nick
Watched him on Saturday, brilliant showman!
He was playing a DrZ head into a weird home made plywood looking cab. Main guitar used was his Sunburst 1960 Fender Custom Shop relic with his Yellow Fender 57 re-issue for slide. Notice Matta's Fuzzilla 8)
singemonkey
Awesome! Fuzzilla in the wild! Did you hear him use it Nick?
What are all the other pedals? I don't recognise them all.
bloukie
Nick, you must've been quite excited about that little perspex jobbie I see Dan has acquired of late. Having been on the immediate receiving end of Dan's set-up, it will certainly take the heat out of the front row, hehe!
By the way what venue is that in the pic - Farmhouse Scarborough?
nick
singemonkey wrote:
Awesome! Fuzzilla in the wild! Did you hear him use it Nick?
What are all the other pedals? I don't recognise them all.
Im sure he used it but I have to be honest and say Im not sure what it sounds like so cant tell on which songs he used it ? He did go through this holding the guitar facing him and fretting notes without strumming and somehow staying in tune and actually playing a melody and a Fuzz pedal usually has the sustain option which means it'll just ring constantly so it could've been during that ?
Besides the Fuzzilla, is the blue pedal in the bottom left of the board not a MI Audio Blue Boy?
nick
bloukie wrote:
Nick, you must've been quite excited about that little perspex jobbie I see Dan has acquired of late. Having been on the immediate receiving end of Dan's set-up, it will certainly take the heat out of the front row, hehe!
By the way what venue is that in the pic - Farmhouse Scarborough?
He did play loud but it wasnt overbearing at all so Im sure the perspex screen saved the front guys their hearing ?
Yeh, Scarborough farm house. We got there a bit late but the man played for about 2 and a half hours ?
AlanRatcliffe
I must get one of those "guitar rack in a case" jobbies for gigging - would save major space. Anyone know what brand they are?
Also is that a Beyer mic I spy on the guitar amp?
singemonkey
The black pedal's a TC Electronics boost reverb? What's the silver jobbie.
I also think the rack box is neat. ?
AndrewD
The cab is a copy (minus the amp section) of his old 59 Bassman RI.
It houses the 4x10's that come out of it.
Wah is some american boutique thing bought form a studio (can't remember who made it)
There is blue boy deluxe as far as I can remember
Keeley compressor is on there too.
Pedal board/guitar stand is a gator case g-gig. (I think)
Vick
AndrewD wrote:
The cab is a copy (minus the amp section) of his old 59 Bassman RI.
It houses the 4x10's that come out of it.
Wah is some american boutique thing bought form a studio (can't remember who made it)
There is blue boy deluxe as far as I can remember
Keeley compressor is on there too.
Pedal board/guitar stand is a gator case g-gig. (I think)
Wah is a real maccoy....and I think its the RCM1 model ?
makepeace
singemonkey wrote:
The black pedal's a TC Electronics boost reverb? What's the silver jobbie.
Actually its Tech 21 ?
singemonkey
Sorry. What I meant. What's wrong with me this morning? O_o
kayDUB
Cool stuff!
blue one looks like the MI audio blues pro
+1 on the keeley comp - silver box
Banditman
+1 on the wah, Tech 21, MI Blues Pro & Keeley compressor.
When he played East London the only difference from that pedalboard pic was an MI Audio G.I. Fuzz.
MIKA-the-better-one
Guys you are all SLACKING!!!! shame on you................ The blue one is a MI Audio Blues PRO version 3.......................
matta
Yip, Dan replaced the G.I Fuzz with my Fuzzsilla and says he couldn't be happier. He shared the G.I Fuzz just had way too much gain, and very little Fuzz variance, unlike Fuzzsilla, which he shares can go from light drive to hair fuzz across the throw of Fuzz pot.
Cheers
Matt
Banditman wrote:
+1 on the wah, Tech 21, MI Blues Pro & Keeley compressor.
When he played East London the only difference from that pedalboard pic was an MI Audio G.I. Fuzz.
singemonkey
One thing I don't get is why someone who plays that often would buy distressed guitars. You'd think his guitars would wear in all by themselves and would get a chance to look like that anyway after a few years.
bloukie
Singe, nothing against Dan or Pebbleman Pryor (who is also playing a relic these days), but I don't get this current relic trend at all - and I don't care in whose hand the relic is. Is old and battered really better?
Of course, there is no better time than now to sell that old Strat that you once surfed down the steps at 3 'o clock in the morning when you accidently mistook for your skateboard..... :?
AlanRatcliffe
Granted, relics are not for everybody (certainly not for me), but I can see the attraction. Done properly, they feel and look like a well played in guitar without any of the uncertainty you get with a real vintage model that is likely too fragile and certainly too valuable to gig. No worries with the odd occasional knock or scrape either - you can immediately relax and start playing the damn thing without having to baby it.
AndrewD
Apparently due to patent issues - Fender is kinda stuck using old tech to construct their guitars so it's a marketing ploy - "old is cool" and it's worked.
I love the look of an old well used guitar - whether i'd buy one that's been "pre-aged" is another story.
singemonkey
But my specific question is about a regular gigging guitar player. For a lot of people their guitar will never get to that point in a lifetime of use. But if you're hauling your strat everywhere for years on end, it's going to come out like this anyway - without being a valuable vintage instrument (unless something changes dramatically, the beginning of the '80s marks the end of "vintage" instruments - no one pays more for an '85 Strat because it's "vintage.")
I've had my latest guitar for less than a year, and already it looks quite different to when it was new - and it's only played one gig so far. Ten years of hard playing, and it'd look a lot like a distressed guitar. It's like, I could see the point of buying distressed jeans if you had five pairs, only wore jeans occasionally, and thus only wear any one pair about six times a year. But if like me, you tend to wear the same pair a lot, there's no point. They become "distressed" pretty damn quickly on their own.
