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David's equipment technician
and expert, Phil Taylor, has been kind enough to answer
some of your questions, which are shown below.
— Yes. David has the one which carries the 0001
plate. He used it at the Fender Strat Pack concert.
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| — He used
a Les Paul on several tracks on the On An
Island album, as well as various Fender
Strats, a Gretsch Duo Jet (left), several acoustic
and lap steel guitars. |
— It's a strobe tuner, which shows that a particular
guitar string is in tune when the designated line
on the strobe is static, rather than moving forward
or backwards.
— No. The Wall Les Paul on which he played,
amongst other things, the solo in Another Brick
In The Wall (Part Two) was an all gold –
not a '59, which he still has and uses. He has been
using a '56 Les Paul Gold Top with a Bigsby tremolo
on it for this project as well – very similar,
but with the addition of a tremolo arm.
— Pigs was only played live on the '77
tour. I cannot now remember why it was not used live
– I remember David recording the part in the
studio. But you are correct; it is the same effect
as used on Keep Talking. The effect is not
a vocoder but a Voice Box – where the
guitar signal is routed from the amp output into a
small compression driver (speaker) and then out through
a plastic tube which is attached to the mic stand
and is placed alongside the vocal mic. The tube is
placed in the mouth and manipulated to produce changes
in the sound – which are then picked up by the
vocal mic. |
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