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

[matic22]

1st photo is from June 22, Montreal Canada, so Davey had that white 70s strat on the Killers tour already
2nd photo is from a gig at the Rainbow in November 1981, photos taken during that show were also used for the Beast on The Road tour book (which obviously was released later), note Steve's bass is painted white here (assuming it's his #1), which means it went from white, to black (killers era), then back to white again, before being painted in that classic blue sparkle finish before the Beast on The Road tour (perhaps even before they entered the studio to record TNOT
3rd Some photos from a German Magazine, note Dave is playing his Dean V even on the Powerslave Tour
4th From the Powerslave Tour, Steve can be seen playing one of his Lado basses
5-6th Again from the Powerslave Tour, Davey is playing his Cherry Sunburst Heritage Les Paul (So now we know it was played live before it was eventually retired for studio work).

2nd photo:
The white bass was the backup during Beast On The Road tour. It can be seen being played by Michael Kenney (with Eddie mask) on the Madrid 82 bootleg. That bass became the blue crackle bass.

3rd photo:
I assume that the Dean V was the backup for the Heritage LP during early stages of World Slavery Tour.

4th photo:
Lado basses were used during early stages of World Slaver Tour.

5th photo:
The Heritage LP was used nightly on Powerslave (the song) during the early stages of World Slavery Tour. It was likely replaced with the Kossoff to avoid quick guitar changes before the guitar solo, which featured tremolo use.

 

[Kalata]

note Dave is playing his Dean V even on the Powerslave Tour

It's nice to know that Dave didn't just use the Dean V for 1 tour. It was used for Trooper, right.

The white bass was the backup during Beast On The Road tour. It can be seen being played by Michael Kenney (with Eddie mask) on the Madrid 82 bootleg. That bass became the blue crackle bass.

Nice trivia.

 

[sea.of.madness.1986]

I am pretty convinced that I have seen a photo of Adrian using the black Gibson on the DOD tour. I think it must have been during the song Iron Maiden, as there was a big Eddie behind him. Obviously he didn’t use it lots, as he is always using a Sunburst strat on the DOTR show.

It was probably a drop D guitar (along with #2 Strat and cream HSS Strat) which was used on Iron Maiden during the tour but very rarely.