matic22
Ancient Mariner
The guitar was at the warm-up gig, but it wasn't used on tour. Davey played candy apple red/burgundy Jackson, white Jackson and blue ESPs on that tour.
Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses
Mosher Zone
Prowler
Yeah, just looked. I was at both the Intercity & No Prayer tours & have programs but no pics unfortunately. In the Intercity one there is a pic from what looks like it was taken at Bruce's your when Janick was announced. Dave is playing a black strat with a black single coil at the neck.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
That's Janick's Gillan 64/65 Strat probably. That's what Dave played when they jumped on stage during Bruce's solo gig to play Trooper.
Mosher Zone
Prowler
Ah! Of course.
Pinkoboe
Trooper
Here are the pics:
Attachments
Mosher Zone
Prowler
Wow, that's awesome man. Thanks for sharing
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Do we have a source on this?
matic22
Ancient Mariner
There was an article about it somewhere... But at least the pickguard for sure wasn't original when it was in Kossoff's posession. As someone mentioned, mint-green pickguards firstly appeared in the 60's.
Also Dave likely repainted it to black.
Edit: From Ground Guitar (likely lifted from another article):
Even though Dave checked the serial numbers for the accuracy of the previous ownership, the guitar somehow didn’t feature a white finish anymore but was painted black.
Also, the body was allegedly dated to the early 60s. This would mean that Kossoff actually had a Parts-caster, or that someone swapped the bodies from a white to a black one at some point. Since Dave doesn’t seem to mention or explain anywhere whether he did this, or whether the guitar was already like that when he got it, we’re left to speculate.
A theory that could potentially explain why this guitar features parts from a couple of different models, is that Paul Kossoff could’ve acquired it from Eric Clapton. Eric bought a couple of Stratocasters in the early 1970s and used what he thought were the best parts of each guitar to assemble his ultimate guitar, now famously known as “Blackie”.
Since Paul was affiliated with Clapton, he could’ve ended up with a guitar that was assembled from the remaining parts, but it is commonly agreed upon that all the guitars that Clapton bought that day were mid to late-50s models. Since we know that Paul’s Strat allegedly featured a body made in the 1960s, this theory doesn’t really hold water.
Also, here is Free's My Brother Jake with the Kossoff Strat. Clearly it has a 3-ply mint pickguard. My theory is that the neck was a gift from Clapton and Kossoff simply replaced the original one (Clapton liked to rave about maple fretboards back then).
Funnily enough, the guitar in original state minus the neck looks like it's a twin of Janick's 63 (2nd from the right).
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sea.of.madness.1986
Educated Fool
I’ve been watching live performances from the current tour, I see that Adrian stopped using the hooligan Jackson for 2 Minutes to Midnight and he now uses the green one only, any idea why did he stop using the green Jackson? Same with the silverburst Lado. Why did he stop using it? But I’m happy that the black Lado is getting some recognition, which is nice.
2M2M
Educated Fool
It's been mentioned a few times that H does like to swap around a bit nowadays. But as the tour progresses, I assume he gravitates towards certain guitars a little more. The green Jackson he uses on the current tour has mostly been his No. 1 for not far off 10 years. But I think the hooligan artwork obviously lends itself to 2MTM, and as with the rest of Powerslave album, the song was recorded with a single humbucker guitar (Ibanez Roadstar), so no single coil/neck pick up parts required. But I've seen H play solo in the Trooper with neck pickup (usually bridge..) so it could be that he's just wanting more tone variation on recent shows? Or could be as simple as he likes the green Jackson more (highly likely).
As for the grey vs. black Lado - I was a little surprised as he had mentioned in that recent rig rundown video with Ola that he liked the grey one more. But he has obviously warmed up to the black one more since then.. Maybe it's lighter?
Still keen to see more playtime on the Destroyer, and would be nice to see a LP come out for a song.. Maybe next leg. I'd love to see a new Jackson with different colour (maybe a blue burst...)
sea.of.madness.1986
Educated Fool
This. As the Destroyer is a Drop D guitar, I think he should use it for Run to the Hills and Fear of the Dark too, those two are the other songs that H plays in drop D along with TNOTB and Iron Maiden (Clairvoyant too, but as he needs the tremolo, he needs the Jackson for that song). That said, he should bring out the Destroyer for those two songs, after that, he could put one of the Lados as another Drop D guitar, for example the silverburst one, as it is becoming less and less used.
Thanks for the reply.
sea.of.madness.1986
Educated Fool
And yeah, a new Jackson would be very nice, as H changes his main guitar every 10 years or so, the Les Paul needs an appearance too, it’s a good axe.
About 2 Minutes, it could be indeed that Adrian looks for tone variation as the tour goes on, possibly that’s why the hooligan was replaced by the green Jackson during 2 Minutes.