General specs Body: neck-through-body construction, mahogany body with various (maple, walnut, etc.) wood tops/accents Neck: five-piece maple and walnut laminate 34″-scale neck, ebony 26-fret fingerboard with oval mother of pearl inlays and LED side markers, 1.625″ nut, peghead with walnut facing and silver Alembic logo Electronics: two single-coil pickups plus a hum-canceling pickup in the middle, two volume/two tone controls with active low pass-filter controls, three-way rotary selector switch, two mini-toggle switches, standard jack and five-pin cannon connector Hardware: gold-plated Schaller bridge/tailpiece with four adjustable saddles John’s first Alembic bass guitars, made in Santa Rosa, California, which he used as his primary instruments from October 1975 to October 1976, when they were replaced with the “Explorer”-style Alembics. 1975, with Alembic Series I bass in zebra wood.
For picks, his early choice at least was to go for extra heavy thickness celluloid picks, similar to those sold by Dunlop today – the 483P05XH Genuine Celluloid Extra Heavy picks.Ca. Lastly, as his main choice of strings, Gary usually went for Dean Markleys either a.
Gary is also known for using rack effects units such as the Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo which he used for tape echo in the 90s, and the Roland SDE-3000 Digital Delay. Few worth pointing out are the Marshall Guv’nor that he used on SGTB and Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS-9 and TS-10) which he used throughout his career. In between he’d use a VOX AC30 (Colosseum II era), various Fender combos, and Soldanos.Īs far as the effects, depending on the era, you’ll find that Gary used different types of pedals. He used various models, from the 1959 Super Leads, to Model 2204s, Marshall JTM45 Reissues, and Marshall 1959 HWs. Regarding amps, Gary is pretty much a Marshall guy.
Montreux 2010.Īside from the Les Pauls, one of Gary’s main axes was his trusty 1961 Fender Stratocaster finished in fiesta red, most famously used in 2005 at the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar concert.
Gary playing one of his numerous Gibson Les Pauls.
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