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

[Spaldy]

Some of the guitars will be on display at Eddfest.

 

[matic22]

Some of the guitars will be on display at Eddfest.

The SG and the Guild bass are news. We kinda knew about the others.

Adrian getting dragged by the tank tracks story is also hillarious. Some info from Sean and Colin is wrong, tho. The doubleneck was first used on the A Matter Of The Beast tour and the SG was on stage for the last time in 2012.

 

[KostamojeN]

The SG and the Guild bass are news. We kinda knew about the others.

Adrian getting dragged by the tank tracks story is also hillarious. Some info from Sean and Colin is wrong, tho. The doubleneck was first used on the A Matter Of The Beast tour and the SG was on stage for the last time in 2012.

So.... according to this story, the live after death rosewood strat is not the early days rosewood strat? They say here this was bought in 83? Interesting....

 

[matic22]

So.... according to this story, the live after death rosewood strat is not the early days rosewood strat? They say here this was bought in 83? Interesting....

LAD 64 Kahler Strat was bought on 1st of August 1983 in Nashville. It all checks out. It also appears on that guitar collection photo from 1983 backstage. It's first stage appearance was in 1984 during the Powerslave tour.

Early days rosewood Strat was a CBS-era Strat anyway...

 

[sea.of.madness.1986]

No Jan’s guitars tho?

Edit: just the Chet atkins (which was shown on some photos but not on today’s video)

 

[Pinkoboe]

LAD 64 Kahler Strat was bought on 1st of August 1983 in Nashville. It all checks out. It also appears on that guitar collection photo from 1983 backstage. It's first stage appearance was in 1984 during the Powerslave tour.

Early days rosewood Strat was a CBS-era Strat anyway...

The white/cream Stratocaster from the 83' collection photo is not the LAD 64' Kahler Strat.

From what I can tell, that guitar is from somewhere between 1959 and 1962. The spotting details that indicate that are:

1) The wide position markers on the 12th fret (discontinued in 1963)
2) Slab rosewood fretboard (discontinued in 1962)
3) Fender "spaghetti" logo (used through 1964)

The neck on the LAD 64 Kahler Strat has:

1) Narrow position markers on the 12th fret (introduced in 1963)
2) Later thicker "transition" Fender logo (introduced in 1964, generally associated with the L-Series of serial numbers)

 

[matic22]

The white/cream Stratocaster from the 83' collection photo is not the LAD 64' Kahler Strat.

From what I can tell, that guitar is from somewhere between 1959 and 1962. The spotting details that indicate that are:

1) The wide position markers on the 12th fret (discontinued in 1963)View attachment 46939View attachment 46940
2) Slab rosewood fretboard (discontinued in 1962)
3) Fender "spaghetti" logo (used through 1964)

The neck on the LAD 64 Kahler Strat has:

1) Narrow position markers on the 12th fret (introduced in 1963)
2) Later thicker "transition" Fender logo (introduced in 1964, generally associated with the L-Series of serial numbers)

The white Strat was always a 61/62. The LAD Kahler Strat was always a 64. We knew that. The only info about the 64 to me is that it was fire-damaged when Dave bought it.

 

[KostamojeN]

The white Strat was always a 61/62. The LAD Kahler Strat was always a 64. We knew that. The only info about the 64 to me is that it was fire-damaged when Dave bought it.

Very hard to get good photos at Eddfest during the day, because of the reflective glass. Hopefully someone else had better luck!

 

[matic22]

Very hard to get good photos at Eddfest during the day, because of the reflective glass. Hopefully someone else had better luck!

Sandberg did a copy of Blacike? That is interesting.

Also, this is kinda a shit display. Hopefully those can be seen better in the future somehow.

 

[KostamojeN]

Sandberg did a copy of Blacike? That is interesting.

Also, this is kinda a shit display. Hopefully those can be seen better in the future somehow.

I wanted to take more later when the sun wasn't shining on the glass, but there was a coach to catch.

The stage props weren't covered. I can post them here of there's interest, but I didn't want to go off topic.

 

[matic22]

I wanted to take more later when the sun wasn't shining on the glass, but there was a coach to catch.

The stage props weren't covered. I can post them here of there's interest, but I didn't want to go off topic.

But still, if there is a glass and a security guard there is no need for it to have a fence 200 meters from it.

 

[Spaldy]

Very hard to get good photos at Eddfest during the day, because of the reflective glass. Hopefully someone else had better luck!

I edited mine to show more of what was behind the glass. Wasn't completely successful because of how sunny it was.

 

[2M2M]

I wonder if those amps have genuinely been sat unused since early 80s? From what I've gathered in the past all the studio records haven generally just been the live gear with maybe a different 'new' amp here and there

 

[matic22]

I wonder if those amps have genuinely been sat unused since early 80s? From what I've gathered in the past all the studio records haven generally just been the live gear with maybe a different 'new' amp here and there

Not really. Maybe for Janick. Dave for instance famously used Les Pauls through Victories and Fenders durnig TBOS. Adrian also had an array of amps in the studio for AMLOAD.

The 80's amps were likely not fired up since the Powerslave tour. Dave went to GK after that and I believe it was JCM900's during early 90's. Also, Dave nowadays uses A LOT more gain than he did back then.