First guitar

(Christmas 1956) Christmas 1956: £3 Hyra guitar, “from [his] grandmother Denny like those found on the wall in Spanish restaurants.” 1957: A five-string mandolin banjo (gift from friend of his father) and, later, a tenor banjo. 1957 (approx.): Little Selmer amp, bought after two-year paper round. Thrown at his grandmother and destroyed.

1958–61 (the Confederates, the Aristocrats, the Scorpions) An “unknown ‘Czechoslovakian’ acoustic guitar” for £3 from his parents’ antique shop “Miscellania,” on Ealing Common. “Good fingerboard and everything. It lasted quite a long time, but it got pinched in the end.”

Stage equipment: Detours (1962–63) Levin Goliath LM-26 sunburst acoustic with pickup in soundhole

A “very cheap” Harmony acoustic with pickup A homemade guitar body cut from a block of wood, Roger helped file the edges down. Pete then unscrewed the neck of his Harmony guitar, transferred it to his new solid guitar body and added some pickups.

Harmony single-pickup Stratotone, sprayed red;

1961 Epiphone Wilshire solidbody electric bought from Roger Daltrey on “easy payments,” with a “small body and little black pick-ups,” later sold for the first Rickenbacker (a 1998). Vox AC-15 that both Roger and Pete played through (acquired from former Detour Roy East).

Fender Pro with 1×15 JBL (purchased from John McLaughlin at Selmers);

Relay synthesizer/guitar sound (1972) Guitar is being processed through an ARP 2600 synth. The guitar output is fed into the audio input of the voltage-controlled filter ( VCF ) section of the synth. Using the sample-and-hold function, the output is connected to the VCF , which automatically turns the frequency (tone) of the filter to different, random positions in a rhythmic style. (Rich Rowley)

Squeeze Box (1975) Fender G banjo with Scruggs heads