Interesting Read About Ed's Guitars On VH I

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  • Bowanna
    Full On Cocktard
    • Mar 2004
    • 47

    Interesting Read About Ed's Guitars On VH I

    The ‘Other’ Van Halen I Guitar?

  • sadaist
    TOASTMASTER GENERAL
    • Jul 2004
    • 11625

    #2
    Cool read. I know so little about guitar shit like that, most of it might as well be written in German. But the pics were great...made even greater by the fact that is was Dave that had em stored away & slapped em up on his site.
    “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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    • chefcraig
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • Apr 2004
      • 12172

      #3
      It's an interesting read, but most of it is pure speculation based upon a pair of images from a photo session for the first album cover, and a further guess based on a photo from sessions that had absolutely nothing to do with it, which was the recording of the second album. For the past thirty years, it has been widely documented that EVH used the original Frankenstrat (with a PAF pickup unceremoniously bolted to the body) and the Ibanez Destroyer (with either an original Super 70 or PAF pickup) that he later butchered with a chainsaw. A Les Paul Junior has never been mentioned in the recording of the first album, but this guy looks at a couple of photos and manages to connect the dots when no one has done so before? Unlikely.









      “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
      ― Stephen Hawking

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      • PETE'S BROTHER
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Feb 2007
        • 12678

        #4
        Originally posted by chefcraig
        It's an interesting read, but most of it is pure speculation based upon a pair of images from a photo session for the first album cover, and a further guess based on a photo from sessions that had absolutely nothing to do with it, which was the recording of the second album. For the past thirty years, it has been widely documented that EVH used the original Frankenstrat (with a PAF pickup unceremoniously bolted to the body) and the Ibanez Destroyer (with either an original Super 70 or PAF pickup) that he later butchered with a chainsaw. A Les Paul Junior has never been mentioned in the recording of the first album, but this guy looks at a couple of photos and manages to connect the dots when no one has done so before? Unlikely.
        didn't anthony play all the guitars on the first album?
        Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!

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        • Jagermeister
          Full Member Status

          • Apr 2010
          • 4510

          #5
          Hmmm. Who cares?

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          • indeedido
            Veteran
            • Feb 2004
            • 2293

            #6
            I don't hear anything on VH I that sounds like it would be P90s.
            This space for rent.

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            • sadaist
              TOASTMASTER GENERAL
              • Jul 2004
              • 11625

              #7
              Originally posted by indeedido
              I don't hear anything on VH I that sounds like it would be P90s.

              Wouldn't hurt to give it another listen....or 100.
              “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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              • Hardrock69
                DIAMOND STATUS
                • Feb 2005
                • 21897

                #8
                I think that article is a buncha hot air.

                I mean, what the hell, dude can speculate all he wants to and all, but it is pretty much meaningless. So he used a Les Paul on a photo shoot.

                Was kinda interesting info about the original pickup reading zero ohms, but whose to say it did not short out sometime more recently, like say in the late 90s?

                Oh well. What the hell.

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                • darkknight
                  Groupie
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 96

                  #9
                  I believe the readings on his pickup go back to the late 80s/early 90s. Seymour Duncan and John Suhr(?) both read the pickup with the same result. It does have a single coil-ish sound. It's not fat like a JB or Super Distortion. I think that pickup started changing sound around Diver Down. He didn't use the Les Paul on VH1. Those pictures were taken at the Whiskey. It was either before a gig or the day they videotaped You Really Got Me and Runnin' With The Devil. He just used it to pose with. Also, those VHII "session" photos were not taken while recording. They were done after the album was recorded. Zloz said they were all posed with trash on the floor and crap everywhere. Totally fabricated. Although, the light wood Strat with the Danelectro neck was used on VHII for the intro to Women In Love.

                  Yes, I'm a guitar geek.

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                  • Don Corleone
                    Veteran
                    • May 2004
                    • 2084

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Hardrock69
                    So he used a Les Paul on a photo shoot.
                    And for all anyone knows that could be one of the Pauls which Ed mentioned in an interview after VH1 where he said "I went out and bought 2 Pauls with some of the money we made off the album"
                    Roth Army Militia

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                    • ashstralia
                      ROTH ARMY ELITE
                      • Feb 2004
                      • 6566

                      #11
                      google image search, there's lot's of pic's of young ed playing les pauls....

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                      • indeedido
                        Veteran
                        • Feb 2004
                        • 2293

                        #12




                        This space for rent.

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                        • sadaist
                          TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 11625

                          #13
                          Originally posted by indeedido

                          Rehearsing in a dance studio? Those bars on the wall behind Eddie are for dancers to stretch their legs up on...no?
                          “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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                          • indeedido
                            Veteran
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 2293

                            #14
                            I didn't even notice those. LOL

                            I wonder who is tickling the ivories.
                            This space for rent.

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                            • Seshmeister
                              ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                              • Oct 2003
                              • 35754

                              #15
                              The same person who stole Eddies dummy?

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