Thornley!?!?!?!

present_tense

I saw these guys on monday. Wow what a great live show. Ian thornley is such a cool front man, and such an underated guitarist. Anywho, I was just curious if anyone here knows what kind of amp set up he uses? he had such a cool sound, the best guitar sound ive ever heard live.

Thumbing My Way

If you check out his message board on the "gear" section I'm sure you'd be able to find out.....

I just don't wanna sign up for it

http://thornleyfans.proboards29.com/index.cgi

Dirty_Frank

I think Ian runs a lot of different guitar ranging from strats, to les pauls, to PRS and even Music man.

For amps, it sounds like Dual Recs, but I bet you he uses some boutique like Diezel, Fuchs or ENGL.

Thornley rocks. I've got to catch them the next time they're in town.

Dirty_Frank

Wrong again.

GP:What's going on in "The Pleasure and the Greed"?

IT:The intro is distorted bass. For my guitar sound, I plugged into a Garnet Herzog pre-amp-which I think is what Randy Bachman used for the lead on "American Woman." I ran that into an Ampeg SVT. My friend Gordie from Big Sugar turned me on to that setup, because that's his sound: Herzog preamp, SVT, and a Marshall cab. It's the loudest thing I've ever heard. I also used a Bernie amp, which is made out of an old film projector-it has a real wonky tone. I blended the Bernie with a tweed Deluxe and cranked them.

GP:How much gear will you take on the road to reproduce all these guitar sounds?

IT:To accomodate all the various tunings I'll bring about 15 guitars, including three Les Pauls, a few semi-hollowbodies, a Gibson 6/12 doubleneck, a Hammertone doubleneck with a 6-string and a mando-guitar, and a bunch of other instruments. For amps, I'll bring a Matchless Super Chief 120 and two JCM 2000a-a 50-and a 100-watt-and I'll run four 4X12 cabs.

GP:What about effects?

IT:I use a Digital Music Corp. GCX unit to control my rack, which contains an old Boss compressor, a TS-9 Tube Screamer, a Prescription Electronics Experience pedal, an Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth, the Garnet Herzog, a Boss DD-5 for backwards delay, a Lexicon reverb, an Alesis Quadraverb, and a DigiTech Whammy pedal.

This is the Big Wreck days, but his live tone is known to be phenomenal. Marshall and Matchless it is.

present_tense

hey, thanks for the reply!! Ive definately never heard a guitar sound so good live. It saddens me to say this, but it makes pearl jams guitars sound like two monkeys having sex in a spinning washing machine.

keeponrockin

present_tense wrote:

hey, thanks for the reply!! Ive definately never heard a guitar sound so good live. It saddens me to say this, but it makes pearl jams guitars sound like two monkeys having sex in a spinning washing machine.

That was colorful.

angryyoungman

i liked big wreck , havent got the thornly cd though. been meaning to just never did