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GEAR/GUITARS
 
GRANT
 
Grants first guitar was a second hand black Aron Les Paul copy, which his parents bought for him. It cost £30 at the time. Grant was 10 years old and trained and taught himself to play.

Grant uses a 1967 Sunburst Jazzmaster made famous by Elvis Costello in the 80’s. He first saw it in an Elvis Costello. He also has possession of a 1964 Silver Jazzmaster and a Sunburst 59 Jazzmaster + 73 Sunburst Fender Telecaster. Grants other guitars include a Gibson Explorer, a Green Custom Jazzbird, Cherry Red Gibson SG, a Sunburst Gibson J-200 Acoustic and a natural finish Yamaha acoustic (for recording).

1967 Sunburst Jazzmaster 73 Sunburst Fender Telecaster

He uses a diversity of different pedals and effects to produce the distinctive Feeder sound. The main amps they use are: Fender Twins, Vox AC30’s, Boogie and Marshall + Marshall and Orange Speaker Cabinets

 
TAKA
 
Taka built his own bass for recording, while working at Tokyo guitar makers ESP. Taka found an old Japanese jazz bass copy for £30. He altered its appearance and made it look like a Jazzmaster.

He also had ‘Combat ‘ which was a Tokyo guitar workshop; make several other basses of his own design. Taka describes the individual guitars as: A Spector meets Prince's guitar Rickenbacker meets Prince's guitar His main bass however is a copied body from Gretch semi acoustic shape coupled with a solid, sparkly gold, ash body.

Custom Bass Custom Gold Gretch

 
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