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42 mentions in 25 episodes.

A. G. Cook

56:43 · Telecaster · named · high confidence
“It was a Floyd Rose, so locked pickups, but a Telecaster — that whammy setup you'd have in Van Halen but on a vintage Telecaster.”
A Fender Floyd Rose Telecaster bought on a Fender discount became the defining guitar for the Britpop album, with a coil switch between vintage single coils and humbuckers.

Adam Buxton

1:32:06 · Stratocaster · named · high confidence
“With Metronomy? Well, I just play like a Stratocaster, but it's a very boring thing to say.”
Joe Mount names a good old-fashioned guitar as his favourite kit, specifying the Stratocaster he plays on stage with Metronomy.

Air

42:36 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“We got everything with it, like the Rhodes in mono. The Rhodes is a signature... Rhodes with the Solina and with the bass.”
A Rhodes suitcase mic'd in mono with the C414 is central to the Air sound, pedal noise and all.
50:37 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“Basically I took the bass and JB went on the Rhodes... the Rhodes with the famous AKG C414.”
Talisman began as a late-night jam of Rhodes and bass, the Rhodes captured with their single C414.
1:12:47 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“And as usual, the same elements, like the Rhodes with the same mic. And the Solina.”
Kelly Watch the Stars uses the same Rhodes-and-Solina core recorded with the single C414.
1:48:47 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“At the time it was the Fender Rhodes, because I'm a very limited keyboard player. When you play a Rhodes, the harmony is so rich.”
Asked for his go-to piece of gear, Godin names the Fender Rhodes for making simple chords sound beautiful.

Bob Vylan

39:42 · Rhodes · named · medium confidence
“And then there's a Rhodes as well”
A Rhodes part is one of the layers in the finished arrangement of 'Humble as the Sun'.
1:19:31 · Telecaster · named · high confidence
“It was just me on the Telecaster, just kind of noodling about”
'Makes Me Violent' started from Bobby noodling on a Telecaster at home.
1:21:46 · Stratocaster · named · high confidence
“Got the Telecaster and then the Strat doing this in the chorus”
A Strat handled the chorus guitar layers on 'Makes Me Violent'.

Bombay Bicycle Club

36:37 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“The one other thing that Damon really added was we came up with this mid-eight together and he was sitting there playing the Rhodes.”
Damon Albarn wrote the chord progression for Heaven's middle section at the Rhodes during a writing session with Jack.

Bonobo

40:09 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“The main thing I started with was this Rhodes. So I have a Rhodes in my studio and I sent it through these low-pass gates.”
Sapien is built around his studio Rhodes played live through sequenced modular low-pass gates; the bass is also the Rhodes.

Clean Bandit

16:26 · Rhodes · named · medium confidence
“the post-chorus was just instrumental. It just was this, like, Fender Rhodes thing going, di-di-ding-ding-ding”
The early Rather Be demo used a Fender Rhodes figure in the post-chorus before Nikki Sislin's ad-lib hook replaced it.

Declan Mckenna

1:00:30 · Acoustasonic · named · high confidence
“How I recorded the guitar was like using the Acoustasonic, which are these new Fender guitars, a hybrid of an acoustic and an electric.”
On album track Honest Test he miked the unplugged Acoustasonic for its short, plucky, unusual acoustic tone.

Djo

14:20 · Precision Bass · named · high confidence
“You had swapped it out with the, uh, P-Bass.”
The synth bass in an early version of 'Delete Ya' was replaced by a Fender Precision Bass.
37:05 · Precision Bass · named · high confidence
“Precision bass on everything, except maybe Fly.”
A Fender Precision Bass, played by Joe, is the bass sound on nearly every track of the album.
1:28:17 · Stratocaster · named · medium confidence
“Pretty clean Twin Peaks, the show, kind of sounding Strat, I think it was. With a bunch of reverb on it.”
A clean, heavily reverbed Strat, pitched down, provides the lonely stabs in the big section of 'Egg'.

EJT

15:52 · Precision Bass · named · high confidence
“I'm doing this like it's a P Bass, and if I'm wanting to get different tones it's from a little bit of subtle pedal work, or fingers”
All bass parts on the record were played on her P-Bass, with tone changes coming from fingers and pedals rather than a different instrument.
1:00:06 · Telecaster · named · high confidence
“it sounds almost like an archtop guitar... but actually it's a Telecaster, a semi-hollow Telecaster”
The bluesy Save Me riff was played fingerstyle on her semi-hollow Telecaster for a mellow, jazzy tone.
1:00:34 · Blues Junior · named · high confidence
“I think I just put this through my Fender Blues Junior. Quite a bit of reverb”
Guitar on Save Me was amped through a Fender Blues Junior with plenty of amp reverb.
1:23:31 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“The Rhodes has come in”
Rhodes electric piano is one of the layers entering during the huge orchestral outro build of Maybe Nowhere.

Fall Out Boy

39:26 · Stratocaster · named · high confidence
“I don't have anything listed for the pedal, but I know it was a Strat going through an Orange amp.”
Neil identifies the verse electric guitar on Love from the Other Side as a Fender Strat into an Orange amp.
1:15:34 · Stratocaster · named · medium confidence
“What was that? That was — was that your Strat again?”
Patrick guesses the effected second-verse guitar on Heaven, Iowa was Neil's Stratocaster.
1:44:51 · Telecaster · named · high confidence
“It says there's a Strat and a Tele on that. A lot of the jangly stuff was Teles and Strats.”
Neil's track notes show Strat and Tele layers making up the jangly guitar parts on So Much for Stardust.

Foo Fighters

3:36 · Fender Tone Master · named · high confidence
“a Wizard amp, a Fender Tone Master, a couple other things”
The Fender Tone Master is named among the small amp selection available in the home studio.
24:05 · Fender Tone Master · named · high confidence
“I usually blast through this old Tone Master thing whenever we record... That Tone Master is great”
Grohl says his own recorded guitar sound is the old Fender Tone Master paired with his Trini Lopez guitar; Mendel praises the amp.

Hayley Williams

1:44:41 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“It's the corner of this room, and we have a guitar or two, and we have a Rhodes, and a MIDI keyboard and my laptop.”
The bare-bones Nashville writing room contained a Rhodes, a MIDI keyboard and a laptop.

Kae Tempest

1:15:42 · Mustang Bass · named · high confidence
“It's a tiny little short-scale Fender Mustang bass, which I've put a cloth in on the bridge to keep it muted and sound very small but picky.”
A muted short-scale Fender Mustang bass creates the Morricone-style picky bass line on 'Forever'.

Kasabian

29:37 · Coronado · named · medium confidence
“I got the— it was a Coronado guitar, and then so I think— yeah, this guitar. So I'm just playing along to the riff.”
A Coronado guitar doubling the riff is what softens and turns the second half of 'Call' into euphoria.

Lizzy McAlpine

1:22:24 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“Lizzie and I wrote a Rhodes part... we both played Fender Rhodes at the same time, and the piano is doubling it”
Taylor and Lizzy played the Fender Rhodes part together, doubled by acoustic piano, on Force of Nature.

Maribou State

19:37 · Fender Hot Rod Deluxe · named · medium confidence
“Eventually it was captured through a guitar amp... Was it the Hot Rod Fender?”
After years of struggling for bass tone, the Black Oak bass was finally captured by re-amping through a Fender Hot Rod guitar amp.

Pixies

1:06:14 · Fender reverb tank (modded) · named · high confidence
“They had this great reverb tank at Guildford, which was like a modded Fender reverb tank, which I just put all the drums through.”
A modified Fender outboard spring reverb tank at the Guildford studio was sloshed over drums, vocals and guitars and named by Tom as the key sound of the album.

Pomplamoose

38:23 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“this is Larry's Rhodes part. Larry's on Rhodes and his Rhodes part is extraordinary”
Larry Goldings' Fender Rhodes performance sits under the band arrangement on Tu peux pas savoir.

Sam Gellaitry

1:07:36 · Jaguar · named · high confidence
“I've got a Fender Mustang, Fender Jaguar, Fender Mustang Bass, a few other bits”
Fender Jaguar is among the guitars Sam plays himself on the album.
1:07:37 · Mustang · named · high confidence
“I've got a Fender Mustang, Fender Jaguar, Fender Mustang Bass”
Fender Mustang guitar listed in Sam's guitar collection used for album parts.
1:07:38 · Mustang Bass · named · high confidence
“Fender Mustang Bass, a few other bits”
Fender Mustang Bass is the bass Sam plays on tracks like 'Nervous' and 'Restore My Faith'.

Snarky Puppy

7:59 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“I'll just use like a Fender Rhodes to play all three things, so that then even the band, they don't even know what their part is.”
League demos chords, melody and bass line all on a Fender Rhodes so band members learn every part rather than just their own.
22:19 · Rhodes · named · medium confidence
“This solo is now being taken by a Rhodes player where it was a guitar on the first day of rehearsing.”
Rhodes mentioned as the instrument that took over the 'Bet' solo during rehearsals before it moved to saxophone.

St. Vincent

59:31 · Telecaster · named · high confidence
“I think that's my Nashville Tele, strung Nashville style through various H3000 patches”
A Nashville-strung Telecaster provided the guitar licks on 'Sweetest Fruit'.

The Favours

29:33 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“It really plays much more like an electric piano in the way that like a Rhodes plays or something.”
The CP-80's action is compared to a Rhodes when explaining why an upright piano was overdubbed for attack.

The Libertines

33:02 · Rhodes · named · medium confidence
“Is that the one? Fender Rhodes, wasn't it? No, what was that? Wurley, Jason?”
The band try to recall whether the keyboard on Merry Old England was the Fender Rhodes or a Wurlitzer before settling on the studio's old upright.
43:40 · Rhodes · named · high confidence
“Put the Rhodes in as well. — Yeah, and the Rhodes too.”
Rhodes stem layered with Dimitri Tikovoi's acoustic piano part on Merry Old England.

Tomora

8:48 · Rhodes · named · medium confidence
“Yeah, the Rhodes or whatever. — Yeah, Rhodes.”
The chord bed at the heart of the decade-old 'Somewhere Else' demo is identified as a Rhodes.