On September 5, Modest Mouse will launch a Reverb shop featuring over 500 pieces of gear and memorabilia from their three-decade career. Frontman Isaac Brock has been amassing rare and highly specialized equipment for years, and has decided to pare things down a bit, selling off duplicates as well as items he seldom uses.
The Modest Mouse Reverb store will include a Moog Mother-32 and Arp Odyssey, several Fender amplifiers, rare pedals like the Electro-Harmonix Rhythm-12 and an original MIJ Boss Chorus Ensemble, and a 50-watt Soursound Audio Custom Amp head, complete with road case. Watch Brock discuss more of the pieces featured in the Reverb shop in the clip 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.”
In addition to the aforementioned equipment, Brock is also unloading three gold Telefunken M80 microphones from various Modest Mouse tours, Soviet-era gear like a Polivoks Polyvox and two Lell UDS Soviet Analog Drum Synthesizer, Modest Mouse merch, stadium seats from a 1956 Elvis concert, and a Moog Voyager XL, which Brock refers to in the video as “too nice for me.”
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