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Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. The history of Marshall: the illustrated story of "the sound of rock". ↑ "Making Our December 2008 Cover - Billy Gibbons".Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. "Inquirer: Billy Gibbons - Guitar World". "The Story Behind ZZ Top's Spinning Fur Guitars". These include Gibbons inspired picks, strings, and slides. Īt the 2010 Winter NAMM show, Dunlop Manufacturing and Gibbons unveiled a new line of guitar accessories, Rev.
Other Fenders he has used include a Fender Bassman and Fender Tweed Deluxe. Gibbons has a large collection of vintage Fender amplifiers (his first amp was a Fender Champ), and collects Fender Dual Professionals. Recently, his live touring rack consists of the JMP-1 Preamp, combined with power amps like the Valvestate 120 or the 9200 model. designed a sound that still resonates today." Īlong with the Super Leads, he has used a variety of Marshall's products, including the JCM 900 Dual Reverb, Bluesbreaker, JTM45, Major, and Lead 12. "I would say that it was the '59 Gibson Les Paul, better known now as 'Pearly Gates', plugged into a hundred-watt Marshall. According to an interview with music retailer Musician's Friend in 2008, Gibbons stated the importance of the Marshall Super Lead in ZZ Top's sound: Gibbons' sound is based on a 100-watt Marshall Super Lead made in 1968. Billy has used these pickups live for the past decade. Gibbons has worked with Thomas Nilsen of Cream T Pickups to create the BFG Banger Humbucker Pickup. I defy any other instrument, besides these odd-ball things, to get that crazy." According to Gibbons, "It really shines on Mescalero because of that dirty, raunchy tone. For Mescalero, Gibbons also relied heavily on Ulrich Teuffel's futuristic Birdfish guitar, claiming it was second only to his 1959 Les Paul Sunburst Standard, "Pearly Gates". The use of this guitar (beginning with the 2003 ZZ Top album Mescalero) inspired a signature production model, the "Gretsch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird". He has also used an extremely rare "Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird" given to him by Bo Diddley. During his stint in the Moving Sidewalks, Gibbons used a white 1963 Fender Jazzmaster and Fender Esquire. Īlong with Gibson, Gibbons is also known for playing various Fender guitars. This guitar has become the foundation/benchmark of every ZZ Top album since the group formed in 1969. The guitar was named "Pearly Gates", a name taken from the dangerous-to-drive, rolling-wreck auto that he sold for the money to buy the guitar. In 1968 Gibbons acquired the instrument most associated with the sound and style of ZZ Top, when he purchased a sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar from a farmer in Houston, Texas for $250. His first guitar was a sunburst 1962 Gibson Melody Maker. Gibbons' choice of electric guitars has primarily been Gibson.