For all you people as sad as we are....
BBB:
Guitars:  



Bandit 1 - 1963 reissue candy apple red Fender Telecaster. Seymour Duncan vintage stack bridge pickup and SD hot stack neck pickup. Replacement brass bridge saddles. .009 gauge strings, standard tuning (occasional A string dropped to G).

BBB gets all his strings at great prices from

www.newstrings.co.uk




Bandit 2 - BBB constructed 1959 style vintage cream “Fender Esquire” replica, with SD vintage stack pickup in bridge and .009 gauge strings. Tuning as above.





Slide – Customised cherry (once anyway) 1972 Gibson SG 100. Stripped hardware, replacement tune-o-matic bridge, DiMarzio 1970s humbucker in bridge, .10 gauge strings (honest).
Tuned bass to treble: DGDGBD

“You don’t see many of them around these days
– well, not in that condition anyway!” – Jeff Beck
Backups – loads, including strats, other teles and a Gordon Smith Les Paul Jnr alike.
Amps:  

Amps – Marshall TSL 100 head plus Laney 4x12 speaker cabinet (pictured). Back –up: Marshall TSL 122 combo, plus extension cabinet. Smaller venues and funerals – Vox Cambridge combo (2x12, 30 watts) and Peavey Delta Blues combo (1x15, 30 watts).

Effects:

Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo, MXR Phase 90. Bad Bob Boost (pictured)
 

Whalebone:
Basses:  
YAMAHA ACTIVE B1500 BASS,
FENDER JAZZ (62) BASS,
FERNANDES 5 STRING ACTIVE BASS,
WASHBURN 11 ACTIVE BASS,
RICKENBAKER 2002 STEREO BASS,
IBANEZ MUSICIAN FRETLESS BASS,
Amps:  
TRACE ELLIOT 1210 GMX BASS COMBO CUSTOMISED BY TRACE TO 500W  
Stuff:  
FREE T SHIRT. BOSS CHROMATIC TUNER, AR STAGE TUNER, SM 58 MIC, RHINO GUITAR LEADS, DOTMAN 1mm PLECTRUMS. VIDAL SASSOON EXTRA STRONG HAIR GEL, VICKS THROAT SPRAY, EMBASSY REGAL KINGSIZE, AIRWAVES CHEWING GUM, CLIPPER LIGHTER, 12 PINTS STONES SMOOTH FLOW, OLD GERMAN ARMY HAT. 12 ASSORTED T SHIRTS. SWISS ARMY KNIFE. 6 PACKS OF TANGLEWOOD 45-105 ROUNDWOUND BASS STRINGS, SIX PACKS TANGLEWOOD 40-95 BASS STRINGS.

Brad:

Drum kit, lager, annoying habits, bad smell

Sid:
PA:
Spirit 12 channel mixing desk which has only 8 useful mike channels! Built in effects unit. 16 in and 4 out multi-core cable so that I can be as far away as possible from the band (preferably near the bar).

Stuff at the 'stage' end of it all: studiomaster electronic crossover set to 250Hz driving a Crown Macrotech 2400 for the Mid/Top end signals which drive the EV Sx300 speakers, and a Yamaha CP2000 for the bass end driving a pair of Carlsbro bins.

As for the Crap monitors, the amplifier in the powered one just can't hack the levels required on stage (The band are getting on a bit now and probably going deaf) - anyway a new bigger amplifier is to be introduced over the next couple of weeks which will blow them away.
Banditmobile:
Old LDV van repainted in the dark in the rain while drunk. Floating back seats make for an interesting ride as does eccentric steering and a weird clutch.

UPDATE: the back seats have now been bolted in and a partition inserted. No seatbelts, mind you, but lots of space for exercise, as it were. Brad’s cognitive therapist is trying to duplicate this procedure but is having little success so far.