If anyone can add to this, please post a comment We have a good collection of stuff he has reportedly used and currently uses. Surprisingly there is less info out there than one would think. We spent tons of time researching Bruce Springsteen's guitar gear rig and equipment. With a name like that he must have one hell of a guitar rig. Playing with the E Street Band, Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered around his native New Jersey. Not trying to steal anybody's thunder or credit and the Petillos have certainly done their amazing work on Bruce's guitars for many, many years as well as built him some fantastic guitars, but I've seen some of my work for Bruce erroneously credited in the past and just wanted to set the record straight.Bruce Springsteen, is one hell of a singer, songwriter and guitarist. He's certainly added a LOT of natural wear himself over the years and although I did some of the upper strum wear as on his original Esquire most of what you see now is from Bruce and it's cool to see how similar that wear has ended up to look like the Esquire. He also purchased a few new Tele customs and had me reilc those and re-shape the necks to his favored V shape.Īll in all I reconfigured about 10 guitars this way and the one featured in Dave's IG post ended up being one of his favorites. I painted the bodies in colors chosen by Bruce and then relic'd them. They had been using a bunch of '52 reissues since Born In The USA and Kevin told me Bruce lamented that they still looked new, even after all these years of use and Bruce's aggressive playing.įor this project I used all of the original Fender necks which were already re-fretted and re-shaped by Phil, all the original parts, which included, in most cases Barden pickups, but I replaced all of the bodies with better, lighter wood. I asked if Takamine would send me unpainted guitars so I could paint them in lacquer and make them look as authentic as possible but they wanted no part of that so I had to work with their tough as nails finishes.īruce was very happy with the results and when the next album came out he had Kevin contact me again to see if I would relic all of his stage guitars. When Bruce was working on the Seeger Sessions, Kevin, his tech and David from Takamine contacted me to make some of Bruce and Patti's stage acoustics "look old".
If we do, I'll make sure somebody gets a video/recording of it, and I'll post it up here.įWIW, the guitar pictured in that Dave Petillo IG post is a body that I provided, painted and relic'd for Bruce somewhere back around 2006 or '07. My band is the main act, and we'll likely be getting up for a jam/encore to celebrate their band, and do "Thundercrack". We have a gig coming up next weekend, and my brothers are playing their last gig with their current band after running over three years strong. We try and play it true to form, but we only gig as a 5 (or sometimes 6) piece, so we can cover all the bases like what Clarence does on the sax, etc. Not many people know it, even Bruce fans! But it's a killer song, and it showcases his fabulous guitar work in the solos. My brothers and I have a side project apart from our own respective bands, and when we play gigs we cover "Thundercrack", which is a rare sort of B-side from the early days.
He's a great player and clips/recordings/videos of his early stuff really showcase that. Not sure if it's entirely true, but it makes sense. My dad told me years ago that he started out basically as a lead guitarist and was known as such, but he wasn't getting anywhere JUST playing guitar, so he started writing songs.
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