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Oct 15, 2009 · From his beat-up Les Paul to his battered amps and vintage effect pedals, Neil Young's stage rig is a road-worn tribute to his timeless sounds.
Apr 16, 2024 · Larry Cragg has been Neil Young’s guitar and amp tech since the early ‘70s. He has also worked with many other artists like Carlos Santana over the years, and he maintains a thriving guitar repair shop while also maintaining an extensive collection of vintage amplifiers available for rental.
LARRY CRAGG. 8-6-21. Larry is my guitar and amp technician and has been for decades. No longer going with me on tour, he is now a working musician and fine instrument repair man in Northern California.
Larry Cragg with Neil Young’s 1953 Gibson Les Paul, better known as “Old Black.” Photo taken in December 2011, while Cragg worked on an issue with the guitar’s nut.
Jan 26, 2008 · NEIL YOUNG ACOUSTIC SETUP: BY LARRY CRAGG. Larry Cragg began working with Neil on Neil's guitars in 1972 and has toured as his tech since 1976. Larry has played banjo, pedal steel and sax for Neil and he's doubled on keyboards and guitars in Nils Lofgren's band since 1985.
- Very interesting article. Thanks! And I see that I'm not the only fan of D'Angelico strings (not to be confused with D'Addario).
- Thanks, nice article. Sounds a bit complicated...how old an article was it? Just wondering if the advent of new pickup technology has changed his t...
- ". . . . . . he tunes both E's down to D. he calls this D modal" I (and I think most other people) call this tuning "double drop D". "D modal" is t...
- Those fraps sound like a pain in the ass but I guess it keeps that roadie's job alive.
- I wonder if this is a pretty old article.
- The article is about 20 years old, give or take. The FRAP pickup was discontinued a long time ago. Here's the site for it's successor, the Trance A...
- Damn, Gil, you just come out of hyper-sleep?
- Have you ever used or played a guitar with FRAP pickups? Or used the FRAP preamp? I have. Both the pickup and the pre are excellent (the pre is a b...
- Sorry man, my post should have read some new stuff surpasses them. Yes I have owned a guitar with a FRAP installed, and the preamp that I bought wi...
- A Gibson J-50 I owned back in the early 80s had a FRAP in it and it sounded pretty good, but there was always feedback issues, so I finally removed...
Cragg was tinkering with Young's guitar rig, which sat in a little area to the rear of the stage. A gaggle of amps, a Magnatone, a huge transistorized Baldwin Exterminator, a Fender Reverb unit and the heart of it all: a small, weather-beaten box covered in worn-out tweed, 1959 vintage.
Larry Cragg has a lot of amps. And guitars. He needs them, too. When he's not serving as Neil Young's guitar tech (not to mention Santana and other rock stars), he's busy running Vintage Instrument Rental, one of the few places in the world where musicians can rent the vintage guitars or amps of their dreams for a recording session or gig.
