Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Well, the Kossoff serial number is a 1962, so it should be the body's serial, since we know the Kossoff is a partscaster. 1964's serial seems right by all Fender serial number decoder tools.
Iron Brody
Educated Fool
From Alan Sosa’s Instagram story:
This poor guitar LOL
This poor guitar LOL
matic22
Ancient Mariner
White Spirit Strat is barely a guitar anymore. It's more of a puzzle.
sea.of.madness.1986
Sentinel
Being Jan’s tech is such a challenging job! Its mainly bringing guitars back to life!
Maiden Australia
Trooper
I've been trying to find vids of the jan sig but can't find any. Also Titebond fixes everything so it will be back in no time.
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
matic22
Ancient Mariner
And then, there were 2. It seems like Dave abandoned the Birthday Strat and the Cream FR Classic in favour of a second Andy Hicks Strat. It seems like the original has yellowed a bit and has a gold logo, while the new one has black outlined logo. The black Jason Smith and the California Series are still there (with humbuckers, I assume) and so is the LP Axcess. The black LP next to it is Adrian's LP Classic which came back from Smith/Kotzen, it seems.
Maiden Australia
Trooper
I wonder what caused the switch? Also where did you find this image?
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Mateus256
Trooper
This photo was shared by his guitar tech, Colin Price. It's almost certainly a prototype of the 50th anniversary signature model
matic22
Ancient Mariner
No, it's probably one of the expensive Dave Murray strats from the Andy Hicks custom shop run. Those 2 guitars should be as identical as it gets (apart from the Fender logo).
matic22
Ancient Mariner
I think consistency. Dave never had 2 identical Strats. Now he has. The neck is very specific and similar to the California series. So, the second Hicks strat is basically a perfect backup.
As mentioned by posters before, it was shared on the instagram page of Davey's roadie, Colin Price.
Here's the link to his page:
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Here's some cool shots of the lad's gear in 1985 from a Japanese magazine (Young Guitar maybe?). Unfortunately the text is in Japanese, so I have no idea what it says, but the shots are pretty cool.
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KostamojeN
Invader
That rack with 4 open amplifiers seems kinda fragile like that
Yeah, it's a compromise I guess (being that open for ventilation purposes).
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
Dance of Death tour. You can see his old Jackson on the end and the acoustic.
Did he ever use the Jackson on the DOD tour, @matic22? There is a photo of him warming up with it, but I’m not sure if he ever used it onstage. I know he mainly played the two sunburst strats.
Iron Brody
Educated Fool
Is that a Bill Lawrence/Wilde pickup in the neck position of the blue Lado?