hunter Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) It has the Fender logo and is that a Kahler bridge or am I seeing that wrong? http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/biffmalibu01012/11.jpg Edited May 29, 2014 by hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 You sure that's not a photoshop job? Something about the picture just doesn't look right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 Pretty sure given the time frame. Looks like the Power Windows tour so not a lot of people had photoshop back then. I think it's more a product of a scan of a bad photocopy, or as us old timers say, Xerox. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I didn't mean to imply that it was shopped back then. But I can't understand why someone now would want to do that. It is interesting to see him with a Strat with SSS configuration. Doesn't look like you can see the pole pieces on the picmups, though. Could be plastic covered. Active pickups? When did Fender start putting Lace Sensors in their guitars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 Right? Why? If you're going to do it really mess it up.http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/biffmalibu01012/11copy.jpg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 That guitar + facial expression + left leg kicked back = :laughing guy: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 Looks like the Lace debuted around 1985, so that's about right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaked Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 What is the source for that picture? It looks like it's coming from page 11 of... ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 It's from an old Spirit of Rush fanzine.http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/tsor-52.php?fb_action_ids=724309277616029&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.U4c1A7MMHIQ.like&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%22724309277616029%22%3A1423216524571937}&action_type_map={%22724309277616029%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map={%22724309277616029%22%3A%22.U4c1A7MMHIQ.like%22} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaked Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Strat in question was in Alex's "bullpen"... a backup guitar tuned a certain way for certain songs in case his main broke a string or otherwise crapped out. I don't recall ever seeing a white/white strat... the only other logical possibility is that somebody from either Fender or a local music shop asked him to give the axe a spin for a song or two and he tried it out live... but that's doubtful since the setup would have been a clusterfuck for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 He was a total whore back then. I think he had Dean Markley combos on stage for that tour doing picture magazine ads for them but he was also in the Carvin catalog for one of their combos. He was still using the Hentors on that tour a bit but he got a bunch of Strats on that tour too. The Big Money video was a regular black job that was SSS. This one clearly has Lace Sensors. That's when Clapton and Beck both had Lace Sensor models. Fender must have been throwing guitars at him the way Gibson does now. I know those pants from a tour book or video. Ah, the 80s...... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Weird knobs on that thing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirteen Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I wish Alex would go back to Strats or "Hentor" strats. The ''tone'' he gets out his Gibsons these days sounds like mush too me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 That's his amps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirteen Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 That's his ampsIn that case, Alex playing a strat through amps that don't make him sound like mush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 (edited) Weird knobs on that thing too.Yeah they look rubberized or something. And is that the three push button selector instead of the 5 way switch? Aha! 1983 Elite Strat? I still think that's a Khaler on his though.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWjoeLNcmQo/THpz_LM0NaI/AAAAAAAAFQk/nuibdOf7EnQ/s1600/fender_strat_elite+83+front.jpg Edited May 30, 2014 by hunter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 That looks like a winner... Or at least a correct model. :P Are those Lace Sensors? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I just noticed the individual pickup switches too. That's the only cool thing about that guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdouglas Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 That's the 2nd pic on here of him playing his elite strat....the other is around somewhere. They are good strats, fairly rare...they sell for 900-1200 on eBay. Some came with a factory Kahler...they eventually morfed into the E series of the 80s that were make in JPN and the US, and eventually the Contemporary and HM strats. The elites are just before Fender Trem System (which was a Floyd or very Floyd like but looked more like a Kahler....I forget the exact name of that Trem...system something...parts are hard to find for it now). The E series in general are in fairly high demand...I have an 80s USA E series somewhere around here. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 (edited) Me too. MIJ. Though I put a Warmoth neck on it. :Dhttp://youtu.be/5rlx0fWl_vY Edited June 22, 2014 by hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LerxstLuthier Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I know those pants from a tour book or video. Ah, the 80s...... I know those pants too....he gave them to me after they were decommissioned from the wardrobe lineup. Surprisingly enough, they fit me and I wore them for a few live shows myself lol. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 That's hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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