Pedalboard of The Church’s Peter Koppes 2015

Way back in 1988, The Church released the album, Starfish. Under the Milky Way was the hit single from that album and it was a great song. That was my first introduction to the Australian based band. Shortly after this time, a friend of mine let me know that was their first album (as I originally thought), but they in fact had a few (4 albums) previously. And down The Church rabbit hole I went. Their older stuff was incredible, and in 1990 I had the opportunity to see them live, and they blew my mind. That was tour supporting their album – Gold Afternoon Fix.

I was just learning guitar. Just getting into chords, and playing with horrible sounding gear, wondering how my heroes achieve that level of play. When I saw The Church in 1990, I had great seats, and was directly in front of Peter Koppes – and he blew my mind. Hopefully, if all goes as planned this year, I’ll be seeing The Church in Seattle for the first time since 1990!

Yesterday, I saw some great live photos come through The Church’s Facebook page. I ended up on Flickr where I found a couple of great shots of Peter Koppes’ pedalboard of this current 2015 tour and wanted to do a break down. I contacted Tim Grime of Tim Grime Photography and he was incredibly kind and gracious for allowing me to repost these photos. Please check out his other great photos!

Here is a shot from The Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 7/16/2015

I noticed an additional pedal off board on this photo: Prince of Wales, Bunbury 7/17/2015

Here is a break down of pedals for Peter Koppes’ 2015 pedalboard:

Boss DM-2 Delay
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
Boss OD-1 Overdrive
Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer
Whirlwind A/B Selector
Boss CS-3 Compressor
Boss TU-2 Tuner
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Boss RT-20 Rotary Ensemble
Tech 21 NYC Sans Amp Bass Driver DI
Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb

Are you a fan of The Church? Let me know what you think by commenting below. Do you see any mis-identified pedals? Please let me know. Again, I would like to thank Tim Grime for the use of the photos!