Desert Island Gear

[drmilktruck]

On the Premier Guitar website Cory Wong talks to Jason Isbell about his Desert Island Gear.

Assuming you're stranded on a desert island with electricity and just happened to take a guitar, amp and pedal with you for the three hour cruise, which three would it be?

Guitar

Amp

Pedal

Go!

 

[Texas Slim]

Squier Standard Telecaster
Fender Blues Deluxe
Danelectro Daddy-O overdrive

Also-
Two cables, Jazz III black Stiffo picks, and a spare nine volt battery

 

[Emergence]

Desert island? With electricity? Don’t count on stable power in the third world.

Realistically, I’d bring my G6118T Annie. I can play unamplified as the need arises. I’d bring my Mesa Boogie Express 5:25 for when there’s juice. I use that combination to accompany myself on vocals. I don’t need a pedal for that. What I’d bring instead is all the wound G string sets I could stuff in the case and a replacement tube set or two.

 

[Zeek]

Gibson Midtown
Fender Blues Jr. with Celestion Greenback
Boss RC-3 Looper

 

[Synchro]

G6122-1959 Hall of Fame Country Gent

Winfield Typhoon amp

Source audio True Spring reverb/tremolo

 

[cielski]

Emergence has a point about shaky electrical service on a third world island.
So, for me, a Howard Roberts (for it's acoustical properties) and a Vox AC-15 would be all I need. I don't use pedals.

 

[Maguchi]

On the Premier Guitar website Cory Wong talks to Jason Isbell about his Desert Island Gear.

Assuming you're stranded on a desert island with electricity and just happened to take a guitar, amp and pedal with you for the three hour cruise, which three would it be?

Guitar

Amp

Pedal

Go!

Gretsch 6120 Nashville Dynasonic Players Edition
Fender Tweed Deluxe Reissue
Ibañez AD-9 Analog Delay (for slapback)

P.S. It's cool that for their only pedal people are posting loopers, reverbs and tremelos instead of drives, dirt or boost. It gives me high hopes for clean guitar sounds into the future.

 

[Trash Kidd]

Gretsch G6120

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp

Nocturne Mystery Brain

 

[Lucky Jim]

In the fantasy world of desert islands with electricity I’d take

My Gretsch 6120 Nashville Dynasonic Players Edition
A brownface Vibrolux
A Danelectro Dan-Echo

But in the real world I’d take my Atkin OM-28H Retrospective acoustic guitar and a clip-on tuner. That’s all I’d need.

 

[loudnlousy]

I would take an old Gibson Flying V, a Reußenzehn Reu-o-Grande and a vintage Jen CryBaby with me. That alone would certainly be loud enough to spare me further measures with which I can draw attention to my situation. No beacon, no flare-gun needed. I will be heard even on remote shores.

 

[thunder58]

This ... this .... and this . Then I'd play some Neil Young

 

[loudnlousy]

This ... this .... and this . Then I'd play some Neil Young

Would look very cool with an raffia skirt, for sure.

 

[drmilktruck]

Desert island? With electricity? Don’t count on stable power in the third world.

Realistically, I’d bring my G6118T Annie. I can play unamplified as the need arises. I’d bring my Mesa Boogie Express 5:25 for when there’s juice. I use that combination to accompany myself on vocals. I don’t need a pedal for that. What I’d bring instead is all the wound G string sets I could stuff in the case and a replacement tube set or two.

Emergence has a point about shaky electrical service on a third world island.
So, for me, a Howard Roberts (for it's acoustical properties) and a Vox AC-15 would be all I need. I don't use pedals.

I didn’t specify the location of the fantasy island. It could be Mount Desert Island in Maine, home to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, which as far as I know has ample electricity and, except during a Noreaster, stable power!

 

[Pemberton]

My ‘59 6120
Fender Princeton
(No Pedal)

—I won’t feel like lugging a heavy amp around an island.

 

[Ricochet]

Assuming the electricity is stable, I’d bring one of my plentiful and trusted Squier Teles since a Tele seems the least susceptible to high humidity(implied here by “desert island” not Coney Island…).
Amps, not too bothered at this point. A Marshall Lead 20 with Celestion Gold speaker upgrade is fine. Pedal EHX Pitchfork for the funz.

 

[Pemberton]

. . . the least susceptible to high humidity . . .

Oh, man, you mean not 72 degrees Fahrenheit with 50 percent relative humidity? How much shade is available? And what’s the chance of rain?

 

[Emergence]

Assuming the electricity is stable, I’d bring one of my plentiful and trusted Squier Teles since a Tele seems the least susceptible to high humidity(implied here by “desert island” not Coney Island…).
Amps, not too bothered at this point. A Marshall Lead 20 with Celestion Gold speaker upgrade is fine. Pedal EHX Pitchfork for the funz.

Desert implies low humidity. Don’t bring anything with a thin solid spruce top. And bring a tool for a truss rod adjustment if you come from anyplace it rains.

And @drmilktruck ’s Mount Desert Island is only an island in his dreams.

 

[cielski]

I want a dessert island.
I'd have something sweet to eat.

 

[cielski]

I didn’t specify the location of the fantasy island. It could be Mount Desert Island in Maine, home to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, which as far as I know has ample electricity and, except during a Noreaster, stable power!

OK. Blue Island, Illinois.

 

[Ricochet]

Desert implies low humidity.

"Desert" in Desert Island is short for deserted so we're probably both right. I strongly associate a desert(ed) island with the tropics, but I don't think it's defined as such anywhere.