Comment of the Moment: Larry Cragg - The Welder

The Comment of the Moment on Larry Cragg: The Welder from Anonymous:

"Neil predominantly used Old Black (a Gold Top painted black) on the Weld tour. He also used 2 other Gold Tops, not painted, 1 is an exact replica of Old Black (bigsby, firebird pick-up)...which he used on the more chunkier songs...Old Blacks Firebird pick-up is unique as it is extremely microphinic. The 3rd guitar is a gold-top, but the original P-90's remained. Check out the cover of Weld, as well as watch the video and you'll see Old Black. It's not neccesarily the guitar itself that gets that crazy tone. It's the firebird bridge pick-up, with his 50's Fender Deluxe on 11. Guitars and amps back then all had minds of their own. He just "happened" upon that sound out of an extremely lucky combination of equipment. All his other effects are really pretty primitive, although even to this day the Whizzer still remains very state of the art."

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