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Billie Joe Armstrong is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock band Green Day. Armstrong is often credited with the revival of punk in the early 1990s with Green Day.

Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong's Guitar Rig!

Billie Joe on guitar

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Guitars

Notes: Billie has a huge collection of guitars, with the majority being Gibson. See Aug 09 Guitar World for pic.

- Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong signature Les Paul Junior single and double cut models:

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- Fernandes Stratocaster (Blue)

- Fender Stratocaster

Fender Player Stratocaster Maple Fingerboard Electric Guitar Tidepool

- Fender Stratocaster Custom Shop

- Gibson ES-135 and ES-137 guitars

- Gibson ES-335 and ES-355 guitars

Gibson Custom 1959 ES-335 Historic Dot Reissue - cherry

- Gibson Les Paul Special 59'

- Gibson Standard SG

Gibson Sg Standard Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry

- Gibson Les Paul Junior TV 59'

- Fender Telecaster 68'

Fender American Original '60S Telecaster Rosewood Fingerboard Electric Guitar 3-Color Sunburst

- Fender JazzMaster

Fender Vintera '60S Jazzmaster Electric Guitar Ice Blue Metallic

- Fender Telecaster Custom Shop

- Gibson Les Paul Custom (black)

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Black

- Gretsch Chet Akins

- 1956 sunburst Gibson Les Paul Junior (used heavily on 21st Century Breakdown)

Gibson Custom 1957 Les Paul Junior Single Cut Reissue Vos Electric Guitar Tv Yellow

- 1952 Fender Esquire  (used heavily on 21st Century Breakdown)

Fender 70Th Anniversary Esquire Maple Fingerboard Electric Guitar 2-Color Sunburst

- Gibson Slash Les Paul Custom

- Gibson Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom

- Gibson Flying V (white. Appears to be a Heritage model)

Gibson Flying V Electric Guitar Antique Natural

- Gibson DC Junior guitars (yellow)

Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Junior Double Cut Reissue Vos Electric Guitar Faded Cherry

- Gibson DC Special guitars

Gibson Custom 1960 Les Paul Special Double Cut Electric Guitar, Vos Cherry Red

- Harmony H59 Rocket Semi-hollow guitar

- Ibanez RG electric guitar

- Fender Jaguar

Fender American Original '60S Jaguar Rosewood Fingerboard Electric Guitar Surf Green

- Gretsch Brian Setzer Hotrod

- Gretsch Anniversary 65

- Gretsch White Falcon

Gretsch Guitars G6136t-59 Vintage Select Edition '59 Falcon Hollowbody With Bigsby Vintage White

-  '60s Martin GT-70

- Rickenbacker 330 guitar

- Rickenbacker 360 guitar (black)

- Seymour Duncan pickups (Antiquities P90, SH-4, etc...)


 

 

Acoustic Guitars
- Guild D55

Guild D-55 Acoustic Guitar Antique Burst

- Taylor 514C

- Gibson Everly Brothers acoustic (black. Used for recording AND also seen live)

- Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong J-180 signature acoustic guitar

- Alvarez Yairi acoustic

- Gibson J-200 acoustic

Gibson J-200 Standard Acoustic-Electric Guitar

 

 

Amplifiers and Cabinets
- Marshall Plexi Super Lead 100 WATTS amp head (Dookie and Bradshaw mods)

- Marshall JCM800 amps

- Fender Bassman

- Hiwatt Custom 100 watt amp

Hiwatt Custom 7 7w Tube Guitar Amp Head

- Marshall 1960B 4x12 speaker cabinets

Marshall 1960A or 1960B 300W 4x12 Guitar Extension Cabinet

- Victoria Victorilux

- Gibson Les Paul GA-40 amp

- Gibson GA-19RVT Falcon amp

- Divided by 13 amp (used for much of the 21st Century Breakdown recording)

- Sears Silvertone amps (seen in live pics)

- Rivera amp head

- Avalon U5 DI

- handwired Vox AC30 head

Vox Hand-Wired AC30HWHD 30W Tube Guitar Amp Head Fawn

- Mojotone

- Custom Audio Electronics 3+ SE guitar tube preamp

 

 

Effects

- Dunlop Crybaby Wah pedal (used on 21st Century Breakdown)

- Boss Blues Driver pedal

- Boss TR-2 Tremolo

- Ibanez CF7

- Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Effects Pedal

- ISP Decimator pedal

- Shure R4D+ wireless

- RJM RG-16 switcher and MasterMind MIDI controller

- MXR Carbon Copy (uses this pedal on "Kill the DJ")

 

 

Strings and Picks
- Duplex Tortex .76 - .88mm Custom Picks

- Ernie Ball Super Slinky Strings

- GHS Boomers gauges 10-46 (submitted by user MJ)

 


Microphones
- Live Vocal mic: Shure SM58

Shure SM58 Microphone

- Shure wireless mics with Telefunken wireless M-80 head

- Studio Vocal mic: Telefunken U 47 M

- Studio Amp cabinet mics:Shure SM57, Royer R-121, and AKG C414 through Neve 1073 (21st Century Breakdown)


Notes:
- Billie's guitar is a Fernandes Stratocaster copy he calls "Blue". On Nimrod he also used some Gibson's, some old Les Pauls, an ES-355, and ES-135 and a Fender Jaguar. He also made a guitar he call's "Frankenstein" because it is a combination of several different parts purchased at a Fender shop. Has a Seymour Duncan humbucker added to Blue.
- Billie mainly plays through a modified Marshall amp. On Nimrod he used a Fender Bassman, a Hiwatt, and a Leslie. The amp he uses on Dookie is most commenly reffered to as the 'pete' amp and can be seen most noticeably at the Woodstock concert, it has 'pete' written across it.