Acoustics, keyboard, a Djembe drum....whatever comes out of those 3 things is usually whats on board.
I bought a computer mic from Target for like $10. Thats all I use to record. Everything is played by me. Dubbed-over tracks. Some songs are only 2, some have up to 8.
Barely much, just local places that have open mic's.
311, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Wookiefoot, Sublime, Jack Johnson, G Love, Slightly Stoopid, and muchisimas mas
Alvarez RF8; Alvarez AD60; Djembe drum 12"; Some cheap old casio keyboard I got for Christmas when I was like 12 or 13, haha.