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Guitarist, singer, and Silversun’s co-founder Brian Aubert’s main squeeze onstage (and for most of the band’s early career) is this 1994 Epiphone Sheraton. At the band’s beginning, Aubert was using a Jazzmaster reissue but found it to be too temperamental for him, so he “took” this beauty from the band’s drummer Christopher Guanlao. He swapped out the original pickups for a set of Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbuckers. He has played this Sheraton so long that while rehearsing for their latest album, Better Nature, he asked Guanlao if he should buy it off him, and his friend said, “It’s already yours.” The crew and band have named all their instruments after James Bond characters and Aubert’s collection all don the actors’ names that played 007. This one is called “Daniel Craig”-his favorite Bond. All of his guitars are strung up with Ernie Ball Beefy Slinkys that are .011-.054.
Starting out on the Fender P bass, Nikki was never quite satisfied with her tone until taking a Gibson Thunderbird for a ride and enjoying its power and sustain. Her No. 1 is a ’90s model that is completely stock except the Thunderbird logo was converted into a giraffe for Nikki. This one is named after the Bond character Pussy Galore. This one is in standard tuning and all her 4-strings are equipped with Ernie Ball Slinky .050-.105 strings.
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