"Whiskey in the jar" guitar sound ?

[MartyMart]

Any ideas of the gear used on the intro riff to this "Thin Lizzy" classic?
Sounds kind of "FF" or is it just amp break up ?
They were a crackin band BTW, saw them live four times !!

Ta,
Marty.

[JimRayden]

I love Thin Lizzy. I don't know any of their songs though. But I loved their show from 1976 that was on TV the other night.

They looked like usual LP-into-Marshalls-style band to me. I didn't see any stompboxes when they were live.

Though I don't know what they would use in the studio.

They were GREAT, man!

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Jimbo

[Johan]

..Thats from the first album released -73, right?..I really cant tell what he's using, but for some reason I allways pictured Eric Bell ( the guitarist on that album)  with a tele through a Marshall bluesbreaker..( listen to "rocker" )...but I dont know..
later on offcourse, they turned into the twinguitarband that most people know...L.P's through Marshalls with the ocational touch of wha and phase-90....

Johan

[StephenGiles]

I don't know how old Eric Bell is now, perhaps 55 or so. and probably still playing. I wonder how many 55 year olds played electric guitar 40 years ago!
Stephen

[MartyMart]

I met Scott Gorham in the "Half Moon" pub in Putney about 4 years ago, I went to see a band and he was at the bar, very nice chap, I bought him a drink !! and tried to avoid "man you're the best" type chit-chat.
He didn't look any different !
Not bad for a serious "rocker"  
No pedals eh?
It does sound a bit "Fuzz Face" to me . . . . .hmmm

Marty.

[BD13UK]

As I recall I think it was a Strat and a Fender Twin that He used, dont know what the pedal was if any but it has a bit of an FF sound to it though it might have been the pull out volume knob on the Fender Twin from that period but it sounds a bit too nice to have been that option.

[Russ]

I would definitely think it's a Strat. I've never seen a picture of Eric playing anything else but a Strat, and there is certainly a little tremolo bar action going on in a couple of places in "Whiskey in the Jar", if I recall correctly.

Russ

[rubberlips]

Eric Bell used a strat as far as I know, and I'm pretty sure into a marshall around that period. However if you're interested in Lizzy, join this mailing list - there's a few guitarists on it who know quiet a lot
http://www.df.lth.se/~ozzie/nwowo.html

I've noticed there's been a bit more Lizzy tab popping up of recent as well

Cheers

Pete

[bentium]

i'd like to get the whiskey in the jar sound from metallica
probably gonna have to buy a rectifier for it :p
if someone has a nice pedal for it (+ schematic) :p?

[Ed G.]

You got to love Thin Lizzy. I kind of hated the way Metallica covered that song. James Hetfield sounds like he's taking a crap after each verse.

As I was goin' over the Cork and Kerry mountains...yeeeaaaggghhhh
I saw Captain Farrell and his money he was countin'...yeeeaaaggghhhh
I first produced my pistol and then produced my rapier...yeeeaaaggghhhh
I said stand and deliver or the devil he may take yeeeaaaggghhhh

One of my favorite songs is The Rodeo Song...