He has also appeared playing a black and white Rickenbacker (such as the one in the ``Last Nite'' video), a Music Man Sterling (such as the one in the ``Juicebox'' video) and a Fender Precision Bass (seen as his backup bass during live performances). He uses an Ampeg SVT Classic amp for most live work and has an artist page on Ampeg's website. Although Julian is the main song-writer for The Strokes, Nikolai has contributed to the songwriting process as well. He's co-written the song ``Killing Lies'' on First Impressions Of Earth and earned his first full songwriting credit on Angles where he wrote the song ``You're So Right''.
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