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  1. Yes, at least until 1987. Then he switched to the cream/black Strat during Lovetown and then to the cream LP in the 90s.....and that is the guitar that all of us associate with UTEOTW and NYD
  2. Yes, kind of odd that he switched drastically from a single coil guitar to a humbucker guitar. The recent change "ok", it is just from a Les Paul to another Les Paul, they can't sound that different.
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:Yes, at least until 1987. Then he switched to the cream/black Strat during Lovetown and then to the cream LP in the 90s.....and that is the guitar that all of us associate with UTEOTW and NYD

    Well, I dunno about you, but I generally associate the gold-tops with UTEOTW, personally...

    Slightly aside from Edge et al for a moment, I've been getting into Fleetwood Mac of late, and just a quick word saying my GOD Lindsey Buckingham's just a bit good. I just needed to say it somewhere
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:Yes, at least until 1987. Then he switched to the cream/black Strat during Lovetown and then to the cream LP in the 90s.....and that is the guitar that all of us associate with UTEOTW and NYD


    Most I talk to seem to associate the Goldtop with UTEOTW, as that is the one he's used over the past 10 years.
  5. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    I'm surprised he's not using his "replacement" though. Supposedly it's pretty much a direct copy of his original LP, I mean obviously it's not a perfect copy, seeing how the parts in the new one are mainly new and not 30 years old, but according to Edge it gets really close. Even listening to it on boots it sounds very similar.


    But per Dallas - the electronics and look match but the wood, different. That might mean the sustain is different.

    1970's LPs are fairly inconsistent, as were Strats at the time, due to fluctuations in their access to the good wood. This is why some 70's Strats are normal weight and some are boat anchors. Same with LPs.

    Or it could just be that he wants to use the Music Rising to keep it and Music Rising in the public eye. Nothing wrong with that.
  6. Originally posted by thechicken:Yes, kind of odd that he switched drastically from a single coil guitar to a humbucker guitar. The recent change "ok", it is just from a Les Paul to another Les Paul, they can't sound that different.


    But Edge has done that before. It's not a new thing.
    The Electric Co. has been played with the Explorer and Gibson LP. The LP was used as early as the 1981 Pink Pop Fesitval (That might have been the first show he used that guitar)



    Explorer was also most associated with "I Will Follow". But at the same Pink Pop Festival, it was the LP Custom for "I Will Follow"



    He did go back the the LP Custom for "I Will Follow" for the Popmart tour. And the Love Town tour saw him playing the Yellow Fender Clapton Stratocaster for "I Will Follow"



    While settling on the Gibson LP Custom for "Dirty Day" during ZOO tours.... at least by the Sydney show... but in Adelaide... he used a Fender Stratocaster.



    "One" is another good example.

    - ZOOTV was the Gibson 330TD. That guitar had single coil P-90 pickups.
    - POPMART he used a Gretsch Country Gentlleman. With Filtertron (humbucker pickups)
    - Elevation to Present has seen him using LP Customs, and at times LP Music Rising.

    While the Explorer & LP Custom both guitars have some different tonal characteristics. Yet, Edge isn't opposed to assessing and reassing tone and guitar uses.

    Lest we forget the 'Vertigo' tour use of the Variax 700 acoustic for 'The Fly'.

    And more recently, "Moment of Surrender", now being played on a 1970's era Fender Stratocaster but for the first two legs, it was his Gretsch Stereo Country Club.
  7. Don't forget he used his strat for a while on some of the Boy tunes, A Day Without Me, Electric Co, even Out of Control (the only date I know of is the Rattle and Hum promo show). He also switched guitars a lot for Rejoice, going from the strat, to the explorer, to the LP custom, and even to the Gibson Sonnex that was seen during the October tour.
  8. I Will Follow in a Strat? I have to check that when I get home.... lol


  9. On a Clapton Stratocaster, which runs a bit 'hotter' than your average `70's Stratocaster. Probably why he consider it's use.


  10. Didn't his clapton strats have some kind of mid booster in the circuitry or something too? That's what I've heard anyway, which is what gave them that specific tone.
  11. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Didn't his clapton strats have some kind of mid booster in the circuitry or something too? That's what I've heard anyway, which is what gave them that specific tone.


    Yep, 25db boost. (I have one). I don't think the boost was used all the time. But the other tone element is the active Gold Lace Sensor pickups, which are far hotter than standard 70's Strat pickups.

    Nice guitars. Seems that they were the flavor of the tour for the Love Town tour... and then pretty much disappeared.

    (other than for "The Fly" and "Desire" on the Zoo tours)
  12. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    Yep, 25db boost. (I have one). I don't think the boost was used all the time. But the other tone element is the active Gold Lace Sensor pickups, which are far hotter than standard 70's Strat pickups.

    Nice guitars. Seems that they were the flavor of the tour for the Love Town tour... and then pretty much disappeared.

    (other than for "The Fly" and "Desire" on the Zoo tours)


    To tell you the truth, I can't tell the difference when Eric is playing a regular strat and "his" strat. Is it that different of a sound?
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