Name: Hiwatt DR103 Custom Head
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)

Hiwatt DR103 Custom Head

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14 Artists Use This
David Gilmour

Used as David's main amp from 1969 until 1987 and then reunited in 1994 and is still in use. According to Gilmourish, "During the Division Bell tour in 1994, David’s rig consisted of overwhelming six Hiwatt heads in two separate racks, – not mentioning all the spares he travelled with." Afterwords, he returned to using three heads. "David is using a pair (and one extra) Hiwatt DR 103 amp heads. They are his original 1974 Hiwatts, with OLD tubes (well used but still work fine, as tested by Pete Cornish). He is running them through WEM 4x12" cabinets with Fane Crescendo speakers in one and the other has celestion 75s (clean speakers which don't sound so good alone but along with the Fanes he gets an awesome tone)." - [Analogman website.](http://www.analogman.com/graphics/gilmour/david.htm)
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Pete Townshend

This amp has been recalled "his favourite amp". He's been using it for live work alot.
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Kevin Shields

Kevin Shields use 2 Hiwatt custom DR103. One is limited edition(Red one).
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J Mascis

J Mascis disusses his HIWATT 100 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar. At 29:28, he says, “I've kind of got into Hiwatt later on, but not within the last five years.”
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Eddie Vedder

"Amp-wise, Eddie is using a vintage 4x10 Fender Super Reverb, but he may switch to a '72 100 watt Hiwatt. Eddie definitely has a Who/Pete Townshend fascination, hence the Telecaster/Hiwatt combination." Guitar World 4/95 A Guided Tour of PJ's Gear by Tom Beaujour "Pete Townsend always used to use Hiwatt amps. See what I mean? Sentiment. The Hiwatt is an early 1970's "DR 504 Custom 50" 50w head. He also has a "DR 103 Custom 100" 100w." From “Pearl Jam Sinergy” (updated to 2002)
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Yannis Philippakis

In this picture of Yannis setting up his gear, he is sitting in front of a Hiwatt DR103 100 Watt Head.
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Robert Fripp

In this 1972 video of King Crimson live at the beat club, one can see Robert Fripp plugged into a Hiwatt DR103 100 Watt Head amp, at 0:35.
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Matt Pike

At the 5:33 mark, Pike is playing in front of a Hiwatt head. It is the left one of the stack.
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Neal Schon

Neal used Hiwatt Custom 100 - DR103 amps in the past. He used to have a few on stage. I believe nowadays he has multiple amps in a rack, the DR103 still being one of them.
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Mark Bowen

One into a 4x12 w/cream backs the other into 1 x 15
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Duane Denison

Duane used a Hiwatt DR103 amp head from 1990 to 1994, according to [this](http://www.guitargeek.com/duane-denison-the-jesus-lizard-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-1990-1994/) Guitar Geek rig diagram.
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Tommy Bolin

Welcome to all you Tommy Bolin fans! If you want to know more about the equipment of Tommy Bolin and how to achieve his sound, read this article by ’treblebooster’. This was Tommy's main amp according to this article.
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Gary Green

"If you want to add guitar amps, I think Hiwatt amps could be added as they were used by David Gilmour, Alex Lifeson, Steve Hackett, Martin Barre, Peter Banks, Gary Green and Robert Fripp (and more I suppose...)"
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Jamie Hall

There are many other photographs of this as a part of Jamie's rig online, this is the clearest. Though of course it is entirely possible this is not the same head as the one in the photo; due to the fact that there appears to be a piece of tape covering the model's name.
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artbarsnstripes

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Beautiful, Powerfully Clean Sound!

My Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100 is an original 1974 with the Linked Input modification done by Pete Cornish himself. I'm in line for another 1974 DR103 without the mod. All Hiwatts have Mullard late-70's (new badge) matched tubes installed.

almost 5 years ago