Mick Jones (The Clash) - Musical Equipment

Musical Equipment

Jones' first guitar was a Gibson Les Paul Junior with a P-90 pick-up, which he bought because Johnny Thunders used one. The Junior was his main guitar up until late 1977 early 1978, and after that as a backup and studio-guitar. Around the same time he also owned another Les Paul Junior, all black (formerly red) with a black pick-guard, which got smashed at a gig in 1977. He then switched to the regular Gibson Les Paul and later to Gibson Les Paul Customs.

"My favourites are still the Juniors," he told Gibson.com in 2006. "I had a great Les Paul Standard, a sunburst one. And then I had a black Custom, and a white Custom. And then the big white hollowbody for London Calling. But I still play the Juniors today."

He also occasionally played an Olympic White Fender Stratocaster – for live versions of 'Straight to Hell' – and several Bond Guitars that were donated to him by good friend Andrew Bond, who made the guitars. For effects Jones mainly uses MXR pedals including a Phase 100, a Flanger, an Analog Delay and a Noisegate as well as a Roland chorus or Space Echo effect. During his days with The Clash, Jones used a Marshall Plexi amplifier and occasionally a Fender Twin with a 2x12 cabinet. He later changed to Mesa Boogie amplifier with two Marshall 4x12 cabinets that he used throughout the rest of his career with The Clash.

Jones played a high-tech British-made guitar called the Bond Electraglide with Big Audio Dynamite. He wears it on the cover of No. 10, Upping St..

Live, Jones still occasionally plays a Gibson Les Paul Junior guitar, but with his current band Carbon/Silicon favours a much lighter, black 1972 Fender Thinline Telecaster guitar with its original Fender Wide Range humbucker pick-ups. They are both played through a Fender Blues DeVille valve amplifier. Additional overdrive is provided by an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-9 overdrive pedal.