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Guitars

NUMBER ONE
Also called "First Wife" is a 1959 Strat body with 1962 neck and 1959 pickups. Received in 1973 in trade of 1963 Strat with Ray Hennig, Heart of Texas Music.
LENNY
Brownish 1963 or 1964 Strat. Received as a gift in 1976 from wife and friends.
CHARLEY
White customized Strat built from spare parts by Charley Wirz.
RED
Red" is a 1964 or 1965 rosewood neck Strat. Red later had its neck replaced with a 1964 left-handed rosewood Fender neck.
MAIN
Custom Hamiltone Lurktamer, Built by James Hamilton of Buffalo, NY. A gift from Billy Gibbons in 1984.
SCOTCH
Cream colored 1963 Strat received from Rene Martinez. The first guitar received from Charley Wirz. Scotch was stolen from Stevie
THE YELLOW ONE
Single pickup 1964 Strat. Originally owned by Vanilla Fudge guitarist. Received as gift from Charley Wirz in 1981.
Stevie owned about 34 different guitars. These are the guitars Stevie used most often.

Here are a few more pictures of Stevie with some of his other guitars.

Amps & Effects

1981 THROUGH 1983
  • Marshall Combo 2x12 JBL (200 watt, but peaks at 80 watts)
  • Two Fender Vibroverbs 1x15
  • Y-cord into Marshall and one Vibroverb, then patch to other Vibroverb
  • Tube Screamer
  • Vox Wah
CIRCA 1984
  • Stacked 2 Vibroverbs with 2 Super Reverbs
  • Two Vibroverbs (#5 and #6 serials, bought in different times, different places)
  • Super Reverb w/ 15" speaker, shorter cab, no midrange control
  • Fave setup was two Vibroverbs and two Supers, let Vibroverbs handle bottom end, set one super clean, the other variable Eventually retired Supers for Dumble Steel String Singers
  • Wah wah, Tube Screamer, Univibes
  • No straight distortion box, uses Tube Screamer for extra gain and break-up
  • "Cold Shot" played through Vibratone (10" speaker with rotating Styro cone in front)
CIRCA 1985 THROUGH 1987
  • Two chained Vibroverbs, one driving a Vibratone cabinet
  • One or two Super Reverbs
  • Dumble Steel String Singer driving Marshall 8x10 cab
  • "Life Without You" used Tube Screamer plus two open wahs opposed (for solo on record)
  • For "Say What!", sat on stool and used both feet to rock wahs in opposite directions (on record). On stage, would sometimes duct-tape wahs together for one-foot operation
1988 THROUGH 1990
  • Two Vibroverbs, one driving Vibratone
  • Two 4x10 Super Reverbs
  • Two Marshall heads driving Marshall cabinets
  • Dumble Steel String Singer driving Marshall 8x10" cabinet
  • One or two Tube Screamers for gain
  • Fuzz Face for distortion
  • Octavia, wah
RIG FOR RECORDING "IN STEP"
  • 1959 Tweed Bassman 4x10"
  • 2 Dumble 4x12" cabs
  • 2 Marshall 4x12" cabs
  • 1962 Twin Reverb
  • Marshall Major 200-watt Super PA into Marshall "bathtub" 4x15" cabinet
  • Marshall Major 200-watt Super Lead into 8x12" KTR88 cabinet JCM800 100 watt half stack
  • 1 "bathtub" Marshall cab w/ 4x12"
  • 300 watt Dumble
  • 150 watt Dumble
  • 2 Super Reverbs
  • Mesa-Boogie Simul-Class running Fender Vibratone
  • Vibratone in separate room, with Variac controlling speed
  • Magnatone
  • Fender Harvard
  • Roland Jazz Chorus
  • Groove Tube preamp
  • Variacs to adjust and sync power requirements
  • Fuzz Face
  • Cry Baby
  • Echoplex
  • Cyclosonic "auto-panner" on Riviera Paradise
  • Liked Groove Tube feeding Roland, plus Marshall, plus Bassman
  • Tried Tube Screamer feeding another TS feeding Bassman

These are some amps mentioned in various interviews