i swear, the rest of my house is clean. unfortunately my living room looks like a tour bus exploded in it. since i remembered being asked several times what gear i use and not posting about it yet, here it is. also, unfortunately, this picture will have to suffice until later tonight, as right now i have to stuff it all back in the road cases and pack a suitcase as we are heading north in the morning, near the canadian border, to play this weekend. if you zoom the picture in you can see that i now have my second SG back from mr guitar wizard himself, brian wicks, a custom guitar builder here in town. they are both exactly the same, which means i don't have to carry my fender strat as a back up any more. (man i hate that thing) so i'm pleased to have helen and hannah back together again, just in time for a road trip.

back later

ok, here is a list of what i use.

(2) epiphone g400 sg's, made from korina hardwood. they only made them for a couple years, and the only thing harder to find is one of the original gibson's made from korina, which they only built for one year. and they look way worse than the epiphones like mine built 10 years later. the gibson's look like plywood. anyway's, the body is the only original pieces left on my guitars. the pickups, volume and tone pots, wiring and tuners have all been changed out to gibson stuff. the only difference between the two are that helen(the first one i bought) has a '57classic burst bucker bridge pickup, and hannah has a '57 classic+ on the bridge. both have standard '57 classics on the neck.

my amp is a marshall jcm2000 dsl 401, all tube. it's 40 watts total, and sounds reallly killer through the 4x12 cabinet. while it has great overdrive tones, getting a really clean sound out of it is nearly impossible. especially when using guitars like mine with humbucker pickups. (i will be switching to a hughes and vettner amp in the next few weeks for live stuff so that i can leave the marshall set up at home full time)

my pedal board has a boss inline tuner, morley volume/wah pedal, and channel changer for my amp.

the rack case has a furman power conditioner, behringer noise gate/compressor/expander, a behringer dual 15 band equalizer, a digitech s100 effects unit, and a patch bay keeping it all together.

and what order is it all used in? good question, i'll see if i can remember.

guitar>tuner>volume/wah>patchbay>noisegate/compressor/expander>first 15 band eq>patchbay>amp>through preamp>effects loop send>patchbay>second 15 band eq>effects unit>patchbay>effects loop return>poweramp>internal speaker or 4x12 cabinet. i think that's how it goes.......