Eric Bell – Exile
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2016 album Exile.
Music from Exile
Artists on Exile
Gear Used On Exile
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Eric Bell – Exile (2016). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Guitars used by Eric Bell on Exile
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
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"Your fabled Strat played a big role in the recording of Exile. What’s the story behind the two DeArmond pickups you have in it? Well, when I joined Brush Shiels’ band [in ’74], Brush was playing guitar at that point, and he was getting an electric guitar made for him by Gary Nelson—he’s an Irish guitar-maker who lives just outside Dublin. He hadn’t got any of these pickups that they have in America or England, but he did have DeArmond pickups. So he made the guitar, and Brush brought it down to soundcheck one night and asked if I wanted to try it out. I thought the tone was really nice, so Brush said, “Why don’t you try DeArmonds in your Strat? If you don’t like them, you can take them out.” So I went off to Gary Nelson and he put the two DeArmonds on, and they’ve been on there ever since. To this day I don’t know whether they’re single-coil or double-coil. They look like double-coil, but I think there’s a single-coil pickup underneath."
