Mike Rutherford Acting Very Strange equipment

Acting Very Strange was released on 10 September 1982 as Mike Rutherford's second solo album. The album is comparatively rockier than its predecessor Smallcreep's Day and Mike takes on vocal duties for the first time.

Very few technical details available relating to this record have surfaced so far, so a rough approximation of the gear used is included based on existing reports.

In terms of drums, it was previously thought Stewart Copeland played all the drums and Pete Phipps programmed the Linn drum machine (called "The Linn"). But the LP credits have been written in a way to imply that "The Linn" is one of the drummers on the album. Pete revealed in a private email conversation that he didn't program the Linn, which further supports that. So drumming duties were shared between them on the album - Stewart doing two tracks and Pete playing the rest.

Mike Rutherford
Guitars
 * Gibson SG(?)
 * 1975 Fender Stratocaster USA sunburst
 * Ibanez Artist 2622
 * Roland GS-500

Basses
 * Alembic Series I

Synthesizers
 * Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer - e.g. "Halfway There" and "I Don't Wanna Know"

Stewart Copeland (drums)

 * TAMA Imperialstar drums
 * Pearl chrome snare
 * Paiste assorted Formula 602 and 2002 series cymbals

Source: Jeff Seitz, various

Pete Phipps (drums)

 * Sonor Sonorphonic drum kit
 * Paiste cymbals