What guitar does Rivers Cuomo play?

“It was never meant to sound like a Strat, it was always meant to sound like a Gibson with more of a high output!”

“Here's an SG that I had painted white. I originally got it in 2005 when I had this dream that I was playing a white SG.”

“We used this all over Maladroit - it's all that guitar. I just really love the sound of it.”

“I used the Les Paul Junior that I got from Ric Ocasek and played on our first album. I used the same Boogie amp, too.”

“I have a Gibson J-45 acoustic. I do a lot of writing on that.”

“Within a few weeks, I got a white Yamaha Strat copy. That was for my 14th birthday, and I just started practicing and practicing.”

“I just profiled the setup I was using before. It was the Diezel VH4”

“Jake actually went out and found the very rare Mesa/Boogie amp that I used back in the early-mid 90s”

“Modified Marshalls. Sometimes I use Diezels. That's pretty much it.”

“Nowadays I record directly into my lap top. I've got a $25 microphone from Radio Shack. I plug it into my computer and record into a program called Vegas.”

“This thing sounds great for the solo I do in Beverly Hills.”

“I think the moment I was converted to being a metal head, when it really became more than just music, was when I heard Quiet Riot's Metal Health on the radio.”

“That record was exactly what I needed in my junior and senior years of high school. It had a lot of aggression.”