| Jamie Robert Cook | |
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| Birth name | Jamie Cook[1] |
| Born | 8 July 1985 High Green, Sheffield, England |
| Genres | Indie rock,[2][3][4] post-punk revival, psychedelic rock, garage rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Labels | Domino |
| Notable instruments | |
| Fender Telecaster Gibson ES-335 Fender Starcaster Fender Telecaster Custom |
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Jamie Robert Cook (born 8 July 1985, Sheffield, England) is the lead guitarist for the British indie rock[2][3][4] band Arctic Monkeys. He is the most outspoken member, going on record as saying he "fucking hates the [print] news" and defending the band's numerous successive records by saying, "I couldn’t see us being like Coldplay, it’d just be fucking boring. You tour your album for three years and play the same fucking gig night after night. It must really be depressing. Some people might enjoy doing that, but we couldn't.".[5]
Despite leaving home, Cook has maintained residence in the Sheffield area along with fellow band member, Helders.[6] He has been described as "the bullishly confident blue-collar lad [of the group]".[7]
At the start, Cook would join Matt Helders in backing vocals for songs such as Fake Tales of San Francisco, but has gradually shied away from singing duties, leaving them to the other 3 members of the group.
Cook is also considered to be the "indie music fanatic" of the group. Armed with the likes of musical tastes for bands such as The Smiths, The Strokes, Oasis, and Queens of the Stone Age, Cook supposedly turned the band into what it is today.[8]
He attended Ecclesfield School Specialist in Visual and Performing Arts in Ecclesfield.
During the first album, Cook's setup was fairly simple. His main guitar was a Fender Telecaster 62 reissue. His pedals were an MXR Distortion +, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, Electro-Harmonix Pulsar and, at least for a while, he could be seen using a T-Rex Dr. Swamp twin distortion pedal. He also had a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner. His amplifier was a Hiwatt Custom 50-Watt 2×12 Combo.
From the second album onwards, he has had quite an elaborate pedalboard. The pedals used have almost changed altogether. He stuck to his MXR Distortion +, and has added an Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Electro-Harmonix Pulsar Tremolo, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, a Boss LS-2 Line Selector, a Guyatone sustain and an expression pedal for the HOG all this was changed to an Ernie Ball volume/pan pedal, which can be seen used when playing the Arctic Monkeys song "Nettles" live. His main guitar is now a Gibson ES-335TD from 1975. He has been seen using several different Bad Cat amplifiers, including a Bad Cat Hot Cat 30 R, in addition to his Hiwatt amplifiers, on the 4th album Suck it and See a Rosewell Bluesman 30 and a Audio Kitchen Big Chopper was used.
More recently, in the Australia and New Zealand tour, Cook has been using a Fender Starcaster. Another interesting point is that his Gibson 335TD has been changed from a Frequensator tailpiece to a Bigsby. His pedalboard has changed quite considerably since the Favourite Worst Nightmare tour. It now consists of an Electro-Harmonix Pulsar (without stereo), Electro-Harmonix Memory Man, Boss RE-20, Boss TU-2, Death By Audio Fuzz Gun, Z.Vex Super Duper, Fulltone OCD, Demeter Fuzzlator, Boss LS-2, Ernie Ball VP Junior and a Electro-Harmonix Hum Debugger.
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