Difference between revisions of "Manson Delorean"
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| Wood = '''Body''': Poplar<br/>'''Neck''': Birds-eye Maple<br/>'''Fingerboard''': Rosewood (with white inlay 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 = One volume | | Electronics = One volume, one tonem 3-way toggle pickup selector | ||
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*'''Neck''': Seymour Duncan Hot P90 | *'''Neck''': Seymour Duncan Hot P90 | ||
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*[[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory]] | *[[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory]] | ||
*[[MXR Phase 90]] | *[[MXR Phase 90]] w/ speed knob | ||
*Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp built by Ron Joyce | *Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp built by Ron Joyce | ||
*Three-way toggle killswitch | *Three-way toggle killswitch | ||
Revision as of 00:30, 6 November 2021
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| 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 tonem 3-way toggle pickup selector |
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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
This guitar has been retired from live use since the start of the Black Holes and Revelations tour.
Songs used for (pre-Black Holes and Revelations tour)
- Blackout
- Bliss
- Butterflies & Hurricanes
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Cave
- Citizen Erased (used during recording)
- 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
Delorean Gallery
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Internal circuitry of the Delorean
Matt with the Delorean during the making of Origin of Symmetry
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