Jayhawks Amps, etc

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Picks

picks My friend Dan was able to get a couple of Gary's picks after the Mill City show. Willie's is a guitar shop in St. Paul, MN.

A Gary Louris signature pick from the Smile tour (thanks Big Mike)

Pedals

Gary's pedals Set-up Gary used at the Lincoln Ave streetfest in Chicago, July 26, 1998. The Fuzz Face (of course!), Fulltone Fulldrive 2 and MXR Phase 90. John says "The Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face...is an original early '70s version (with germanium diodes, accept no substitutes, the new ones use silicon, that's why they sound like crap)." Orange effects pedal is a MXR Phase 90, "used to excellent effect on "Haywire", though I have seen Gary using a more tweakable Phase 180 model." The blue pedal is a type of vibrola/tremelo, it was used a bit on the last Golden Smog tour." Don adds the blue pedal is "a Fulltone Fulldrive 2...it has two separate gain channels." Some info from the Fulltone website: "The first channel is the "Overdrive Mode" capable of clean boost or non-compressed overdrive to medium softer overdrives. The Tone knob is a presence control that can smooth out or add upper harmonics. There's also a foot switchable second channel "Boost Mode" with its own separate distortion control for medium to higher gains with a more singing violin like sustain." Gary has also used a Dunlop Crybaby Wah.

In the July 2000 issue of Guitar Player Gary Louris noted some of the gear used for the making of Smile: "I got some really wacky sounds by putting my '67 SG into a Teese Real McCoy RMC 3 programmable wah-wah pedal. After the Real MCoy came a Klon Centaur distortion pedal, a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, and '75 DOD analog delay. Everything was plugged into my Matchless DC-30, and I got this really weird squeal that ultimately breaks up and crumbles."

Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face and Fulltone Fulldrive 2

Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face Fulltone Fulldrive 2

Amps

Matchless D/C-30 Gary's amp set-up. The amp on the right is a Matchless D/C-30. Tom notes that "this amp has two independent channels, each with low and high-gain inputs. The channel on the left is an "American style" with gain, bass and treble controls. The channel on the right is patterned after the British Vox amplifiers with a pentatone design that has gain, single 6-position tone control and a high-end cut knob. The last knob on the right is a master volume that can be bypassed." Fender amp on left is used by Kraig.

Kraig's Fender amp, Squier Telecaster and pedals Former Jayhawk (1997-2001), Kraig Johnson's Fender amp. Pedals right to left, Boss Flanger BF-2, Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-9 (Blake says they don't make 'em anymore), Boss Turbo Overdrive OD-2 and Boss Tremelo PN-2. He also uses a Crybaby Wah in addition to the pedals shown. The July 2000 issue of Guitar Player mentions that for the recording of Smile Kraig used "a '70 Fender Twin Reverb loaded with Celestion speakers."

Hollywood Town Hall Fender Deluxe amp Fender Deluxe Amp featured in the Hollywood Town Hall liner notes.

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