[Sidebar to article entitled Down the Highway with Hüsker Dü]

by Ed Ward

Bob Mould: "I have a number of mid-70s Ibanez Flying Vs; actually

the Rocket Roll Flying V is what it's called. I use GHS Boomer

Extra-Light strings and Jim Dunlop light picks. I also use a

Washburn acoustic electric, and I've got a Yamaha 12-string

acoustic. As for amps, Yamaha G-100 heads running 4x12s, a

Marshall and a Sonic, both with Celestion speakers, and I slave

those into Fender Concerts with stock JBLs. For effects I have a

Distortion Plus and a Roland SDE-1000 digital delay. That's just

live. The studio is, uh, other things."

Greg Norton: "I play an Ibanez Roadstar Series II RB 940 bass

guitar with a full-scale three-octave neck, and use GHS Boomer

medium-gauge strings. I've got a Peavey Megabass digital bass

head which is used with the Urei L-2 (DLA 48) and those both go

into an SVT cabinet that's got eight 10s in it and a custom-

built Batson cabinet that's got two 15s."

Grant Hart: I have Joe Calato Regal Tip 7A sticks, a variety of

Chinese and Turkish cymbals, Yamaha cymbal stands, a Ludwig

Speed King foot pedal, a 7x14 solid rock maple bentwood snare,

a 9x13 rack-mounted tom, using a Galou rim and a 16x16 floor tom,

and a 24x14 bass drum, and a Yamaha throne and that's about it."