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[Structo]

Billy G that is.

I caught this video this morning and I noticed that Billy has Magnatone amps on stage now.

So they no longer are endorsers of Crate?:roll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uZinAmZtJg

[randalp3000]

Here's his rig rundown from last year I think. Marshall JMP 1 and Marshall power amps, also a Mojave Scorpion in his rack (around 12 minutes in).

One crazy part at around 8 minutes, they run Pearly Gates through some kind of spectrum analyzer/modeling device and eq all his guitar so sound like Pearly.

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/R ... ons_ZZ_Top

[sliberty]

Hmmmmm....guitar modeling of a sort.

[Leo_Gnardo]

they run Pearly Gates through some kind of spectrum analyzer/modeling device and eq all his guitar so sound like Pearly.

Heck all I do is put Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickups in & then I can't stop playing ZZ licks. That would be too simple, wooden it.

[M Fowler]

Tom

Yup if you watched the videos in the very first Magnatone post it shows the EL34 Magnatone amp Billy G. was involved with. The videoyou posted Tom I've seen before and it sounds terrible

I have Fender Lone Star Strat with Pearly Gates pup.

[Structo]

Yeah I didn't care for the recording either.

I know he runs all rack gear and his tech switches effects.

I was just commenting on the stage presence of the Magnatone amps.

As before he had all huge Crate amps on stage.

[LeeMo]

And they had Orange before that. It's an empty box. A billboard of sorts. Product placement.
I saw them in 1971 -72 when they used Marshalls re-boxed as Rio Grande.

LeeMo

[Structo]

I saw them around 1973 and if I recall correctly they had gold tuck and roll amps (Kustom?) and each head had steer horns mounted on them.

[Leo_Gnardo]

And they had Orange before that. It's an empty box. A billboard of sorts. Product placement.
I saw them in 1971 -72 when they used Marshalls re-boxed as Rio Grande.

I'm with you LeeMo. Saw ZZ 1986 in Providence RI. Awesome show BUT no backline at all! Billy's Marshall half stack was in a "corral" backstage, and below, on the arena floor. The band either got their sounds thru monitors slung under the stage, under steel-screen panels or in-ear wireless.

I'm sure these guys can make some extra beer money with product placements if they were in a mind to do so. I figure they've got enough - but you know how it is in the music biz - there's NEVER enough $$$ for management.

[Reeltarded]

were 70 and theyre 90 please zz middle go home

yes a new twist on typing shiz called unpunctuate

[vibratoking]

The live side of Fandango was the pinnacle of BFG's live sound. Big, fat, meaty sustain...big fucking balls! BTW, the remix sucks. Avoid it at all costs. The original is the shit. His live sound has been all downhill since then. The preamp crap doesn't do it for me. I've heard it live quite a few times. I wish he would go back to the good shit, but I think he sticks with the pre to get the crappy washed out tones from everything they did after Deguello. I think the majority of their fans want to hear Eliminator and newer. Legs... shocked and gagged.

[Phazor]

Saw ZZ I believe in 1970 in Boulder at Tulagi's. They each had a Marshall. Billy's was a 1959T with Tremelo. and they brought their own PA which had 2 Kustom Tuck/roll speaker colums and Kustom 4/6input PA head and a shure 6 channel mixer for the drum mics. The sound and performance was stunning. Saw them another time at tulagi's and then a club in town call DJ's I think. Anyway the next time was for Rio Grande Mud Time period and they had the Cattle Horn Cream colored Marshalls 3 each at the Coliseum.

I recorded them at Red Rocks later (that was use in a beer commercial) about the time of Eliminator. I had a contract with Feline Presents and TTS production back then. After the change to Rack guitar systems, it was never the same sound. The Staging got to be 4 semi trailers worth of equipment but the stage sound to me was never the same as those 100W marshall years.

I have all the old albums. The 1st 2nd, 3rd, had such a tight dry sound. I hated the remix/remastered Compilation CD's that added Dig Verb and effects and just ruined that tight sound they had on Records. This Video sound is bad and sounds like a direct of the PA which is a reference but never like a mix for a CD. Anyway they will always have a place on my record shelf. One last note. When Analog Tape left and Digital recording came in, that marshall driven sound got brittle and was never the same for me. I found most distorted guitar is so touchy Peaky, and I think that kind of music just isn't as pleasant as it use to be when you had that analog tape smear of the Hi Freq on the Guitars. They just didn't bite at your ears.

I have a moto, "Never Turn your back on Digital" applies to Dig Guitar gear as well as Digital Recording.