No. 1991978·hard-rock·5 blocks
Kill the King
Rainbow's fastest riff, and Blackmore's favorite guitar of the period playing it: the 1974 sunburst Strat with a fat scalloped neck and slightly overwound single-coils. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was cut at the Chateau d'Herouville outside Paris with Martin Birch, still running the AIWA TP-1011 tape deck as a front-end boost into a modified Marshall Major. At this tempo the amp has to stay tight, so the dirt sits in the tape preamp and the Major keeps its headroom.
Long Live Rock 'n' RollSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel (preamp/booster + echo)
Schulte Compact Phasing A
Marshall Major (200W, modified)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Shure SM57
AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel (preamp/booster + echo)
boost
Input
8
Output
7
Echo
1
Schulte Compact Phasing A
modulation
Rate
2Hz
Depth
3
Marshall Major (200W, modified)
preamp
Presence
6
Bass
2.5
Middle
6
Treble
8
Volume
7
Engineer's note
File 199
Rainbow's fastest riff, and Blackmore's favorite guitar of the period playing it: the 1974 sunburst Strat with a fat scalloped neck and slightly overwound single-coils. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was cut at the Chateau d'Herouville outside Paris with Martin Birch, still running the AIWA TP-1011 tape deck as a front-end boost into a modified Marshall Major. At this tempo the amp has to stay tight, so the dirt sits in the tape preamp and the Major keeps its headroom.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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