![]() ![]() Old Black's features include a Bigsby wang bar, which pulls strings and bends notes, and Firebird picking so sensitive you can talk through it. Just constructing the box's angular red wooden housing to Young's extreme specifications had craftsmen pulling their hair out.Ĭradled in a stand in front of the amps is the fuse for the dynamite, Young's trademark ax-Old Black, a '53 Gold Top Les Paul some knot-head daubed with black paint eons ago. Guitarists marvel at the stomp box that lies onstage at Young's feet: a byzantine gang of effects that can be utilized without any degradation to the original signal. Intent on controlling amp volume from his guitar instead of the amp, Young had a remote device designed called the Whizzer. "He'll say, 'Larry, there's a hundred volts coming out of the wall, isn't there?' I'll go measure it, and yeah, sure - he can hear the difference." ![]() In Europe, where the electrical current is sixty cycles, not fifty, he can pinpoint the fluctuation - by degrees. ![]() “Young has a personal relationship with electricity. ![]()
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