Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

Pinkoboe said:
The Kossoff strat never had a Kahler, but it did have a Rockinger system installed for the first part of the World Slavery Tour. It was removed before the tour ended. The headstock still shows the holes drilled for the locking nut.

I believe the book is wrong on this.

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I know that. The vintage Strat style bridge that was installed after is probably a Kahler. Kahler also did some non-locking Strat bridges and I think one of those is on guitar now or it was swapped back to original bridge since retirement of the guitar. I highly doubt that the original production Fender Strat bridge is on the guitar. Tremolo arm is also not something that you can get from Fender.

At least in the late 80's I think the Kossoff had some non-locking version of an aftermarket bridge with brass parts IIRC. Could have been swapped back since.
 
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matic22 said:
I know that. The vintage Strat style bridge that was installed after is probably a Kahler. Kahler also did some non-locking Strat bridges and I think one of those is on guitar now or it was swapped back to original bridge since retirement of the guitar. I highly doubt that the original production Fender Strat bridge is on the guitar. Tremolo arm is also not something that you can get from Fender.

At least in the late 80's I think the Kossoff had some non-locking version of an aftermarket bridge with brass parts IIRC. Could have been swapped back since.
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I've never seen a non-locking Kahler bridge that looks exactly like a Standard Fender 6 point Vintage Tremolo, I seriously doubt they ever produced one. Also, the standard tremolo arm from a Kahler 2300 series tremolo fits into a regular strat's tremolo without modifications (I have one in my Strat in fact). I'm pretty sure the one in Dave's Kossoff is either the original, or some aftermarket one that's identical (visually) to the original bridge.

Here's a 1989 Kahler Catalogue for anyone who's interested in taking a gander.
 
Mandume said:
I've never seen a non-locking Kahler bridge that looks exactly like a Standard Fender 6 point Vintage Tremolo, I seriously doubt they ever produced one. Also, the standard tremolo arm from a Kahler 2300 series tremolo fits into a regular strat's tremolo without modifications (I have one in my Strat in fact). I'm pretty sure the one in Dave's Kossoff is either the original, or some aftermarket one that's identical (visually) to the original bridge.

Here's a 1989 Kahler Catalogue for anyone who's interested in taking a gander.
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Then, it's indeed a mistake. But I remember vivirdly that Kossoff had a vintage Fender type trenolo with brass saddles at some point in the late 80s and an extra long tremolo arm, that is still on the guitar.

Also, I highly doubt that is the whole Kahler catalogue. There are some bridges missing, like the Kahler Steeler (used on Washburn N4's and the Kahler bridge that was used on the first run of Ibanez Jems). I think due to Fender and Floyd Rose patents (Kramer owned the later at that point) they weren't able to promote some models.
 
Pinkoboe said:
Here is the Kossoff strat with what looks to be some weird aftermarket bridge saddles in early 80's.

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Thanks for the photo. I had a very strong suspicion that the Kossof didn't have a stock trem in the early 80's.

It could be that Kahler made those saddles and that's where the mistake came from, although they look like a very early Gotoh brass saddles. It looks like bridge in that configuration was still on Kossoff during Somewhere On Tour, although the vid of Walking On Glass is a bit shitty, so it's hard to be 100% sure. Thanks Rodney for not recording SOT.

 
Murder of Rue Morgue said:
Could it be a Charvel bridge? Like the one Van Halen mounted on the Frankenstrat for the cover of the first album.
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One of these maybe?
 
matic22 said:
Rig rundown for Jan and Dave is out. It seems like the Hicks Strat is gonna be mass produced next year...

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Nice, I also didn’t know that Janick’s sunburst Fender was tuned to DADGAD last year during Time Machine, as Alan Sosa said, I’ve always thought it was drop-D.

Also, what happened to Eddie Marsh, why isn’t he Jan’s tech anymore?

P.S: It’s also nice to hear that the Hicks Strat it’s gonna be produced, if so, is there any possibility that they do a lefty model? I’m lefty and I would like this guitar!
 
sea.of.madness.1986 said:
Nice, I also didn’t know that Janick’s sunburst Fender was tuned to DADGAD last year during Time Machine, as Alan Sosa said, I’ve always thought it was drop-D.

Also, what happened to Eddie Marsh, why isn’t he Jan’s tech anymore?

P.S: It’s also nice to hear that the Hicks Strat it’s gonna be produced, if so, is there any possibility that they do a lefty model? I’m lefty and I would like this guitar!
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Yeah, interesting that Time Machine is in Kashmir DADGAD.

Eddie Marsh is drumming with a band currently as far as I know.
 
KostamojeN said:
I was going to say: I love how someone is sound checking the Powerslave interlude and Fear of the Dark while Colin is talking but I guess they were filming Janick's side at the same time
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If they were filming both videos at the same time it was probably Alan Sosa playing FOTD (as seen in the video) and possibly Sean Brady playing Powerslave as a soundcheck .
 
matic22 said:
Rig rundown for Jan and Dave is out. It seems like the Hicks Strat is gonna be mass produced next year...

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Very nice to finally see Janick's rig, for the last tour was only Adrian. Dave still carry the cream Strat, but is now a deep backup (like the birthday Strat). It wasn't even presented. I wonder if he, besides Adrian ofc, can bring something different/new for next year or in the future.

FOTD's intro is just pure gold.
 
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