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  1. Originally posted by thechicken:Yes, kind of odd that he switched drastically from a single coil guitar to a humbucker guitar. The recent change "ok", it is just from a Les Paul to another Les Paul, they can't sound that different.


    But Edge has done that before. It's not a new thing.
    The Electric Co. has been played with the Explorer and Gibson LP. The LP was used as early as the 1981 Pink Pop Fesitval (That might have been the first show he used that guitar)



    Explorer was also most associated with "I Will Follow". But at the same Pink Pop Festival, it was the LP Custom for "I Will Follow"



    He did go back the the LP Custom for "I Will Follow" for the Popmart tour. And the Love Town tour saw him playing the Yellow Fender Clapton Stratocaster for "I Will Follow"



    While settling on the Gibson LP Custom for "Dirty Day" during ZOO tours.... at least by the Sydney show... but in Adelaide... he used a Fender Stratocaster.



    "One" is another good example.

    - ZOOTV was the Gibson 330TD. That guitar had single coil P-90 pickups.
    - POPMART he used a Gretsch Country Gentlleman. With Filtertron (humbucker pickups)
    - Elevation to Present has seen him using LP Customs, and at times LP Music Rising.

    While the Explorer & LP Custom both guitars have some different tonal characteristics. Yet, Edge isn't opposed to assessing and reassing tone and guitar uses.

    Lest we forget the 'Vertigo' tour use of the Variax 700 acoustic for 'The Fly'.

    And more recently, "Moment of Surrender", now being played on a 1970's era Fender Stratocaster but for the first two legs, it was his Gretsch Stereo Country Club.
  2. Don't forget he used his strat for a while on some of the Boy tunes, A Day Without Me, Electric Co, even Out of Control (the only date I know of is the Rattle and Hum promo show). He also switched guitars a lot for Rejoice, going from the strat, to the explorer, to the LP custom, and even to the Gibson Sonnex that was seen during the October tour.
  3. I Will Follow in a Strat? I have to check that when I get home.... lol


  4. On a Clapton Stratocaster, which runs a bit 'hotter' than your average `70's Stratocaster. Probably why he consider it's use.


  5. Didn't his clapton strats have some kind of mid booster in the circuitry or something too? That's what I've heard anyway, which is what gave them that specific tone.
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Didn't his clapton strats have some kind of mid booster in the circuitry or something too? That's what I've heard anyway, which is what gave them that specific tone.


    Yep, 25db boost. (I have one). I don't think the boost was used all the time. But the other tone element is the active Gold Lace Sensor pickups, which are far hotter than standard 70's Strat pickups.

    Nice guitars. Seems that they were the flavor of the tour for the Love Town tour... and then pretty much disappeared.

    (other than for "The Fly" and "Desire" on the Zoo tours)
  7. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    Yep, 25db boost. (I have one). I don't think the boost was used all the time. But the other tone element is the active Gold Lace Sensor pickups, which are far hotter than standard 70's Strat pickups.

    Nice guitars. Seems that they were the flavor of the tour for the Love Town tour... and then pretty much disappeared.

    (other than for "The Fly" and "Desire" on the Zoo tours)


    To tell you the truth, I can't tell the difference when Eric is playing a regular strat and "his" strat. Is it that different of a sound?
  8. One for yourself Jeff. Mate plays guitar and recently watched It Might Get Loud. He's desperate to know what 'Memory Man' is. Any ideas?
  9. It's the first (old) delay unit that Edge bought long time ago, when they were preparing/recording Boy.

    Of course a lot more about how it works, its recent updates, etc. can be said and explained, but that is the answer to your question
  10. Originally posted by germcevoy:One for yourself Jeff. Mate plays guitar and recently watched It Might Get Loud. He's desperate to know what 'Memory Man' is. Any ideas?


    Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.

    There is a difference in the Stereo Memory Man and the Deluxe Memory Man.

    The Deluxe Memory Man has the chorus/vibrato - hence Modulation WITH the delay. Edge used two of these for the first 3 tours. He got his first Korg SDD3000 during the War tour. Edge mentioned having it for the Red Rocks show.

    During the UF tour, the Deluxe Memory Man was still used but I think that it was only for the piano.

    There is a newer version in a smaller housing... I am not sure how much they might sound like the `70's version that Edge used.

    In "It Might Get Loud" you will see a sticker on the side. That is from Analog Man, who did some mods on a newer Deluxe Memory Man.

    http://www.analogman.com/eh.htm#dmm
  11. The delay was first obtained as Bono told Edge that - in his mind - he heard an echo sound in the beginning of "A Day Without Me".

    There is no trademark Edge delay on U2-Three ("Out Of Control", "Boy/Girl" or "Stories for Boy"). In that, that was the improvement of the 'Boy' versions of "Out Of Control" and "Stories For Boys" - the atmosphere due to the delay.

    Apparently it was Bono that 'procurred' (borrowed or permanently borrowed) the first EH Deluxe Memory Man.

    Edge used it for "A Day Without Me" and began to play with it and incorporate it into other songs that they were working on.
  12. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:The delay was first obtained as Bono told Edge that - in his mind - he heard an echo sound in the beginning of "A Day Without Me".

    There is no trademark Edge delay on U2-Three ("Out Of Control", "Boy/Girl" or "Stories for Boy"). In that, that was the improvement of the 'Boy' versions of "Out Of Control" and "Stories For Boys" - the atmosphere due to the delay.

    Apparently it was Bono that 'procurred' (borrowed or permanently borrowed) the first EH Deluxe Memory Man.

    Edge used it for "A Day Without Me" and began to play with it and incorporate it into other songs that they were working on.


    And that song remains one of the best delay-guitar-parts Edge has written in my opinion. I love that song.
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