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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: TwilightOdyssey on September 14, 2007, 03:14:51 PM
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LED ZEPPELIN To Rock With Sound Of Craftsman's Guitars
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 at 09:40:17 EST
The following report is courtesy of Thisisexeter.co.uk:
Exeter music-making master Hugh Manson and his world-famous guitars are set to be stars in the biggest and most eagerly awaited rock reunion for years.
LED ZEPPELIN, the heavy metal super group which formally disbanded amid tragedy 27 years ago, are coming back together for a one-off concert at London's cavernous O2 Arena, and many of the instruments they will be using for the massive gig will come from Mansons Guitars, of Fore Street.
Hugh, who has worked with and for the band for over 25 years, will be at the concert looking after the instruments along with one of his top Exeter technicians, Seth Baccus, the Fore Street shop manager.
Hugh, who makes his one-off guitars at his workshop just outside Sandford, near Crediton, has been a regular at Led Zeppelin's secret rehearsal venue in London during the build-up to the sell-out concert. The band will perform together for the first time in 19 years in tribute to the late founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun, who signed the band in 1968.
The group's three original members - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones - will headline the November 26 concert, with late drummer John Bonham's son, Jason, on drums.
Hugh, who at 53 can remember Led Zeppelin from the first time around, said: "It is going to be absolutely fantastic. Rehearsals have been hard work but great fun.
"I have just finished making one new guitar for the concert and am now working on another, which will be a spare. It is a four-string bass which is extra long - at least that is the best way to describe it.
"Some of the songs will be in a lower key than usual and, while you can tune a guitar to accommodate almost any note, the best way is to make an instrument to do the job - and that's what this is.
"In fact, all the basses used by the band in the concert will be ours."
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"Some of the songs will be in a lower key than usual...."
Sounds like Percy's losing his voice then...
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"Some of the songs will be in a lower key than usual...."
Sounds like Percy's losing his voice then...
Not necessarily.
Your vocal chords are like any muscle, however, and they get less flexible with age, just like the other muscles in your body.
Regular, proper training can help (look at Lena Horn) prolong the process, but it's inevitable that those high parts will be the first to go. Plant never had a 'trained' voice to begin with, and might indeed have done permanent damage to his vocal chords over the years.
It's part and parcel with this thing we call 'aging', my friend.
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Personally I would like it if Percy doesn't sound like a girl :shock:
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So will the Manson guitars have BKPs in them?
i.e. Will Page finally get decent tone :twisted: :shock:
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So will the Manson guitars have BKPs in them?
i.e. Will Page finally get decent tone :twisted: :shock:
I reckon they could have, lots of reasons why they would!
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I think Hugh Manson will be working mostly with JPJ's basses.
But I wonder if he has enough influence to get Page to try BKPs?
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lol give him some Black Dogs, that'll sort him out!
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I wonder too, Page finaily using BKP's.. They would no dout be a spin off of the originals in his guitar. I can always hope he'll use Blackdogs!
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"Some of the songs will be in a lower key than usual...."
Sounds like Percy's losing his voice then...
Old news...
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I think Mr Manson already makes Basses for JPJ - I'm 995 sure I've seen him playing a 12 string in a Rotosound ad.
Pagey using BKPS - imagine how great the advertising would be, can't see why it wouldnt happen! I can see him using his Gibsons but I'd be suprised if he was using Marshalls and any other equipment they used to use.
Percy losing his voice - it's going to happen, hope he shaves off that ridiculous goatee tho!
Any announcements if this will be filmed and put on DVD?
Andy!
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I think it will only be JPJ who will be using Mansons.
.....although if Pagey wanted something to upstage his EDS-1275 perhaps Andy Manson would fit another neck and some Black Dogs to his Mermaid guitar.
http://www.harmony-central.com/ProductImages/Large/000001823.jpg
...hmmmm if the volume and tone controls were in the usual position....... :oops:
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http://www.harmony-central.com/ProductImages/Large/000001823.jpg
Good luck finding a case for that... :roll:
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http://www.harmony-central.com/ProductImages/Large/000001823.jpg
Good luck finding a case for that... :roll:
Yep .... the case looks as spectacular as the guitar 8)
http://www.andymanson.co.uk/mermaid_video.htm
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http://www.andymanson.co.uk/mermaid_video.htm
It's amazing - but also a little scary. When he opened the case it seemed almost like a coffin, then there's that facial expression.... creepy. I wouldn't want it in the house.
Nice playing though.