MMJ's Equipment.

evilPaauwe · Aug 22, 2006, 08:49 PM

Carl Sports the goldtop Les Paul. Jim's got his single body 12 string gibson and his semi hollowbody whatever. But do u kats know of anything else they got, such as amps, what pedals they use. and like what the bassist and drummer sport. i haven't seen too many mmj videos. OH and do any of u know what reverd/echoe/delay the use.

aMD · Aug 22, 2006, 10:13 PM

mmj's music makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again.

ycartrob · Aug 22, 2006, 10:17 PM

Tommy plays the bass

as far as pedals, I think Jim has a mountain bike once

go here p-man:
http://www.mymorningjacket.com/cgi-local/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=themusic;action=display;num=1148104312

Dee. · Aug 22, 2006, 10:26 PM

I dig:

tomEisenbraun · Aug 22, 2006, 11:51 PM

there's a better thread than that around here... but here's what i can recollect.

[size=16]Jim[/size]
Electric Guitars:
Gibson ES-355
   one is a sunburst, there was an older red one which
   doesn't seem to be used anymore and another is
   black.

Gibson Flying V
   He has actually had two of these, both with mirror
   pickguards. From pictures I've seen, it looks like the
   older one's pickguard was being held in place with
   some fashionable black electrical tape (that's the
   one in the picture, there), thus the new one would
   be a replacement.

Ovation 12-String - red
used on What A Wonderful Man

1976 Fender Strat - sunburst
   used in 2005 on Lay Low's solo (he would
   perform the beginning of the song guitar-less). Now
   the Flying V is used for that part. Also used on
   Anytime.

Ibanez Iceman - Sunburst
From what I can tell, used once at Austin City Limits
Fest in 2004

Acoustic Guitars
Gibson J-185
   His primary acoustic guitar. Has a full-soundhole
   pickup of some type. Used for sheer rock madness
   on It Beats 4 U, and for dripping sweet southern-
   fried, chicken-pickin', Colonel Sanders down-home
   southern goodness on tunes like Golden.

Takamine something-or-other
   Jim doesn't actually know which model it is, but it
   was the guitar he began writing music on. Has
   three holographic stickers on the lower body past
   the bridge. He doesn't normally play it live
   anymore.

Amplifier
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Tremoverb head on top of a 2x12 Mesa Boogie cabinet. I've been told a story about Jim having used to use a Mesa Nomad (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) in the early days, and that those things are constructed so that there's a horribly noticable break in the signal when the channels are switched. And that the entire rest of the band was quite relieved when he got rid of it and picked up the Tremoverb. Useless, but fun, piece of knowledge.

(amp on the left, there)

Effects
MXR Phase 90
   Used mainly on Phone Went West and Run Thru.
   There has to be more, but these are the ones where
   it's blatant.

there are suresly more effects, but I have no idea what those would be. please help me out on this one.

i'll do Carl later.

ycartrob · Aug 22, 2006, 11:54 PM

Quotethere's a better thread than that around here... but here's what i can recollect.

Jim
Electric Guitars:
Gibson ES-355
one is a sunburst, there was an older red one which
doesn't seem to be used anymore and another is
black. black is used mainly - from what I've noticed -
on Dondante.
Gibson Flying V -
He has actually had two of these, both with mirror
pickguards. From pictures I've seen, it looks like the
older one's pickguard was being held in place with
some fashionable black electrical tape, thus the
new one would be a replacement.
Ovation 12-String - red
used on What A Wonderful Man
Fender early 70's sunburst Strat
used earlier in 2005 on Lay Low's solo (he would
perform the beginning of the song guitar-less). Now
the Flying V is used for that part.
Ibanez Iceman - Sunburst
From what I can tell, used once at Austin City Limits
Fest in 2004
Acoustic Guitars
Gibson J-185
His primary acoustic guitar. Has a full-soundhole
pickup of some type. Used for sheer rock madness
on It Beats 4 U, and for dripping sweet southern-
fried, chicken-pickin', Colonel Sanders down-home
southern goodness on tunes like Golden.
Takamine something-or-other
Jim doesn't actually know which model it is, but it
was the guitar he began writing music on. Has
three holographic stickers on the lower body past
the bridge. He doesn't normally play it live
anymore.

Amplifier
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head on top of a 2x12 Mesa Boogie cabinet. I've been told a story about Jim having used to use a Mesa Nomad (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) in the early days, and that those things are constructed so that there's a horribly noticable break in the signal when the channels are switched. And that the entire rest of the band was quite relieved when he got rid of it and picked up the Dual Rectifier. Useless, but fun, piece of knowledge.

Effects
MXR Phase 90
Used mainly on Phone Went West and Run Thru.
There has to be more, but these are the ones where
it's blatant.

there are suresly more effects, but I have no idea what those would be. please help me out on this one.

i'll do Carl later.

the impressive thing is Tom knew that off the top of his head.

fucking accelerated readers...

tomEisenbraun · Aug 23, 2006, 12:03 AM

HAHAHA

i didn't know about the iceman until i went digging for pictures of the 12-string to make sure it was an Ovation and not a Fender...

BH · Aug 23, 2006, 12:06 AM

Nice legwork T

evilPaauwe · Aug 23, 2006, 12:59 AM

Quotemmj's music makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again.

haha, was that just to piss me off?

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but dude, tom E, u are the bomb. and amen to jims iceman.

dragonboy · Aug 23, 2006, 01:15 AM

Yer that was a great post Tom, cheers for that! :)

primushead · Aug 23, 2006, 01:27 AM

Tom lives for these threads.

Show off.

:P

Chills · Aug 23, 2006, 07:39 AM

Quoteblack is used mainly - from what I've noticed - on Dondante.
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At Pukkelpop, he used the black guitar for a couple songs. Quite certainly on both Off The Record and Run Thru.
If this matters at all ::)

Angry Ewok · Aug 23, 2006, 03:06 PM

Thanks for posting that list, Tom.

Regarding the guitars with the holographic stickers - I swear I saw Jim use both of them as recently as the Oct. 05 show at Roxy... I remember squinting to see what exactly the stickers were of, because I was only about 2 ft. away yet still couldn't make any of it out, though... I thought one of them might have been an astronaught or something.

Surely one of you guys know what the stickers are of...

corey · Aug 23, 2006, 03:19 PM

Don't we have 3-4 threads on this already? Maybe Tom can copy and paste all of this info so that it will be ready the next time somebody asks it. :)

DD · Aug 23, 2006, 04:04 PM

im pretty sure jim told me his strat is a 76. we spoke about it about a year after i told him he needed a strat and we had the standard gibson vs epiphone argument. i was suprised the first time i saw him play it and though my memory is fuzzy im pretty sure he said it was a 76.

tomEisenbraun · Aug 23, 2006, 07:27 PM

well then. i'll make it a 76 then. and i'll fix the info about the takamine. i remember seeing pics and thinkin i needed to change it, but i guess i forgot. i think i'll email him this and ask him if he can add anything and fix anything that's wrong. maybe we can have an official sticky equipment thread when it's all worked out.

DD · Aug 24, 2006, 02:35 PM

to be honest thats my ONLY complaint about this website and really MOST band websites. they need a guitargeek style equip page that shows what pedals they use, how they are set up, what amps, guitars, basses, drums, keys, etc.

it would even be awesome if they got all uber geeky and talked about which instruments they used on which songs. some people think thats overkill but i think its awesome.

sweatboard · Aug 24, 2006, 02:39 PM

It should probably be it's own site.......mabey you or Tom could start that up. It WOULD be cool.

corey · Aug 24, 2006, 02:56 PM

Well, if we really wanted to be dorky, we could start making lists here.
I definitely remember that the 12-string is used on "What a Wonderful Man".
The flying V is on "One Big Holiday".
The ES-35 is "Gideon".

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

leafygreens · Sep 26, 2006, 11:05 PM

What about the keybords? Anybody know anything there?

MMJ's Equipment.

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