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

Came across another interesting pic.

Steve with a white precision. This can't be the famous blue one, because didn't it start out white and was already black before the first album and blue before NoB?
 

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KostamojeN said:
Came across another interesting pic.

Steve with a white precision. This can't be the famous blue one, because didn't it start out white and was already black before the first album and blue before NoB?
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He did have another white one during Killers/Beast On The Road era. There are some pictures of Michael Kenney dressed as Eddie playing it besides Steve on stage.

But it was either refinished/sold before 1983, because the photo from that year of all of the guitars on the road, doesn't feature any white basses. I think that bass might've become either his blue crackle bass or his red precision bass, since they are both refins.

Edit: Found on the bass forums that the blue crackle was indeed white first.


P.S. The checkerboard bass is a real '59 precision. I think that might've been a reason why he retired it after the 90's. It used to be fiesta red.
 
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matic22 said:
Please read the whole topic (I think I spoke about this guitar before). This is H's Florida strat. It was used during Running Free in 2011 there and resides in Nicko's house. When H jams with Nicko he uses this guitar (see Nicki's 6pth birthday jam).
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Don't know if it's been noted, but it's a Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS FR Made in Mexico.
 
Which photo was that, I think I know which one you mean, but not sure.

This is really interesting about Steve's basses - his other precisions have been confusing me a bit - he usef to keep saying he only had one :bigsmile:

Also don't think I've seen that pic of Eddie/ Rod playing a bass.

matic22 said:
He did have another white one during Killers/Beast On The Road era. There are some pictures of Michael Kenney dressed as Eddie playing it besides Steve on stage.

But it was either refinished/sold before 1983, because the photo from that year of all of the guitars on the road, doesn't feature any white basses. I think that bass might've become either his blue crackle bass or his red precision bass, since they are both refins.

Edit: Found on the bass forums that the blue crackle was indeed white first.


P.S. The checkerboard bass is a real '59 precision. I think that might've been a reason why he retired it after the 90's. It used to be fiesta red.
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1982. I guess they were playing Tush with Ricky Medlocke (slide guitar) and a few others from Blackfoot. Michael Kenney came on stage dressed as Eddie.


But in contest of this topic, the only thing that matters is that Steve had a backup white P-Bass during Beast On The Road, while his main one was already sparkle blue.
 
Welsh Phantom said:
Doesn't mean a thing. I can pick a photo from google and type that over it and use it as a bootleg cover. :)
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Ugh, you mean you don't know how Beast on the road stage looked like in comparison to World Piece stage?
 
Nah m8 that for me looks like 1982 stage. I am, 99% sure it's 1982, so Bruce got that bad pants a year before Piece of Mind. And Clive's drum set is there too even if his face can't be recognized.
 
Zare said:
Nah m8 that for me looks like 1982 stage. I am, 99% sure it's 1982, so Bruce got that bad pants a year before Piece of Mind. And Clive's drum set is there too even if his face can't be recognized.
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Yeah you are probably right. The pants threw me .... reminded me of his spandex in The Trooper video
 
Zare said:
Nah m8 that for me looks like 1982 stage. I am, 99% sure it's 1982, so Bruce got that bad pants a year before Piece of Mind. And Clive's drum set is there too even if his face can't be recognized.
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It's definitely from The Beast On The Road Tour '82.
 
Am I crazy or Adrian is playing with a black Ibanez Destroyer guitar (1982, TBOTR tour) ? :confused:
 

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Kalata said:
Am I crazy or Adrian is playing with a black Ibanez Destroyer guitar (1982, TBOTR tour) ? :confused:
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It's his red one. Blue light+ sparkle CAR colour makes it seem black. The only black destroyers Ibanez did at that time had 3 pickups and a tremolo (Phil Collen's one).
 
Probably the most recent photo of Steve with the Lado Bass.

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It was definitely taken after 1989, since the top Marshall head is a Jubilee. A black one, which came out in 1988. Maiden didn't use Marshalls during 86-89 period, so it has to be NPFTD sessions at the Barnyard.
 
matic22 said:
Probably the most recent photo of Steve with the Lado Bass.

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It was definitely taken after 1989, since the top Marshall head is a Jubilee. A black one, which came out in 1988. Maiden didn't use Marshalls during 86-89 period, so it has to be NPFTD sessions at the Barnyard.
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Or you can say that room is quite similar to the one in Holy Smoke video (I didn't check the video, but this was first thing in my mind when I saw this picture :D ).

This bass is hideous. The headstock is just cherry on top.
 
matic22 said:
Probably the most recent photo of Steve with the Lado Bass.

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It was definitely taken after 1989, since the top Marshall head is a Jubilee. A black one, which came out in 1988. Maiden didn't use Marshalls during 86-89 period, so it has to be NPFTD sessions at the Barnyard.
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Your guitar geek knowledge is pure gold for this forum. Nice job!
 
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