Manson Delorean
| Silver/Delorean Manson | |
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| 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 |
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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