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[beejaysus]

Well, I suppose the guitars and amps would be similar to the Californication line up:

Guitars:
1955 Fender Strat,
1962 Fender Strat,
1962 Fender Jaguar (fiesta red)
1965 Tele
196? Tele
1955 Gretsch White Falcon
1961 Gibson SG Custom

About the acoustics on Cabron and Venice Queen- those are Taylors aren't they?. I remember an interview where John said Rick Rubin or the engineer kind of pushed him into playing them because they were easier to record or something.

Amps:
Marshall JTM 45
Marshall25/50 Silver Jubilee
Marshall Major 200 watt
Marshall SuperBass 100 watt
Blackface Fender Showman
(all powering JCM 900 4x12 cabs)

Those are the amps we came up with for the Californication era but that could be way off. So help there would be great.

Effects:
Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion
EHX Big Muff USA
Boss PSM-5 Switch
EHX Holy Gail
MXR Micro Amp
Moog 12 Stage Phaser
Ibanez WH10 (x2)
Boss CE-1 Chorus
Boss FV-50 Volume
Z.Vex FuzzFactory
Fender Tube Reverb
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Line 6 FM4 Filter
EHX Electric Mistress
Digitech PDS-2000

This list comes from Mr. Maniacs post here:
http://forums.invisible-movement.net/index...60&start=60

I'd be inclined to add an EHX Tube Zipper+ Frequency Analyser for this era too. John recorded these samples for EHX around this time:

http://www.ehx.com/ehx2/Default.asp?q=f&am...hn%5FFrusciante

http://www.ehx.com/ehx2/Default.asp?q=f&am...hn%5FFrusciante

[Iva]

beejaysus, on Mar 10 2008, 02:13 AM, said:

About the acoustics on Cabron and Venice Queen- those are Taylors aren't they?. I remember an interview where John said Rick Rubin or the engineer kind of pushed him into playing them because they were easier to record or something.

It's Guitarist magazine from April 2004.
http://www.invisible...04/04-guitarist
http://www.invisible-movement.net/v/magazi...04/04guitarist/

AS WITH MOST musicians when they’re in writing mode, John Frusciante is very much a creature of habit. He’s also something of a traditionalist, more often than not writing on acoustic guitar.

“Usually a lot of my writing takes place on tour and so I always have an acoustic guitar with me,” he explains. “Usually my Martin from the fifties. Actually I have two brown Martins from the fifties – the small-scale ones – and they’re incredible. I also have a blond one too. I picked two of them up from Norm’s Rare Guitars in the Valley and my guitar tech found me the other one somewhere because I needed to have a back-up for something or other.

People think I play Taylors, but the whole Taylor thing was something that Rick Rubin wanted me to play on the last Chili Peppers record. And since I didn’t have a mind of my own when we did By The Way, I let him tell me what fucking guitar to play, which I’ll never do again! Now he knows he’ll never ask me to play a guitar like that because I’m too opinionated, but at the time I was, Oh? Listening to them tell me that my Martin doesn’t record well. So that’s what I write on, mostly.”

That’s not to say, Frusciante is keen to point out, that he won’t just reach for whatever guitar is availible if an idea suddenly strikes…

[Mad Alchemist]

In another topic we discussed another strat, age is unknown, the color is white. You can see it in the BTW video, but I'm not sure that he actually used it on the album though.
And I also thought that he used at least two BOSS OS-2 pedals.