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Jim Adkins
Jimmy Eat World's singer and guitarist. On Bleed American he played a Gibson Les Paul Studio through a 1979 Marshall JMP Super Lead, locked in with Tom Linton's SG and Orange AD140, a Marshall-against-Orange pairing that gave The Middle its interlocking riff. For solos he goes small: by his own account most of them are a guitar into a Fender Champ and an SM57.
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