Crazy Horse & Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
Music from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Gear Used On Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Crazy Horse & Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Guitars used by Neil Young on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Gibson "Old Black" Modified Les Paul 1953
Old Black is a 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, painted black [1] and customized quite considerably. After the guitar had been left at a guitar repair store, the original P-90 bridge pickup was replaced with a Gretsch Dynasonic single-coil pickup. Eventually, a mini humbucker pickup from a Gibson Firebird guitar replaced the Dynasonic. The neck pickup has always been the original P-90 pickup, but it is now covered by a hand fitted aluminum P-90 cover, replacing the original white plastic cover. The guitar was roughly resprayed to jet black, and received a new Tune-o-matic bridge (not available when the guitar was produced) and a B-7 model Bigsby vibrato tailpiece. It would presumably also have had a white plastic pickguard at some point, as was standard on 1953 Goldtops. Old Black is notable for its metal hardware, including aluminum backing plates. The pick guard is chrome-on-brass/bronze. The tuners have been replaced with Schaller M-6 tuning keys, and the rest of the hardware is mostly nickel-plated. The headstock displays a partially painted-over mother-of-pearl inlay, sometimes referred to as a "wheat stack", rather than the typical silk screened "Les Paul Model" logo, along with single-ply binding around the headstock, although the binding has now fallen off
