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During the initial months of their existence as a band, the electric guitars used both by Roky Erickson and Stacy Sutherland were Gibson ES-335s.

Sutherland's pioneering use of reverb and echo, and bluesy, acid-drenched guitar predates such bands as The Allman Brothers Band and ZZ Top.

According to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in an article that originally appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine, the guitars were run through " Black-Face " Twin Reverbs with both guitarists using external Fender " tank " reverb units and Gibson " Maestro " Fuzz-tones as distortion devices.