Members Jaymeister Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, serial number 203177, black leather guitar strap, rectangle mother-of-pearl inlays, 22 fret, single cut-away. The Edge's guitar work has been called ethereal and having a quality all its own. His established style of repetitive and echo-y riffs carry the heart of U2's music. His guitar playing has been noted for the use of delay (and double delay), shimmer effects, and drawing on styles from traditional Irish music. 1975 Cream Gibson Les Paul Custom, or so I'm told by Dallas Schoo who checked the serial number. I bought this guitar down on 49th street in New York city in 1982.. It was the third guitar I ever bought, after my Explorer and my black Strat. I wanted that Steve Jones "Never mind the bollox" sound, so I got the same guitar right down to the colour. I never could get that sound, but I found a bunch of songs in this instrument, and have used it extensively ever since, on tour and in the studio. There are many of photographs out there of me playing this Les Paul. One I happened to notice is in our recent book "U2 by U2" on page 224. I'm in the control room of the original windmill lane studio with Brian Eno, probably adding the final touch to a song from the "Achtung Baby" record, which we mixed there. I will miss this one, not for sentimental reasons but because it's my New Years Day guitar. Dallas is going to have to get me one that sounds as good, I'm sure I never will quite get the same sound, but maybe there might be a few songs in the replacement. Edge Dublin 2007 photo credit: Anton Corbijnhttp://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=52935&item=250097596656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Jaymeister Posted March 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 For Katrina Relief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluehuricane Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 sweet finish. i'd love to have nash make that for me... if i were rich... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members letterswewrote Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 that looks like my guitar... but i'm not an ass... actually, wait.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Josh S Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 I love that guitar, and I WANT it.Want!!!Or, just a white LPC I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OrangeLazarus Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 ooh edge mojo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Oh, I'd love to play that. I've seen em a couple of times, and that one sounds awesome (in his hands). What are those PUs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 For Katrina Relief He's been quite active in that. Bless the lad - it's for a good cause. :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Oh, I'd love to play that. I've seen em a couple of times, and that one sounds awesome (in his hands). What are those PUs? NO! It can never be played! Don't even look at it!It will look great when it gets bastard big screws driven into it so it can be bolted to the wall in a Hard Rock Cafe somewhere really rock and roll like Niagara Falls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KBN Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Well, if you can't afford The Edge's Les Paul, you can still get THIS. "The touch, The feel of cotton...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cloudscapes Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 it's going to sell for a rediculous amount of money just because someone thinks it's a better guitar because somebody famous used it/touched it. and yes, I'd say that even if it were a band I liked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bricks & Bones Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 What are those PUs? Pretty sure they're Gretsch Filtertrons.And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna put them in mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PFDarkside Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 They look like regular humbuckers but with trimmed covers. I've seen them a time or two. IF that's what they are, I can see why. No cover to let more highs through but protection around the edges so a string can't get caught under the pickup bobbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrSage Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Pretty sure they're Gretsch Filtertrons. And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna put them in mine Nope, look closer. They're just regular old humbuckers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrSage Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 that looks like my guitar... but i'm not an ass...actually, wait.... Way to catch yourself there! Edge isn't an ass either. You may be thinking of Bono? Imagine if you were touring with one of the most successful rock bands of all time, and you'd played a particular guitar -- the third guitar you'd ever bought -- at every single show on every single tour. How much would that guitar mean to you? Probably a lot. It would be hard to give it up, even for a cause you really believed in. In an interview, Edge said, "I wanted to give something really significant that would really mean a lot for me to give. It deserved something that I would miss." So he gave away an irreplaceable guitar with more sentimental value than anything I'll ever own. If that makes him an ass, then I want to be one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mofx4me Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 If I had money like that to throw around, hell yes I'd buy it.Especially because New Year's Day was recorded with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted March 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 Interesting opinions here...To me that is one of the most identifiable guitars of the 80's, and ranks 2nd to SRV's #1 in terms of instant recognizeablity. (for me anyway).It will go for a ton of money, and to a great cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 It will go for a ton of money, and to a great cause. ...to a bank vault, where it will rot. I mean appreciate. Don't get me wrong, it is a great cause, but the idea that a guitar that's got that much history and that means so much to a great musician is going into the hands of some fat old billionaire who could care less about U2 or New Years Day or Katrina Relief so it can sit in a vault until it's value increases enough to be able to sell it on just makes me mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted March 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 I agree Bob...unfortunately I guess that's what it takes to get some billionaires to jump off their wallet and donate.I wonder if there will be an announcement as to who actually wins the auction...maybe Gibson will win, and then re-create a copy just like Clapton's blackie., or EVH's guitar. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dZjupp Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 wow, i cannot believe he is selling that thing, its iconic to himself. i'm pretty shocked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gregovertone Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 we can hope that the EMP, hard rock, or some other big rock history company picks it up, so it will at least be on display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 we can hope that the EMP, hard rock, or some other big rock history company picks it up, so it will at least be on display.It would be nice to see some genuine memorabilia at the Hard Rock Cafe- the one in Nottingham has "Steve Cropper's" 80s superstrat over the bar, as well as various other bull{censored} celebrity instruments that some poor guitar roadie got sent out to buy from a pawnshop or a GC beginner's section for the Hard Rock photo op Oh yeah, and George Harrison's top hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meriphew Posted March 27, 2007 Members Share Posted March 27, 2007 That's a great looking guitar. Kudos to Edge for the sacrifice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted April 17, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 17, 2007 bump...the auction is this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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