EDDIE SPAGHETTI and the MEATBALLS
INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT*
ED:
GUITARS: Fender Telecasters (one white, one black, one blonde), various acoustics
MANDOLINS: Fender acoustic, Fender acoustic/electric
AMPLIFICATION: vintage Fender Bassman, two 4X12 Carvin cabinets (loaded with greenback Celestion speakers), Peavey Basic 112 (for Bill's side of the stage)
STRINGS: Single strings (never a whole set) - in tubes, not wound up
VINTAGE TUBE AMPLIFIER REPAIR (AND SALES): Village Music
BILL:
BASSES: 1962 Fender Precision, 1977 Fender Precision
Fretless, 1984 Wasburn Bantam, 3/4 size upright acoustic bass
GUITARS: 1970 Yamaha FG-160 acoustic, Yamaha 12-string acoustic, 1991 Washburn EA 20B George Washburn Festival Series acoustic/electric
AMPLIFICATION: Peavey TKO with one 15" Black Widow (for Ed's side of the stage), Fender BXR 200 amp with one 15", vintage 100 watt Ampeg V-4 tube amp, generic cabinet with 18" speaker, vintage 55 watt Ampeg B25 tube amp with matching Ampeg B25B 2X15 cabinet
JIM:
KITS: Ringo's Ludwig kit and a beautiful Ludwig Classic Maple kit
SNARE: Pearl hand-selected maple piccolo (trivia: his sweet old Black Lab was named Pearl), two Ludwig snares
BASS DRUM: 36" Pearl Concert Model
TIMPANI'S: Ludwig (two)
MARIMBA: Hand-made of Rosewood in the Seattle U-district
GUITARS: Martin acoustic, Gibson bass, Paul's 1962 Hofner bass
OTHER STUFF: Frame drums, djembe, talking drums, fire bells, shakers, rattlers, rollers, LP Matador Timbales, Monkey Nuts, various Afuches (Cabasas), Bells, Blocks, etc
LEE:
KEYBOARDS: Hammond M3, Roland RD-150, Alesis QS7.1
AMPLIFICATION & SPEAKERS: Motion Sound Pro-3 (Leslie), pair of old 15" Peavey speakers, El Cheapo Stereo PA amp
SOUND SYSTEM:
Mains: JBL SF25 speaker cabinets, two long-throw 1X18 cabinets, two front loaded 3-way Carvin cabinets (15", 8" & horn), two McCauley
two-way cabinets (12" & horn), two QSC RMX 850 800 watt power amps, Mackie EFX 16 mixer, Peavey 12-channel board for submixing when required. Monitors: Fender 500 watt power amp, Peavey powered board
(200 watts/channel), Peavey floor monitors (15" & horn), Yamaha monitors (12" & horn - on stands). Vocal microphones are Shure SM-58's, and a Sennheiser 845-S (Bill). Acoustic instrument
microphones are Shure condensers, guitar/bass/keyboard speaker microphones (when required) are V-Tech VT-1040's and/or Shure SM-57's, drum & percussion microphones are Sennheiser clip-on's and Shure condensers.
RECORDING:
Sixteen track Korg D1600 digital recorder, Eight track Tascam 688 midistudio, eight track Fostex DMT-8 digital recorder, Marantz stereo CD Recorder, modified 1995 Acer Aspire PC and 2002 Dell Demension 4400
LIGHTING:
Eight 500 watt PAR cans, eight 300 watt PAR cans, five 200 watt
PAR cans. DZN 8 channel/4 scene foot controller, two DZN 12
channel/2scene lighting boards. Five 4 channel 1000 watt per
channel dimmer packs.
BREAK MUSIC:
Soundesign dual cassette boombox with broken CD player.
*UPDATE 9/9/99: Only one tape player works now...
*UPDATE 10/10/01: Ed bought a new CD boombox...
*UPDATE 11/08/03: Lee donated an old CD deck...
HAND TRUCK:
Red hand truck
TRANSPORTATION:
Ed's faithful old Dodge van, George's really cool (but bouncy) propane powered school bus (on occasion)
* We've collected a lot of crap stuff over the years...
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