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Manson Delorean

Article on the Delorean in Total Guitar's July 2015 issue

Delorean
Manufacturer	Manson Guitars
Used	2001-02-12 — 2005-05-07
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Body covering	1.70mm Aluminium (back and front) 1mm sides
Wood	Body: Poplar Neck: Birds-eye Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood (with white inlay dots)
Bridge	Fixed (Schaller bridge)
Electronics	One volume, one tone, 3-way toggle pickup selector
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 w/ speed knob Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp built by Ron Joyce Three-way toggle killswitch

Background

Although officially called "Manson Delorean", the guitar is known to fans as the "Silver Manson" and "Industrial Disease".

This was the first custom built guitar Matt got from Hugh Manson. In an interview with Australian Guitar Magazine, Matt talked a bit about how this guitar came to be:

Matt wanted a guitar that sounded like a P-90 Gibson guitar but looked like a Telecaster. In his sketches, he essentially drew a Telecaster with a hook on it, similar to an SG.
As he was spending lots of money, Matt really wanted to make this unique. Instead of going for a wooden guitar, he was inspired by the DMC Delorean in Back to the Future, and thought it would be great to have a guitar with a rough metal finish.
A Bass Guitar string was fitted on the sixth string of this guitar whilst recording Citizen Erased.
In an interview in 2006 Bellamy answered the question "If you had to give up all your possessions but you could only keep three, which 3 would you keep?" By saying he'd keep this guitar saying that it "means alot [sic] to him".

Hugh Manson on the 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 is featured in the "Hyper Music" music video, the "Butterflies & Hurricanes" music video, the "Dead Star" music video and the "Stockholm Syndrome" music video (the U.S version).
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

The Delorean made it's first live appearance in February 2001 and was used until the end of the Absolution touring cycle in May 2005. It was used for many different songs in both standard and drop-D tuning.

Songs used for

Delorean Gallery

Manson Delorean
Internal circuitry of the Delorean
Matt with the Delorean during the making of Origin of Symmetry
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Manson Delorean
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Matt with the Delorean

Signature Model

Manson DL-1 Matthew Bellamy Signature Guitar

Links

Pictures of the Manson Delorean on the Manson Guitars website

Go back to Manson Guitars

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-[[File:Manson Delorean showcase.jpg | right | thumb | Delorean]]
+[[File:Manson Delorean showcase.jpg | right | thumb | Manson Delorean]]
-[[File:Manson Delorean upright.jpg | right | thumb | Delorean]]
+[[File:DeloreanArticle.jpg | right | thumb | Article on the Delorean in Total Guitar's July 2015 issue]]
 {{Guitarbox
 | Name = Delorean
 | Manufacturer = [[Manson Guitars]]
-| Used = 2001–2005
+| Used = [[London Sound 2001-02 (gig)|2001-02-12]] — [[Austin Music Hall 2005 (gig)|2005-05-07]]
 | Body = Solid
 | Neck = Bolt-on
 | BodyCovering = 1.70mm Aluminium (back and front) 1mm sides
-| Wood = '''Body''': Poplar<br/>'''Neck''': birds-eye maple<br/>'''Fingerboard''': rosewood with white dots
+| Wood = '''Body''': Poplar<br/>'''Neck''': Birds-eye Maple<br/>'''Fingerboard''': Rosewood (with white inlay dots)
-| Bridge = Fixed (schaller bridge)
+| Bridge = Fixed (Schaller bridge)
-| Electronics =
+| Electronics = One volume, one tone, 3-way toggle pickup selector
 | Pickups = <nowiki></nowiki>
 *'''Neck''': Seymour Duncan Hot P90
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 | Special = <nowiki></nowiki>
 *[[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory]]
-*[[MXR Phase 90]]
+*[[MXR Phase 90]] w/ speed knob
 *Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp built by Ron Joyce
 *Three-way toggle killswitch
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 ==Background==
-Although officially called "Manson Delorean", the guitar is known to fans as the "Silver Manson" and "Industrial Disease"
+Although officially called "Manson Delorean", the guitar is known to fans as the "Silver Manson" and "Industrial Disease".
+This was the first custom built guitar Matt got from Hugh Manson. In an interview with Australian Guitar Magazine, Matt talked a bit about how this guitar came to be:
+*Matt wanted a guitar that sounded like a P-90 Gibson guitar but looked like a Telecaster. In his sketches, he essentially drew a Telecaster with a hook on it, similar to an SG.
+*As he was spending lots of money, Matt really wanted to make this unique. Instead of going for a wooden guitar, he was inspired by the DMC Delorean in Back to the Future, and thought it would be great to have a guitar with a rough metal finish.
+*A Bass Guitar string was fitted on the sixth string of this guitar whilst recording Citizen Erased.
+*In an interview in 2006 Bellamy answered the question "If you had to give up all your possessions but you could only keep three, which 3 would you keep?" By saying he'd keep this guitar saying that it "means alot [''sic''] to him".
 ====[[Hugh Manson]] on the Delorean====
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 ===Additional Information===
-[[File:Manson_DL-1.jpg | right | thumb | Manson DL-1 Signature Guitar]]
 *This guitar is featured in the [[Hyper Music (video)|"Hyper Music" music video]], the [[Butterflies & Hurricanes (video)|"Butterflies & Hurricanes" music video]], the [[Dead Star (video)|"Dead Star" music video]] and the [[stockholm Syndrome (video)|"Stockholm Syndrome" music video]] (the U.S version).
 *Matt let me have a go on it during the Hyper Music video shoot, until some arsehole took it away from me :( --[[User:Crazybobbles|crazybobbles]] 01:04, 21 April 2008 (BST)
-This was the first custom built guitar Matt got from Hugh Manson. In an interview with Australian Guitar Magazine, Matt talked a bit about how this guitar came to be:
-- Matt wanted a guitar that sounded like a P-90 Gibson guitar but looked like a Telecaster. In his sketches, he essentially drew a Telecaster with a hook on it, similar to an SG.
-- As he was spending lots of money, Matt really wanted to make this unique. Instead of going for a wooden guitar, he was inspired by the DMC Delorean in Back to the Future
-and thought it would be great to have a guitar with a rough metal finish.
--A Bass Guitar string was fitted on the sixth string of this guitar whilst recording Citizen Erased.
-Official replicas of the Delorean, [[Manson_Black_Midi | Black Midi]] and [[Manson_Red_Glitter | Glitterati Manson]] can be bought from the [http://www.mansonguitarworks.com/index.cfm/product/manson-dl-1-matthew-bellamy-signature-electric-guitar-39 Manson online store]. The DL-1 range (DeLorean series 1) has a starting price of £2999 for a Aluminum basic version, the internal Fuzz Factory is an additional £300, while both the internal MXR Phase 90 and internal Fuzz Factory an additional £600. Custom Manson hardware comes at a price of additional £250 for the standard guitar and £275 for the internal effects one.
-- In an interview in 2006 Bellamy answered the question "If you had to give up all your possessions but you could only keep three, which 3 would you keep?" By saying he'd keep this guitar saying that it "means alot [''sic''] to him".  {{cite/none}}
 ==Touring==
-This guitar has been retired from live use since the start of the [[Black Holes and Revelations (album)|Black Holes and Revelations]] tour.
+The Delorean made it's first live appearance in [[London Sound 2001-02 (gig)|February 2001]] and was used until the end of the Absolution touring cycle in [[Austin Music Hall 2005 (gig)|May 2005]]. It was used for many different songs in both standard and drop-D tuning.
-====Songs used for (pre-Black Holes and Revelations tour)====
+====Songs used for ====
 *[[Blackout (song)|Blackout]]
 *[[Bliss (song)|Bliss]]
 *[[Butterflies & Hurricanes (song)|Butterflies & Hurricanes]]
-*[[Can't Take My Eyes Off You (song)| Can't Take My Eyes Off You]]
+*[[Can't Take My Eyes Off You (song)|Can't Take My Eyes Off You]]
 *[[Cave (song)|Cave]]
-*[[Citizen Erased (song)|Citizen Erased]] (used during recording)
+*[[Citizen Erased (song)|Citizen Erased]] (recording)
 *[[Darkshines (song)|Darkshines]]
 *[[Dead Star (song)|Dead Star]]
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 *[[Uno (song)|Uno]]
+== Delorean Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+File:Manson Delorean upright.jpg|Manson Delorean
+File:Delorean_Inside.jpeg|Internal circuitry of the Delorean
+File:DeloreanMattOos.jpg|Matt with the Delorean during the making of Origin of Symmetry
+File:DeloreanMatt1.jpg|Manson Delorean
+File:DeloreanMatt2.jpg|Manson Delorean
+File:Los Angeles 2004-12-11 b.jpg|Manson Delorean
+File:DeloreanMatt3.jpeg|Matt with the Delorean
+</gallery>
+== Signature Model ==
+*[[Manson DL-1 Matthew Bellamy Signature Guitar]]
 ==Links==
-*[http://mansonguitars.co.uk/Muse%20gallery/pages/Manson%20Delorean.htm Manson Delorean on the Manson Guitars website]
+*[https://www.mansonguitars.co.uk/g3 Pictures of the Manson Delorean on the Manson Guitars website]
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