Scaring me!!
Kramer body, neck from a company that starts with an L that escapes me now. Painted in a pattern that matched a pair of Jams shorts I had at the time (which were sacrificed in the process). Floyd from ‘84 or so. That black pickup was a Duncan Distortion, it now has an old Screamin’...
If you wanna see how the amp makes so much more difference than the pickup, how a high-output pickup can be self-defeating, and how the Strat bridge adds the zing, listen to the newly released outtakes from the Star Fleet Project. On “Let Me Out“ and on “Blues Breaker“, Ed is using his newly...
1. The amp (to a point) is more important than the pickup for VH1
2. A big part of the Frank sound on VH1 was the "zing" from the vintage strat bridge
3. It is basically a T-top PAF, not the others. Mid 7s dc & short A5. When you try it into the right rig, it is "there". Think beefier...
My Bogner Telos, which suffered from a horribly mismarketed demo video by Lance Lopez (who is a good player, but made the amp sound like the most under-rectified Tweed amp ever made) does all these tones via relay-switching the preamp (the Schizo rotary). Sad that amp didn't sell...love mine...
‘61 PAFs were mid 7s and (mostly) had short rough-cast A5s
If you hear one of these (I had one made, but they sound like an SD 59N like Holdsworth used) through the right 12301 tone stack and gain structure and all…you will be convinced Ed was using his 335 pu.
Such a great amp. The KT88 handles the unreal sub tones this thing can unleash. It can also, when set right, do a decent Dumble sound. I’ve had 3 of these and all were super.
I think you mentioned “The Inside”. The publisher (Brad Starks) was brought in house to do the first website, and I did a lot of content for that (the “Equipment Section” and “Interviews”) and played Ed’s actual red Peavy Wolfgang prototype and I think a yellow one through a 5150 rig at guitar...