Members Grantus Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I think it'd be easier to name the famous guitarists who regularly played stock guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Alex Lifeson spent 79-85 modding strats and never being happy, finally ended up with off the rack PRS's, and many custom Gibsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Brian May often modified his Red Special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fuelish Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Famous guitarists playing through non-stock guitars Can't believe nobody's mentioned Dr. Brian Brian May often modified his Red Special. DOH !!!!! Ya beat me to it while I was capturing the image...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I just did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fuelish Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I just did. I see....after the fact:facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 So basically it's a double hit, he modified a guitar he build himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metalheadUK Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I would hazard a guess that there are LOADS of modded guitars being played by pros on a regular basis. Some people find it difficult to accept that stock anything might be good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I would hazard a guess that there are LOADS of modded guitars being played by pros on a regular basis. Some people find it difficult to accept that stock anything might be good enough. To be fair, the only stock guitar I truly loved was a sig model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Carroll Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 And Brian Setzer had the ultimate moded guitar, his tech made him the very first of what we now call TV Jones pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thick_mike Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Yeah but most of the ones he smashed or burned were the early Pre-CBS small headstock guitars that he played in the early days. The guitars he was most known for playing were pretty much stock AFAIK. I remember Chas Chandler (I think) being interviewed about the guitar smashing/burning and he said that those guitars were made from bits of other guitars specifically to smash up on stage. That might be where the idea of him playing partsocasters came from. If you look at concert footage from Monterey the guitar he burned and smashed up was different from the one he played the rest of the concert. In fact I heard he had to soak the guitar in lighter fluid overnight to get it to catch fire properly. Is lighter fluid a mod???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gh0st Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Is that a jumbo size LP or is Jimmy Page a tiny person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members imbuedblue Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Is that a jumbo size LP or is Jimmy Page a tiny person? He _is_ 1/8th Asian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V-Type Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Ahem....Zappa called he said WTF?All of his guitars were modded and some had a rack worth of effects crammed in them or bolted on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelSaulnier Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Many, many pro players with LP's slapped DiMarzio Super Distortions into their guitars in the 80's... Many, many, many! M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tidal Rhythm Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Brent Mason's Telecaster: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tidal Rhythm Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Perhaps the simpliest mod ever - but one well known one - Keith Richard's removal of the low E string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BootRoots Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Some people find it difficult to accept that stock anything might be good enough. seriously. I think its a mental thing. over on another gear discussion page ($$$) I see dudes shelling out thousands for booteek stuff.....and then swapping out something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members evh1984 Posted July 8, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I think it'd be easier to name the famous guitarists who regularly played stock guitars. Takes the fun out of it. I think most guitarists are by nature tinkerers anyway. After all, that's how the thing came into being in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RogerF Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 Didn't John Lennon install a Bigsby on his Rickenbacker 325 then had it painted black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 even Luther Perkins had Fender custom wind him some pickups...Pretty much everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tidal Rhythm Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 Didn't John Lennon install a Bigsby on his Rickenbacker 325 then had it painted black? Also stripped the finish off of a Epiphone because he wanted to let the instrument "breath". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 A few more for the collection: Trevor Rabin's Strat, which started off as a red '62 that he found in the back room of a Johannesburg music store in '72. Went through many changes, including a distincitive graphic painted on it and various pickups. Adrian Belew's Strat, which was a late '60s model that had a set of actual '50s pickups installed by Seymour Duncan, an Alembic Stratoblaster preamp, and had a lot of things done to its paint job. Followed by heavily modded Mustangs(Roland GR synth electronics, Kahler trem, locking tuners, fancy paint jobs, 3 Seymour Strat stack humbuckers). Steve Howe has used several modded guitars, including his '55 Telecaster with neck humbucker added and his Fender Broadcaster with a Badass bridge inset in the body and binding added. Fred Frith's '60s Gibson ES345 with headstock mounted pickup. Henry Kaiser's heavily modded '71 Telecaster and maple neck Strat, which had an early Floyd Rose and Bartolini pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ModernSaloon Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 Not a guitarist, but Jaco Pastorius surely counts, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members headless Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 I blame early exposer to John Mayall for my own penchant for chopping-up perfectly good guitars: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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