On September 5, Modest Mouse will open a Reverb shop with over 500 items from their long career.
Isaac Brock has collected lots of rare and special gear over the years but now wants to sell some duplicates and things he doesn’t use much. In the shop, you’ll find a Moog Mother-32, an Arp Odyssey, several Fender amps, rare pedals like the Electro-Harmonix Rhythm-12 and an original MIJ Boss Chorus Ensemble, plus a 50-watt Soursound Audio Custom Amp head with its road case. Check out Brock talking about these pieces in the video below.
"I would go down to the music store, and I would just buy anything that looked interesting to me," Brock says in the video when discussing how he acquired his massive collection. "I could just take it back or resell it, but then I wouldn’t do that—I would be like, eh—you’ll have a purpose someday. I’d kind of panic that if I didn’t have a whole bunch of new gadgets and tools to work with, I was gonna make the same songs."
Fans sometimes think musicians’ collections are endless.
Besides what’s already mentioned, he’s also selling three gold Telefunken M80 microphones from different tours, Soviet-era gear like a Polivoks Polyvox and two Lell UDS Soviet Analog Drum Synthesizers. There’s also Modest Mouse merch available along with stadium seats from a 1956 Elvis concert and even a Moog Voyager XL which Brock calls “too nice for me.”
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