Billie Joe Armstrong’s Divided by 13 FTR 37

During the sessions for Revolution Radio (2016), Billie Joe mentioned that he ran a Rickenbacker 360 through a Divided by 13 amp head. He said this in an interview with Guitar Player, noting that the Divided by 13 gave him the kind of punchy rhythm sound he was looking for. The amp sat alongside his other staples, his old Park head and his Marshalls, and was used when he needed something with a bit more character in the midrange.

Another underlying thing on a lot of parts is a Rickenbacker 360—like the ones Peter Case and Peter Buck use—through a Divided By 13 head. Those guitars are so punchy. I was going for something that was in between Paul Weller, Steve Jones, and Johnny Thunders, while still trying to find my own sound. And then, for a bigger, more heavy sound, I’d run a Les Paul through one of my Marshalls.

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Armstrong didn’t go into detail about which exact model he used, but it was most likely an FTR 37 model.

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