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Uploaded by on Mar 16, 2009

David Gilmour was using several guitars at this stage. The most unusual was his Bill Lewis. I don't know what guitar he used on this part but it was definitely going through a Leslie. I tried Stratocasters and Les Pauls but never had a Lewis. The Telecaster sounded about right, so I put it through the Leslie 145/147

Camera: Esiko Von Rautenkranz III

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  • Great sound! How hard and expensive is it to convert an old Leslie to work with a guitar rig? Is the 145 the best choice? How heavy is it?

  • @fyahr

    The 145 was a "classic" so to speak and this one weighs around ten stone (140 LBs). It's not a costly job to have it converted to jack, to someone in the know. About 70 or 80 quid here in England. This one had a mini jack socket added for the fast/ slow footswitch and a standard mains cable along with the 1/4 inch input socket plus a little preamp to bump the speaker level up to line level. Or something like that!

  • Is that a Leslie 45? I have one and I love it, but I had to get a combo preamp to play guitar through it. Nice vid!

  • @stratcat944

    Cheers! It's a 145 which I had modified to accept line level jack from any instrument.

  • Leslie, Hiwatt, damn dude you got it made! Nice job by the way, sounded great!

  • Ha! Thanks very much! I started my working life in a guitar shop 25 years ago and on the first day, the Hiwatt head and WEM cab were sitting there. I asked the owner/ my boss how much he wanted for the stack and he said: "You can have it for £100, it's been sitting there for ages. People just don't want that sort of thing anymore!!!"

    I thought I'd better buy it!

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  • Thanks for the info! Cheers!

  • I remember when Dark Side was released in 1973. It blew us all away....and still does. Rock on David Gilmoure and company:)

  • He did use the Lewis on this track.

  • wow you've got a lot of cool shit there

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