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Billie
Joe (Guitar, vocals)
- Equipment:
Guitar, amps, distortion, picks and
strings:
Guitars:
- Billie's main guitar
"Blue", is a Fernandes
Stratocaster copy of Fender Stratocaster
with a Seymour
Duncan "Jeff Beck"
humbucker pickup in the bridge
position. He only plays through one
pickup. The front two in the guitar,
are never even turned on.
He also has:
- Fender
Jag-stang (sonic blue; used during
Insomniac Tour)
- Gibson
Classic Series ES-135 and ES-335
- Guild
acoustic guitar (brown sunburst
colour; used for "Good
Riddance")
Amps & Cabinets:
- He uses an old 100 W Marshall amp
1959 SLP and 1960 4x12"
Marshall Cabinets.
He doesn't use any pedals and all
the distortion comes from the amp.
You can get one anywhere (about US$
900,00) but keep in mind that his
amp have been modified.
Picks and strings:
- The pick that Billie Joe uses is a
Dunlop
Tortex Standard .88mm (green).
- The strings that Billie Joe uses
are an Ernie Ball .10 strings kit.
Some pictures:
Marshall
100 W 1959 SLP (Billie's main
amp)
Fender
Bassman ampHiwatt
amp
Fender Guitar
Guild acoustic guitar
Gibson Classic Series ES-135 Gibson
Classic Series ES-335
Notes:
This Marshall
amp had been modified in Los Angeles
to record the album
"Dookie" and belongs to
their producer Rob Cavallo).
This amp was called
"Dookie" and Jerry Finn
also used this amp to record the
Rancid's album "And Out Come
The Wolves".
When Green Day went on tour, Billie
had a clone amp made to copy the
sound of the "dookie amp".
That amp is called the
"Pete" amp. (if you look
at footage from Woodstock '94 you
can see that it has"Pete"
spray painted on it.)
For
"Insomniac" Billie decided
he wanted a little chunkier sound,
so he played through two amps at the
same time. One was the
"Dookie" amp, and one was
a new modified Marshall that Rob had
gotten that we called the
"Meat" amp.
On "nimrod" Billie used a
lot of guitars and different amps,
but at live shows he is still using
his main guitar "blue"
plugged on the modified amp.(In some
new songs, he uses
different guitars, but it's not too
important...)
On an interesting side note, before
the making of "Insomniac"
Billie had Fernandes make him a copy
of "blue", 'cause he
wanted to have a backup guitar. When
they sent it over he started playing
it in order to get used to it. After
a couple of weeks he decided it
didn't feel right and smashed it to
pieces. There's just nothing that
can match the feel of his beloved
"blue"!
The main thing to remember about
Billie's sound is that 70% of it
comes from the way he plays. If you
came to the studio and played
"blue", his favorite
guitar, you still would not sound
anything like him. His style is
truly unique.
- Magazine
article:
From
Guitar World: "I
looked at my guitar playing as
more as a tool this time (on
"Nimrod"). I
didn't want to go outside of what
I can do, but I also didn't want
to keep only playing powder
chords. I wanted to noodle around
a bit and write these nice little
leads and just add stuff that made
sense to the song. I'm more of a
rythm player than a lead player.
The stuff that I do play that is
more like a solo is a rythmic kind
of thing that blends in with the
melody. I'm just into getting a
good powerful sound. Whatever
benefits the song is what I try to
play. Mike is a great bass player
and Tre's a great drummer, and
it's about letting them play. I'm
more of a back-up. We are a very
tight unit, and I work with them
to enhance the song rather than go
off on long, pretentious guitar
solos. I'm not a guitar player's
guitar player. I'm a songwriter. I
come from that Pete Townshend
tradition: let the song take it's
course and build a sound around
it. It's hard for me to talk
about. One of my limitations is
that it's hard for me to talk
about guitar playing. I just do
what I am capable of, which is not
much."
Main
guitar is a Fernandes Stratocaster
copy he calls "blue". On
"nimrod" he also
used some Gibson's, some old
Les Pauls, an ES-335, and ES-135
and a Fender Jaguar. He also made
a guitar he call's
"Frankenstein" because
it is a combination of several
different parts purchased at a
Fender shop.
Mainly
plays through a modified Marshall
amp. On "nimrod"
he used a Fender Bassman, a
Hiwatt, and a Leslie. The amp he
used on "Dookie"
is most commenly reffered to as
the "Pete"' amp and can
be seen most at the Woodstock '94
concert, it has "Pete"
written across it.
When
asked about what brand his
accoustic guitar is, Billie says:
"I don't know, one with
strings and a whole in the
middle!"
Billie
say's a lot of his sound comes
from strumming. "I use my
thumb. It's that half-pick and
half-thumb that gives it that thwack.
Also, I don't play with my
wrist, I play with my shoulder and
hit it really hard."
Mike
Dirnt (Bass, vocals)
- Equipment:
Amp, Bass, strings and picks:
Basses:
- Mike's main
bass is a Gibson
G-3.
He also has:
- Another
Gibson (?) bass
- Fender '66
and '69 American Standard
Precision Basses
- Fender '62
Vintage Precision Bass
Amps
& Cabinets:
- Mike
uses Mesa/Boogie
amp, "Bassis M-2000"
(MB2000) through 6x10" and
1x18" Mesa/Boogie cabinets
custom made.
Picks
and strings:
- The pick
that Mike uses is a Dunlop
Tortex Standard .73mm (yellow)
- I
don't know what kind of strings
that Mike uses.
Some
pictures:
Mesa/Boogie
"Bassis M-2000"
amp
Some Mesa Boogie bass cabinets
Gibson G-3 Bass / Fender
American Standard Precision Bass
/ Fender '62 Vintage Precision
Bass
- Magazine
article:
From
Guitar World: "On
this record (Nimrod), I used
Precision basses because my old
Gibson G-3 didn't sound good
with the new songs. I used a '66
and '69; they have a real warmth
on the low end. For this record
I knew we weren't going for the
huge guitar sound; this gave me
more room to get in there. I
needed to play a real punchy
bass on the old records because
the guitar frequencies where
everywhere and I needed to get
right in the middle. I recorded
Dookie with a Precision bass
too. I use Mesa/Boogie amps, MB
2000's. They're half-tube and
half-solid state. I wanted to
custom-make my own sound , and
Mesa/Boogie was really willing
to work with me. They made me
6x10" cabinets, and we put
those on top of a 1x18". I
think I'm nailing it. I have an
MB 2000 running each one of my
6x10" cabinets and then a
MB 2000 running both of my
18's."
Tré
Cool (Drums)
Drums:
- Slingerland drumkit
- 18x22 Slingerland Bass drum
- 5 1\2 x 14 Slingerland Radio
King Snare and 6 1/2x14 Chrome
snare
- 11x14 Slingerland mounted tom
- 16x16 Slingerland floor tom
Cymbals
and sticks:
- 19" Zildjian
K Dark Thin Crash on
the left
- 20" Zildjian A Medium
Ride on right
- 22" Zildjian K Heavy
Ride on the bottom right
- 14" Zildjian K Medium
Top and 14" K Medium
Heavy Bottom Hi-Hats
- Zildjian Super 5B
drumsticks
Other
accessories:
- Remo Power Stroke 3 on snare
and bass drums
- Remo Coated emperors on tops
of toms, clear ambassadors on
bottoms
- Remo Falam Slam Pad on the
bass drum
Some
pictures:
Tré
Cool signature Slingerland's
"Spitfire" drumkit
Zildjian
19" K Dark Thin Crash
Zildjian
20" A Medium Ride
Zildjian
22" K Heavy Ride
Zildjian
14" K Med. Top Hi-hat
and 14" K Med. Heavy
Bottom
12
- Zildjian Super 5B drumsticks
Tré's
Setup
- Magazine
article:
7th July 1998:
To
celebrate its 70th anniversary,
Slingerland Drum Company will
debut it's Tre Cool Signature
Spitfire drum kit at Summer NAMM
'98, the semi-annual trade show
of music merchants to be held in
Nashville Friday through Sunday,
July 10 - 11.
"Slingerland-they really
make the best drums," the
drummer for multiplatinum
hitmakers Green Day said.
"They're making a Tre Cool
signature kit for me, which I'm
totally psyched about. It's
gonna be called the Spitfire. .
. the drums will sound
great."
"The main thing is that
they're inexpensive ($949
suggested retail price),"
he said. I wouldn't have done it
at all if a set didn't sell for
under $1,000. I'm not gonna tell
a kid to go out and play some
over-priced stuff. I can't hang
with that," he said.
"That's my main interest-a
drum kit that kids can afford to
buy."
Manufactured to Tre Cool's
specifications, the Tre Cool
Signature Series Spitfire kit
features an 11x14 mounted tom, a
16x16 floor tom, and a 16x22
bass drum, all finished in a
unique, custom "Cool"
green finish, along with a 6
1/2x14 chrome snare. All kits
come complete with Tre Cool
Signature drumheads, a custom
black Tre Cool Signature logo
bass drum head, as well as a
heavy-duty, chain-drive bass
drum pedal, and doubled-braced
snare, cymbal and hi-hat stands.
Six-ply shells with heavy-duty
tom mounts, bass drum spurs, and
floor to legs make the
Slingerland Tre Cool Signature
Spitfire kit rugged and durable.
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