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1995 G&L Legacy
This is a guitar that I used to use more often. It still makes appearances on whatever Hendrix stuff we do (it has a great tremelo!) and i used on the demo tape for "Drivin' South". It sounds a little thin compared to my Fenders, but it plays like a dream. It's an incredible guitar. I should know... I used to repair guitars and we were a G&L dealer! The fretwork on this puppy is really great, and the neck is pretty small, which makes me really want to play as fast as I possibly can. Which is another reason this doesn't get used as much as the others. =)
1995 Fender Aluminum Telecaster
This is the guitar that really has the sound that follows the band. It's a one of a kind sound from an ALMOST one of a kind guitar. When i try to use this guitar in the studio with other artists or with other bands, I immediately sound EXACTLY like I should be playing "Birmingham Song"... it just has this special tone. Of course, it has more than a little to do with the way i play it. It has normal (medium) sized Fender frets and a great finish on the fretboard... not sticky like most other maple necks. I've played this guitar so much since i've been in Drivin' South (i got guitar this 2 days before the 1st Drivin' South practice) that it may need a fret crowning soon. Which is unusual, since I use 9.5 gauge strings! Another highly unsual thing about this guitar is that it's body is made of Aluminum... that's right. It's hollow as well. This explains why it has almost an ES-335 type sound while still sounding like a Fender. It came with Tele Texas Specials in it to beef up the low end. Some guy combed the whole country trying to find one of these Purple Aluminum Telecasters to complete his Aluminum Fender guitar collection. There were apparently only 30 of these Purple Aluminum Teles made... some of which were sent back to the factory because of problems with the finish. No such problems here.
Custom Fender Strat
This guitar is the most interesting. Notice the missing paint, the
faded pickups, the pearloid pickguard...etc. It was originally a '57
Reissue Strat, made probably in 1992. It came with a 5-way switch that
i almost immediately installed at a local music store. The next
thing to go was the paint job. A Fender polish i used clouded the
finish one day, and i stopped taking care of the paint job after
that. After that, i put this neck on... it's made by Saga. It's huge
and very dense wood, with jumbo frets and a very thick slab of
rosewood. I put Texas Special Strat pickups in a couple of years
ago and replaced the original 1-ply pickguard with this pearloid one.
Despite my caring attention, it's lost a few inches of paint here
and there. You can really smack this guitar and it will always be
the "workhorse" of the trio. I've even used it on a country session.
John LeVan did the
setup on this one and it's played amazingly ever since.
1960 Reissue Gibson Les Paul
Here's my  ly acquired
Gibson Les Paul. It's a 1960 Gold Top reissue, built
in 1994. I bought it from
John LeVan's guitar repair shop (it was on consignment). I normally
don't go for Gibsons, but this thing is perfect for me. Whoever made this
knew what he was doing! I (myself) installed a Seymour Duncan '59 in the
neck position and i put a Seymour Duncan JB (Jeff Beck, i think) in the
Bridge position. It's gonna rock out for the new stuff, and it's sure to
be the main guitar for live shows from now on.
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