Like a fine wine, this album gets better with age…
‘Roto’s hold their brightness which means I don’t have to change strings so often’. –Trevor Bolder
An album that shook the Earth!
The album made a tectonic impact on both music and culture, which still reverberates through pop culture today.
Like a fine wine, this album gets better with age…
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Interested in what gear was used?
Trevor Bolder’s equipment with the Spiders From Mars
Trevor used Swing Bass 66 strings since the early ’70s: when asked why, he said ‘Roto’s hold their brightness which means I don’t have to change strings so often’.
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Mick Ronson’s Spiders from Mars equipment
To make life easy for us guitar geeks, Mick very kindly listed all his Ziggy Stardust-era gear in the biography “The Spider with the Platinum Hair”:
‘On stage I use two Gibson Les Paule Custom guitars, with another as spare, placed on a convenient stand. I use Rotosound strings and the gauges are 0.009 (1st), 0.011 (2nd), 0.014 (3rd), 0.025 (4th), 0.035 (5th), and 0.044 (6th). My amplifier is a Marshall 200-watt with one 120-watt Marshall cabinet containing four 12-inch Celestion speakers.
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‘I use a Cry Baby wah-wah pedal and an American Tonebender – which used to belong to Pete Townshend. He sold it to someone else about seven years ago and I bought it for £5. It is the only one of its kind I have ever seen.
‘Other guitars that I possess are a Yamaha acoustic, a Brazilian Carlos Robelli acoustic, a Gibson black SG Special, and a Fender Mustang.’