chic
- Band(s): "Cockpit" for the last 9 years
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: New Mexico
- Living Now: Hollywood, CA
Tama drum kit- 12" & 13" rack toms, 16" floor tom, 22" kick drum. DW hardware including pedals. Zildjian cymbals that tend to vary on the larger side.
- Band(s): Ruby Falls, Retsin, The Naysayer, Cynthia Nelson band
- Instruments: guitar, bass, vocals, drums, piano, flute
- Years playing: 22 years
- Hometown: Napa, CA (spent 14 years in NYC and a few in Louisville KY)
- Living Now: Portland, OR
1980's Gibson SG guitar, 1990's Martin acoustic guitar, G&L bass, Fender amps (Vibrochamp, Hotrod), Ampeg bass amp, 1960's Slingerland drum kit, thrift store piano, student flute, pen and paper, cassette recorder, partner w/many nice mics and preamps and digital recording gear/know-how.
- Band(s): Jazz: Lea Delaria, many pick up groups. Contemporary: Jerome Kitzke's Mad Coyote Ensemble. Taiko Japanese Drums: Taikoza Classical: Queens Symphony, NYC public school outreach: Music Outreach. Many Broadway and touring companies including Cabaret revival with Joel Grey, Miss Saigon, Sunset Blvd.., CATS, Big, Mary Popins
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 40 years
- Hometown: Port Washington, NY
- Living Now: NYC area
Drum sets of various sizes and woods, cymbals, Marimba, Chudaiko, congas, timbales, etc... things that make interesting sounds when hit, shaken or scraped
- Band(s): None, composer primarily
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: 20 plus years
- Hometown: Mexico
- Living Now: Minneapolis
- Band(s): marianne dissard
- Instruments: vocals
- Hometown: france
- Living Now: tucson, az
i sing, i have toured in any number of combination of musicians, from solo shows with backup tracks from my laptop to a full 15 piece band. Most common setup, though, on my latest tours, have been a 5 piece: guitar/backup vocals + bass + violin + drums/piano/accordeon.
- Band(s): 4 or so. I started playing viola and bass in a band called the Hissyfits while also performing with a music collective called Anti-Social Music. In 2005 I formed Demander and also did a little touring and playing with World/Inferno Friendship Society. Demander has been my full-time band for about 5 years.
- Instruments: bass and vocals (and sometimes viola)
- Years playing: Almost 20 years
- Hometown: Denver, CO
- Living Now: New York, NY
My viola is as old as the hills - it was my sister's before me and I've had it 20 years. My bass is a Music Man copy that one of my old band mates customized for me years ago. I play through a Gallien-Kreuger speaker and head.
- Band(s): many: Madison Symphony Orchestra; Illinois Symphony Orchestra; International Chamber Artists (Chicago); Wisconsin Philharmonic; Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra; Civic Orchestra of Chicago
- Instruments: Flute and Piccolo
- Years playing: 10 years as pro; playing for going on 21 years!
- Hometown: Polo, Illinois
- Living Now: Madison, Wisconsin
"2 flutes: Altus flute (14K gold instrument); Miyazawa flute (sterling silver instrument)
1 piccolo: Emerson Ultimo (grenadilla wood)"
- Band(s): Varies
- Instruments: voc
- Years playing: 20 years (in my current genres)
- Hometown: California (SF Bay Area)
- Living Now: Brooklyn, New York
"Sennsheiser E865
Gallien Kruger MV200
ART Tube MP Studio Mic Preamp"
- Band(s): I would say a couple dozen.
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: Since the mid 1970s
- Hometown: Connecticut native
- Living Now: Yonkers NY
I have two p.a. systems: the small one is a Gallien-Krueger Vocal Monitor that I use as a speaker and also as an amp to drive a small external speaker. The large one is a Mackie 808 Stereo 8-channel head, with two Bose 402 speakers. I currently use an EV microphone. I prefer a Shure BG-58 Condenser mic, but alas mine was lost on a Delta airlines flight, along with all my luggage!
- Band(s): The Sippy Cups, Tempest (2003 to 2005), The Brian Cline Band, The Palm Wine Boys, several local Jazz Bands
- Instruments: Electric Bass (4, 5, 6 string), upright bass, piano, vocals. Working knowledge of several other instruments - I also occasionally get hired to compose or do sounddesign for games or websites
- Years playing: studied since I was 5 years old. Performing professionally since I was 22
- Hometown: Innsbruck Austria
- Living Now: Vallejo, California (Northern San Francisco Bay Area)
"Electric Basses:
I am endorsed by two European boutique bass manufacturers, Marleaux and Fibenare
4 string, 5 string 6 string Consat Marleau
5 string Votan Marleaux
Fretless 5 string Fibenare
Bohemian Upright from the 1900s
I am also endorsed by Eden amplifiers (World Tour 800 and several cabs)
as well as Looperlative Looper pedals
Gear also includes a host of pedals, loopers, a home studio, several pianos, a PA etc"
- Band(s): 5! But only two seriously... "The Story" and my solo band (Jonatha Brooke.)
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, bass
- Years playing: 33
- Hometown: Boston
- Living Now: New York City
two olson acoustic guitars. two guild acoustic guitars. vintage 60's student model wurlitzer. yamaha motif. fender fretless and regular basses. baritone Jerry Jones guitar. custom baritone acoustic guitar. custom mandolin. first guitar, martin HD28. various guitars people have sent over the years......
- Band(s): 3 total. Sestina, Jasmine Ash, The Very Foundation
- Instruments: vocals/keyboard
- Years playing: 5 years
- Hometown: Wisconsin
- Living Now: Portland, OR
As of now, I just use mics that the band already has and I borrow a Nord Electro 2 from one of 3 friends that have them.
- Band(s): Just me.
- Instruments: Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Trumpet
- Years playing: 34 years of studying/22 years of performing
- Hometown: Ipswich, MA
- Living Now: Newburyport, MA
I tour with Collings acoustic guitars, a pendulum parametric EQ/DI, a Sennheiser 855 microphone, a tuner pedal, an EQ pedal, and an octave pedal.
- Band(s): In my whole life? Wow, this will be fun. I was in the school choir from 3rd grade until I graduated High School. Does that count? I was also in a band my Senior year of High School -formed specifically for our graduation party. I don't think we had a name. I was in several Choirs in College, as well as in a band called 'Fierce Mullet' though we didn't play shows much. My husband and I have been playing music as 'We are Jeneric' for eleven years and I have been in 'Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned' for three years now.
- Instruments: vocals, violin, percussion, piano, drums
- Years playing: 20
- Hometown: Just outside of Albany, NY. I was born in Niskayuna.
- Living Now: Just outside of Albany, NY in a village called Altamont
"Well, in Sgt. Dunbar my gear includes my violin, my amplifier, and a blue box I carry around which includes 1/4"" cables, my violin neck rest, extra rosin, a tuner, screw drivers (just incase), extra strings, and our snare drum stand (it is the only place it will fit).
For We are Jeneric my gear varies depending on the type of set we play. It ranges from my violin and amp to almost a full drum kit, a children's xylophone, lots of percussion instruments (washboards, jars filled with rice, phonograph horns), a mandolin, and an accordion."
- Band(s): Yo! Majesty
- Instruments: Da MIC!
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Itty Bitty Plant City, FL
- Living Now: Brandon, FL
- Band(s): just Neal & Leandra
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 22 years
- Hometown: Louisville, KY
- Living Now: Minneapolis, MN
Fischmann blenders plugged into a 6 channel amp, shure SM 58s for vocals, Klipsch speakers - I play a Gibson J-45 and Neal plays a Taylor 710.
- Band(s): Amanda Monaco Quartet (aka Deathblow), Playdate, Numinous
- Instruments: guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Wallingford CT
- Living Now: New York City
My main guitar is a Brian Moore DC-1 thin-line Hollow Body guitar, which I play through a Fender Vibrolux or Princeton amp. I use an Ernie Ball volume pedal, a Line 6 DL4 delay modeler, and an Ibanez Tube Screamer distortion pedal (on occasion).
- Band(s): Rhett Miller, Glenn Patscha, Ocean Carolina
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Mississippi/ NH
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
Gibson J-185, Takamine acoustic, Fender '52 re-issue electric, Delux Twin reverb amp, Matchless amp, Hoehner harps, Steinway M class baby grand
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Vancouver, BC
- Living Now: Vancouver, BC
Yamaha solid-state amp. Fender Stratocaster ('62 reissue) sunburst guitar. Any microphone will do.
- Band(s): many; see website
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, fiddle, percussion
- Years playing: all my life
- Hometown: Westport, CT
- Living Now: Austin, TX
Collings acoustic guitars; Fender strat; Fender amps; preamps, reverb pedals, pedal tuners, cords, mics, PA system. Percussion instruments (pro)
- Band(s): Many choirs and choral groups through the years. In the last few years, one group. Free Range Chix
- Instruments: Soprano voice; piano, organ, banjo
- Years playing: 45 years
- Hometown: Massachusetts
- Living Now: Oregon
Piano, organ, banjo, mics, amp, cd's.
- Band(s): Solo work, Mr Curt Ensemble, Carriage House, Plumerai, Country Mile, Chad Burdick, Hark! Orchestra
- Instruments: electric violin, vocals, guitar, a little piano/woodwinds
- Years playing: over 20 yars
- Hometown: Washington DC
- Living Now: Boston
"Chinese model electric violin
A nice acoustic violin
Boss GT6 pedal
Boss Octave pedal
Pitch Harmonizer pedal
Line 6 loop pedal
Boss LoopRC-20XL
A few guitars
A few amplifiers (SWR, Peavey)"
- Band(s): Mine, Cariad Harmon
- Instruments: Vox/Guitar
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: London, England
- Living Now: New York City
I own the basic equipment for live performance, I have a tanglewood acoustic/electric guitar with a built in pre-amp, I also have a fishman Aura pedal that is a great second external pre-amp and gets rid of a lot of the twangy sound that you hear with acoustic guitars that plug in direct. I have a tuning pedal as I use a couple of different tunings on stage, I have a sure SM58 microphone, a mike stand, cables etc. I have a piano at home that I use for writing and I work on garage band a lot when I'm writing new songs, to hear how they sound, send them to collaborators etc. I also have a small Marshal amp and an old univox hollow body electric guitar that I've been experimenting with and play on one of the tunes on my recent album.
- Band(s): Oh my gosh! Too many to list! Classical singers are freelance, so we cobble together a season with various symphonies, chorales, and opera companies. Contracts usually last from 3 days to 6 weeks. Some groups: Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony, Sunriver Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Palm Beach Opera, MAP at Carnegie Hall, many others...
- Instruments: Classical mezzo-soprano
- Years playing: Studied violin since I was 4, voice in college, singing professionally 10 years.
- Hometown: Bend, Oregon
- Living Now: Seattle, WA and part time in NYC
The vitals: water bottle, tiny child's toy keyboard, my laptop, pencil and paper, cell phone
- Band(s): Just me (sometimes with backing musicians)
- Instruments: vocals and guitar when playing solo
- Years playing: either 5 years or my whole life
- Hometown: Originally Chicago
- Living Now: Boston area
"The guitar I most frequently play is a Martin 00-18 (sunburst) that was the first instrument I saved up all my money (at the time) to buy used. I also sometimes play a Martin OM-18V or a Louden LSE II.
I mostly use whatever sound gear is at the venue, but have my own not especially notable sound system (and Shure SM58 vocal microphones) for when I need to provide my own sound."
- Band(s): regularly: Paper Bird
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: my whole life
- Hometown: boulder, colorado
- Living Now: denver, colorado
all acoustic: guitar, banjo, upright bass, trombone, trumpet, 3 vocals
- Band(s): 2. My primary band for which I write songs for is called The Lightning Bugs. The band that I play the keyboard for is called A Pascal Circus.
- Instruments: guitar, drums, vocals, piano
- Years playing: I've been playing music since I was about 6 years old! I studied piano first, and then picked up guitar and drums when I started high school.
- Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Living Now: Grand Rapids, Michigan
WELL...my first guitar got stolen by this kid named brian scatturo when I was seventeen. what a rotten jerk! I made do with an old acoustic that my grandpa gave me until a couple years ago. The action on most acoustics is too high for my hands, so it sucks playing them. The drum set and the electric guitar that i play now are technically my boyfriends, but he shares my keyboard, so all is fair. The electric is a fender jagstang in a cool blue that absolutely embodies the 90s. god, it's such a heart breaker. My keyboard is a yamaha P-120. basically, that means it has a real genuine piano sound and 88 weighted keys. i wish i could lug a real piano around with me, but i've moved like six times in four years. our drum set is a piece of shit, but the ride still rides, and when i want it to, it can crash like a magnificent garbage can lid being thrown down the stairs.
- Band(s): 5 : growler, marvey king, soma for kinder, old man river, sherlock's daughter and solo
- Instruments: vocals/guitar/drums/keys/glock
- Years playing: 10
- Hometown: new zealand
- Living Now: new york
i play a gretsch guitar, play a casio keyboard, own a juno 60 but to fragile to lug around for live, have a fender pro junior amp, use a line 6, reverb, pog 2, rich blues drive guitar pedal.
- Band(s): Kyoto Beat Orchestra, The Evening Episode, Tired Hours, Winter Trees, Sister Crayon
- Instruments: Vocals, Loop Samples
- Hometown: Sacramento, CA
- Living Now: Sacramento, CA
I sing and record loops live on stage. I use a kaos pad as well as a Boss Loop pedal as well as a Line 6 Loop Pedal. I sing thru the effects pedal (and also clean) while looping live to our music, matching the BPM's of the music to the vocals.
- Band(s): The Cardinals, my Australian band
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, piano & ukulele
- Years playing: 10 years on and off
- Hometown: New Zealand
- Living Now: Sydney and U.S.A
"Gibson Emmylou Harris Acoustic/Electric
Taylor 4 series Acoustic/Electric
Gibson Les Paul Junior Special
Roland FP4
Orange Amp
Kala Ukulele
Maton Baby series Acoustic Guitar"
- Band(s): solo artist
- Instruments: Guitar, piano, vocals
- Years playing: professionally for 9 years
- Hometown: Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Living Now: Nashville, TN
I normally travel with a Lowden acoustic guitar and a small Nord Keyboard. Occasionally I will bring along a cello player.
- Band(s): my own, Utah Green
- Instruments: voice, guitar, harmonica, banjo
- Hometown: Miami, Florida
- Living Now: Asheville, NC
I use direct input for guitar, vocal microphone, sometimes instrument mic for guitar and banjo as well.
- Instruments: vocals
- Hometown: nyc
- Living Now: nyc
- Band(s): As a solo artist, Blake Hazard and in my band The Submarines
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
- Years playing: About 14 years
- Hometown: Vermont
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I have a vintage Kapa Continental guitar, basically a hundred dollar guitar--though they are becoming more popular. I bought it when it came through the guitar shop where I worked in Cambridge, MA, for a few years. It was love at first sight--and I could actually afford it at the time. I've played other guitars, but I always come back to this one. One of these days I'd like to buy a Creston Electric, made by a friend in Vermont. I also play a flower-strewn glockenspiel and a melodica.
- Band(s): In high school, I was in an acoustic duo called Rising to the Bottom. Tom (the guitarist) & I started a cover band called Neon Baby, but we've only had 1 gig so far. David (the bass player) & I recently started a country band called Dill Dotson & The Chupacabra Kings.
- Instruments: Vocals, keys, guitar (in the band)
- Years playing: 26
- Hometown: Jackson, NJ, but my family's from Portugal.
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NY
I play a Les Paul Special through a simple 30w Fender amp, just a tone and volume knob. As far as pedals, I've got this great boost pedal made by Xotic with a nice mid-rangey saturated gain. I use an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay pedal, and a Holy Grail Nano for reverb. For my keys, I used to use a sweet analog Juno 106, but they're so fragile, I've switched to a digital Roland Juno-D, which is pretty versatile and has some pretty good preset patches. I use a volume and sustain pedal for the Juno. For my vocals, I tend to use a quick slap delay with only one repeat, as well as a nice small plate reverb, both usually coming from the sound board straight to the house to alleviate feedback.
- Band(s): just Daily Bread
- Instruments: vocals, synths, drums
- Years playing: 4 years
- Hometown: The Netherlands, Emmeloord
- Living Now: The Netherlands, Leeuwarden
"I've got a philicora organ, a dutch electronic organ from the sixties. Also got a microkorg XL synthesizer. I use a handmade ""Noisebox"", it's an old make-up box which has now build in with wires, transformers etc. It makes this kinda sounds: BLIEEEEEEP, KKKGGGGRRRRRR, PRRRRRAAAUWWWW (etc.). For my vocals I have a chorus pedal from Boss, and a homemade pre-amp. My vocals go through a DI. My amplifier for live is a Roland KC 550.
What I don't use in the band but is in my possession is: a Philips PMC 100, also a dutch product but from the eighties. I also have 2 another Philicorda organs and an ""airorgan"". Got a spanish guitar (which I can't play), and a ukelele (which I can play a little)."
- Band(s): Savoy Family Cajun Band, Magnolia Sisters, Ann Savoy and her Sleepless Knights, Savoy Doucet Cajun Band
- Instruments: Cajun accordion, fiddle, guitar, banjo-mando,vocal
- Years playing: 34 years
- Hometown: born Richmond, VA/30 years Eunice Louisiana(Cajun Country)
- Living Now: Eunice LA
Custom pearl inlaid Martin parlor guitar, 1953 Gretcsh acoustic/electric(black with sunburst finish), chrome body resonator guitar, Acadian Cajun accordion, rough fiddle for Cajun style, vintage banjo mando, boss tuner and eq
- Band(s): Two
- Instruments: Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica, Mandolin,
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Texas
- Living Now: San Marcos, Texas
"Boss Tuner
Baggs Preamp
Volume Peddle
Boss Chorus Peddle
Special 20 Harps
I collect vintage harmonicas from Germany (too many to count)
Collings Guitar OM
Tacoma Papoose
Tacoma Mandolin
Baritone Mandolin
Tradition Electric Guitar
Gibson Dreadnought Guitar
Takamine 6 and 12 string
Keyboard
Sure Beta 57 and 58
"
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 11 years
- Hometown: New York City
- Living Now: New York City
Usually I use a Shure Beta microphone and a AER acoustic guitar amp to amplify my vocals.
- Band(s): N/A
- Instruments: Percussion/Composition
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: South Florida
- Living Now: Kentucky
"Modest project studio for music production, graphic design, and animation.
i-Mac Intel, Malletkat, Logic Express, Animation/Film Studio (Final Cut, Poser, Bryce, Photoshop), Yamaha and M-Audio keyboard MIDI controllers, video game controllers"
- Band(s): Mamá burger, Selma Oxor, Bam Bam
- Instruments: vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard, some other stuff...
- Hometown: Mexico
- Living Now: MExico
I personaly dont own any instrumments couse of economical reasons had to sell most of them, My gear right now consists on a casio oldschool keyboard with cool rythms to jam with and vibration effects and some reverb that makes it sound kinda goth... own some thing that looks like an arp, flaut and some percusion stuff. I like any kind of instrumment, not neccessarily bought items but also stuff you can make with rocks and stuff that makes noise... I also use fruity loops to make sequences in the computer, some people say is for dummies but i like it, Its easy and fun and you can make lots of stuff with it.
- Band(s): Shift, Hole, Motley Crue, Peaches, Eagles Of Death Metal, Billy Ray Cyrus
- Instruments: drums (dabble in keys, bass, guitar and vocals)
- Years playing: over 20 years
- Hometown: Queens, New York
- Living Now: Los Angeles, California
Sonor Drums, Zildian Cymbals, Roland VDRUMS, Roland Keyboards, Apple Computer, Digital Performer.
- Band(s): Only Dazzle Ships, unless you want to count middle school band
- Instruments: Vocals, bass, keyboard, guitar, and cello
- Years playing: 16
- Hometown: I am from Riverside, California
- Living Now: Still live in Riverside, still loving it too
I have a generic fender bronco bass that I got for xmas this year. It actually started my band because all the instruments I had beforehand were acoustic and you can't really rock out on acoustic intruments. I also use a novation xiosynth in the band, its a really overlooked keyboard, it has over 200 presets, and allows you to make you own sounds which I have already done for some of our songs. I like to make everything as personal as possible. I use a fender strat to play live as well but it belongs to another bandmate.
- Band(s): Lots, but they include The B-3s, World's Greatest Sinners, Valhalla Kittens, BrownBoot, Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 20 years
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Living Now: Boston, MA
Since I'm a singer, I don't have gear per se, but I'm also the bandleader for an 8-piece big band so I get to worry about everybody else's gear. (Especially the drummer, since he's been my partner for the past 5 years. While I love his drumming, sometimes during a 3am loadout I find myself wishing he took up the trumpet.)
- Band(s): About 4, but you don't wanna know their names...local teenbands...
- Instruments: Vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
- Years playing: 18
- Hometown: From the suburbs of Paris
- Living Now: Paris
"At the studio, we have tons of different instruments: the usual ones such as acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitars, loads of vintage keyboards, but also a harpsichord, a Finnish Kantele, a Turkish saaz, kitchen pans and pots, drums, etc.
On stage I've played on an American Fender Stratocaster, with 3 or 4 different effects- mostly distortion. I also played on a Gretsch duo jet reissue, which I love. Also some wurlitzer and some Farfisa.
I sang in a Sennheiser e945, and I had a multieffect pedal, Boss vocal 300. But i am trying out new gear now...the whole set is gonna change for our second tour!"
- Band(s): I've done a lot of session work, but as far as bands...Mellowdrone (bass and synth player), Uh huh her(lead singer/producer), Kelly Osbourne (synth player), Adam Lambert(synth player/vocals)
- Instruments: Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Bass
- Years playing: 25
- Hometown: Originally from Dallas Texas, but grew up in Austin, Tx
- Living Now: Los Angeles
I have a wide range of gear. On the production side I run Pro-tools and ableton live, with an O1V digital mixer. I use in ears by Ultimate Ears. As far as synths that I play, I have a Korg Triton Extreme Pro, Korg MS2000B, Korg M3, Nord Lead 2x, Roland Juno G, and an M-Audio USB keyboard controller. I have a Fender Jaguar Bass, and 2 Fender Telecaster guitars. I use pedalboards by Line6 and Vox.
- Band(s): Roulette Sisters, Les Chauds Lapins, Gloria Deluxe, Poor Baby Bree, Young @ Heart Chorus, JG Thirlwell's Manorexia, Lia Ices, Eve SIcular, Rocketship Park,
- Instruments: viola, violin, vocals
- Years playing: 14 years
- Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
- Living Now: New York, New York
"1992 Viola, House of Weaver, DC
Barcus Berry pick-up"
- Band(s): My first band was the Pillow Queens. I also played with David Israel for a while. Now I am with Woven Bones full time.
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Originally from Ft. Worth, TX.
- Living Now: I live in Austin, TX.
"I have a 4-piece Mapex drumset. I am not really into having super expensive gear because it all gets thrown in the back of the van the same way no matter what. I cobbled together a collection of cymbals and hardware over the years. In Woven Bones I play a snare and floor tom standing up.
The only modification I have ever made to my drums is staining them. I took the vinyl wrapper off the drums, sanded the wood, and stained them green. "
- Band(s): 3. Spdfgh,Godstar,Via Tania
- Instruments: vocals, ukulele,guitar
- Years playing: 18
- Hometown: Australia
- Living Now: Chicago
"Less is more approach for me.
One ukulele, one SG electric guitar, some pedals an Ampeg amp, various percussion instruments"
- Band(s): The Young Heart Attack, The Prospectors Union, The Troubadour Links, Christina Martin (Current)
- Instruments: Guitar, Vocals
- Years playing: 10 Years
- Hometown: New Brunswick, Canada
- Living Now: Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
"Acoustic Guitar- Martin 000S15 12-Fret
Electric Guitar- Gretsch
Fender Blues Junior Amp
Vox Pathfinder 15R Amp"
- Band(s): Packway Handle Band, Lera Lynn, Dancer vs. Politician
- Instruments: vocals, viola, flute, ukulele
- Years playing: I've been performing live for 12 years if you include my time in the orchestra and marching band. I did some live vocal performances in musicals between the ages of 10-15.
- Hometown: Agana, Guam
- Living Now: Athens, Georgia
I play the viola and uke through a Sano accordion tube amp with a 15 inch speaker and two 8 inch speakers. Every once in a while I will kick on my Boss DD5 delay pedal.
- Band(s): lots! i tend to scoot in and out of lots of other people's projects, as needed. some of them are or have been: tiger saw, brown bird, castanets, actual birds and the high spirits, white pines, patrick elkins...
- Instruments: vocals, banjo, guitar, air organ
- Years playing: a little under five years as a singer-songwriter, but i played here and there since junior high
- Hometown: Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Living Now: Ypsilanti, MI
"two-year old open-backed 5 string gold tone banjo
late 90's Fender Telecaster thinline
1997 brown sunburst Ibanez acoustic-electric
70's bakelite Magnus chord organ
with occasional appearances from the fake piano on my Macbook"
- Instruments: voice/piano/composer
- Years playing: 70 years
- Hometown: Glasgow, KY
- Living Now: Worthington, OH
Computer with XP. Sibelius software and Finale software
- Band(s): Two. Balmorhea and Alex Dupree & The Trapdoor Band
- Instruments: violin
- Years playing: performing in a band for 4 years, orchestra for 7, studying for 13
- Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
My personal gear includes a violin, an L.R. Baggs pick up, an L.R. Baggs Direct Box and one pedal tuner.
- Band(s): Ive been in probably half a dozen bands.I was singer for the northwest grand old opry first then a background singer for an elvis impersonator then I was in a series of bands "the shed" "carolina haze" some punky side project stuff and ultimately went solo as they say,but I would always consider me and the twins more of a band than anything else
- Instruments: guitar/piano
- Years playing: guitar 11years singing 20 years
- Hometown: outside of seattle/rural washington state
- Living Now: same place
"I play collings guitars and I also play these two special martins one is a parlor guitar the other is a mini.
I play gibson archtops on recordings and gretsch electrics live and for recording
fender delux reverb amp.
I love Yamaha pianos."
- Band(s): EB Hawkins Band, Union Square, Geri Smith duo, John Hadfield currently
- Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar
- Years playing: 46 years studying 32 years gigging
- Hometown: Darby PA
- Living Now: Unionville PA
sorry don't feel comfortable w/this question
- Band(s): 2- Fannypack & Holy Hail
- Instruments: Vocals (guitar and bass not in the band)
- Years playing: 8 Years Performing, Studying on and off for 15 years
- Hometown: Florida originally
- Living Now: New York City
I sing with my voice going through a Memory Man guitar pedal. At home I also have two electric guitars (both of which I let my boyfriend use), one acoustic guitar and an electric bass.
- Band(s): countless, best known: Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys
- Instruments: guitar, bass, keys, vocals, drums
- Years playing: 56 years
- Hometown: Houston, Tx
- Living Now: Liberty Hill Texas
"I have 5 PA systems, ranging from enormous to tiny. 5 sets of drums, high end. 12 guitar amps, 5 bass amps, a baby grand piano, a Clavinova, several cheap keyboards,
15 guitars, 5 bass guitars, one upright bass, a nice cello, some vintage stuff."
- Band(s): 4: Still Life, Heidi Burger, Kiss Kiss, This Ambitious Orchestra
- Instruments: Violin, vocals
- Years playing: 21
- Hometown: Reading, Pennsylvania
- Living Now: In and around the New York City area
With Kiss Kiss, I use an acoustic violin which I set up with an LR Baggs pickup. I send my signal through an LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI, and the pedals I use include a Line 6 Delay Modeler and Loop Sampler, a Holy Grail Reverb, a Boss Mega Distortion, an ARTcessories Personal Monitor, and a Peterson Strobo Stomp Tuner. I prefer to go direct to the PA for Kiss Kiss, but for other gigs I own a Fender Hot Rod Deville Combo Amp, and I have a 5-string electric Bridge violin. My professional acoustic instrument is an 1888 German violin made by Oswald Mockel. It's my baby, and is probably more valuable than my own life!
- Band(s): Weird Habit (solo project), Work, Forked, Limosine, 16 Bitch Pile Up (2002-8), Murder Murder
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, electronics
- Years playing: 10 yrs
- Hometown: Cleveland OH
- Living Now: San Francisco
"in Work, i sing vocals and play a white Fender guitar which i run through a Big Muff distortion and Boss EQ.
similar set up for Limosine, but no vocals.
i play trumpet through FX in Murder Murder.
Forked and Weird Habit are experimental noise projects, as was 16 Bitch Pile Up. i use the things i've already mentioned above, and also a 404 sampler, various pieces of metal, contact mics, various FX pedals, keyboards. songs and shows depending."
- Band(s): 3 - sleepy still, The Stennis Way, Night Driving in Small Towns
- Instruments: Keyboards, Vocals
- Years playing: I have been performing with live bands for over a decade. I wrote my first songs around age 8.
- Hometown: South Georgia
- Living Now: Atlanta, GA
I play a mini KORG onstage but also have several keyboards.
- Band(s): 2. I've had various wonderful musicians backing me up (as Amber Rubarth) and I now have a side project called The Paper Raincoat, which is a orchestral folk collaboration with Alex Wong.
- Instruments: Hollow body guitar, piano, vocals, glockenspiel, drums, anything else I can find that makes sound...
- Hometown: California and Nevada, I used to be a chainsaw sculptor in Carson City.
- Living Now: Brooklyn, NEW YORK! Love it.
"Well, for AMBER RUBARTH shows I bring my hollow body HB-15 Washburn guitar and run it through an old Fender champ amp. I sing through a Blue Microphone Encore 100, just started using that and they're AMAZING. I play piano, my preference is an old upright. And I whistle.
When I'm playing with my side project, THE PAPER RAINCOAT, I use a Nord Stage and play bass lines, organ, wurly, piano, etc. on it. I also play glockenspiel, vibratone, acoustic guitar, and drums, anything to serve the song. And lots of vocals of course, lead vocals or harmonizing with my partner-in-crime on the project, Alex Wong."
- Band(s): 3: Fanny, Cris Williamson, and the Slammin' Babes.
- Instruments: guitar mostly
- Years playing: 47 years
- Hometown: Manila, P.I.
- Living Now: Goshen, MA
"many guitars: '57 Les Paul, old Stratcocaster, Les Paul Jr and Jazzmaster as well; a one-of-a-kind Alembic (electric); Taylor T-5 and C112 ce. Many others, but these I would say are my favorites.
As for amps, I still stick mostly with Fenders, of which I have many - both vintage and new t(hey support IMA, incidentally).
Finally, pedals - I might use an overdrive or a reverb effects pedal, but have gotten over being too fancy with all that. The thing I mostly look for is the overdrive ""lead"" sound, which many amps supply now anyway, with on/off footswitch."
- Instruments: Vocals
- Years playing: 15 Years
- Hometown: Wisconsin
- Living Now: Austin Tx
We are a hip hop soul act so we sometimes travel with a Dj but normally we just roll in with our imtrumental CD and rock it. Pretty simple set up. I was in a rock band for many years and it was a pain haha.
- Band(s): Corrina's Dreamland Band, Vivace Duo, The Original Recipe Band
- Instruments: Rhythm guitar and vocals
- Years playing: 15 years
- Hometown: Austin, Texas
- Living Now: Austin, Texas
"De Armond X-155 Hollow Body Electric Guitar
TraceElliot Acoustic, amplifer for guitar and vocals
EKG C-535 Vocal Condenser Mic
Fender Passport 6-channel PA System with 2 Speakers"
- Band(s): 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre (briefly) Black Dove, White Noise Generation
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica
- Years playing: 16
- Hometown: San Fransicso, CA
- Living Now: Los Angeles, CA
I play a black Gibson Elvis Presley custom shop acoustic guitar, a custom finish black ES-335 1965 hollowbody guitar, and a Keith Richards style black Telecaster guitar. My keyboard is a Kurzweil midi piano, and I use an Oberheim OB-3 Hammond organ module with it. I also play a plethora of assorted harmonicas in different keys. :-)
- Band(s): two. Imperial Teen and my teenage all girl punk band, The Wrecks
- Instruments: bass, guitar, vocals
- Years playing: 32
- Hometown: Grew up in Reno, NV now live in the SF Bay Area
- Living Now: Sausalito, CA
"I play an Ernie Ball MusicMan Bass
I also play a Gretch hollowbody guitar"
- Band(s): several: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Opera Boston, Emmanuel Music, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music etc
- Instruments: Viola
- Years playing: 23 years
- Hometown: Perth, Western Australia
- Living Now: Los Angeles and Boston
Not exactly sure what you mean. If recording gear: we hire a professional recording engineer for all our recordings.
- Band(s): G&D
- Instruments: VOCALS,DRUMS,GUITAR,BASS,PIANO..ETC.
- Years playing: 20 YEARS OR MORE.
- Hometown: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
- Living Now: NOT SURE YET LOL
COMPUTER BASED RECORDING SYSTEM.
- Band(s): 4 The Flashbangs, hot house, Cowboy Curse, Overcasters
- Instruments: Drums
- Years playing: 12 Years
- Hometown: Denvoid
- Living Now: Denvoid, CO
"Numerous guitars, 2 drumsets. Pearl Reference redline kit in white with a matching snare. I had a sparkle pearl reference that got jacked up after driving to New york to play Musichall of williamsburg with The Fluid. Wrecked our van and sat in the snow for 9 hours when it was -20 degrees in Joilet Illinois. A tree ripped through the side of the van and pulled my drums out! We cardboarded the van and made the show. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon ended up at our show and that made the trip better for me!
I play guitar and bass "
- Band(s): 2 - sticky rice and dearly beloved
- Instruments: vocals, percussion
- Years playing: 10 years
- Hometown: churchbridge, saskatchewan, canada
- Living Now: toronto, ontario, canada
shure 57 mic, miscellaneous tambourines, shakers, alesis micron se keyboard, ibanez roadstar 2 bass
- Band(s): Just mine
- Instruments: piano
- Years playing: performing for 30 years
- Hometown: Bar Harbor, Maine
- Living Now: Cambria, California
I take a piano with me unless the venue has one (especially and acoustic), upright bass, trumpet, guitar, and usually violin or cello or both.
- Band(s): 3! = 1) Killola 2) Lola 3) Killer Kittie
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: 19
- Hometown: New Jersey
- Living Now: Los Angeles
brain + lungs + microphone (sometimes)
- Band(s): I've played with a ton of people. I've been with Asleep at the Wheel for almost 5 years. I have my own band, Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands. I sometimes play in a jazz group with Lauren Gurgiolo called the Bright Lights Society. I've sung backup for years with my friends the Brother's Lazaroff. I'll play and/or record with anyone who asks. I have that much fun.
- Instruments: Vocals and Rhythm guitar
- Years playing: I've been singing since I was an itty bitty, 7 or so, but I've only been playing guitar for real since I was 20.
- Hometown: I was born in Little Rock Arkansas, moved to Columbia MD when I was 10, and moved to Austin when I was 22 (10 years ago)
- Living Now: Austin, TX
With the Wheel I play a Gibson J-150. It's actually my boss' guitar. I have a wireless rig for the guitar. On my own I play a Gibson LC-1.
- Band(s): Velocity Girl, Sarah Shannon (solo singer/songwriter), The Not-Its!
- Instruments: vocals
- Years playing: For about 25 years
- Hometown: Washington DC
- Living Now: Seattle
- Band(s): pretty much just this one.
- Instruments: upright bass, sing
- Years playing: 15
- Hometown: Idaho Falls, Idaho
- Living Now: Winston-Salem, NC
I play a 3/4 size upright bass through a stack- SWR workingman's cab, a marshall guitar cab and a GK head. Do you need more specifics?
- Band(s): three: Metropolitan Klezmer & (all-women's sextet) Isle of Klezbos, Daughters of Cybele
- Instruments: drums
- Years playing: 39 years
- Hometown: NYC
- Living Now: NYC
"Drumset: WFL piccolo snare, Gretsch red sparkle vintage round-badge four-piece kit (two mounted toms, one floor tom, 20"" bass drum). One Sabian crash, one splash cymbal, one early '80s Paiste ride, Zildjian hi-hats, woodblock, cowbell.
Dumbeq (hand drum) ceramic with faux parchment head
Daire (frame drum) with parchment head and internal jingle rings"
- Band(s): Action Sound Painting Orchestra, Thousand-Faced Moon, Laundry Room Squelchers, MINIM
- Instruments: vocals, keyboards, tibetan bells, gongs, trinkets, found objects, dictaphones, broken glass, contact mics
- Years playing: since age 6
- Hometown: originally born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in San Salvador, El Salvador, Florida and California
- Living Now: Northern California, temporarily in Gainesville, FL
Mainly use casio keyboards, a tibetan bell, a microphone, a cassette player and a dictaphone.
- Band(s): The Ben Taylor Band, and Family of the Year
- Instruments: vocals, guitar, bass
- Years playing: 12
- Hometown: Massacusetts
- Living Now: good question. Los Angeles, in my band mate's walk in closet.
I am currently armed with a fender telecaster, a vox AC15 amplifier, a catastrophe of cables, a sennheiser microphone, and I mooch off of my band mates for the use of a bass and some pedals.
- Band(s): Andy Williams 16 years , the rest on and off
- Instruments: drums
- Years playing: 27 years
- Hometown: Mexico
- Living Now: Brooklyn , NY
Pearl Drums , Zildjian Cymbals , Evans drumheads , Vic Firth Sticks , Impact cases .... I am endorsed by all these companies ;-)
- Band(s): The Hundred in the Hand
- Instruments: mainly vocals - also keys and guitar
- Years playing: forever
- Hometown: San Francisco
- Living Now: Brooklyn
For live performance, my band has a lot of gear. We rely on samples and backing tracks so we bring a soundsystem with us that lives on stage. We think of it as our third band member. Our general ethos is that all the sound being made in the house should also be represented by the sound coming off the stage. In order to make that happen we have samplers, a pre-amp/audio interface with 8 channel output, a laptop, a mixer...etc and a bazillion cables to make it all link together. That of course is separate from the live instrumentation: vocals, one synth, and massive guitars (for which I am not responsible.) In the practice space we have other gear that we geek out with for recording purposes. An MPC for making beats, other synths, and just general noise making paraphernalia. I was never a gear head before this band. I still wouldn't call myself one, but I've had to give myself a fast education in order to keep up. A lot is still a mystery but as I learn I'm finding myself less intimidated and more excited by the things I don't know.
- Band(s): This is the first group that I have ever performed with regularly. (outside of chorus in school.)
- Instruments: Background vocals and percussion
- Years playing: I've been in The Constellations for 2 1/2 years
- Hometown: Atlanta ga
- Living Now: On the road.
Well, obviously, my main instrument is my voice. You can't buy that anywhere. I also play a variety of percussion instruments, such as the tambourine, and the cowbell. I'm hoping to work the triangle in there somewhere.