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

2M2M said:
Going back to older times - does anyone know what the guitar Davey is holding in this photo is? Apologies if it's already been answered somewhere! I don't know if I ever saw it in any other photos or video than here

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One of the 2 Lado Strats. The other one was blue sunburst. Both were sometimes used on Iron Maiden during World Slavery tour, along the white Squier.
 
sea_of_madness_667 said:
I found this rare picture on Pinterest, Adrian holding a sunburst Strat, was it loaned? I don’t think Adrian played it live.
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This one has 22 frets, which leads me to believe that it's a Jackson/Charvel. It looks like the later part of the 80's and I think this might be one of the numerous Strats Charvel/Jackson built him.

And yeah, that guitar has never seen the stage.
 
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It is an ESP. This photo session is the only time it ever surfaced to my knowledge.View attachment 41760
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Sunburst or black, it looks like a guitar Dave might use. The opposite can be said for the black LP in the photo, it could be Adrian's. The photo looks like it's from 1988. There's a photo of Adrian with Kai and Kiske with a black LP from the early 90's. In the 80's, they had guitars for photo sessions, not just their own I guess.
 
Kalata said:
Sunburst or black, it looks like a guitar Dave might use. The opposite can be said for the black LP in the photo, it could be Adrian's. The photo looks like it's from 1988. There's a photo of Adrian with Kai and Kiske with a black LP from the early 90's. In the 80's, they had guitars for photo sessions, not just their own I guess.
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That black LP from Kiske sessions was a standard with P90's. Adrian also bought a gold one during TBOS, when he acquired the black Standard.
 
Kalata said:
Sunburst or black, it looks like a guitar Dave might use. The opposite can be said for the black LP in the photo, it could be Adrian's. The photo looks like it's from 1988. There's a photo of Adrian with Kai and Kiske with a black LP from the early 90's. In the 80's, they had guitars for photo sessions, not just their own I guess.
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This photo appeared in Ross Halfin's "What are we doing this for" book, with a caption that it was taken in Dallas Texas in March of 1987.
 
is there any photo of the second prototype of Adrian’s 8431 Jackson? As far as I know it has a chipped pickguard but I don’t know if it is distinguishable from the main 8431 model because AFAIK Adrian broke the headstock of it in Munich in 2018 and it has a production one with its signature on it.
 
I think this is the 8431 because it lacks H’s signature, and AFAIK the 2nd prototype has it, I hope there’s a photo of both guitars together.
 

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sea_of_madness_667 said:
I think this is the 8431 because it lacks H’s signature, and AFAIK the 2nd prototype has it, I hope there’s a photo of both guitars together.
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That's the 8431 prototype, also known as #1 prototype. It's matte white, instead of gloss white and the original neck lacked the signature headstock. The original neck was purposely broken in Freiburg by Adrian in 2018. It currently has a production neck.

#2 prototype is gloss white and has the chipped pickguard.

Both were used as #1 drop-D guitars in different parts of the tour last year. And they are both still on tour.
 
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