http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ The Black Keys Fan Lounge Forum » Topic: Help identify the Silvertone Stratotone used in the "Set You Free" video en Sun, 26 May 2013 04:57:50 +0000 http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34618 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:12:48 +0000 HeavySole 34618@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>I had seen your Mercury replica in the stackshotmazz thread documenting his recent build. Both of those H47s look awesome and I suspected that they sounded as good as they look.</p> <p>I figured if I put Fralin P-90s in my 1420L I could get the same effect tonally, with the grit of the P-90s and the mojo of the hollow body of a 1960s Stratotone body.</p> <p><img src="http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/1210/medium/1420L.jpg"></p> <p>The problem I ran into is wanting to surface mount my pickups so that I don&#39;t have to cut into a 52 year old guitar. Fralin has Alnico pole P90s that will surface mount, at the sacrifice of some of their ability to distort. And being that they are $180 a set and possibly won&#39;t deliver on the tone, I had to pass.</p> <p>So now I am looking at go closer to the hot DeArmond/Rowe pups that came in the Jupiter models. I found some surface-mount Alnico magnet pickups, that are in these Airline Smeck tribute guitars, for $90 a set.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSrjncgaHI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSrjncgaHI</a></p> <p>Or I might try two Gretsch lap steel guitar neck pickups at $45 for a pair even though they only have a 5.6k DC resistance. </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34617 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:37:25 +0000 HeavySole 34617@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>The video, I am guessing, would have been content from a website that seemingly never took off -- Batabam.com. But from the promo video it looks like it would have been spectacular. At the very least visually.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6YgfLDqaE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6YgfLDqaE</a> </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34577 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:23:29 +0000 Morgan 34577@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>Wow! Amazing shit! I enjoyed this edit so much! Where does it come from?<br /> I got myself a H47 mercury that I turn into a replica of Dan&#39;s model (P90&#39;s + B3 bigsby).<br /> It is a beauty, and sound amazing!!<br /> Would like to collect all of those Stratotones!<br /> <img src="http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac6/birdymiamiam/IMG_9447.jpg"><br /> <img src="http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac6/birdymiamiam/IMG_9445.jpg"> </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34565 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:06:13 +0000 HeavySole 34565@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>Argh, I got my copy of Live at the Crystal Ballroom off the iTunes a couple of years back. Concert footage only, no bonus features.</p> <p>I hadn&#39;t seen that GQ footage before, good stuff. Even minus a real song it&#39;s more of a music video than that Harmony Korine nonsense. That Harmony Jupiter is what my 1420L wants to be when it grows up.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gQdAJyBuE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gQdAJyBuE</a> </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34537 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:20:10 +0000 Morgan 34537@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>Yeah didn&#39;t see him playing on his h44, but seen on the bonus interview on the crystal ballroom dvd,<br /> while they were recording A&amp;R in the cryppy house studio.<br /> Also rare, this GQ interview where we can see Pat playing on an Jupiter H49 natural. (Dan&#39;s collection I guess).<br /> [url=http://vimeo.com/31155994#][/url] </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34536 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:13:02 +0000 HeavySole 34536@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>Yep it must be a 1423, just with a custom black pickguard and black knobs, seems like the tailpiece is some art deco stacked rectangle trapeze type. The pickups look like DeArmond toasters.</p> <p>It must have passed quickly through Dan&#39;s hands, maybe due to the absence of a Bigsby, and on to someone else. This video seems to be the only record of it being part of his collection. You never really see that H44 solid Stratotone either or the guitar with the built in amp. So who knows what is really in the guys collection. </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34522 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:05:32 +0000 Morgan 34522@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>Update : Harmony silvertone jupiter 1423 </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34521 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:02:16 +0000 Morgan 34521@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>I would guess a Harmony Silvertone Stratotone Tuxedo 1420... moded with a b3 bigsby like on the h47<br /> Not sure... &lt;img src=&quot;http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_wink.gif&quot; title=&quot;;)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/help-identify-the-silvertone-stratotone-used-in-the-set-you-free-video#post-34511 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:28:14 +0000 HeavySole 34511@http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/ <p>I have that &quot;Black Keys Live&quot; DVD of an old Thickfreakness era concert in Australia with Dan playing his JD Tele.</p> <p>I finally got around to watching the music videos that come as bonus material. There is that bad David Cross directed video and one for <a href="http://bvmtv.com/videos/the-black-keys-set-you-free/">Set You Free</a></p> <p>In the Set You Free video Dan seems to be playing a Silvertone 1423 &quot;Stratotone Jupiter&quot; with a black pickguard or no pickguard and a LP style toggle switch instead of a blender switch. And perhaps a Gretsch tailpiece, hard to tell from the grainy, low res video quality of the video.</p> <p>You can sort of make out the Silvertone logo on the headstock in this frame.<br /> <img src="http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/1210/medium/SilvertoneLogo.jpg"></p> <p>I can&#39;t find this model listed in the gear that Dan has been known to own just his Silvertone U1 and a Silvertone 1454 &quot;Rocket&quot;.</p> <p>Anyone have any info relating to Dan ever owning this guitar? Since I recently bought a Silvertone Stratotone I am all ears. </p>

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