That new Slash Firebird

earwighoney

ICBM said:

This reminds me of some time in the late 80s when I phoned up about a '64 Firebird which was listed in the Edinburgh Advertiser (remember when people used to sell gear that way?)…

Seller: "Yes, it's a great guitar, it used to belong to Bruce Watson of Big Country… he had Jimmy Moon fit it with a Kahler and two Seymour Duncan JBs".

Me: "Oh. Bye."

You were after EMG 81/85's and a Floyd Rose I imagine? 

beed84

With the exception of a Mockingbird, no one wants to see Slash play anything but a Les Paul. If he's gonna toy around with his image, he might as well get a short back and sides and trade his top hat for a trilby.

OilCityPickups

beed84 said:

With the exception of a Mockingbird, no one wants to see Slash play anything but a Les Paul. If he's gonna toy around with his image, he might as well get a short back and sides and trade his top hat for a trilby.

I rather like that idea ... or a bowler and pinstripe ... less Guns and Roses, more Fisticuffs and Chrysanthemums
  :-)

Rabs

miserneil said:

"Nurse, Rabs's out of bed again and not been talking his anti-Gibson pills...."

Wibble......

Danielsguitars

ICBM said:

This reminds me of some time in the late 80s when I phoned up about a '64 Firebird which was listed in the Edinburgh Advertiser (remember when people used to sell gear that way?)…

Seller: "Yes, it's a great guitar, it used to belong to Bruce Watson of Big Country… he had Jimmy Moon fit it with a Kahler and two Seymour Duncan JBs".

Me: "Oh. Bye."

might be the same wanker that's fitted a kahler into an original 58 dc junior tv model I just bought to put right, what a mess 

DrBob

ICBM said:

This reminds me of some time in the late 80s when I phoned up about a '64 Firebird which was listed in the Edinburgh Advertiser (remember when people used to sell gear that way?)…

Seller: "Yes, it's a great guitar, it used to belong to Bruce Watson of Big Country… he had Jimmy Moon fit it with a Kahler and two Seymour Duncan JBs".

Me: "Oh. Bye."

You know it's funny, Jamie, the guy that runs Riverside Studios was showing me one of his old Tele Deluxes, black one. I noticed that there had been a repair/respray behind the bridge.
"Yeah, it used to belong to Bruce Watson from Big Country, he had it routed for a Kahler"..
what was going on in Scotland in the 80s ? What with this & Midge Ure slapping them on Yamaha Jazz boxes & Gordon Smiths ! 

ICBM

DrBob said:

You know it's funny, Jamie, the guy that runs Riverside Studios was showing me one of his old Tele Deluxes, black one. I noticed that there had been a repair/respray behind the bridge.

"Yeah, it used to belong to Bruce Watson from Big Country, he had it routed for a Kahler"..
what was going on in Scotland in the 80s ? What with this & Midge Ure slapping them on Yamaha Jazz boxes & Gordon Smiths ! 

I might have even done that one . I did a few Kahler installs too, one on a black Tele Deluxe.

In my defence, a second hand late-70s Tele Deluxe was not a valuable guitar in the mid-late 80s, nor was it considered likely to become so… it was just a second hand Fender from the 'bad years'.

I never did anything from the 50s or 60s though - even then it was clear that they were valuable vintage guitars and best left original - even the 'lesser models', which weren't all that expensive then. I turned down doing one on a '59 Les Paul Junior!