Members ElectricEye Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 For Haiti. Thought this was cool (albeit pricey): Santa Barbara, CA (January 29, 2010) -- Seymour Duncan and Yngwie J. Malmsteen are giving players the opportunity to own a very unique piece of gear while helping the recovery effort in Haiti by auctioning a set of pickups hand-wound by Malmsteen. Fresh off of unveiling his new signature pickups at NAMM '10, Yngwie visited the Seymour Duncan factory where he was shown how to wind pickups, and wound his first set: three true single-coil Strat pickups. The pickups and pickup labels are autographed by Yngwie. The auction describes the pickups: The pickup's design is based on Leo Fender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Nice gesture by him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pixelchemist Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 pretty cool and already up to 1k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vespertine Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 That is awesome, good for him If you're getting pups in the near future, this is probably what you want. I hear wax potted pickups with traces of cocaine and twinkies is where THE TONE is at.... just saying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bobby D Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Yngwie is NOT a bad guy, despite what you have READ or HEARD about him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kuroyume Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 When did Yngwie get a soul? Very cool of him. Maybe he could auction off several hundred of his guitars for the cause as well. Come on, Yngie, you know you can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members snowaie Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Pretty awesome find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1esotericguy Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 I wonder if he's leaving Dimarzio. That's a lot of facetime in the Duncan shop for a guy with a longstanding signature series pickup set with dimarzio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 He just gained a few points in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricEye Posted January 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 I wonder if he's leaving Dimarzio. That's a lot of facetime in the Duncan shop for a guy with a longstanding signature series pickup set with dimarzio. http://news.guitarworld.com/story/namm-2010-seymour-duncan-yjm-fury-yngwie-malmsteen/ He switched this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mutant_guitar Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 i wouldn't buy them without hearing clips first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eurotrashed Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 i wouldn't buy them without hearing clips first. Yeah, just because he is the fooking fury doesn't mean that his pickups will sound good. Nice gesture and all, but I don't know how anyone's first set of pickups would be desirable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BG76 Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 I hate all the people/companies cashing in on this tragedy. It's about publicity - not about people - regardless of who the company/celeb is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 awesome. The fookin' scatter wound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members racerxwannabe Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 dude needs to lay off the viking roasted piglet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikey4402 Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Yngwie is NOT a bad guy, despite what you have READ or HEARD about him... Maybe his PR person suggested that he do this because of what we have READ and HEARD about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Saturn Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 That's really cool of him. I wonder how may chest hairs fell out of his open shirt into the coils while he was winding them. If you win the auciton you just may get a little extra piece of Yngwie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 I hate all the people/companies cashing in on this tragedy. It's about publicity - not about people - regardless of who the company/celeb is. Sadly, I have to agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kuroyume Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 That's really cool of him. I wonder how may chest hairs fell out of his open shirt into the coils while he was winding them. If you win the auciton you just may get a little extra piece of Yngwie. EEEEwwwwww. Nordic Pubic Hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mister Zero Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Y'know, all the jokes aside-- Yngwie seems like a cool guy. Yeah, at times he has a big mouth and can be a jerk, but his heart definitely seems like it's in the right place. His music is definitely unique. He has a vision that he has steadfastly followed since he emerged in the early 80s. While I rarely put on any of his music, his talent and ability cannot be denied. Good on ya, Wingnut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Does anyone think those pups will be sold for let's say... more than $5000? The man doesn't have enough money to go ahead and donate that amount or more if he cared about Haiti without the publicity tie in? I take it he wasn't invited to the concert for Haiti? Keep in mind a 6 year old child in UK raised over $240,000 for Haiti with a bike ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 The man doesn't have enough money to go ahead and donate that amount or more if he cared about Haiti without the publicity tie in? maybe he already did and this is in addition... and hopefully a fan of his will get a huge kick out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Norcal_GIT_r Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 My guess would be that Yngwie doesn't have a spare $5000 to donate.He's not a pop tart with hit songs. Like him or not he works hard for his income by playing shows and some recording. His style is so off of main stream it's not as easy to make money at it. Props to him and Duncan for trying to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Props to him and Duncan for trying to help. yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kuroyume Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 So far, they're sitting at $1025 on eBay. Still more than 7 days to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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