GW After Highway to Hell your sound got considerably darker and heavier. Regarding the amps used in Back in Black, there is also a part of interview done by Guitar World magazine that reads: Prior to that, JMPs were still available but in non Master Volume configuration. From the available videos, it’s still hard to determine.Īlso keep in mind that Master Volumes were introduced around ”76/’77. Because at the time, they were exactly in the same box, with only one or two knobs being different, and the same box was in fact for the 50 watter and the 100 watter. The rather difficult thing about these would be to determine whether they were 50 or 100 watters. There’s plenty of videos online showing AC/DC using these (this is just one among the many, please submit all the ones you can find: AC/DC Goes To College).
Let me show one of the many pictures that you can find around of a late ’70s JMP Master Volume head: I am reading on the Marshall forum specifically that people with good ears and good knowledge of Marshall Amps tend to think that given the sponsorship AC/DC got in 1977 from Marshall, Angus – NOT Malcolm – has been using the latest models that Marshall was putting out in those years, namely, the JMP models that according to someone, would have been used from 1977 until 1983 continuosly. Truth is instead, that the JTM45 was used only recently or very early and for the most part in the 1970s, it was other models most likely being, JMP models! So one would think that it was a JTM45, as since Ballbreaker, everyone has been talking about the JTM45. I don’t know about you, but the type of Angus tone I’m after – and I’ve always been after – is the early one up to 1980-1983 at the most (so basically, 1974 to 1983), with the top – for me – being Back in Black. Well, I have a surprise for you: this is just plain wrong, would you believe it? I’m researching this pretty deeply, as deep as I can, everywhere, including interviews, pictures and video footage. Or some other JTM amp, such as a JTM50, which is also the Metro replica I just got. Weird statement, don’t you think (I’m referring to the “Angus Young’s Marshall Amplifier”)? Most have always thought it’s always been the JTM45 and that’s it. Update: despite what I had stated (please see below), the “Back in Black recording session” images are NOT them: those are barely Vanilo rehearsal room, Pimlico London, auditions for new singer, March 1980, 8004004, © 1980 Robert Ellis/Repfoto, i.e., pictures shot while trying a replacement for Bon. “Angus has also taken to replicating his recorded lead tone live with a JTM45, which is sometimes miked through an isolation cab under the stage. a JTM50, and a later JMP50 in the studio (the former with KT66s, the latter two with E元4s)”
“Angus also often records through the 100-watters, he has been known to use any of a range of several JTM45s. It’s also possible that some necks were leftover from 1966 and were assembled on the guitars made in 1967.Update of Mon, Oct the 4th: our own headwhop26 has posted info from a reliable source stating the following:Īngus has frequently recalled the use of a 100-watt late-60s Marshall JMP100 Super Lead amp with E元4 output tubes in the early days of the band, while Malcolm often played through a slightly earlier JTM100 Super Amp with KT66 output tubes, a late-’60s Super Bass with E元4 tubes, or a 100-watt Plexi Super Lead much like his brother’s”
On models made after late 1966, the crown was moved down, so Angus’ guitar had to have been a 1966 or 1965 model, though it is possible that this change happened in early 1967 (sources vary on the exact year). However, as pointed out by Brian in the comments, based on the location of the crown inlay on the headstock, this is likely an earlier model. According to him, the guitar is a 1967 model, with custom-wound Seymour Duncan pickups (7.7 – 7.8 kOhm resistance), both waxed, and all new Gibson electronics.
Fill Olivieri over at SoloDallas also suspects that this is a mid-60s model with removed Vibrola tremolo, which also has a somewhat wider neck than the early 60s model.Īngus’ guitar tech Trace Foster pretty much confirmed this in the 2016 Rig Rundown interview with Premier Guitar. This SG is finished in black, which was most likely a re-finish. It looks suspiciously similar to the Gibson SG that Angus used during the 90s, but for the sake of better organization, these will be treated as two separate instruments. This guitar was seen occasionally during the Stiff Upper Lip live tour (2000), and more often during the Black Ice (2008-10) and Rock or Bust (2016) tours.
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