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Jason White is a U.S. guitarist who has played in many punk rock bands. He is most notable for being a touring guitar player in the band Green Day and guitarist for Californian punk quartet Pinhead Gunpowder. Jason also is in the band Foxboro Hot Tubs along with the other GreenDay members, and has played in many other bands.
Let's take a look at some of the gear and equipment that Jason has been seen using in his guitar rig.

Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend
Guitars - Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway (red)

- Fender butterscotch telecaster w/ white pickguard, rosewood neck, and one pickup (bridge) - seen playing with Foxboro Hot Tubs - Gibson ES-335 guitars (red and black)

- Gibson Les Paul standard

- Gibson R8 Historic Les Paul - Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Custom (3-tone sunburst)

Amps - Custom Audio Electronics CAE 3+ Tube Preamp - Marshall Plexi amplifier heads [appear to be 1959SLPX] (modded with Dookie Mod and SE Lead mod)

Effects - Custom Audio Electronics RS-5 Midi Foot Controller - Dunlop Rack Wah and controller pedal

- Ernie Ball Volume pedal

- Line 6 Echo Pro - Furman Power conditioner

- CAE MXR Boost/Overdrive pedal

- XOTIC RC Booster Overdrive pedal  - RJM RG-16 Guitar Amp Channel Switcher - Boss DD-3 delay pedal

- Boss TU-2
 
- Line 6 DL4

- Ebow

- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power

- Fulltone Full-Drive 2
 
- ISP Decimator pedal
 

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On his guitars shure wireless on his rig mogami head over hear for more info on jasons rig
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all guitars have sh-4's [blue]
les paul jrs have p-90s
signutare has h-90's
[stacked p-90s]
and hollowbodies are stock
P-90 WHAT KIND DOES HE USE FOR THE REST OF HIS GUITARS
but I think boulevard of broken dreams is played acoustic nowadays, or the intro part at least.
Yet: I'm not sure.
Cheerio
the tremolo part is on track... "boulevard of broken dreams" has at least two tracks of hard drive playback (if i remember correctly - there might only be one, but i think there are billie's own vocal harmonies on the second track, to harmonize with himself during the choruses - the first is the tremolo guitar) in addition to a click track.
trust me, you wouldn't want to see that song performed with someone trying to play a monotonous tremolo guitar part live - it would be boring, and billie wouldn't be able to be the showman that he is - face it, billie's ability to entertain (along with his raw talent for songwriting and singing/musicianship) is the reason for green day's longevity - he was a rock star before green day were big - and not in that "rock star" ego way - a "rock star" in that he could command an audience of 1,000 or 100,000 the same way.
jason plays almost all of the guitar live on that song - and you are correct in that it IS billie playing the tremolo part, just not live. billie plays guitar during the choruses and bridge only, if i remember correctly. on the bright side, green day are a good enough band that they don't use much on track at all... and even at that, they use prerecorded bits of music on very few songs - it is virtually impossible to play along to prerecorded music without a click track, and since green day were a wedge-only (well, wedges and sidefills) band in the monitor department band until relatively recently, "american idiot" and "21st century breakdown" are the only albums with material where it would have even been possible to perform live along with prerecorded track... the band didn't use in-ear monitors until the "american idiot" tour. that's not to say that green day couldn't do it - they COULD have another guitarist sitting there playing the same thing over and over again through a tremolo pedal, but you should try tour accounting on a tour with hired musicians sometime before you suggest that as an option - i'm saying this preemptively because people have suggested that it's not "real" if you use track: prerecorded music doesn't need insurance, it doesn't need a seat on a plane, it doesn't need a bunk on a bus, a hotel room, a guitar tech, a salary or per diem (for both the musician AND the tech), an extra security guy (and more insurance for that person), and it doesn't have an ego. that's why we in the touring world prefer track to hired musicians.
besides, green day's use of prerecorded music is minimal, as opposed to, say, blink 182 - who have a pro tools engineer (who is fantastic at what he does) offstage running a significant amount of prerecorded music... or u2 - who have someone playing keyboards offstage variously AND a lot on track... or just about any artist on a big tour today. it's just not worth it to hire that many people. at least green day hired enough people to play the vast majority of their music live.
fyi.
i was wondering what Jason White uses live for the eq /AM radio effect he uses in American Idiot and a bunch of other tunes from the American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums?
Thanks,
Thano