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Full Bass, half-ish Mid and NO TREBLE ! Pretty much the exact opposite of what I use and we must ask ourselves "Which one of us is the multi-multi-millionaire-guitar-God?" LOL! Magnatone Amps Are Back, and ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons Is Rolling Out the Red Carpet. Who here doesn't? But to make all his stage guitars sound exactly like Pearly? Why? Why not just use one of his Pearly re-issues for the whole set? OK.
I can fully appreciate how he can adore vintage instruments.
Why bother to change guitars if you then electronically dial them in to sound exactly alike? Makes absolutely no sense at all! Yes! That was the bit I really didn't understand at all. Dealer Locator Online Dealers Dealer Resource Center. That was the bit where I nearly fell over. Virtual Guitar Tech Store Policies Support FAQ. Dear Guitar Hero features interviews with a broad range of celebrity guitarists, from such rock legends as Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Ace Frehley, and Billy Gibbons to such superstar shredders as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Paul Gilbert to such heroes of the modern rock world as Dave Grohl, Jerry Cantrell, and Warren Haynes. Rig Diagram: Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top (2003) From the archives: the guitars, amps and pedals of Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top (2003) By. Hi Pippy! It was about the strange phenomenon whereby Billy Gibbons sounds like Billy Gibbons whether he's playing the Pearly Gates, a Billy Bo covered in fur or a Fender Telecaster, wasn't it? Or rather that his Telecaster sounds like the Pearly Gates, because he doesn't want anybody to know he's playing a Telecaster.