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A slight diversion if you will. :confused:

I saw rush in concert last night (Red Rocks in Denver). Excellent show. Lifeson is still on his game and had his usual way too many guitars standing by. I can't put my finger on it but there's something wrong with a Les Paul matched with a floating tremelo. Something happened during the course of the show and I walked out thinking...I've gotta have one :D

Look out dark-side...here I come!
 
punkin said:
A slight diversion if you will. :confused:

I saw rush in concert last night (Red Rocks in Denver). Excellent show. Lifeson is still on his game and had his usual way too many guitars standing by. I can't put my finger on it but there's something wrong with a Les Paul matched with a floating tremelo. Something happened during the course of the show and I walked out thinking...I've gotta have one :D

Look out dark-side...here I come!
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Was it a Bixby? Kind of a big pewter colored thing with a wide flat bar? Neil Young used to play a Black Beauty LP with three humbuckers and a Bixby tailpiece. He got quite a distinctive sound with it.
 
Oh no...Bixby's are cool enough but this looked like a Floyd or possibly another floating trem maker...looked something like this but I don't recall seeing the two large adjuster screws on the sides. I was convinced by the end of the night it was a Floyd.

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http://www.xaraonline.com/zy001184d4/~local/127A7771D9844E0F/LesPaul07w.htm?rev=101200620259PM
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I once played with a guitarist who had his LP fitted with a Floyd Rose - kickass guitar. I've seen a few others over the years.

The purists cringe, but LPs make great platforms for a good trem.
 
Pretty sure Johnny Hickman from Cracker has an LP routed for a FR trem too.
 
Alex Lifeson is on the cover of the September Guitar Player-I scanned the story but didn't see any mention on a Les Paul with a Floyd Rose. I bet it's a new arrival in his guitar stable-he's got a tobacco sunburst on the cover and a nice gold top on the live rig pictorial page.:D
 
Settle down, yer disturbing my on-line shopping experience :D.

I'm just imagining the best of both worlds, heavy ass guitar with huge sustain, thick sound like a swarm of giant bees and the thrill of a P-51 dive bombing.

My palms are sweating. I'm falling into that impulse purchase trap and my Guitar Collectors Anonymous meeting isn't until next week. I just can't get past step 2 :o


Yet another distraction...if you please. Last night Alex while playing one of the many LPs he footswitched to a very believeable Ovation'esque acoustic sound. I hated it when he did that...NOT.

Oh yeah, the drummer...umm what's his name? ;) He's pretty good too :rolleyes: He broke out into probably the most eclectic drum solo's I've ever heard. He started heavy, went techno-electric then a full on jazzy-fifties closing. Neil has the look of being completely and emotionally disconnected from the music but take your eyes off his stoic face and you realize, this guy is IN the tune. Like an atomic clock.

I warned you of distractions.
 
punkin said:
I'm just imagining the best of both worlds, heavy ass guitar with huge sustain, thick sound like a swarm of giant bees and the thrill of a P-51 dive bombing.
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That's exactly what my fellow guitarist's FR-fitted LP did. Big, beefy sound, sustain, and dive bombs to hell and back. :)
 
punkin said:
Settle down, yer disturbing my on-line shopping experience :D.

I'm just imagining the best of both worlds, heavy ass guitar with huge sustain, thick sound like a swarm of giant bees and the thrill of a P-51 dive bombing.

My palms are sweating. I'm falling into that impulse purchase trap and my Guitar Collectors Anonymous meeting isn't until next week. I just can't get past step 2 :o


Yet another distraction...if you please. Last night Alex while playing one of the many LPs he footswitched to a very believeable Ovation'esque acoustic sound. I hated it when he did that...NOT.

Oh yeah, the drummer...umm what's his name? ;) He's pretty good too :rolleyes: He broke out into probably the most eclectic drum solo's I've ever heard. He started heavy, went techno-electric then a full on jazzy-fifties closing. Neil has the look of being completely and emotionally disconnected from the music but take your eyes off his stoic face and you realize, this guy is IN the tune. Like an atomic clock.

I warned you of distractions.
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Heres my latest distraction, a friend gave me this Fender Splattercaster recently which has a nice action and feel to it-but the pickups are lacking.
I've wanted to check out the GFS pickups for a while so I figured the time was right-I replaced the pickguard with a s-s-h routed one and installed 2 of their single coils and a Retrotron humbucker in the bridge-it's a gretsch style copy. It's a weird paint job but the pickups really kicked it into overdrive-it sounds really sweet now!


Splattercastermod1.jpg
 
Anfontan said:
Heres my latest distraction, a friend gave me this Fender Splattercaster recently which has a nice action and feel to it-but the pickups are lacking.
I've wanted to check out the GFS pickups for a while so I figured the time was right-I replaced the pickguard with a s-s-h routed one and installed 2 of their single coils and a Retrotron humbucker in the bridge-it's a gretsch style copy. It's a weird paint job but the pickups really kicked it into overdrive-it sounds really sweet now!


Splattercastermod1.jpg
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YEAH! Now that's unique!
 
Oh lord they are called Bigsbys, and they are far easier to install than a Floyd Rose or Kahler. Of course, you can't divebomb with a Bigsby :p You apparently saw a Kahler, but I'd say one is no more rare than the next - a number of 80s guitarists had their beautiful vintage Les Pauls routed for Floyd Roses and Kahlers, like Steve Clark from Def Leppard.

Les Pauls with Bigsbys are beautiful, in my estimation - just a cool trinket I always liked seeing on Les Pauls and archtops.
 
rondo sells some agile lps with floyds on them. they look might fun!

i wish i couldve had tickets for the rush tour this year. oh well. hopefully they come around again.

Adam
 
What the hell is a Bixby? Was it invented by the Courtship of Eddie's Father guy? :D

You mean Bigsby. ;)
 
Go with a Kahler. They are way more adjustable, the springs don't make noise on high gain settings, the string height doesn't change as you you pull up or down on the bar, and you won't have to route 3 pounds of sustain giving wood out of you LP. The Kahler will sustain a little better as well.
 
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