Gary Lucas' Amplifiers

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Gary Lucas uses a Fender Deluxe amp, as noted in the Premier Guitar article on him.

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As mentioned here, one of Gary Lucas’ amps of choice is a Fender Hot Rod Deville.

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Mentioned the September 1990 Guitar Player interview "Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters" by Mark Dery.

Lucas remains true to Beefheart's aesthetic. Backed by Gods and Monsters – country yodeler Julia Heyward, bassists Paul Now and Jared Nickerson, and alternate drummers Tony "Thunder" Smith and Tony Lewis – he rattles off strings of notes like a turret gunner spitting shells. He runs his sunburst '63 Fender Strat and red '65 Gibson Firebird (both strung with light-gauge D'Addario rock strings) through a maze-like signal chain: "My pedals sit on a percussion stand," he explains. "I go through a [Dunlop] Cry Baby wah into a T.C. Electronic Sustainer/Equalizer, a Boss Digital Metallizer, a Boss Flanger, another equalizer, which I use as gain-stage control, and then into a noise suppressor, a DeArmond volume pedal, a Whirlwind box – an effects loop with a gain stage – and then into a Boss Pitch-Shifter/Delay, a Boss Chorus, and then into another Pitch Shifter – which I manually manipulate – and then into a DigiTech 8-second delay, an Electro-Harmonix 16-second delay, an Alesis Midiverb, and a second Electro-Harmonix delay. At that point, I split the signal, running the direct sound into a Gallien-Krueger 250 ML and the effects into a Roland JC-120."

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Mentioned the September 1990 Guitar Player interview "Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters" by Mark Dery.

Lucas remains true to Beefheart's aesthetic. Backed by Gods and Monsters – country yodeler Julia Heyward, bassists Paul Now and Jared Nickerson, and alternate drummers Tony "Thunder" Smith and Tony Lewis – he rattles off strings of notes like a turret gunner spitting shells. He runs his sunburst '63 Fender Strat and red '65 Gibson Firebird (both strung with light-gauge D'Addario rock strings) through a maze-like signal chain: "My pedals sit on a percussion stand," he explains. "I go through a [Dunlop] Cry Baby wah into a T.C. Electronic Sustainer/Equalizer, a Boss Digital Metallizer, a Boss Flanger, another equalizer, which I use as gain-stage control, and then into a noise suppressor, a DeArmond volume pedal, a Whirlwind box – an effects loop with a gain stage – and then into a Boss Pitch-Shifter/Delay, a Boss Chorus, and then into another Pitch Shifter – which I manually manipulate – and then into a DigiTech 8-second delay, an Electro-Harmonix 16-second delay, an Alesis Midiverb, and a second Electro-Harmonix delay. At that point, I split the signal, running the direct sound into a Gallien-Krueger 250 ML and the effects into a Roland JC-120."

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