The Sleeve Condition is Very Good Plus This sleeve may have light wear on the edges or minor sleeve splits, it may have very light visible circle wear or light wear and some minor creasing. The label on the disk is likely to have minor wear and possibly writing on the label. When playing some surface noise may be evident, especially in the quiet soft passages and during the intro and fade, but the surface noise will not overpower the sound. About this Item The item format is a vinyl 7" uk, 1984, Format:Vinyl,7",45 RPM,Single,Blue Injection Mould Label The Artist Name is ZZ Top The Title is Sharp Dressed Man The Catalog Number is W9576 Condition Used Other Comments The Media Condition is Very Good Plus Visually this disk may have light-visible wear, marks, and or hairlines. If you want to learn from a master about how to get those kinds of sounds, it's a must-read, IMO.Item: 385570836403 ZZ Top - scharf gekleideter Mann - gebrauchte Vinyl-Schallplatte 7 - J5826A. To try to get in the ballpark of this type of sound on steel, I'd probably dig out a Boogie or maybe my Laney AOR-50, set it heavy crunch, maybe use my Zum U12 with Lawrence 912 or Emmons SKH with Lawrence 705, and then adjust the amp controls to suit and pick pretty hard to get some pick harmonics.īTW - that thread on the REP forum with Terry Manning is great, thanks Jon. Of course, there may have been some effects used, but to me the essence of that sound is the guitar/pickup combination into the seriously cranked up amp. That's mostly single-note stuff - chords give a pretty smooth distortion sound with a lot of high-midrange presence. There's a clip on "Sounds" called "Brighter Days" by Patrick Drony that gives a pretty good idea what the bridge pickup sounds like in a Les Paul through a high-gain amp. There weren't a lot of choices for high-output humbuckers then, and so were heavily used on a lot of 70s and 80s hard rock - click "Humbuckers", "High Output", and then "Super Distortion". I think the Dimarzio Super Distortions are important for that kind of sound also - they're ceramic magnets, wound pretty hot, but have a pretty smooth sound. I believe they started getting a rep for some reliability problems, but the ones I played sounded pretty good for that kind of thing. I've played some Legend amps - they were going for a Boogie type of sound and look, right down to the hardwood cabinets and wicker grills - pretty gnarly but the sound held together pretty well. That makes sense - it's a different sound than his earlier material, which revolved heavily around his '59 Les Paul "Pearly Gates" and some old Strats into old tweed amps and modified Marshalls. So it was some early Dean guitars with a single Dimarzio Super Distortion pickup through a 50-watt Legend amp with a tube preamp and solid-state output section. Billy has the first one mentioned, and he gave me the latter, which I still have. These guitars were very live, very resonant, and would verge on resonant feedback at all times they were also very hard to keep in tune because of this. I don't think there is even a tone control.what would you need one for? They have big, heavy, brass bridge/tail pieces bolted into the body. Both guitars had a single DiMarzio Super Distortion high output pickup, and almost no controls. One was somewhat like a cross between a Flying-V and a Moderne shape, very long "ears," and the other was a sort of a warped, pointy Stratocaster-y shape. But the ones we used were very nicely made. ![]() Subsequently however, they got a contract with Sears to make guitars, so they opted for the big bucks, Korean manufactured, low end market instead. They were very nice, albeit different, instruments. Dean were out of Chicago, and were trying to break into the high end (a la Jackson, PRS) market. A couple of years ago I plugged one of the Eliminator guitars into it, just to see.there was the sound! Legend were later bought by, or at least distributed by, Gibson, but they were independent when we started using them. ![]() ![]() This is the amp which has a finished wood case, and a rattan-type cane grill. ![]() This was about a 50 watt hybrid unit, employing a tube/valve preamp, and a transistor power amp. The amp used, almost exclusively, on Eliminator was a Legend. Terry Manning laid out the equipment details for the Eliminator LP on the second page of the link Jon Moen posted earlier. The reeded (grooved) edge is good for generating pick harmonics. Yes - Billy has long talked about using a Mexican peso.
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