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

Kalata said:
Adrian and Richie used painted guitars for the (effects) video of ''Black Light''. The Strat looks like a glam metal guitar.

He probably won't use it live, but it would be cool.
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It's cool to see Adrian using an HH but in S-style. He's used plenty of HH Gibsons and Jackson V, but I don't really ever recall seeing him play an HH S-style like that apart from the original spec of the 86' Jackson, but that was HSH. The splatter paint reminds me of the Phil Collen signature Jacksons.

It has Seymour Duncans in it, which leads me to believe it must be somewhat a decent guitar - I'd imagine he may bring it out on tour if he does SK shows, maybe.. Doesn't look like something he'd bring out for Maiden, but hoping then Jackson will do something cool for him for Maiden's tour, whether it's a new production model or just a custom shop for H.
 
2M2M said:
It's cool to see Adrian using an HH but in S-style. He's used plenty of HH Gibsons and Jackson V, but I don't really ever recall seeing him play an HH S-style like that apart from the original spec of the 86' Jackson, but that was HSH. The splatter paint reminds me of the Phil Collen signature Jacksons.

It has Seymour Duncans in it, which leads me to believe it must be somewhat a decent guitar - I'd imagine he may bring it out on tour if he does SK shows, maybe.. Doesn't look like something he'd bring out for Maiden, but hoping then Jackson will do something cool for him for Maiden's tour, whether it's a new production model or just a custom shop for H.
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Those guitars were props as Richie said. However, if they want to do something with Splatters/Swirls, there is a guy who paints amazing versions of them currently. He did guitars for Gary Holt, Kerry King, Joe Satriani and the 35th Anniversary Ibanez Steve Vai model.
 
matic22 said:
Those guitars were props as Richie said. However, if they want to do something with Splatters/Swirls, there is a guy who paints amazing versions of them currently. He did guitars for Gary Holt, Kerry King, Joe Satriani and the 35th Anniversary Ibanez Steve Vai model.
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Yeah I would have thought just basic props - just seems interesting they'd load up Adrian's one with Seymour Duncans - Richie's one could just be a basic player Tele. Cool to hear that John McMurtrie painted them.
 
I found this picture today somewhere on the internet, this clearly isn't the famous checkerboarded bass from WST, NPFTD and FOTD tours since the one from the photo has a maple neck and AFAIK the original one has rosewood (I also think the original chess bass was red), this might be a different one that Steve acquired by BNW time (unless the original checkerboarded bass was re-necked), so, does anyone know about this bass?
 

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sea_of_madness_667 said:
I found this picture today somewhere on the internet, this clearly isn't the famous checkerboarded bass from WST, NPFTD and FOTD tours since the one from the photo has a maple neck and AFAIK the original one has rosewood (I also think the original chess bass was red), this might be a different one that Steve acquired by BNW time (unless the original checkerboarded bass was re-necked), so, does anyone know about this bass?
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I think this is indeed a different one, The original is a '59 Precision.

This looks like a Fender Custom Shop job. That's around time Steve started working with Fender, so it makes sense...
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
I think he only had the drop d sunburst strat during the DOD tour. I would like to see a picture of his guitar rack from 2000/2001.

@matic22 will confirm this though
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Yes. #2 was a standard-tuned guitar backup guitar for most of the tours since 1999, with the exception of DOD (#2 was in drop D and the standard backup was probably the Jackson Superstrat) and Early Days, where it was the main standard-tuned guitar (#1 was it's backup).

There is a photo of his guitar boat from that era. He only had 4 guitars with him. Both sunbursts, the cream Strat and the LP Custom.
 
matic22 said:
Yes. #2 was a standard-tuned guitar backup guitar for most of the tours since 1999, with the exception of DOD (#2 was in drop D and the standard backup was probably the Jackson Superstrat) and Early Days, where it was the main standard-tuned guitar (#1 was it's backup).

There is a photo of his guitar boat from that era. He only had 4 guitars with him. Both sunbursts, the cream Strat and the LP Custom.
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Thanks for this. I’ll have a look for that photo.

It was good to see his old Jackson on the rack during the DOTR documentary. It looked like it went from being a warmup guitar to a backup.
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
Thanks for this. I’ll have a look for that photo.

It was good to see his old Jackson on the rack during the DOTR documentary. It looked like it went from being a warmup guitar to a backup.
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It would be nice to see that kind of photos in the Infinite Dreams book, since Maiden’s instruments will hopefully appear, so, some rack photos could be seen!!

Btw, thanks for the replies!!
 
sea_of_madness_667 said:
It would be nice to see that kind of photos in the Infinite Dreams book, since Maiden’s instruments will hopefully appear, so, some rack photos could be seen!!

Btw, thanks for the replies!!
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I doubt there will be those, since I don't think Halfin or McMurtrie ever took them. The instrument photos were probably taken by McMurtrie at IM warehouse in recent times (and some probably at Adrian's and Janick's as they keep some of the touring guitars at home when off the road). And the Destroyer is at Adrian's house.
 
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