Sometime late 1975 or early 1976 he had Grover tuners put on the Deluxe. The Custom said to be a 1960 is more likely a 1968-69 Les Paul Custom since most 1957-1960 Customs had three pickups. Robbo played the Deluxe with the mini humbuckers up until he bought the black Custom while on tour in Texas USA in the fall of 1977. Old thread but Robbo was given the 1973 Deluxe and Scott his Deluxe probably a 1973-74 Deluxe when joining Thin Lizzy in 1974. The Pearly Gates set is hard to beat for an aggressive authentic PAF tone.
I think his tone lives a lot in his technique and in his use of the wah and delay (not forgetting the Les Paul + Marshall), but I can get satisfactorily close to it with most of the good vintage-style humbuckers I've tried. Much of Robbo's best work with Lizzy was recorded either with mini-humbuckers or PAFs. As a Robbo fan, I really should try some Emeralds, though I haven't gotten around to it yet. (It may be though, that he is just going for the "Emerald tone", rather than creating a replica of any particular pickup). Tim Mills at BK must think they were hotter than original PAFs, as the Emerald has a DC Resistance of 10 or 11K if I recall correctly. I've no idea what pickups were in that Custom - I would have guessed PAFs or early patent numbered HBs. This was also the time he started using the black LP Custom, which seemed to become his main guitar until after he left Lizzy and reverted to the PAF-loaded Deluxe.Īs I understand it, the Bare Knuckle Emerald is intended to recreate the sound of his LP Custom pickups. Sometime around the time of Johnny The Fox he had that guitar converted to full-size buckers to accommodate a pair of original Gibson PAFs he acquired while on tour in America. Robbo is one of my very favourite guitarists of all time.įor the first 3 Lizzy albums he played on (Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak) his main guitar was a stock Les Paul Deluxe with the mini humbuckers.
Re: which set for getting the Brian Robertson sound?
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