Musical Box - Genesis tribute

JohnnyPlectrum

Went to see them last night, thoroughly enjoyable.
Talk about retro - the guitarist used a H/H cash-convertors tranny head and pulled off an impressive Steve Hackett sound.
His pedal board would have looked a bit shoddy for a pub band.
Was all a bit humbling...

thomasross20

Will check this out on YouTube.
It's all about the playing!

ICBM

JohnnyPlectrum said:

Talk about retro - the guitarist used a H/H cash-convertors tranny head and pulled off an impressive Steve Hackett sound.

Isn't that what Hackett actually used back in the day?

I don't know, I'm just guessing based on them being quite a popular and (surprisingly, by modern tastes) highly-regarded amp back then - a lot of big-name bands used them.

JohnnyPlectrum

ICBM said:

JohnnyPlectrum said:

Talk about retro - the guitarist used a H/H cash-convertors tranny head and pulled off an impressive Steve Hackett sound.

Isn't that what Hackett actually used back in the day?

Indeed.
Just thought it was taking tribute a bit far.
Was expecting kemper all the way!

ICBM

JohnnyPlectrum said:

Indeed.

Just thought it was taking tribute a bit far.

It's not a rare amp, or expensive, so you might as well… it would be a bit different if he'd used a Dumble back then!

JohnnyPlectrum said:

His pedal board would have looked a bit shoddy for a pub band.

His Wind & Wuthering-era Cornish board was on Ebay a few years ago - if I remember rightly it didn't even go for that much, just a couple of grand I think. Pretty basic and roughly-looking by modern standards - maybe this chap bought it?

Sassafras

Every time I saw Dr Feelgood, Wilko was using an HH and sounded great.

impmann

Hackett used two fuzz boxes (I can't remember the exact ones), a volume and a wah pedal for most of the classic Genesis stuff. Initially into a Marshall head but changed to the HH "for reliability". He later used Acoustic amps.

If I was trying to recreate those classic Hackett sounds, I wouldn't use a Kemper or similar... it wouldn't look right on stage and what's the point? Its easier to do with the real thing.

Anyway... HH amps are fantastic sounding!

JohnnyPlectrum

having done a google job I'm even more humbled - the guitarists shoddy pedalboard was an exact replica of Hackett's shoddy pedalboard.
I'm confident that Hackett didn't wear a wig though...

impmann

http://www.analogman.com/musicalbox/musicalbox.htm

impmann

The other piece of kit he uses is this:



I want one purely for the sound from 'Entangled' - I just haven't got close to that sound using other pedals.