Rival Sons – Before the Fire
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2009 album Before the Fire.
Music from Before the Fire
Artists on Before the Fire
Gear Used On Before the Fire
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Rival Sons – Before the Fire (2009). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Scott Holiday
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Guitars used by Scott Holiday on Before the Fire
1999 Gibson 1965 Firebird VII Reissue
Avg price: $4,176.72
Scott Holiday says in this video, “This firebird, I actually bought it before I ever touched it, which is never a smart thing to do, but I had finished our first record, Before the Fire, and used a gaggle of guitars, old Teles, and Esquires, and Strats, and Les Pauls, and just a whole bunch of instruments, never a Firebird though. When I went to go back and play the songs on the record, nothing I had was really defining what I wanted to do. Like it wouldn’t make the sounds of the record. So I started to look for a new guitar and I came across this one. I live in California and I found one online in T-Neck, New Jersey.
It’s a 1999 Custom Shop historic of a 1965 Firebird. And I’ve replaced the pickups with a friend of mine’s pickups. His name is Tom Short. Kind of puts a, it’s not quite a firebird, it’s like a mini-humbucker version in a Firebird cap that he does. He does them for Mark Ford and quite a few other guys.
I use all the settings on all the pickups. I had all the wiring redone, it’s basically like a Les Paul. So I can turn the middle pickup on at any time, off a pop, and then I have one volume for the other two. At any time I can get all three going, or any two, or any configuration. I use all the configurations and kind of change it up nightly with how the room feels and how things feel.
As much as I want to use that vibrato, I just really don’t trust it. The maestro is one of the most tuneful vibratos, and definitely the coolest looking, but probably not the trustiest, so I never use it. I just tuck the bar back.
That Firebird is a real man’s guitar. My wife plays as well, and this guitar just feels like a gigantic machine to her. She can’t really touch it. It’s got a really big neck. It’s quite heavy, the instrument. It’s not really long scale, but it feels long scale from the scale of how the guitar is. It’s a real rock and roll machine. I love it. It’s my number one. This is the guitar I use the most on stage, definitely.”
Effects Pedals used by Scott Holiday on Before the Fire
Keeley & Legendary Tones Time Machine Boost
Avg price: $159.00
"Widely used in this band for all of the early records [2009's Before The Fire and 2011's Pressure And Time] is the Keeley Time Machine Boost.
"It's basically like an old Dallas Rangemaster [the sought-after 60s treble-booster made popular by the likes of Brian May and Tony Iommi]. It's hardwired and it's got a Germanium tranny in it. It's awesome," reads this article, on Holiday's rig.