Manson Delorean

Silver/Delorean Manson

Silver/Delorean Manson

Silver/Delorean Manson
Manufacturer	Manson Guitars
Used	2001 — 2005
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Body covering	Aluminum
Wood	Body: mahogany Neck: birds-eye maple Fingerboard: rosewood
Bridge	Fixed
Electronics
Pickup(s)	Neck: Seymour Duncan Hot P90 Bridge: Kent Armstrong Motherbucker Roland GK-2a MIDI pickup
Special circuits	Z.Vex Fuzz Factory MXR Phase 90 Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp Roland GK-2a MIDI pickup internal kit Three-way toggle killswitch

Background

Hugh Manson on the Silver/Delorean

"Matt came to the shop and asked me to make a guitar for him. He had a definite idea of what he wanted it to sound like. We reached the body design through a combination of me drawing and him pointing and we got there pretty quickly, I think there was just a slight alteration on the top horn. In terms of the aluminium finish, that was an interesting one. I plated the whole thing and thought, 'My God, I'm gonna have to polish this and that's gonna be a nightmare.' It was all covered in really rough file marks and looked industrially atrocious. I was summoning up the energy to take it home and spend a week flattening it down and polishing it, but before that I took it down to the shop to show the lads how it was going. By fluke Matt turned up at the shop that day and I said, Why don't you have a look at the work in progress? He looks at it and goes, 'Oh wow, I love the finish!' I thought, That's brilliant, exactly what I want to hear."

Additional Information

• This guitar featured in the "Hyper Music" music video and the "Dead Star" music video.
• Matt let me have a go on it during the Hyper Music video shoot, until some arsehole took it away from me :( --crazybobbles 01:04, 21 April 2008 (BST)

Touring

This guitar has been retired from live usage since the start of the Black Holes and Revelations tour.

Songs used for (pre-Black Holes and Revelations tour)

• Blackout
• Bliss
• Butterflies & Hurricanes
• Cave
• Darkshines
• Dead Star
• Fillip
• Fury
• Hyper Music
• In Your World
• Micro Cuts
• Muscle Museum
• New Born
• Plug In Baby
• Screenager
• Showbiz
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Sunburn
• The Groove
• The Small Print
• Time Is Running Out
• Uno

Links

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