Modest Mouse selling vintage music gear from frontman Isaac Brock’s collection on Reverb
nme.comModest Mouse are selling vintage music gear on Reverb, including Moog synthesisers, a Korg drum machine, a Soursound Audio Custom Amp head, and old Soviet-era equipment.In a video posted on Reverb’s YouTube channel, frontman Issac Brock admits that he has a habit of stocking up on maybe too much gear, which often gets unused, and now he’s getting rid of over 500 pieces from his massive collection.The shop launches on September 5, and its description online says that some of this gear has been around the world with Modest Mouse – which now “they’re passing on” to their fans.Speaking about how he managed to build up such a big collection, Brock said: “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.”In the video, Brock said: “A large part of why I decided to clear out some stuff that I even like is because I have option fatigue.
If I get interest in something, I get way too interested for a short amount of time. So I ended up buying every shitty drum machine I could possibly find.”The Modest Mouse Reverb store will feature a Moog Mother-32 and Arp Odyssey, several Fender amplifiers, rare pedals such as the Electro-Harmonix Rhythm-12 and an original MIJ Boss Chorus Ensemble, along with a 50-watt Soursound Audio Custom Amp head, complete with a road case.Additionally, Modest Mouse is also unpacking three gold Telefunken M80 microphones from various of the band’s tours, Soviet-era items such as a Polivoks Polyvox and two Lell UDS Soviet.
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