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Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS) Gear...Any Ideas?
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Posted on Aug 31 2009 06:46 PM
Hey, Was just spinning SCOTS " Double Wide and Live".......GREAT disc, with awesome trashy tones and swampy surfabilly playing. I've never caught them live yet, so I'm wondering what Rick uses? Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe a smaller tweed and outboard verb......probably a fuzz.......but that's just guessing. Great stuff! |
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Posted on Aug 31 2009 08:52 PM
I saw them a few years ago and he had a Super and a Tele...couldn't see what he had on the floor. |
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Posted on Aug 31 2009 09:07 PM
i just saw em a couple of months ago. old Dano and it looked like a silverfaced twin from my vantage point. they sounded killer. —Landlocked surf lover |
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Posted on Aug 31 2009 10:13 PM
I've seen pics of him with a green sparkle Duo Jet. |
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Posted on Aug 31 2009 11:35 PM
Looked at my Dirt Track Date CD after reading Zak's post. It doesn't say "exclusively," so that must be on another album. However, the liner notes do say, "Dave Hartman plays Ludwig Drums. Mary Huff plays Silvertone Basses. Rick Miller plays Danelectro Guitars and Supro Amps." Incidentally, the accompanying pics show Rick with a Dano/Silvertone U1. |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 12:46 AM
The guitar player is listed on Hallmark Guitars as an endorsee, he's pictured with a Sweptwing. Also, all I've heard by them is their track on "Halloween Hootenanny," which was killer, but can anyone recommend me some albums to start with? —The Phantomatics on Facebook |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 06:44 AM
could i suggest sampling their tunes on amazon.com or itunes. that way you can get a feel for their music. i personally really enjoy them live and have seen them numerous times but have never purchased a cd by them. their live energy just doesn't translate on to a disc for me. — |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 08:11 AM
Dirt Track Date is a great record, definitely worth getting. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 08:26 AM
That's the only one I have, & Radio Free Bakersfield--60 Minutes of TWANG, CRUNCH, OOMPH. |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 09:25 AM
Seen 'em twice live. First time, Rick played a Gibson Firebird (metallic green) with a single mini humbucker in the bridge position. There was a stompbox on the floor (never determined what it was) , into a Fender Reverb Tank into a Matchless amp. |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 09:30 AM
I would agree to start with Dirt Track Date to get a taste for their thang. http://www.aquatudes.com |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 12:17 PM
I saw them this year. He played a Dano and a Jazzmaster through fender amps, if I remember right. |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 12:24 PM
Rick Miller has an incredibly vast collection of gear. He changes it up almost every tour. The mainstays seem to be the vintage Danelectros, but I've seen him play Jazzmasters, a mosrite, strats and Les Paul Juniors. His pedal board is pretty fluid too. When we were touring with them a lot in the 90s he always had some boutique fuzz or another on his board, but I can't remember what else. Cousin Crispy would be the guy to ask. He could give you the rundown for sure. —The Exotics 1994-Current |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 04:00 PM
I wouldn't know for sure, since ol' Rick gave me the heave-ho before that record was done, but my guess for the amp would either be his Fender Vibro-King, or his hand-wired Vox AC30 thing that the guy who makes Bruno Amps built. That was a big mainstay in his rig in '03 and '04. A long-shot guess would be either his big Silvertone (the same one Jack White uses) into a Fender Reverb Unit, or maybe even his Gretsch Fury--A 70-watt _Monster _Valco amp--but that amps' roar is VERY distinctive--like Link Wray if he were 50 feet tall! Guitars would like be either one of his Danos, in particular a DC model in gold that got left in a water-filled dumpster many years ago, so it now looks like a masonite barnacle. He also loves using one of his Les Paul Juniors alot, either the old TV yellow model, or the refinished one he bought out of the trunk of a car--better known as the "Corn Rocket". He's got lots of other axes, (I once counted 85!) but if he's a-gonna rock HARD, those are his weapons of choice. Pedals? For overdrive/volume boosts Rick liked using a Full Drive 2 a lot, but it always conked out on him, so it could also be a Zvex Super 2 in 1, or a Crowther Hot Cake. Fuzz and Feedback freakouts should be a NY reissue Big Muff. Rick LOVES late 70's Muffs, and the new reissues, according to him, sound just like the originals. One other thing I should mention: One thing I've been told by a few people is that Rick was not happy with a lot of his solos on that night, so there's a bit a post-production work. If that's truly the case, then everything I just said may be moot, as Rick may have tried every guitar in his studio till he got the sounds and leads he wanted. --Crispy |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 04:28 PM
And I see you got the neck pickup in the esquire... |
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Posted on Sep 01 2009 06:09 PM
Is that a P-13 pickup, aka the sweetest tone known to mankind, or merely a Kay speedbump pickup? |
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I'll second mom surfing's comment about them being killer live. BTD has the live CD, maybe he could chime in on whether it captures the energy....
