Equipment purged from the indie rock linchpin’s personal collection will include a Dave Smith Prophet 12, Formanta Polivoks and gold Telefunken M80 microphones.
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has announced plans to relaunch his official Reverb store for a sale boasting over 500 items of musical equipment culled from his personal collection.
From September 5th the American indie rock linchpin’s online store will present a wide-ranging inventory of items amassed over the course of his three-decades long musical career, ranging from synthesizers and effects pedals to guitar amplifiers, microphones, band memorabilia and more.
Among the wealth of items slated to be up for grabs are a Dave Smith Prophet 12 polyphonic synthesizer, a Roger Linn Linnstrument MIDI controller, a Soviet-era Formanta Polivoks duophonic analog synthesizer, three gold Telefunken M80 microphones used during previous Modest Mouse tours and various vintage drum machines including a Gibson Maestro MRQ-1, KORG MiniPops 35 and Roland CR-78.
Brock reflects in conversation with Reverb,
“I would go down to the music store, and I would just buy anything that looked interesting to me… 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.”
View Reverb’s video conversation with Brock below and sign up for access to the Modest Mouse Reverb store here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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