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g e a r Guitars: I use Sadowsky Guitars including several strat-style guitars, a tele, and the famous string guitar, which gives me my unique jazz sound for standards gigs and "the duo." Roger is a genius and a great guy. My favorite Sadowsky guitar is arguably the one originallyi made for Paul Simon in 1983. It was played on the Graceland tour and it seems it acquired an extra amount of soul in the process. I also play other Strat and tele distressed/relic style guitars made by K-line Guitars (thanks Chris), Revelator Guitar Works (thanks Eric), GVCG, and a mysterious builder from kentucky. In several of these guitars, I've been using Tonerider pickups, including the Surfari and Pure Vintage models. I'm absolutely blown away at how these sound. They are made in China and are priced for 'real world' musician budgets. They are the equal of any of the boutique pickups out there. Not the same, but equal in sonic quality. I particularly dig the airy openness of their sound. I also use the Suhr backplate system for humcancellation in my 1966 Strat and my revelator 61 s-type. For Jazz and suprisingly many other things, I use a Sadowsky Bender Distortocaster made by Brian Eastwood of the UK. I use a Collings OM1 when I play acoustic. Hats off to Collings for making such incredible instruments. When feedback is an issue, I use a Washburn NV100 and/or a Yamaha Silent Guitar. They're ridiculous for the money. Bass: I'm lucky to have been trained on bass first, so I have great appreciation for that instrument. I'm lucky to be able to play with some heavy cats when I do play bass, and of course, I play all the parts in the pending Ugandan Thermal Unit recordings. I mostly play my Sadowsky 4 string but also have been known to pull out any of my: 1968 beat-to-hell Fender Jazz Bass, 1977 beat-to-hell Music Man Stingray or my 1976 beat-to-hell Precision Bass. For bass amplification, I use a Walter Woods Ultra with Euphonic Audio CXL112 cabinets. For recording bass, I use technology known only to a select few from the Martian Colonies. Amps: My 'main' amps are Robert Hudson's no-longer-made Blues Pearl Texas Tornado amplifier (There is no better Deluxe Reverb inspired combo on the planet) and the Pritchard Sword of Satori 112TB combo. The Pritchard is blasphemous in the boutique amp community because it's solid state. People don't know what to compare it to, but what it gives me is complete control over my sound in the widest variety of situations, whether recording direct or filling a giant performance space with its deceptively small 112 "tunnel back" cabinet. You wouldn't believe what kinds of spaces this thing can fill. Let alone how well the DI works as well. It's not a tube amp emulator. It's its own thing, and more. I'm also a big fan of my Suhr/CAE OD100. John went out of his way to show me all of the incredible options available on these fine amps. Unfortunately, it is not as back friendly as my other amps :) Some other amps I've used recently and want to thank their fine designers: John Landgraff; Phil Jamison's Matchless; Mark Bartel's Tone King; These guys are true gentlemen and masters of tone. Effects: This is my current grab bag. Landgraff, Cornish and ToneCzar stand out as among the most usable and musical tools I own. * means it's on my main board. *Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive *Landgraff Boost *Landgraff Mo'd Overdrive/Distortion Landgraff Wahs Lee Jackson Gain/Boost *Aya R-COMP Compressor - unbelievable *MXR Blue Box- original bud box. nasty! *Boss PS5 Moogerfooger Ring Mod Moogerfooger MURF *Retro-sonic Chorus Ensemble CE1 clone w/14v supply *Radial JDVmk3 DI - as buffer Radial Switchbone amp splitter *ToneCzar HaloPhaze Phaser/Vibe(these are ridiculous) *ToneCzar PowerGlide Trem (also ridiculous) *Pete Cornish TES Delay - there is none better. A critical part of my live and recorded sound. AnalogMan modded Boss DD2 (hi cut mod). A killer delay for the dough. Original Vox Clyde Wah Peterson StroboStomp 2 Boss FV500L volume pedal Roger Mayer Voodoo 1 Distortion Blues Pearl Tejas Trem Bennett Pulsator (Tejas Trem clone) *Zvex Ooh Wah *Zvex Seek Trem Blues Pearl Blue Balls Overdrive Blues Pearl Lead Expander Ibanez Flying Pan Ibanez PT707 II Phaser Ibanez SF10 Swell Flanger Scott Henderson's old narrow Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer Arion Chorus *Fulltone Octafuzz I use my own unobtanium cables mostly. When I need something different sonically, I almost always use Evidence Audio Lyric cables.