Andy Partridge & Harold Budd – Through The Hill
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1994 album Through The Hill.
Music from Through The Hill
Gear Used On Through The Hill
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Guitars used by Andy Partridge on Through The Hill
Fano Guitars Andy Partridge signature
Written for Fano Guitars. Performed by Andy Partridge. Produced and engineered by Andy Partridge. Released on the Fano Guitars website in MP3 format. Released on 7 July 2003 on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Four in the U.K.
Andy: “Über guitar maker of the Gods, Dennis Fano, offered to make me a guitar of my own design. The result of our star crossed marriage was nicknamed ‘Plankenstein’ and is a beautious beast. So, I wrote him a jingle for his web site. He's good. www.fanoguitars.com”
Music Accessories used by Andy Partridge on Through The Hill
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Andy Partridge's approach to gear is as irreverent as his philosophy: “Most of my guitars have been phenomenally crap, like a Futurama guitar I had painted leopard skin. I had a Singapore guitar called a Sway Lee Goldentone — one of those really badly made guitars that as you go down the fretboard towards the nut end it gets wider! I had a homemade Flying V that was four times too thick. It was like a couple of railway slivers joined at the hip. I did White Music and Go 2 with a 1975 Ibanez Artist. I've recently brought it back from the dead, and I played it mostly on Nonsuch — plus my usual Squier Telecaster, my main guitar since 1983.”
Andy's amp is a Session 70 (“the cheapest thing in the shop”), although in the studio he covets Dave's 40-watt 1963 Fender Super Reverb. “I'm pretty much compression crazy,” he admits, “putting the compression before the amp. You can crank it up and get a smoother shape. On this record, I recorded a lot of echoes as part of the rhythm. There's some E-bow on ‘The Ugly Underneath’ — that high, spooky, dissonant orchestral stuff. My acoustic is a Martin D-35. I don't really have a head for gear. I mean, I've written albums on 5-string guitars because I was too lazy to put another string on! Dave is the real equipment guy. You and him can talk dirty about guitars.”